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2) "Family Health and Literacy: A Guide to Easy-to-Read
Health Education Materials and Web Sites for Families"
Julie
Mckinney and Sabrina Kurtz-Rossi
Developed by World
Educations in collaboration with the National Institute for Literacy with a
grant from Metlife Foundation.
"This guide was
designed to help integrate health and literacy education in family literacy
programs. We have included resources that we hope will be helpful to both
family literacy teachers, and health educators and practitioners who work with
parents with limited literacy skills. For teachers, there is a chapter on how
to get started teaching health, which provides some context for how to include
health topics in your curriculum. This includes ideas on how to introduce
health, how to engage learners, how to enhance literacy and language
acquisition using health, and how to collaborate with local health
organizations. There are also listings of easy-to-read health information,
lesson plans and teaching activities, online activities to use in class, and
activities and games for parents and children to do together. Health
educators and practitioners can also benefit from the easy-to-read health
information, clearly with adults with limited skills." 
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