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ISS Template for Prioritizing the Common Core ELA Standards

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ISS Template for Prioritizing the Common Core ELA Standards

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12. Culturally Responsive Disciplinary Literacy Strategies Instruction – Steps to Success: Crossing the Bridge Between Literacy Research and Practice

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Introduction to Literacy Leadership Teams (LLTs)

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Introduction to Literacy Leadership Teams (LLTs)

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Look Fors in Reading Foundational Skills and Writing

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Look Fors in Reading Foundational Skills and Writing

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But Why is a show led by you, kids! You ask the questions and we find the answers. It's a big interesting world out there. On But Why, we tackle topics large and small, about nature, words, even the end of the world.

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But Why is a show led by you, kids! You ask the questions and we find the answers. It's a big interesting world out there. On But Why, we tackle topics large and small, about nature, words, even the end of the world. Have a question? Send it to us!

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Tutorial for Book Review- Using Adobe Sparks

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Tutorial for Book Review- Using Adobe Sparks

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How To Create a Book Trailer with Adobe Spark Video

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Building on the strengths of multilingual learners with expansive reading instruction

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Literacy Lens: Effective Literacy Practices for Secondary Students

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Literacy Lens: Effective Literacy Practices for Secondary Students

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Literacy Lens: Effective Literacy Practices for Secondary Students

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How can states ensure their literacy frameworks and strategic plans include the entire K–12 spectrum?

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Understand and identify the look-fors that provide evidence of effective literacy instruction, and bring all students to grade level or well above.

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Three Key Elements to a Coherent, Guaranteed, & Viable Curriculum

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Three Key Elements to a Coherent, Guaranteed, & Viable Curriculum

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Three Key Elements to a Coherent, Guaranteed, & Viable Curriculum

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Let’s do a quick recap of those descriptions to check in on how can a district or a school ensure produce that quality with such a wide variation of factors.

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Shifting the Curriculum Review Cycle to a Whole Program Review

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Shifting the Curriculum Review Cycle to a Whole Program Review

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Curriculum review cycles are a part of the improvement process in every district. To fund program change, leaders often structure review cycles to rotate through K-12 contents or programs every 5-10 years. This allows for a multi-year review for each content that is scaffolded, complete with an influx of funds to upgrade materials coupled with a multi-year timeline of implementation and support. But to truly drive programmatic changes, we have to look past materials and use the curriculum review cycle as an opportunity to engage in systemic program improvements.

A key element to supporting organizational change in school districts is using existing structures to support change conversations and prioritize district goals. Thus, our K-12 curriculum review cycles must morph from a conversation about materials to a whole-program conversation on instruction, assessment, and equity. For example, a science curriculum review would normally look at K-12 curriculum standards alignment and textbooks or materials, but a whole-program review looks at research-based approaches to instruction and assessment and plans for professional development opportunities to improve practice, not just adopt a textbook.

To begin this shift, we should look at our programs through an equity lens, set goals for where we want our programs to be in five years, reflect on our use of assessment as well as our outcomes, and use the review cycle as an opportunity to define high-quality instruction in our content. A comprehensive program review can support organizational change in a way that a traditional curriculum review cannot.

Equity is ubiquitous in educational change conversations, and for good reason. Ultimately, our goal as district leaders is to provide all students with equitable access to opportunity across their K-12 education experience. To this end, we have to reflect on the accessibility of our programs and look at which policies and practices are functioning as supporters of equity, and which are posing as barriers to equity. The first action to take in the program review process should be conducting an equity assessment. Leaders should ask these critical questions:

When program review cycles begin with these overarching questions, they can get at the critical needs of the program and identify areas of strength within their programs that they can grow through targeted professional development.

Teachers engage in backwards design consistently through lessons and units to support their planning for student learning. This is how teacher preparation programs train our teachers to think about teaching and learning. Our programs should do this too. Setting a goal for where we want to be in five years in terms of pedagogy and student outcomes will allow leaders to leverage the review cycle process to reflect on their success in the last cycle, and allow our curriculum review committees to backwards-design program goals.

