Current literacy experiences tend to reflect learners' awareness of when and how they use literacy in their lives. The majority reported reading at home (newspaper, novels) and at CASP (textbooks). Home literacy experiences were reported by 80% of respondents who said that they write such things as notes and journals and sign things every day. Furthermore, 70% of learners reported that they use numeracy skills at home.

Television was reported as a big part of the home literacy experiences of the respondents -- 95% reported watching television; the type of programming may or may not influence their growing literacy. The technology/information revolution is reaching these learners through television, although not through computer access.

The home and community literacies of these learners have developed perhaps in response to the way in which they (the learners) have come to understand their place in the world. Educators and administrators need to be mindful of home and community literacies as they attempt to work with learners in the CASP partnership.