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Literacy Learning in the United States

Literacy in the United States has been one of the biggest concerns for the country’s level of education. With many areas that have high poverty rates and a lack of adequate schools, the nation has needed to supplement that traditional public education system with programs that help to raise literacy rates in these neighborhoods. In addition, the educational programs for literacy learning are aimed at both adults and children to try and stop the acceptance of being illiterate at the parental level. Many of the literacy learning efforts in the United States also deal with foreign immigrants that are not literate in the English language.

For children, nationwide educational programs have been started to create a genuine desire of the child to read books. The biggest of these literacy learning campaigns for children is called RIF, or Reading Is Fundamental. Funded from donations and government grants, the RIF programs wants to make sure that lack of access to books is not a factor in the rate of illiteracy among children. To counter this problem, RIF delivers books to many impoverished areas and also conducts activities that are meant to stimulate the desire of the child to read. Many children have embraced the RIF literacy learning program and eagerly await the next shipment of RIF books.

In the case of adult education, the literacy learning process can be much more difficult. In general, adults are more ashamed of their inability to read and write and thus less likely to seek help. Still, educational programs like ProLiteracy have reported impressive results in getting adults excited about becoming literate. The ProLiteracy agency is not directly involved with the teaching side of literacy learning, but prepares volunteers and teachers to be ready to deal with common literacy issues. In addition, the group works with teachers and other organizations to make sure that their educational programs are efficient.