Examples Of Low Income Illiteracy
Jennifer Garcia
Mrs. Svatek
English 1301
18 April 2017
Breaking Low-Income Illiteracy
There is always a solution to every problem. When a person is sick, they take medication. When a person wants to lose weight, they change their diet and exercise. If a babys crying-feed them. Those are just a few examples. Some problems require several different solutions or a combination of solutions. So, I am presenting several different options to help low-socioeconomic children in beating literacy problems, by creating free book programs, getting parents more involved, and producing better schools and libraries for the communities.
In a struggling household living paycheck to paycheck, having to pay the rent, bills, and having food on the table, books …show more content…
There is not a manual on how to raise a child, it comes from experience or how they were raised themselves. If physicians teach parents that reading to their child is fundamental, parents will be more likely follow a doctor’s order. Teaching parents that reading to a child at least twenty minutes a day can impact child's school readiness. Giving parents access to free books and learning toys will give parents a worry-free in not having to spend, and just follow orders, are more likely to read to their child. I often see it with working at a doctor’s office patients are more like to use a sample of medication versus when having to purchase the medication often patients become non-compliant. Reading to a child increases a child's vocabulary and literacy skills, it teaches kids to listen more, in result will help a child …show more content…
Daycares will be required to read out loud and have learning, like a child being at school. So, by the time a child enters school they will be school readiness and be more susceptible to learning. Schools, student to teacher ratio can impact children's learning, therefore teachers might not be able to always catch if a child is having trouble, especially if their having to teach twenty plus students alone. The laws will change to having one teacher for every ten students for preschool to third grade, then increase to one and fifteen in grades fourth through eighth grade. Gradually increasing the student and teacher ratio max being twenty-five students. Also, increasing teachers’ pay will also be beneficial, a happy teacher equals happy schools and happy learning students. Having tutoring sessions help children with areas they are struggling in, providing transportation and having more availabilities can help those who do not have a ride or hours might interfere. Updating the libraries, making it a place where kids want to go is important. Libraries should be fun, and reading should be too. Having story times and learning games should be available for kids of all ages. Libraries having transportation is important as well, for those who maybe do not have a ride, but might need a
Mrs. Svatek
English 1301
18 April 2017
Breaking Low-Income Illiteracy
There is always a solution to every problem. When a person is sick, they take medication. When a person wants to lose weight, they change their diet and exercise. If a babys crying-feed them. Those are just a few examples. Some problems require several different solutions or a combination of solutions. So, I am presenting several different options to help low-socioeconomic children in beating literacy problems, by creating free book programs, getting parents more involved, and producing better schools and libraries for the communities.
In a struggling household living paycheck to paycheck, having to pay the rent, bills, and having food on the table, books …show more content…
There is not a manual on how to raise a child, it comes from experience or how they were raised themselves. If physicians teach parents that reading to their child is fundamental, parents will be more likely follow a doctor’s order. Teaching parents that reading to a child at least twenty minutes a day can impact child's school readiness. Giving parents access to free books and learning toys will give parents a worry-free in not having to spend, and just follow orders, are more likely to read to their child. I often see it with working at a doctor’s office patients are more like to use a sample of medication versus when having to purchase the medication often patients become non-compliant. Reading to a child increases a child's vocabulary and literacy skills, it teaches kids to listen more, in result will help a child …show more content…
Daycares will be required to read out loud and have learning, like a child being at school. So, by the time a child enters school they will be school readiness and be more susceptible to learning. Schools, student to teacher ratio can impact children's learning, therefore teachers might not be able to always catch if a child is having trouble, especially if their having to teach twenty plus students alone. The laws will change to having one teacher for every ten students for preschool to third grade, then increase to one and fifteen in grades fourth through eighth grade. Gradually increasing the student and teacher ratio max being twenty-five students. Also, increasing teachers’ pay will also be beneficial, a happy teacher equals happy schools and happy learning students. Having tutoring sessions help children with areas they are struggling in, providing transportation and having more availabilities can help those who do not have a ride or hours might interfere. Updating the libraries, making it a place where kids want to go is important. Libraries should be fun, and reading should be too. Having story times and learning games should be available for kids of all ages. Libraries having transportation is important as well, for those who maybe do not have a ride, but might need a