The Nardagani Reading Program and Literacy: Partners in Education

Currently, over 25 percent of the population in the United States or 329.5 million people, according to the 2020 Census, struggle to read and have encountered challenges with traditional reading teaching methods. According to the Literacy Foundation, the inability to read makes life significantly harder for individuals, but also has a dramatic effect on our society.

Some effects of illiteracy on individuals:

  • Limited ability to obtain and understand essential information.

  • Unemployment: The unemployment rate is 2–4 times higher among those with little schooling than among those with Bachelor’s degrees.

  • Lower income.

  • Lower-quality jobs.

  • Reduced access to lifelong learning and professional development.

  • Precarious financial position.

  • Little value is given to education and reading within the family, and this often leads to intergenerational transmission of illiteracy.

  • Low self-esteem, which can lead to isolation.

  • Impact on health: Illiterate individuals have more workplace accidents, take longer to recover and more often misuse medication through ignorance of health care resources and because they have trouble reading and understanding the relevant information (warnings, dosage, contraindications, etc.).

Some effects of illiteracy on society:

  • Since literacy is an essential tool for individuals and states to be competitive in the new global knowledge economy, many positions remain vacant for lack of personnel adequately trained to hold them.

  • The higher the proportion of adults with low literacy proficiency is, the slower the overall long-term grade domestic product (GDP) growth rate.

  • The difficulty understanding societal issues lowers the level of community involvement and civic participation.

No matter the English language learning goals for your son or daughter, the Nardagani Reading Program can help all types of challenged readers and ESL students. Moreover, whether a teacher’s goal is to improve student pronunciation in elementary school, increase phonemic awareness, help your son or daughter struggling with reading speed or fluency or even learn how to better read English, Nardagani can support you and your child by teaching decoding (sounding out words) quickly and simply. Learn how to read the Nardagani way!

Click here to learn more about the Nardagani Reading Program and watch Narda’s TEDx talk, “A New Way to Learn to Read English.”

Lynn Pattnosh