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Teaching and measuring critical evaluations skills through developed assessments of civic online reasoning-the ability to judge the credibility of digital information about social and political issues."

Kindergarten through 2nd grade are crucial years, because they are the foundation for academic language and content knowledge that will influence students' future literacy in all subject areas. We teachers must engage students in rich, content-based curriculum that inspires, challenges, and provides them with tools to become lifelong learners. To do so, we must challenge some long-standing beliefs about literacy instruction in the early grades.

"One teacher offers a guide to help students compare the freedoms lost in dystopian novels with the freedoms secured by the Bill of Rights."