Challenges to have better results in literacy

Abstract

In this article, some statistics related to developed countries, like USA and UK and also Brazil, with high figures of functional illiteracy are presented. The program Early Intervention Initiative (EII) inspires other countries for applying similar measures like the reformulation of curricula, of activities in the classroom, of pedagogical material, of assessment and remediation of students who have difficulties on learning reading and writing. Emphasis will be given to the psychological reality of letters features invariance demonstrated by various experiments which had been recently run by neuroscientists