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What low proficiency in literacy really means
The concrete tasks that people at the lowest proficiency levels cannot do.
Translated the bottom of the literacy scale into the everyday reading tasks it corresponds to. Written because a proficiency level number tells a policy audience almost nothing on its own.
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