News from Reading Today Daily : Gr8 news! Texting “no bar to literacy” The claim that kids using text messaging abbreviations destroys their written literacy skills has been proven unfounded.

Books for Children Portraying Aging and Older Characters in a Positive Light contains books for preschoolers through sixth graders. It is a joint project between the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) and Societal Education about Aging for Change (SEA Change).
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