Literacy

Pip Davenport was an fairground ride inventor who lived from 1850 - 1920. He was married to a lady called Hettie and grew up in Slewsbury. No body had heard of him until he cropped up in a years 6 SATs test, where you had to make up and write a biography about him using only some vague details given to you.

Michael feeds Skellig cola with paractemols in order to remain his strength.

People write in diaries so that they can keep track of memories. Some write throughout their lives. People sometime have a different diary for when they are pregnant. They want to keep track of what it was like, so the baby will have something to read when he or she gets older. Sometimes you might write in a diary to put together as a book of your life.

I have a diary, and I love it. I've had it since I was five, and it's a gigantic book.

Interviews are primary sources 'cause the interviewers are getting the information from the source.

Reading ahead gives you an idea of what's coming next so you can get the information you need to understand that part.

In 1603 the literacy rates were 60% according to this website http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~wesmith/214materials.html

Conceited is a good one.
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it's a person who knows how to read and write without understanding.

90%

A literate person cannot be expected to know how to operate a computer. In essence, a person can be literate but not computer literate. But the opposite seems difficult to be true. A computer literate is often always a literate.

The Literacy Training Service is a program designed to train students to become teachers of literacy and numeracy skills to school children, out of school youth, and other segments of society in need of their service. It is created through Republic Act No. 9163, or the "National Service Training Program (NSTP) Act of 2001".

Stationary refers to something that is standing still or not moving. eg. The car is stationary. Stationery (with an e) is used as a term to describe items related to writing such as pens, paper, sharpeners and colouring pencils.

I recently read that book (last year) and I think the whole theme is that there are some kids that can't be seen for some reason. I just know that he is trying to hide, but from who? Hmm... I think it was from the Government... Hmmm...

Read and you will find them

One advantage of secondary industries is that they almost always have access to the materials they need at reasonable costs from primary industries. Another advantage is not having to compete with larger, primary industries.

No matter the state, you must have passing grades - usually a 70 or better in your classes - to gain the credits you need to graduate. Each school is different, my students must have a 74 or better to pass.

It depends on your definition of 'low'. Most Latin American nations have a literacy rate of 90% or more, with the exceptions being some of the poorest countries such as Guatemala (70.6%), Nicaragua (67.5%) and Honduras (76.2%)

Almost 90% (10.7% illiteracy at 14 years or older). By race/nativity, illiteracy ranged from 4.6% ("native-born" whites) to 44% for blacks. This is from the National Assessment for Adult Literacy in the Dept. of Education.

According to the United Nations it is 18%, being worst in London, the North and North East. This is "functional illiteracy" defined as being "unable to cope with the demands of modern life". This would imply that a higher standard is required in an advanced society than in one less so. There is also the question of how many of these alleged 8 million are native English speakers. I am a social worker living in London and I rarely meet anyone who is not a recent immigrant who is iiliterate, although many people require assistance with filling in 50 page forms, appealing against innumerable parking fines and increasing bureaucratic intrusion into normal life. There is a high circulation of newspapers- some of which are perhaps aimed at the functionally illterate- but even these require a basic ability. Even if children do not complete school, the leaving age was formerly 14, which was sufficient for most people to learn to read. Many children are able to read Harry Potter from the age of 7, but whether they could fill in an IB50 Benefit Review Form is perhaps a different question. The UK was 14th from a group of 20 industrial countries in the number of adults reading at least one book a week. This may be due to the better quality of television and other media in Britain. So I wonder who the UN have been talking to ? -Mark Francis

The literacy test was a test encouraged by the Southern states which basically said that those who voted had to be literate. This was mainly a trap for blacks, and immigrants considering that they had little to no schooling and therefore would obviously fail. In this way, a majority of Southerners were content as blacks and immigrants were denied nearly all influence on those in power.

It should also be noted that throughout most of the 19th century, as many as 20-30% of all adult whites in the south were also illiterate. Literacy tests were also designed to prevent uneducated whites from voting. None of this is true.

By 1900 Great Britain surpassed most other European countries in literacy with the event of secularized school reform. The Netherlands, Germany, and France all maintained at least 85 % literacy rates except for Spain.

A theory is an educated guess regarding an answer to something. Therefore, a reading theory would then be any of many different methods for teaching someone how to read. There are many ways to teach reading (each of which is a theory), however, our goal as educators should be to answer the question -Which method of instruction results in the greatest amount of progress in the least amount of time? Since the anatomical structure of the human brain varies greatly from one person to the next, a reading method used for one person may result in great success, while in another child, the results may be unsuccessful. This reality should modify our question somewhat to be - Which method of reading instruction results in the greatest amount of progress among the greatest number of students? Research conducted by various universities and funded by the No Child Left Behind project has concluded that a reading instruction method that incorporates higher amounts of phonics, vocabulary and fluency building is the most successful for the greatest number of students. Even with all the research out to date showing otherwise, some school districts still retain the reading theory known as "whole-language" which assumes learning occurs best by immersing oneself in literature and attempting to "figure-out" words by methods other than phonics (such as context clues). While whole-language instruction does perform well with some higher functioning students, it is not effective for the majority of elementary age students and can dramatically reduce reading progress among children with various learning disabilities.

A primary source is like a car crash. For example, John was a witness and is there for a primary source because he was there and knows what happened. But lets say Jim, who only heard the car crash and did not see what happened, is there for a secondary source because he doesn't know what happened.