AY Honor Literacy Requirements used by General Conference

Literacy

Skill Level

2

Year

2005

Version

17.11.2024

Approval authority

General Conference

1. Define the term literacy.

2. Research and briefly describe how two or three organizations in your community or country promote literacy or provide literacy services to children and adults.

3. Write a paragraph explaining why literacy is important.

4. Complete three of the following activities:

a. Help someone read a small book or short story.

b. Read a short story to a group of young children and discuss it with them afterward.

c. Make 10 flash cards with simple words and illustrations or pictures and give them to someone who is learning how to read.

d. Read several chapters from the Bible to an elderly person you know who is blind or unable to read. This can be done in one visit or several visits.

e. Give a five-minute presentation in your school or Sabbath school or church on what you learned about literacy.

5. Choose three words and explain to your instructor how you would teach someone what the words mean and how to spell them.