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"The Center for Media Literacy (CML) is an educational organization that provides leadership, public education, professional development and educational resources nationally and internationally. Dedicated to promoting and supporting media literacy education as a framework for accessing, analyzing, evaluating, creating and participating with media content, CML works to help citizens, especially the young, develop critical thinking and media production skills needed to live fully in the 21st century media culture."

MediaSmarts is a Canadian not-for-profit charitable organization for digital and media literacy. Our vision is that children and youth have the critical thinking skills to engage with media as active and informed digital citizens.

"Persuasive Techniques in Advertising"

Just started using this on my iPad, fantastic app for the price. Seems to copy text from anything, reads it back at your speed, highlights the word it's reading. It even saves a recording you can share with your friends or save for later.

The Solution to Reading Comprehension

"This is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics."

"The Reading Like a Historian curriculum engages students in historical inquiry. Each lesson revolves around a central historical question and features sets of primary documents designed for groups of students with diverse reading skills and abilities."

"What are the differences among quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing?"

Understand what you read. Creates simplified English and creates learning materials from readings.