While reading and writing are very important literacy skills, in today's society, the definition of being "literate" is much broader in scope.

LITERACY includes all the skills that help a person to function on a daily basis - so things like numeracy (math skills), computer skills, problem solving, critical thinking and analysis, using and understanding documents, teamwork, and all kinds of other skills too.

There are lots of different kinds of literacy. These are some of the types of literacy we are working on in Powell River: