Literacy is the foundation stone for education. Without literacy one cannot be educated. If one has achieved basic literacy skills providing education, academic, skill based and professional becomes a much easier task. Literacy also enables a person to share the ideas and thoughts and be able to learn other people’s ideas and thoughts.

Literacy allows one to know what is going on in the world much more effectively.

Each language has high frequency words. Thousand high frequency words have been identified in several languages.

A child aged between 7 and 14 who is fluent in spoken language has generally mastered 90 % of these high frequency words although they may not be able to identify such words by reading or be able to write these words, they are nevertheless well familiar with the concept of these words and know how to use them within the daily language.

The idea behind Speed literacy programme is to teach such children the written identification of these words and then give them the skill to write these words.

Since they are already aware of the words, and unconsciously fully aware of the use and basic underlying grammar they should be able to learn these two skills viz:  of identification by reading and ability to write very quickly.

Learning abilities of children differ but we all know how incredibly quickly children learn.