The present teaching relates to a method, system, and programming for content personalization. A request is received from a user to obtain a content item. Information indicative of a literacy-level of the user is obtained and the content item to be provided to the user is retrieved. The content item is modified by updating information included in the content item based on the literacy-level of the user to generate an updated content item. The updated content item is provided to the user in response to the request.