How to Use literacy in a Sentence

literacy

noun

• Their goal is to achieve basic literacy.
• The program is intended to promote adult literacy among people who have had very little schooling.
• The school literacy coach happens to be in my classroom.
  — Nick Fuller Googins, Men's Health, 5 Apr. 2023
• This is a good starter kit for literacy skills, and many more are available, including ones for kids up to age 10.
  — Jessica Hartshorn, Good Housekeeping, 21 Oct. 2022
• The board now plans to hold a work session on early literacy in 2023, according to Kolb.
  — Mandy McLaren, The Courier-Journal, 12 Dec. 2022
• Concern for the downtrodden, welcome of the stranger, universal literacy, the weekend and much else get their start in the Torah.
  — Lou Weiss, WSJ, 14 Apr. 2022
• Civic engagement is the heart and soul of The Times’ literacy and literary programs.
  — Donna Wares, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2022
• The other three goals address literacy and math scores.
  — Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 3 June 2024
• When the Taliban took back control of the government in 2021, Durrani knew that arming girls with even the most basic literacy could put her own life at risk.
  — Hannah Fish, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Feb. 2024
• The lowest rating the district got was a three-star rating in early literacy.
  — Alyssa Alfano, cleveland, 17 Oct. 2022
• Volunteers can help their adult neighbors along the South Shore achieve and improve their literacy.
  — Katie Mogg, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Dec. 2022
• The iPhone, at nearly two decades old, may not be the hottest tech anymore, but has any invention since the printing press done more to encourage literacy?
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 30 Dec. 2023
• The big picture: The city deployed reading tutors at 10 schools last year in an effort to boost flagging literacy rates.
  — Arika Herron, Axios, 18 Sep. 2024
• Your child doesn’t need a fancy game with cartoon characters to be taught math or literacy.
  — Anthony Kinnett, National Review, 29 Oct. 2022
• Residents reading below the eighth grade level can be paid $10 per hour for up to 20 hours a week to improve their literacy skills.
  — Detroit Free Press, 31 Jan. 2023
• America needs a big push for health care literacy, but the likelihood of that happening is close to nil.
  — Tammy Hawes, Forbes, 22 June 2022
• And in older grades, teachers often are not trained in literacy.
  — Sarah Mervosh, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2022
• Isobe explains that with the growth of literacy in Japan during the Edo period, the number of private diarists increased.
  — Kim Beil, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Mar. 2024
• But the infusion of cash, and financial literacy courses offered through the program, has helped her with some firsts.
  — Michael Brice-Saddler, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2024
• Not only is this a top tourist spot, but the site is also a center for marine research, ocean literacy, and climate activism.
  — Bianca Bujan, Travel + Leisure, 25 July 2023
• One of the problems with modern discourse about attention spans is that a lot of it is secretly a judgment of literacy.
  — Vulture, 22 Dec. 2023
• For those in kindergarten to second grade, 69% fell short of the proficiency mark in early literacy.
  — Fox News, 2 Sep. 2022
• Like Thompson, letters sent to the Washington Post complained about the lack of radio literacy.
  — Chris Yogerst, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Oct. 2022
• The bill calls for 120 literacy coaches and grants for families to hire tutors to assist students with reading.
  — Neal Earley, Arkansas Online, 9 Mar. 2023
• Financial literacy courses can teach you the best way to save, invest, and budget your spending.
  — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Popular Science, 4 Apr. 2023
• The literacy rate in the Palestinian territories is among the highest in the world — more than 97 percent — but even in this milieu, Ramallah Friends shined.
  — Rozina Ali, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
• Bilal and Millings agree that money and financial literacy have not been talked about enough in the Black community.
  — Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN, 15 June 2023
• Early literacy scores for pre-readers at this grade level were 19 points lower on average this fall and 17 points lower in the winter, the study shows.
  — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 26 Mar. 2022
• That increase could be due to growing financial literacy and a greater presence of Latinos in booming industries like fintech, Chaia says.
  — Marina E. Franco (noticias Telemundo For Axios), Axios, 17 Dec. 2024
• Organized by the News Literacy Project, the five day event contains several virtual workshops and panels for educators looking to teach news literacy skills.
  — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Jan 2025