The purposes of the association shall be:

• to encourage and actively promote enjoyment of literacy
• to encourage literacy learning
• to encourage research in literacy education
• to publish results of significant literacy investigations and practices e) to foster continuing literacy education programmes for teachers
• to encourage and support the work of reading/literacy councils in New Zealand
• to provide and promote meetings and conferences on literacy
• to foster national and international co-operation in the field of literacy
• to advise and make representations on matters related to literacy