Student: So I see some books have dots and some don’t. Which levels can I read?
Me: “Well, I don’t really do levels. Just find something you really want to read and check that out.”
The “yess!” He said under his breath as he walked away made my whole day.
The shooter who murdered my son, Dylan, brought 10 30-round magazines with him into Sandy Hook Elementary. In 4 minutes, he shot 154 bullets, killing 20 children and 6 educators. Sign our petition demanding Congress limit the size of gun magazines now. -Nicole
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God have mercy on your NRA-kept souls:
Richard Burr
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Roy Blunt
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Thom Tillis
$4,418,012
Cory Gardner
$3,879,064
Marco Rubio
$3,303,355
Joni Ernst
$3,124,273
Rob Portman
$3,061,941
Todd Young
$2,896,732
Bill Cassidy
$2,861,047
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Guided reading is the only instructional context in which leveled texts should be used. Levels are a tool for selecting texts and forming groups. #FPLiteracy
It is detrimental to students’ self-esteem and to their love of reading when they are encouraged to measure their own progress by “moving up levels.” #FPLiteracy