Georgia SS6E3.a
The Standard
Evaluate how literacy rates affect the standard of living.
Georgia Standards of Excellence for Social Studies · Describe factors that influence economic growth and examine their presence or absence in Brazil, Cuba, and Mexico.
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students compare literacy rates with income, health, and employment data for Brazil, Cuba, and Mexico. They explain how stronger reading skills can expand job options and support a higher standard of living.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students use country data to make a clear claim about the relationship between literacy and living conditions. They also explain that literacy is one influence, not the only cause of economic outcomes.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may assume that a high literacy rate automatically makes a country wealthy. They may treat standard of living as income alone or confuse literacy rate with years of schooling.
How to Assess It
- Give this exit prompt: Country A has 99 percent literacy but lower income than Country B. Explain how this can happen using two sentences.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups country data cards for literacy, income, life expectancy, and employment, then have them arrange and explain patterns they notice.
Ask students to write: How can reading skills affect a worker, a family, and a country's economy?
Play a claim and evidence match game using literacy and living condition statements about Brazil, Cuba, and Mexico.
Compare two local job postings with different reading or education requirements, then discuss how those requirements may affect wages and opportunities.
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