i never learned how to write.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Literacy is traditionally meant as the ability to read and write . The modern term's meaning has been expanded to include the ability to use language, numbers, images, computers, and other basic means to understand, communicate, gain useful knowledge, solve mathematical problems and use the dominant symbol systems of a culture. The concept of literacy is expanding in OECD countries to include skills to access knowledge through technology and ability to assess complex contexts. A person who travels and resides in a foreign country but is unable to read or write in the language of the host country would also be regarded by the locals as being illiterate. The key to literacy is reading development, a progression of skills that begins with the ability to understand spoken words and decode written words, and culminates in the deep understanding of text. Reading development involves a range of complex language underpinnings including awareness of speech sounds (phonology), spelling patterns (orthography), word meaning (semantics), grammar (syntax) and patterns of word formation (morphology), all of which provide a necessary platform for reading fluency and comprehension. Once these skills are acquired, the reader can attain full language literacy, which includes the abilities to apply to printed material critical analysis, inference and synthesis; to write with accuracy and coherence; and to use information and insights from text as the basis for informed decisions and creative thought.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Growing up I had a uncle who could not read or write."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That must have been challenging for him. Was it something that y'all all knew, or was it a well-known \"secret\"?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The concept of literacy is expanding in OECD countries today. But it was well known he was like that"}, {"role": "user", "content": "What is OECD? And did he ever learn to read and write?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The key to literacy is reading development and OECD is the term for learning adults I think."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Ah! And yes to reading. Would any of your uncle's kids or family read to him?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I just think it was different for him. My cousins all can read and write but  Reading development involves a range of complex language underpinnings including awareness of speech sounds. maybe he just never got it you know?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I do -- it does make me wonder if maybe he had an undiagnosed reading disorder like dyslexia that made it even harder. Crazy to think of all those people who went undiagnosed for so long."}]