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Community Volunteers

In Charlottesville, Virginia, the school district has started an innovative community volunteer program called Book Buddies.

The Alphabetic Principle

In Houston, the teacher of an advanced kindergarten class connects letters and sounds in a systematic and explicit way.

Letters & sounds

A Hmong-American kindergarten teacher in Sacramento mixes serious instruction with lively play for his second-language learners.

Reading SOS: Getting stuck on sight words

Reading expert Linda Farrell suggests this teaching sequence for sight words: first, be sure your child knows all the letter names, then all the letter sounds—and then you can introduce a few short high-frequency words such as was.

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