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2. Access to Reading Materials - U.S. Department of Education

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   The U.S. Department of Education (Department) recognizes the importance of ensuring every child in the country has access to reading materials in their homes and communities. In an effort to (1) promote increased efforts to address opportunity gaps and (2) highlight opportunities to improve coordination between schools, libraries, and other ...

3. Newcomer Tool Kit (PDF) - U.S. Department of Education

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   Classroom tool: Ideas and resources teachers can use to help students understand, appreciate, and share their own stories about newcomers’ social, cultural, and economic contributions. • Professional reflection and discussion activity: Instructions and handouts for professional learning communities or staff meetings.

4. Weih, T. G. (2015). How to Select Books for Teaching to ... - ed

   files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED554313.pdf

   When faced with a diverse classroom of children, teachers frequently are unaware of the backgrounds of their individual students, so it is imperative that teachers make available to children all types of books and reading material that children could personally relate to at some internal level.

5. How to Motivate Your Students - ed

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   students to persist in improving their times. students’ times immediately every other have improved after week. students each To help Importantly, time motivate the monitor focus is on run they their run. individual mile. students, I announce over I also This keep improvement. helps a log motivate and.

6. Activities to Support Students’ Out-of-Class Reading - ed

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   7. Finish reading your book or pick a different one to read. Tell your teacher when you have finished reading your book. You may get extra points for reading more than a certain number of books (or pages). If your classroom has a class reading poster, prepare to write information about the book on the poster.

7. Using Children's Literature in the Classroom. - ERIC

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   Rosberg, Merilee. One approach to helping children to become literate is to use good children's literature in the classroom. Children's trade books are now available on a variety of topics. Many of them are traditional stories, but more authors are also writing historical fiction, biographies, and science books.

8. READING ENGAGEMENT: A COMPARISON BETWEEN E- BOOKS AND ... - ed

   files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED522678.pdf

   Options for access to a large selection of book titles and “anytime/anywhere” reading choices have added to the increased use of e-books. For this study, 22 third-grade students completed satisfaction surveys and reading comprehension tests on three separate reading sessions: one traditional print-based and two e-book titles.

9. Emergency 'Go-Kits' for K-12 Schools - ed

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   Replenishment: The school’s emergency plan should include procedures for designating which staff are responsible for replenishing the go-kits. All supplies should be well labeled and maintained. Two Types: Some schools find it beneficial to have two major types of go-kits: (1) for administrators and (2) for teachers in each individual classroom.