How to use literacy in a sentence

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• Critics of contemporary culture generally posit a steep decline in cultural literacy.From the entry cultural literacy
• Today we know now that learning literacy significantly rewires and restructures the brain.From the entry rewire
• Many schools that have moved to synthetic phonics have noted dramatic improvements to the literacy of pupils taught by this method.From the entry synthetic phonics
• Writing is a subskill of overall literacy.From the entry subskill
• John Allen Paulos and others have asked our society to consider numeracy and innumeracy in a way closer to how we view literacy and illiteracy.From the entry numeracy
• He said Saint Lucia has sought closer cooperation with Taiwan to improve digital literacy in its schools.2022 August 11, Kelvin Chen, “Saint Lucia ambassador stands with Taiwan”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 12 Aug 2022. From the entry Saint Lucia
• As a result, the University supported the abolishment of the biblical literacy exam "Divvers".2020 May 31, Jackie Brown, “Surviving through History: Oxford’s ambition for learning unplagued by pandemics”, in The Oxford Student. From the entry divvers
• Nature-deficit disorder severely hampers, if not fully blocks, development of environmental literacy.2010, Richard R. Jurin, Donny Roush, Jeff Danter, “Developing Your Environmental Literacy”, in Environmental Communication: Skills and…. From the entry nature-deficit disorder
• To what extent are mass media the "drivers" of cultural literacy?2001 June 25, Jerry Bauer, “Cultural Literacy”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet). From the entry googleability
• When people lack computers or computer literacy, depositories help them plug into cybergovernment.1998, Judith Schiek Robinson, Tapping the Government Grapevine. From the entry cybergovernment
• Just check they get plenty of use and aren't mothballed while the school concentrates on (you guessed it) maths and literacy.2014 September 23, a teacher [pseudonym], “Choosing a primary school: a teacher’s guide for parents”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The…. From the entry mothball
• All the inspectorate has cared about in the past few years is data progression in maths and literacy.2014 September 23, A teacher, “Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents”, in The Guardian. From the entry inspectorate
• So, how far does cultural literacy go?2001 June 25, Jerry Bauer, “Cultural Literacy”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet). From the entry googleability
• We are now in the middle of a second Gutenberg shift — from book fluency to screen fluency, from literacy to visuality.2008 November 23, Kevin Kelly, “Becoming Screen Literate”, in New York Times. From the entry visuality
• Literacy groups across the country demanded Wednesday that Ottawa put back the $17.7 million it cut from adult literacy programs last week.2006 October 4, “Literacy groups demand $17M back from Ottawa”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 15 Nov 2023. From the entry Ottawa
• Thus, to be literate, in Arabic, is to be nonilliterate, which implies a lower level of literacy than "literacy" in the English language.2004, Uwe P. Gielen, Jaippaul Roopnarine, Childhood and adolescence; cross-cultural perspective and applications. From the entry nonilliterate
• Even our modern services, I fear, are at times suspect in this respect, demanding degrees of literacy and bookmanship increasingly not found.1989 January, “Third Sunday in Lent: Unexpected Issues”, in The Expository Times, 100: pp.144-145. From the entry bookmanship
• Literacy is not every man’s dish.1965 November 19, “Illiteracy: The Uncomprehending 40%”, in Time, volume 86, number 21, page 67. From the entry dish
• These findings contribute to theory building by providing evidence in an underresearch context characterized by high levels of child poverty and low levels of adult literacy.2019, Sharon Wolf, Dana Charles McCoy, “Household Socioeconomic Status and Parental Investments: Direct and Indirect Relations With School…. From the entry underresearch
• EAP research has developed advanced methods for producing corpus-informed vocabulary resources, but these have yet to be fully leveraged to promote disciplinary literacy within the secondary school context.2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific…. From the entry leverage
• Disciplinary literacy has been particularly impactful in secondary education, and shares much in common with English for Specific Purposes (ESP), where the focus has been more on tertiary education.2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Position vectors, homologous chromosomes and gamma rays: Promoting disciplinary literacy through…. From the entry disciplinary literacy
• In selecting a script to assist with language and literacy development in Chinese, the school trialled the use of Zhuyin, a phonetic writing system commonly used in Taiwan.2017, Stanley Wang, Andrew Scrimgeour, Anne-Marie Morgan, “Exploring the use of Zhuyin in early primary Chinese literacy development”, in…. From the entry Zhuyin
• At the same time, by identifying Jenny and Donny as exceptions to these rules of Appalachianness, we are to think of them as worthy targets of literacy intervention.2015 December 18, Sara Webb-Sunderhaus, Kim Donehower, Rereading Appalachia: Literacy, Place, and Cultural Resistance, University Press of…. From the entry Appalachianness
• The court in those days upheld any number of segregationist laws — and even in Guinn specified that literacy tests untethered from grandfather clauses were OK.2013 October 22, Alan Greenblatt, “The Racial History Of The 'Grandfather Clause'”, in NPR.org. From the entry grandfather clause
• One of the ways to work the hyphens is through curricula that engage students in writing and inquiry using both students' multidialectal repertoires and the schools' literacies.2011, Leila Christenbury, Randy Bomer, Peter Smagorinsky, Handbook of Adolescent Literacy Research, page 338. From the entry work the hyphens
• A particular classroom incident, and the vignette I used to portray it, had a significant impact on the interpretative framework for my research into scientific literacy.2007, Peter Charles Taylor, John Wallace, Contemporary Qualitative Research, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 126. From the entry vignette
• If literacy deprivileges the orality of language, literacy in English, in this context, deprivileges not only Jamaican but the orthography that revalorises the language as autonomous system.1995, Carolyn Cooper, Noises in the Blood, page 13. From the entry deprivilege
• Women must wait, and, in the country at least, they will not mind; there is to be no literacy test, but military service will very properly qualify.1919 May 23, “The Indian Franchise. The Political Centre of Gravity.”, in The Near East, volume XV, number 420, London: […] St. Clements…. From the entry elector
• If Goody is correct then the traditional local religions would seem to be incompatible with a literate society, and the introduction of literacy thus necessitates the unchoice of such religions.2014, John E. Joseph, Talbot J. Taylor, Ideologies of Language (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics). From the entry unchoice

Meaning of literacy

1. noun The ability to read and write.
2. noun The ability to understand and evaluate something.

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Questions about literacy in a sentence

How do you use literacy in a sentence?

Literacy is used as a noun. For example: “Critics of contemporary culture generally posit a steep decline in cultural literacy.”

What is a short sentence with literacy?

“Literacy is not every man’s dish.”

What does literacy mean?

Literacy means the ability to read and write.