Teaching reading and writing is a complex undertaking, especially when the learner is an adult, and the educator is an untrained volunteer.

UNESCO: Kha Ri Gude (Let Us Learn) Adult Literacy Programme (KGALP)

The use of familiar, real-life materials helps students to feel more comfortable in class, and the structured teaching of literacy skills gradually improves their reading and writing skills.

UNESCO: Adult Literacy Tutors Association (ALTA)

Teaching-learning materials are designed to help facilitators to develop the reading and writing skills of their learners through a highly instructive teaching-learning process as well as guided practice by the learners (see pictures below).

UNESCO: Kha Ri Gude (Let Us Learn) Adult Literacy Programme (KGALP)

Similarly, a literacy hour is being prescribed by a taskforce on the teaching of reading and writing.

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Lumbly makes you believe that this Johnny Appleseed of reading and writing would return to slavery from a free life up North and risk mutilation in order to continue his teaching.

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The teaching of literacy primarily focuses on reading, writing, speaking and listening, in order to encourage students to read, comprehend, reflect on their social experiences and use the language as an instrument of knowledge-seeking.

UNESCO: Z�� Pe?o School Project