What are the effects of being illiterate?

Answer 1

If you were illiterate, you might not know how to spell or write your name. In addition, you likely would not know how to:

• spell most words
• read a children's story book
• read a school textbook
• read The Bible or other holy book
• read a store flyer
• read ingredients on a food package
• read a recipe
• read a manual for how to use an appliance
• what the text on knobs on a stove or buttons microwave mean
• read the banner on a TV that says what is showing on that channel right now
• read directions to put an object together
• read directions to use a product
• use a computer without being told or shown what to do
• read Google resullts
• read a webpage / website
• write a letter
• write a business letter
• address an envelope
• read letters sent to you
• write a rent check
• understand a utility bill
• know what the words on bills mean ($1 bill, $5, etc.)
• read a medication bottle
• read a medication information sheet for side effects listed
• read rules for a board game
• search for your family tree using official records
• enter a contract that you have to sign, unless a witness is there to verify your X is your signature
• drive a car
• read road signs
• read roadside advertising on billboards
• signs in store windows
• a work aplication
• work; have a job that requires reading
• read a paycheck
• know what bus to take
• read a love note
• read a birthday card
• get written information
• read a newspaper
• read about a hobby
• watch a foreign-language movie that has sub-titles to read
• use an iPhone

Answer 2

Read and write.