literacy
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As reading scores tumbled over the last decade, parents, scholars and literacy advocates pushed for teaching methods that align with decades of research about how kids learn to read — largely by sounding out words.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026
Your column, appropriately so for its purpose, focuses heavily on financial literacy, and some of your writers brag about how savvy they are.
From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026
Most of this legislation focuses on creating a digital wellness program—where kids are taught about healthy phone use, digital literacy, and the influence of algorithms and A.I.
From Slate • May 12, 2026
Laura Bush used it to plan her literacy initiatives.
From Salon • May 7, 2026
Her agent of infection was television, and the “virus” she wanted to spread was literacy.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
Vocabulary lists containing literacy
Power Suffix: -acy
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