1. Education
Reading to children is an important part of the process of teaching them to read. Parents are their children's first and most influential teachers. Children can only be serious about reading if the adults around them provide genuine support and set real examples. Therefore, through parental guidance, we can break the cycle of illiteracy.
Reading is a basic life skill. It is a cornerstone for a child's success in school and throughout life. Without, the ability to read well, opportunities for personal fulfillment and job success will be lost.
There is a common tendency to view literacy in purely educational terms. If one is illiterate or functionally illiterate, there are thought to be gaps in one's education that require correction. The illiteracy problem is not created solely by the schools, and its solution does not rest entirely on their shoulders. Schools are not necessarily the source of the problem, and improvement of the schools is not necessarily the most appropriate strategy for change.
More than a set of skills, literacy is a value. Societies that place an important value on being literate actively seek to inculcate it and provide rewards to those who are literate. In other societies, literacy is viewed as a less important value and is less avidly pursued. In such societies, even if literacy is firmly embedded in the schools curriculum, literacy cannot properly take hold.
A report prepared for the Ford Foundation in 1979 elaborated the following definition of literacy:.
The possession of skills perceived as necessary by particular persons and groups to fulfill their own self-determined objectives as family and community members, citizens, consumers, job-holders, and members of social, religious, or other associations of their choosing. This includes the ability to read and write adequately to satisfy the requirements they set for themselves as being important for their won lives; the ability to deal positively with demands made on them by society; and the ability to solve the problems they face in their daily lives.