Public schools have limited funding, and we're not going to change the budgetary constraints that necessitate the typical cycle between program reviews, but we can use that cycle to our advantage and integrate goal setting and reflection into our program review process.

Let's say our program goal is to increase access to advanced coursework in the next five years. Setting that goal allows for the curriculum review committee to identify a timeline for change:

Goal: Increase access to advanced coursework in the next five years.

↠ Revise curriculum maps across course levels to ensure all students have equal access to curriculum.

↠ Refine placement practices to encourage equitable access to course offerings.

↠ Implement MTSS to support student success in courses.

↠ Assess progress toward goal and refine approach where needed.

↠ Assess progress toward goal and identify future changes.

When program leaders set long-term goals, they identify the mission of their program and a clear intention for improvement. Grounding our work with teachers and defining that throughline between where we are now and where we want to be in the future will help our teachers and leaders understand why we're adopting specific curriculum materials, and why we're emphasizing specific instructional or assessment practices. Setting goals in our program review cycle can define our purpose and support forward momentum.

Assessment outcomes are commonplace in data conversations and curriculum review cycles. We use these outcomes to help identify areas of growth and areas of improvement. While it makes perfect logistical sense to use data to assess the effectiveness of our programs, it also makes sense to use the program review cycle as an opportunity to reflect on our use of assessments in general. Asking specific questions about the nature of our assessment practices and products can help identify where we need to focus improvement efforts. Program leaders should ask:

For school and district leaders, our approach to assessment should reflect our philosophy on teaching and learning. When assessment integrates a variety of ways for students to demonstrate their learning and includes experiential and real-world application, we are preparing students for multiple college and career pathways. Program reviews can be an opportunity to reset our approach to assessing learning.

When program reviews integrate a conversation on instruction, we can focus on the practical implementation of curriculum and assessment and maximize our impact on student learning. Program leaders should sit down and look at research on improving instruction in their content areas and use these recommendations to assess the quality of instruction. A great starting place is the What Works Clearinghouse from the Institute of Education Sciences. Engaging in a discovery of instructional recommendations will support curriculum review committees to develop a localized approach to improving instruction. Program leaders should ask:

When we focus on instructional improvement, we expand the curriculum review cycle to a program review that supports organizational change, and we extend improvement conversations to include the entirety of our work over that five-year timespan. A focus on instruction supports the continued work of our program leaders and gives our year of review purpose.

As school districts begin to kick off curriculum review cycles and support their curriculum and instructional leaders in shaping their next few years, they should begin with shifting the purpose of the review cycle and aligning their work to the improvement cycle. When we focus on equity, set clear goals, and include instruction and assessment in our change conversations, we set programs on a path toward equitable improvement and support systemic change. Change is slow, and to change an organization we must use an improvement cycle that is both consistent and strategic. When we make our program reviews about equity and not just about adopting instructional materials, we ensure we are building a program that is for all kids.

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Differentiated reading articles and passages (K-12) for free

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Floop - kids take photos of their paper-based written work and teachers respond.  Good for younger kids who are not using Google Docs or other word processing apps.

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ActivelyLearn (https://www.activelylearn.com/) can embed questions, notes, media in short stories, essays, novels. 

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Have you heard of a time capsule? It's basically a container that holds objects or information from a certain time period, and it's meant to be opened and viewed far into the future. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on our lives and is likely something that future generations would want to know more about.

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Epic!, Vooks, Raz-Kids, OpenLibrary, TumbleBooks, you can actually even set your iPad or iPhone up to work as a doc camera

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StoriumEdu uses the power of play to help teachers turn their students into motivated writers.

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Join beloved icon Julie Andrews for story time! Julie and her daughter, children's author and educator Emma Walton Hamilton, invite you into their library to read their favorite children's books. Every story comes to life with sound, music and activities. Authors, kids and other special guests chime in, too! It's a show that will inspire lively conversations and a lifelong love of reading. Produced by American Public Media.

