1. Name: ________________
Literacy and the Standard of Living in Latin
America
1. What does literacy rate mean?
2. Is the literacy rate of the region of Latin America high or low?
3. Why is it this way?
4. What is standard of living?
5. Draw an illustration to represent the relationship between literacy rate and standard of living:
6. When a person is literate, that means that the person can _____________________________.
7. What is often an effect of a high literacy rate?
2. 8. Why do some countries in Latin America have higher literacy rates for boys than for girls?
9. An illiterate person is most likely to have all of the following EXCEPT:
A a large home.
B a low-paying job.
C a lower standard of living.
D children who cannot read or write.
