Category: Literacy

Medication Literacy Education for Minorities Introduction One specific health literacy issue currently faced by Hospital X is linguistic minority patients limited use of safe and effective resources to comprehend all medication instructions accurately. The issue pertains to certain patients failure to obtain/utilize instructions in their language despite the facilitys ability to provide such accommodations. Literacy…

Information Literacy in Advanced Nursing Practice Information literacy is critical in nursing practice, especially for advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs). Working with information is a complex process as it involves many different aspects, such as seeking the information, criticizing it, and further applying it within the nursing practice to achieve better patient outcomes and work…

Literacy Centers: Reading and Writing in 2nd-Graders Learning standard Apply knowledge of short and long vowels (including vowel teams) when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words (Indiana Department of Education. GRADE 2, 2015, p. 2). Teaching young learners, the difference between short and long vowels is an essential step to enhancing literacy among them. However, to…

Media Literacy and Political Manipulation For a long time, scholars have understood the significant role that the media play in influencing public opinion and giving shape to the perceptions that people have about the world. But on the other hand, the debate about how influential the media are is clear even from the studies that…

The Literacy Teaching: Literacy Training Techniques Sturtevant and Linek (Sturtevant & Linek, 2007) present the very heartening and intriguing results of an attempt to introduce pedagogical peer mentoring in another, decidedly alien country and culture. The study location was a nation with an ancient and proud history. Macedonia has more recently experienced only one generation…

Literacy Difficulties and Development Emergent literacy and the necessity to enhance students abilities are considered in this chapter. The key points are based on the fact that literacy development consists of several stages, and each stage should be passed successfully to achieve the best results. Students have to understand a number of concepts before they…

Childrens Early Literacy Achievement and Parents Role Table of Contents Purpose and/or Hypothesis Population Method Significant Findings Authors Conclusions Students Conclusions-Impact on own Teaching References Purpose and/or Hypothesis The purpose of this research is aimed at exploring the relationship between parents interaction with their children while sharing storybook reading and achieving childrens literacy. The main…

Information Literacy: Peer-Reviewing Process Cycle Peer reviewing is an essential part of the scientific publishing process. It is necessary in order to ensure the accuracy and quality of information presented in the peer-reviewed article. The peer-review cycle is comprised of four points, which are as follows (Fernandez, 2012): Writing and submitting an article for review…

Information Literacy: Credibility and Peer Review Credibility is one of the central aspects of any research project. For this reason, there is a specific peer review cycle needed to determine the nature of a study. Among all points of this process, I differentiate the evaluation of methods used for the research and recommendation for publishing…

Information Literacy: Peer-Reviewing Process Steps Table of Contents Important points in the peer review cycle How an editor differs from a peer reviewer How to determine whether the article was peer-reviewed Where to look for peer-reviewed information References Important points in the peer review cycle Every scientific journal or publishing company typically has its own…