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Illiteracy has been a reoccurring predicament ever since throng have been able to say. Either sisterren do not understand how to make and write in school, or they require extra befriend in becoming skilled in the areas of reading and writing. After school programs were created to suspensor schools increase the literacy development in youngsterren. An after school program is define as a program that offers its services to children after school to help them with arts, crafts, sports, or homework. Are after school programs fulfilling their duty to increase the take of literacy in children? After school programs are change magnitude the level of literacy in children kindergarten through sixth grade because they were created to help children increase their literacy level since schools are not providing children kindergarten through sixth grade with help in increasing their literacy level.The common interpretation of illiteracy is the inability to read and write. The Funk and Wagnalls dictionary defines illiteracy as the inability to read and write, an error in speak or writing. Even if there is a fault in the speech production or writing of a child, that child is defined as illiterate. If that is the definition of illiteracy, is the definition of a literate child one who never makes a mistake in his or her reading and writing? A child will always make mistakes in reading and writing because the child is human, but if that child never progresses in his or her ability to read and write then the child is defined as illiterate. Funk and Wagnalls vocabulary defines literacy as the state of being literate and a literate someone as one that is able to read and write, educated, cultured. Literacy is also indicated by knowledge and a progres... ...b. 2005. Illiteracy. Funk & Wagnalls Standard Desk Dictionary. sixth ed. 1983.Literacy. Funk & Wagnalls Standard Desk Dictionary. 6th ed. 1983.Literate. Funk & Wagnalls Standard Desk Dictionary. 6th ed. 1983.Prosser, Theresa M., and Levesque, Jeri A. Supporting Literacy Through Service Learning. read Teacher Sep. 1997 31 par. Academic Search Premier. EBSCOhost. University of Denver Penrose Library, Denver. 19 Jan. 2005.Sylva, Kathy, and Evans, Emma. Preventing unsuccessful person at School. Children and Society 13 Sep. 1999 9p. Academic Search Premier. EBSCOhost. University of Denver Penrose Library, Denver. 19 Jan. 2005 .