Mastering Literacy Skills

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Mastering literacy skills helps tremendously in life for success. Our generation, also known as the iGen, is so obsessed with the latest technology that we haven’t even mastered them by high school. The future is dependent on us and the way some of us act, sure does worry people. The literacy skills should have been mastered by fourth grade, but we are still learning them in high school. Some very important jobs require being mastered in literacy skills. Such as a teacher, someone in the law enforcement, and anyone who wants to have a successful, well paying job. The iGen is so focused on all of the technology we have, that they aren’t prepared for life after high school when they have to enter the real world. Juniors in highschool are on

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