{"id":16604,"date":"2015-09-11T08:46:59","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T12:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/?p=16604"},"modified":"2015-09-11T08:57:06","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T12:57:06","slug":"literacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/literacy\/","title":{"rendered":"The State of Literacy around the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuesday was international literacy day.<\/p>\n

Canada is lucky in that\u00a099% of our adults able to read and write, something that puts us\u00a036th<\/sup> on the Indexmundi<\/a>\u00a0list of world literacy rates.\u00a0Getting other up-to-date statistics about literacy is challenging however, particularly since the Centre for Literacy<\/a> closed its doors last May.<\/p>\n

According to a study conducted in 2003 and outlined by Literacy Quebec<\/a>, however, Quebec adults are struggling more than those in other provinces. Within Quebec, there are<\/p>\n

approximately 509,000 people aged 16 to 65 with very limited literacy skills (Level 1) in prose literacy, document literacy and numeracy.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The organization also has a compelling video series<\/a> showing how hard it is for people with low literacy skills to function.<\/p>\n

Volunteers around the country are working to help people become more literate. Congratulations to one of them, H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Simard, who became\u00a0the Quebec recipient of the 11th annual Council of the Federation Literacy Award<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday. Simard has been active as\u00a0a board member with La Cl\u00e9, Centre de lecture et d’\u00e9criture d’Alma<\/em> <\/a>(The Key, Alma Reading and Writing Centre) and a representative with the committee for Regroupement des groupes populaires en alphab\u00e9tisation du Qu\u00e9bec<\/em><\/a> (Coalition of Literacy Groups in Qu\u00e9bec).<\/p>\n

Here are more statistics about literacy around the world, courtesy of Grammarly<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Tuesday was international literacy day. Canada is lucky in that\u00a099% of our adults able to read and write, something that puts us\u00a036th on the Indexmundi\u00a0list of world literacy rates.\u00a0Getting other up-to-date statistics about literacy is challenging however, particularly since the Centre for Literacy closed its doors last May. 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