Sentence examples for lay literacy from inspiring English sources

Environmental literacy or lay literacy is the term used to designate that form of unspecialized competence involved in generally dealing with a literate environment.

When compulsory schooling was introduced in Britain, Europe, and America in the 19th century, it was nurtured by an environment of "lay" literacy in which as much as 75 percent of the population could use written materials for such informal purposes as keeping diaries, reading and writing notes and letters, and personal record keeping.

Lay literacy rates rose, but were still low; one estimate gave a literacy rate of ten per cent of males and one per cent of females in 1500.

This study describes the agreement between VA-derived causes of death and informant-perceived causes and associated influential factors, which also reflects lay health literacy in this setting.

The revolution Dante described was nothing less than the twilight of the predominantly clerical Latin culture and the emergence of a lay, vernacular urban literacy.

Librarians, he added, "are the custodians of literacy – they lay the stepping stones that start the journey from one book to another, widening horizons and the reading experience".

The job with these children is to lay a foundation for literacy -- teaching, for example, basic concepts like what a rhyme is, or helping to increase children's vocabularies by talking and reading to them.

Oliver said the PE and Sport Premium – which amounts to £8,000 a year for each primary school plus an additional £5 per each pupil – had helped improve physical literacy and lay "strong foundations" but added: "The challenge is to maintain these gains as children become more engaged with digital technology".

However vague this claim may appear, one can certainly see in the peninsula some elements that, taken together, made a strong contrast to the world beyond the Alps: a common legal culture, high levels of lay education and urban literacy, a close relationship between town and country, and a nobility who frequently engaged in trade.

English terms were simple and we used written lay terms to ensure literacy accessibility to the deaf population, for whom English is a second language [ 46].

To the Editor: Scholars have routinely noted ways in which scientific inquiry is isolated from public life and popular attention and have bemoaned relatively low levels of scientific literacy among lay audiences (1 – 3 ).