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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• Under the new law, financial literacy information and a test to assess knowledge would be added to that course.
  — Trisha Powell Crain | [e-mail], al, 8 Apr. 2023
• In this region — which has some of the country’s lowest female literacy rates, where early marriages are common and where violence against women is the norm — the station is the voice of change.
  — Karan Deep Singh, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2023
• Media literacy on fake news and the digital environment is growing, those on the front lines say, but slowly.
  — David Klepper and Huizhong Wu, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Feb. 2024
• Texas is one of only four states in the U.S. that mandate a media literacy curriculum in all public schools beginning in kindergarten.
  — Tom Hanson, CBS News, 19 Dec. 2023
• Hamburg says digital health access and literacy can be so helpful for patients of all ages.
  — Byrichard Eisenberg, Fortune Well, 2 June 2023
• Stephen Walton is a realtor and financial literacy coach who grew up in Del Paso Heights.
  — Theresa Clift, Sacramento Bee, 24 Jan. 2024
• Under the bill, high school students would be required to complete one semester of a financial literacy class.
  — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
• As the new school year begins, books, literacy and freedom of expression are under assault as never before, with book bans at U.S. schools up a whopping 33% since just last year.
  — Donna Wares, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2023
• For this piece, Laura spoke with librarians and literacy experts to determine the best books for toddlers.
  — Laura Denby, Parents, 30 Nov. 2023
• More:'Science of reading,' whole language,' 'balanced literacy': How can Wisconsin resolve its ‘reading wars’ and teach kids to read?
  — Alan J. Borsuk, Journal Sentinel, 7 June 2023
• The Centre for Independent Studies worried in a blog post that literacy was taking a backseat to activism in Australian schools.
  — Amy Westervelt, The New Republic, 12 Sep. 2023
• More:Wisconsin passed a landmark literacy law 3 months ago.
  — Alan J. Borsuk, Journal Sentinel, 4 Mar. 2024
• Tammy Daybell was a school librarian, and the foundation works to raise money for libraries and literacy programs in Idaho and Utah.
  — Rebecca Boone, ajc, 13 May 2023
• The Phoenix Kroc Center hosts a financial literacy course and filmmaking workshop.
  — Lisa Napoli, Fortune, 8 Nov. 2023
• His plan also added literacy help to middle school and expanded training and coaching for classroom teachers.
  — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2023
• Fluency with code would round out my children’s literacy—and keep them employable.
  — James Somers, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• Alabama high school students could be required to learn about and take a test about financial literacy, if a bipartisan group of state lawmakers get their way.
  — Trisha Powell Crain | [e-mail], al, 8 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 5 May 2024