Join beloved icon Julie Andrews for story time! Julie and her daughter, children's author and educator Emma Walton Hamilton, invite you into their library to read their favorite children's books. Every story comes to life with sound, music and activities. Authors, kids and other special guests chime in, too! It's a show that will inspire lively conversations and a lifelong love of reading. Produced by American Public Media.

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Image Search Expands Video Making Possibilities

Built-in image search makes it easy to create videos, even when you don't have the right images on your device. Find the perfect images to include in history reports, science concept explanations, and more.

Access image search from the photo selection screen.

Educational Image Search Sources:

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Simple Image Citation

When you share or export, image credits are automatically added to the end of all videos that include web images and maps, so students can learn about citing their sources. Image citation is on by default and can be disabled in the Shadow Puppet settings menu.

Safe Search & Option to Disable Search

Web searches use the strictest image search settings available from the search provider and we have additional safe search filters layered on top to make sure the content served is appropriate for students.

Administrators can disable Web Image Search and/or Educational Image Search in the device's Settings app.

Map Search
Search for a location, toggle between map or satellite view, drop pins, and then snap a photo of the map to include in your video. Do a capital city scavenger hunt, identify geographic formations, or create a family heritage map.

Famous Landmark Gallery
Use our Famous Landmarks gallery as a jumping off point for a report on an important natural or man-made landmark, to give context around a historical event, or discuss the belief systems of different cultures.

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Shadow Puppet Edu | Shadow Puppet App for iPhone & iPad

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Built-in image search makes it easy to create videos, even when you don't have the right images on your device. Find the perfect images to include in history reports, science concept explanations, and more. Access image search from the photo selection screen.

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Matt Glover- Author & Teacher of Writing

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Matt Glover- Author & Teacher of Writing

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Works for all grades, but the focus is early years

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Common Sense Media

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Create interactive Quizzes

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Kahoot! | Learning games | Make learning awesome!

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Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that brings engagement and fun to 1+ billion players every year at school, at work, and at home.

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Self-Talk Stems/Bookmarks to Support Students' Thinking and Understanding

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Self-Talk Stems/Bookmarks to Support Students' Thinking and Understanding

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As Ron Ritchhart says, the language we share and use with students primes, prompts, and patterns their thinking. To give students constructive and edifying ways to talk to themselves, model and discuss how and why you talk to yourself as you work to understand or be understood.  These bookmarks help to nudge self-talk and thinking dispositions.  I hope you find them helpful! Cheers,
Laura Benson

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Short & Spirited Texts for Growing Readers, Writers, & Learners

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Short & Spirited Texts for Growing Readers, Writers, & Learners

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Short and spirited texts give students reading experiences to practice working to understand in doable doses.  These also serve as mentor text models to support their own writing and crafting their thinking.  Sprinting to grow their capacities to marathon, if you will.

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The Importance of Read Aloud...and some great how to advice!

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The Importance of Read Aloud...and some great how to advice!

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Lester LAMINACK

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Puzzles, Stories, and Show & Tell: Teaching Students the Language of Thinking by Laura Benson

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Puzzles, Stories, and Show & Tell: Teaching Students the Language of Thinking by Laura Benson

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Deep Thinking: Sustaining Students' Thinking Strategy Learning to Cultivate Their Agency & Independence by Laura Benson

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Deep Thinking: Sustaining Students' Thinking Strategy Learning to Cultivate Their Agency & Independence by Laura Benson

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Apprenticing students in know why and how to generate understanding as thinkers and learners

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Intellectual Invitations:  Helping Readers Grow with Differentiated and Supportive Grouping Practices

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Intellectual Invitations:  Helping Readers Grow with Differentiated and Supportive Grouping Practices

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Making small group instruction edifying and manageable

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Richard Allington

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Launching Writing and Writers Workshop Apprenticeship with Growing Grade 3 Writers

