It is recommended that most patient teaching materials are at a 6th grade level. Remember, you are writing to be understood. The following materials can help you make sure your group project is readable.
AHRQ CAHPS Item Set for Addressing Health Literacy
The CAHPS Item Set for Addressing Health Literacy's goal is to measure, from the patients' perspective, how well health information is communicated to them by health care professionals.
Health Literacy Measurement Tools
Contains the Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine (short form) in both English and Spanish.
Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit
This toolkit offered by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality offers primary care practices ways to assess their services for literacy consideration, raise staff awareness, and address specific areas.
The site provides a free readability calculator. Users just need to copy a sample of the document and paste it into the "Text Sample Box." The site will calculate the Flesch Reading Ease, Fog Scale Level, and the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level of the text.