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To Raise a Reader

Reading By Example

Layne and The Read-Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease. Some hospitals will send The Read-Aloud Handbook home with new parents. Patrons can check out titles and download them on their smartphones, tablets, and computers. Two books reference much of the research on reading aloud: In Defense of Read-Aloud by Dr. Steven L.

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The newest form of school discipline: Kicking kids out of class and into virtual learning

The Hechinger Report

In the meantime, the middle schooler would be left to keep up with her schoolwork on her own, on a district-issued tablet that Curry says would often lock her granddaughter out. They’d rather send her home than work on the issues she was going through,” Curry said. She missed out on a lot of work, a whole lot.