Health Literacy From A to Z

Health Literacy From A to Z
Author: Helen Osborne
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2013
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1449600530

With patient experience at the forefront of health care, effective communication of health messages is critical to quality care. This book offers proven strategies to help providers clearly explain health information to a variety of audiences, from patients and caregivers, to students and the public.

Literacy from A to Z

Literacy from A to Z
Author: Barbara R. Blackburn
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2013-10-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317930533

This book offers strategies, activities, and tools to help teachers and reading specialists teach elementary and middle school students to become better readers, writers, speakers, and listeners. Written in a lively and accessible style with one chapter for each letter of the alphabet, Literacy from A to Z offers practical advice and fully realized examples to improve your lesson plans.

Storytime from A to Z

Storytime from A to Z
Author: Allison E. Ward
Publisher: Mailbox Books
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Children
ISBN: 9781562346393

Young children are naturally curious and absorb information quickly. With Storytime From A to Z from THE Mailbox, learning the alphabet can be fun and easy! Develop early literacy skills, including phonemic awareness, letter recognition, letter-sound relationships, listening and reading comprehension, and writing.

City Seen from A to Z

City Seen from A to Z
Author: Rachel Isadora
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1983-03-14
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780688018030

Twenty-six black-and-white drawings of scenes of city life suggest words beginning with each letter of the alphabet.

Advancing Health Literacy

Advancing Health Literacy
Author: Christina Zarcadoolas
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2012-07-02
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1118429745

Advancing Health Literacy addresses the crisis in health literacy in the United States and around the world. This book thoroughly examines the critical role of literacy in public health and outlines a practical, effective model that bridges the gap between health education, health promotion, and health communication. Step by step, the authors outline the theory and practice of health literacy from a public health perspective. This comprehensive resource includes the history of health literacy, theoretical foundations of health and language literacy, the role of the media, a series of case studies on important topics including prenatal care, anthrax, HIV/AIDS, genomics, and diabetes. The book concludes with a series of practical guidelines for the development and assessment of health communications materials. Also included are essential techniques needed to help people make informed decisions, advocate for themselves and their community, mitigate risk, and live healthier lives.

Leveled Books (K-8)

Leveled Books (K-8)
Author: Irene C. Fountas
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2006
Genre: Education
ISBN:

For ten years and in two classic books, Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell have described how to analyze the characteristics of texts and select just-right books to use for guided reading instruction. Now, for the first time, all of their thinking and research has been updated and brought together into Leveled Books, K-8 to form the ultimate guide to choosing and using books from kindergarten through middle school. Fountas and Pinnell take you through every aspect of leveled books, describing how to select and use them for different purposes in your literacy program and offering prototype descriptions of fiction and nonfiction books at each level. They share advice on: the role of leveled books in reading instruction, analyzing the characteristics of fiction and nonfiction texts, using benchmark books to assess instructional levels for guided reading, selecting books for both guided and independent reading, organizing high-quality classroom libraries, acquiring books and writing proposals to fund classroom-library purchases, creating a school book room. In addition, Fountas and Pinnell explain the leveling process in detail so that you can tentatively level any appropriate book that you want to use in your instruction. Best of all, Leveled Books, K-8 is one half of a new duo of resources that will change how you look at leveled books. Its companion-www.FountasandPinnellLeveledBooks.com-is a searchable and frequently updated website that includes more than 18,000 titles. With Leveled Books, K-8 you'll know how and why to choose books for your readers, and with www.FountasandPinnellLeveledBooks.com, you'll have the ideal tool at your fingertips for finding appropriate books for guided reading. Book jacket.

Literacy Instruction with Disciplinary Texts

Literacy Instruction with Disciplinary Texts
Author: William E. Lewis
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2020-11-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1462544681

To develop strong disciplinary literacy skills, middle and high school students need to engage with diverse types of challenging texts in every content area. This book provides a blueprint for constructing literacy-rich instructional units in English language arts, science, and social studies. The authors describe how to design interconnected text sets and plan lessons that support learning and engagement before, during, and after reading. Presented are ways to build academic vocabulary and background knowledge, teach research-based comprehension strategies, and guide effective discussions and text-based writing activities. Chapters also cover how to teach students to write argumentative, informative, and narrative essays, and to conduct discipline-specific inquiry. Special features include sample text sets and 24 reproducible planning templates and other teaching tools; purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size.

Health Literacy From A to Z

Health Literacy From A to Z
Author: M. Ed Osborne
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2012-11-18
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1449677347

Clear communication of your health message can make all the difference in effective patient care. Health Literacy from A to Z: Practical Ways to Communicate Your Health Message, Second Edition is an easy to use handbook designed for the busy health professional. Filled with ideas and strategies that can be used in everyday practice, Health Literacy from A to Z is a first-of-its-kind resource. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images or content found in the physical edition.

Letter Perfect

Letter Perfect
Author: David Sacks
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2010-08-20
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0307371034

Letters are tangible language. Joining together in endless combinations to actually show speech, letters convey our messages and tell our stories. While we encounter these tiny shapes hundreds of times a day, we take for granted the long, fascinating history behind one of the most fundamental of human inventions -- the alphabet. The heart of the book is the 26 fact-filled “biographies” of letters A through Z, each one identifying the letter’s particular significance for modern readers, tracing its development from ancient forms, and discussing its noteworthy role in literature and other media. We learn, for example, why the letter X has a sinister and sexual aura, how B came to signify second best, why the word “mother” in many languages starts with M, and what is the story of O. Packed with information and lavishly illustrated, Letter Perfect is not only accessible and entertaining, but essential to the appreciation of our own language.

Phonics from A to Z

Phonics from A to Z
Author: Wiley Blevins
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1998
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780590315104

Provides an explanation of phonics, a method of reading instruction that focuses on the relationship between sounds and their spellings, and features over one hundred activities for the classroom, as well as sample lessons, word lists, and teaching strategies.