Functional Literacy means knowing how to get along

Keep it simple. Functional Literacy is about reading and writing enough to get important ideas across to others, and to understand the most important ideas coming your way.

This means processing the instructions that may keep you or your child safe. For example... Danger, Keep Out, No Swimming, Hot and so on. Now whether or not they were regarding properly does not mean they weren't understood by your child. Could your child print 'I am hungry' or 'my leg hurts a lot'. These are trivial examples of drawing attention to an important, possibly life threatening situation. The child must be able to communicate the most basic terms for his or her survival.

Really, in the end, wouldn't we be happy that our children accomplish what they must in order to become productive, well-balanced, human beings? They can't all be prize winning writers!

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