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Launching Writing and Writers Workshop Apprenticeship with Growing Grade 3 Writers

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Laura Benson

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Launching Writing Studies and Writers Workshop with Growing Grade 4 Writers

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Launching Writing Studies and Writers Workshop with Growing Grade 4 Writers

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Laura Benson

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Launching Writing Studies and Writing Workshop with Growing Grade 5 Writers

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Launching Writing Studies and Writing Workshop with Growing Grade 5 Writers

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Laura Benson

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Launching Writing and Writers Workshop with Growing Grade 1 Writers and Authors

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Launching Writing and Writers Workshop with Growing Grade 1 Writers and Authors

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Laura Benson

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Launching Writing and Writers Workshop with Grade 2 Writers

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Launching Writing and Writers Workshop with Grade 2 Writers

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Laura Benson

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Resources for Writing Teachers and Writing Classrooms

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Resources for Writing Teachers and Writing Classrooms

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Ralph Fletcher

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Tom Romano

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Engaging Young Writers: Preschool - Grade 1

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Engaging Young Writers: Preschool - Grade 1

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Matt Glover

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In Pictures and Words (Great Advice for Young Writers - and Beyond!)

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In Pictures and Words (Great Advice for Young Writers - and Beyond!)

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Katie Wood Ray

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About the Authors - Our Youngest Writers

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About the Authors - Our Youngest Writers

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Katie Wood Ray & Lisa Cleaveland

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Assessing Spelling in the Writing Workshop

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Assessing Spelling in the Writing Workshop

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Katie DiCesear

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Assessing Writing Develpment in Early Years

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Brilliant blog from a most generous and wise teacher-leader! Constant well of excellent book recommendations and literacy learning and teaching thinking offered here!

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This month I'm doing "Poetry Pairs." My original idea, which still feels kind of half-formed and still doesn't have a cool logo, like everyone else's was that I was going to find a poem I liked, and use it as a mentor to write off of. I was thinking, I think, that it would be more topic related, but so far, there have been several form related poems. Today's is another one of those. I had never heard of the Etheree, until Mary Lee posted Gratitude on Year of Reading. She got the idea from Liz Garton Scanlon's poetry prompt. Tonight, when I was walking Rooney (and yes, I was alone, and yes, I was practicing appropriate social distancing), it was absolutely beautiful outside- warm, that right before dark light, the moon just rising, gorgeous clouds-- and I kept seeing people on their phones, totally missing the beauty that was right there. And it made me sad, and this poem came to me, pretty much as I walked.

Rebuke
Glorious
Spring evening.
Full moon rising.
Pink tinged clouds fading.
Bird chorus sings bedtime melody.
Yellow lab tail enthusiastically signals joy.
Pig-tailed toddler dances across baseball diamond.
You miss all this sweetness, thumbs pounding frantically,
Eyes held in rapt attention, as you worship Lord Screen
Surely He cannot offer more than all the richness here.

(C) Carol Wilcox, 2020

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This month I'm doing "Poetry Pairs." My original idea, which still feels kind of half-formed and still doesn't have a cool logo, like everyone else's was that I was going to find a poem I liked, and use it as a mentor to write off of.

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Books in Their Hands:  Guiding students to compelling online texts!

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Books in Their Hands:  Guiding students to compelling online texts!

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Laura Benson

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Laura Benson

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Drowning in Data? How to Collect, Organize, and Document Student Growth and Performance

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Drowning in Data? How to Collect, Organize, and Document Student Growth and Performance

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Mary Shea, Rosemary Murray, & Rebecca Harlin

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Supporting Parents as Valuable Literacy Learning Partners

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Supporting Parents as Valuable Literacy Learning Partners

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International Literacy Association (formerly IRA, International Reading Association)

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Dr. Karin Hess (follow her!)

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famous people reading books

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Super easy way to capture student reflections

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Apple Clips
iMovie
Adobe Video