ONE OUT OF FIVE ADULTS

IS ILLITERATE

(17 to 21 million people)

Read below the fourth grade level.

13%

SOME ADULTS CAN’T READ.

THE PRECENTAGE OF

17 year olds who are FUNCTIONALLY ILLITERATE.

44% OF MINORITY

CHILDREN ARE FUNCTIONALLY

ILLITERATE.

3 OUT OF 10

EIGHT-GRADERS MEET READING PROFICIENCY.

How to

Help

Read with

your child

5 times

per week.

Surround

them with

books.

Question what they are

reading.

VISIT THE LIBRARY

SET

LIMITS

Let THEM read to you.

Highlights, Nintendo, Animal Babies

Magazines just for them.

SHARE WHAT YOU ARE READING

REWARD

THEM FOR READING

READ

READ

READ

85%OF JUVENILE OFFENDERS

HAVE PROBLEMS WITH

ILLITERACY.

90%The number of prisoners with illiteracy problems.

Can’t read….

You may have a bleak

future.

Literacy

A world wide problem.

WORK TOGETHER

VOULENTEER

ILLITERACY