Literacy Definitions
Literacy Facts
Literacy Testing
Teaching
Instructional Materials
100
The total inability to read, write, or comprehend information.
What is illiteracy?
100
90 million adults in America.
How many adults have limited literacy skills?
100
A patient reads from a list of progressively difficult words and is stopped after pronouncing 10 words incorrectly.
What is the WRAT reading test?
100
The approaches used by instructors.
What are methods?
100
A handout, pamphlet or instruction sheet is this type of instructional material.
What is written material?
200
The ability to read, write, and interpret information at the 8th grade level or above.
What is literacy?
200
An average or above IQ.
What is the IQ of most illiterate people?
200
A patient reads from a list of 66 health/medical-related words.
What is a REALM reading test?
200
The vehicles used to convey information.
What are instructional materials?
200
This type of demonstration material includes posters, charts, and bulletin boards.
What are display materials?
300
The ability to read, understand, and act on health information.
What is health literacy?
300
Voting, driving, and completing medical forms.
What are some tasks people with low literacy have trouble doing?
300
A test where every 5th word is deleted from the passage and the reader must fill in the blanks.
What is the Cloze test?
300
Delivery system, content, and presentation.
What are the 3 components of instructional materials?
300
Power point presentations, DVDs and computers are all types of this instructional material.
What is audiovisual material?
400
The ability to use basic computer functions.
What is computer literacy?
400
Older adults, persons living in poverty, and people with chronic mental or physical illnesses.
What are the populations at risk for literacy issues?
400
A patient listens as you read a passage and then must answer verbal questions.
What is a listening test?
400
This type of instructional material is the most abstract form of reality.
What is written material?
400
Replicas, analogues, and symbols are types of this kind of demonstration material.
What are models?
500
Reading below the 5th grade level and unable to manage effectively in today's society.
What is functional illiteracy?
500
This is associated with poor health outcomes impacting the cost of health care.
What is low literacy.
500
This readability formula is based on average sentence and word length.
What is the Flesch Formula?
500
This voice is when you write the way you would talk and is the easiest to understand.
What is the active voice?
500
This type of written material can be tailored by the nurse to fit the needs of the learner.
What is self-composed written material.
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