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- Literacy Online - Literacy Online is cosponsored by the International Literacy Institute and the National Center on Adult Literacy, and hosted at the University of Pennsylvania. Literacy Online is dedicated to providing useful information concerning literacy for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners worldwide.
- Exploring Adult Literacy - Evolving electronic peer-reviewed journal intended for adult literacy practitioners in adult basic education, family literacy and workplace literacy. Provides practical, but research-based short articles on new ideas in the field as well as position papers, lesson plans, reviews, and an interactive forum for adult literacy providers.
- ProLiteracy - Nonprofit international literacy organization based in Syracuse, New York, formed from the merger of Laubach Literacy International and Literacy Volunteers of America. Site provides reports on the state of literacy, information about projects and programs, and links to events, training, and resources.
- Nebraska Literacy - One of 12 state resource centers that make up the Midwest Adult Literacy Information System. (With support from the National Institute for Literacy).
- Technology used in Adult Literacy Programs - This is a paper on how technology is affecting adult literacy programs.
- Information Literacy: A Clarification - Provides a history of literacy, including discussion of different concepts of literacy. It focuses specifically on the nebulous concept of "information literacy" and its impact on schools and libraries.
- Information Literacy and the Net - A series of modules to help students explore Internet resources through engaging in different forms of literacy, including visual literacy. A staff development project developed by Bellingham Public Schools in Bellingham, Washington.
- The Ohio Literacy Resource Center - Provides support, training and resources for practitioners who work with adult literacy students in the state of Ohio.
- Literacy Resources - Rhode Island - The Swearer Center for Public Service, Literacy Resources, Rhode Island Campus.
- Literacy Council of Jefferson County - Provides free tutoring services to Jefferson County, Washington, USA residents with low literacy skills.
Wikipedia Articles
- Literacy test - Literacy Test refers to the government practice of testing the literacy of potential citizens at the federal level, and potential voters at the state level. The federal government first employed literacy tests as part of the immigration process in 1917.
- Information literacy - Several conceptions and definitions of information literacy have become prevalent. For example, one conception defines information literacy in terms of a set of competencies that an informed citizen of an information society ought to possess to participate intelligently and actively in that society (from American Library Association]'s (ALA) Presidential Committee on Information Literacy, Final Report states that, "To be information literate, a person ...
- Phonological Awareness for Literacy - The Phonological Awareness for Literacy (PAL) Program (Burrows, Allison, Barnett, and Savina, 2007) is a commercial literacy therapy program for use by speech therapists designed to improve phonological awareness skills required for literacy in children aged 8 - 12. It aims to create/strengthen awareness of the relationship between phonological awareness skills to reading and writing.
- Financial literacy - Financial literacy is the ability of individuals to make appropriate decisions in managing their personal finances. Raising levels of financial literacy is now a focus of government programmes in countries including”Taking Ownership of the Future: The National Strategy for Financial Literacy” US Financial Literacy and Education Commission, 2006, page 113 Australia, Japan, the United States and the UK.
- Multimedia literacy - Multimedia literacy is a new aspect of literacy that is being recognised as technology expands the way people communicate. The concept of Literacy emerged as a measure of the ability to read and write.