Research-based Health Literacy Materials and Instruction Guide
Beginning ABE and ESL Levels
Section 9 - Talking to Health Professionals
Stresses the importance of asking questions if you don’t understand everything a health professional tells you. Incorporates six case studies involving both oral and print information on: diabetes (lab tests and medications), high cholesterol (lab test results and medications), preparing for a colonoscopy, and oral surgery post-operative instructions.
| Basic Skills and Vocabulary | |
| 1. Vocabulary Lists | |
| 2. Sight Word List | |
| 3. Phonemic Awareness Activity | |
| Graphics | |
| Interpreter / Translate | |
| Classroom Picture Set | |
| Flashcards - Label | |
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Flashcards - No Label |
| Reading and Comprehension | |
| 1. Reading Passage | |
| 2. Cloze Activity | |
| 3. Beginner Story | |
| 4. Beginner Cloze Activity | |
| Supplemental Activities | |
| 1. (C) Colonoscopy Instructions Worksheet | |
| 2. (O) Asking Questions Case Studies | |
| ESL Activities | |
| 1. Word Focus | |
| 2. Sentence Focus | |
| 3. Conversation Focus | |
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