Five Levels of Literacy
Level 3
People at this level ...
- have sufficient skills to cope with most everyday literacy demands
- may not have skills to take on new communication challenges,
like returning to education and training
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- Level 3 means that the individuals are considered to have the
minimum desired skill level.
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Five Levels of Literacy
Level 4/5
People at this level ...
- can read, write and do math well enough to meet the challenge
of present and changing demands of work, home, and community
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- Levels 4 and 5 were combined because there was not enough of
a statistically verifiable distinction at these higher levels
to warrant two separate categories.
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Three Kinds of Literacy
- Prose Literacy
–understand and use information from
text including editorials, news stories, poems and fiction
- Document Literacy
–locate and use information contained
in various formats, including job applications, payroll forms,
transportation schedules, maps, tables and graphics
- Quantitative Literacy
–apply arithmetic operations, either
alone or sequentially, to numbers embedded in printed materials,
such as balancing a cheque book, figuring out a tip, or completing
an order form
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- As well as different levels of literacy, there are different
kinds of literacy.
- Document literacy and quantitative literacy are critical for
many tasks at work.
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