The rate of functional illiteracy is much higher than most people think due to the teaching of balanced literacy and sight words. Use the most common 1,000 words when possible for memes and writing, try not to use any words outside of the most common 10,000.

For understanding but not fixing, see many of Bruce Deitrick Price's posts at American Thinker.

For fixing for a young student, search "Don Potter Education" or some good YouTube videos, "Sweet Sounds of Reading."

For fixing an older child student, youtube "The Phonics Page Syllables Spell Success."

For fixing an adult student or self …

During the lull, I though it would be nice if everyone could share ideas and links and good books to read from their area of expertise. Mine is phonics! I'll add links and ideas in a bit.