Information literacy refers to an individual's ability to identify an information need, then find, access, recover, evaluate, organize, and use the information 
To be information literate, one needs to have critical thinking, comprehension, and abstraction skills. 

Information Literacy 

The ability to access, evaluate, and use digital information, tools, and systems.

Digital Literacy

The ability to manage one's health and to properly make informed health care decisions about one's body and mind.

Health Literacy 

The ability to manage one's finances and make responsible choices involving money and wealth.

Financial Literacy

The ability to evaluate and access information via mass media. 

Media Literacy

Visual literacy encompasses the knowledge and skills required to locate, understand, assess, use, and construct visual media.  Visual literacy skills include analyzing aspects of a visual work’s context, culture, ethics, aesthetics, ideas, concepts, expression, and technical properties.

Visual Literacy

Civic literacy encompasses the knowledge and skills required to understand the functions and processes of government; keep informed on civic issues; understand and exercise the rights and obligations of citizenship; understand the local, state, national, and global impact of decisions; and successfully and equitably engage with a diverse society.

Civic Literacy

The broad set of geography-based knowledge that allow learners to understand the world and its interconnections, as well as make sound decisions personally and professionally.

Geo-literacy

- Media Literacy
- Information Literacy
- Digital Literacy
- Financial Literacy
- Health Literacy 
- Civic Literacy
- Visual Literacy
 - Geo-literacy

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The knowledge and skills needed for a specific activity or topic. There are multiple types of literacy including media, digital/technological, information, etc.

Literacy

Literacy for All. (2019). Retrieved February 07, 2021, from http://www.ala.org/aboutala/sites/ala.org.aboutala/files/content/Literacy%20for%20All_Toolkit_Online.pdf

"ACRL Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education", American Library Association, October 27, 2011. http://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/visualliteracy (Accessed July 13, 2021).

ACRL Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education

Morgan, Lori A. (2016). Developing civic literacy and efficacy: Insights gleaned through the implementation of Project Citizen. i.e.: inquiry in education, 8(1), Article 3. Retrieved from http://digitalcommons.nl.edu/ie/vol8/iss1/3 

Developing Civic Literacy and Efficacy

Pollack, Seth. (2011). Civic literacy across the curriculum. Diversity and Democracy, 14(3).  https://www.aacu.org/publications-research/periodicals/civic-literacy-across-curriculum 

Civic Literacy Across the Curriculum

Edelson, D. C. (2011, March 25). Geo-Literacy. National Geographic Society. http://www.nationalgeographic.org/article/geo-literacy-preparation-far-reaching-decisions/

Geo-literacy (2011)

Types of Literacy

The theory that every person's interpretation of a work will be different given what life experience they are bringing with them to said text. This creates an ongoing relationship between the reader and the text where the reader's experiences inform the text and then that reading further informs the reader's intpretation. 

Transactional Theory of Reading and Writing

Literacy is the act of learning and developing skills. What is interesting is that Literacy and peoples attachment toward it can help inform their social identity(how they interact with the world around them/perceive it). 

Literacy helping to create Identity

Teaching literacy to an audience of children is beneficial to their mental development. That is why it is important that programs are planned and developed with a young audience in mind. Effective programs include song, Storytime, rhymes, and including parents. 

Early Literacy Program Planning

A research study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of utilizing telepractice versus traditional forms of assessment when testing language and literacy skills, specifically the Test of Integrated Language and Literacy Skills (TILLS). 

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