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This article is about teen literacy and how the authors of teen lit books view the effects of their books on teen readers. It says that it give information on urban areas that the readers may or may not be familiar with but can in both situations learn from it. It also talks about the way in which they chose their main characters. It is a good artcile if you are researching literacy and novels or teenagers.

Kindle is a electronic book reader. In this technology, kindle is a hand-held device that will help you read. This technology will not only have the words on the screen, but it will read to you.

This article is about how to develp fluent readers. You need to teach how to read and write very early on. In order to do this the right way, a teacher should use Eli. Eli stands for Early Literacy Initiative. In the program you teach the early childhood level skills to preschoolers. You teach them early on because they can improve thier skills are they grow older.

This article discusses Oprah as 20 to 100 times more of a powerful influence than any other media personality. This is interesting to see how popular she really is with our country and how Oprah connects readers and sells books like no one has ever been able to do before. The article brings up her powerful line "Read this book." When she says this people do it! It will be a good article to get information out of about how people are affected.

This article is about children growing up in a world of technology. The way technology effectcs growing readers and their learning abilities. It also touches on how it changes the way they perceive reading.

In this article Flower discusses the different processes that go into thinking and into writing. Also, she goes over the writing processes and the difference between writing to oneself or for different readers. There is also a case study that talks about a transformation. Flower makes several interesting points within the article that would be helpful in the comparison of mathematical and English thinking

The is article discusses what some think would be a better model for reading than presented in the No Child Left Behind Act. This new model combines three former reading models (cognitive model, stage model, and the Pracek Model) to help teachers with developing readers. This model is supposedly superior despite its complexity because of its broad reach and practical purposes. This article does not really define what it wrong with the No Child Left Behind Act, but instead presents a model that might be more beneficial to children learning how to read.

This is a computerized English-language reader. This is something that will correct your grammer and spelling at the same time. It is something like Microsoft Word, but this is a whole new way.

The article suggests planning financial literacy programs for students. Furthermore, the author shares with the reader that that there are laws in Oklahoma, Colorado, and other states requiring high school students to show financial literacy in order to graduate. In addition the article shares that Capital One has created branch banks operated by students at several schools as well as the National Endowment for financial education has created a personal finance curriculum that can be integrated into regular school curriculum. Research suggests that personal finance courses have not improved student financial literacy. Lewis Mandell suggest that students should be taught about finance and savings at an earlier age than high school.

Focuses on a bill sponsored by Canadian Alliance Member of Parliament Keith Martin regarding the decriminalization of marijuana. This is the actual bill that shows what the deal is with the bill itself. This was present to the California supreme court. This is great for my research because this is an actual bill. This helps with the support and maybe legalization my marijuana. This evidence can be used to show the reader what some states may adapt to their own bills and laws similar to California's bill.

The Virginia Department of Education has unveiled a tool that teachers and parents can use to select books that interest young readers and help them improve their skills.

A film available on OhioLINK. TV and radio commercials, Web sites and banner ads, magazine ads, pop songs, photos, and even news articles and textbooks: all of them are sending messages to influence the reader/viewer/listener. How do they grab the attention? What are they selling-a product or service? a lifestyle? an ideology?-and why? Would a different media consumer interpret the message differently? This program raises more questions than it answers, which is the whole point: to prompt students to question, question, question the messages they are bombarded with daily. Savvy media consumers aren't born; they're made, and this program is an excellent tool for shaping the classroom dialogue. (35 minutes)

This article describes a study taken of 176 college students to evaluate their patterns of marijuana use as well as its positive and negative effects. Its results found two types of users those that smoked casually and rarely bought product and those that smoked on a regular daily basis. There were both positive and negative effects reported but there were far greater positive reports than negative. The study also described indicators of dependence as well as the tendency of more regular problematic users to combine marijuana use with tobacco and alcohol. This article is helpful because it gives insight to the opinions of those people that actually use the drug being called into question. It addresses both positive and negative effects of use that gives readers a well rounded amount of information on both sides of the argument. It also sheds light how most people that smoke marijuana are at higher risk of using alcohol and tobacco.