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"Digital apps designed to teach young children to read are an increasingly large share of the market, but parents and educators have little to no information about whether and how they work. Produced as part of a collaboration between the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading, the New America Foundation, and the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, this report scans the market of digital products and shares promising practices and programs."

"Our students at Westlake High, a large suburban school on the outskirts of Austin, TX, are using them to read ebooks, download assignments, edit videos, write blog posts, and to do much more." Caroyn Foote

"Our purpose is to provide teachers with a repository of apps to choose from  when trying them with their students in the classroom."

These units were created by individual teachers and may contain suggested book titles, articles, and/or other resources that some may find inappropriate for their students. It is the school's responsibility to review the units (and all suggested resources) prior to instruction to determine if the materials are acceptable for their children and the learning community.