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December 21, 2004

C O N T E N T S

1) Starting with Comprehension
2) An on-line self-audit for your district and school
3) Poems for a long winter's night
4) Happy Holidays from Stenhouse

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1) Starting with Comprehension
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"Many other teachers and researchers have written about how to 
assist children as they develop skills in recognizing letter-sound 
relationships. What was missing for me in reading these books was 
a description of how we first introduce children to reading as a 
meaning-making process, even before they have mastered the 
alphabet or even developed a sense of letter-sound connections."
--from Chapter 1 of the new book, Starting with Comprehension

Kindergarten teacher Andie Cunningham and education professor Ruth 
Shagoury have designed a reading program for five- and six-year 
olds based on the premise that it is never too early to start 
comprehension instruction. Their new book, Starting with 
Comprehension (now available in print), shows how the program 
unfolds in Andie's diverse classroom, with dozens of student 
examples. You can review the entire book on-line:

http://www.stenhouse.com/0396.asp?r=n61

* Special for Newslinks subscribers *
Order your copy of Starting with Comprehension on our Web site by 
1/5/05, and we'll waive the shipping charge (a $5 value!). Just 
enter the coupon code NL61 at the "Address" checkout screen.

Starting with Comprehension: Reading Strategies for the Youngest 
Learners * Andie Cunningham and Ruth Shagoury
136 pp/paper * $17.50 * Available Now!
http://www.stenhouse.com/0396.asp?r=n61

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2) An on-line self-audit for your district and school
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If one of your New Year's resolutions includes making school- and 
district-wide changes that can be sustained, consider this 
comprehensive self-audit from the National Center for Educational 
Accountability. It is based on The Best Practice Framework, an 
organizational schema that helps educators focus on the practices 
of consistently high-performing schools and school systems. Any 
number of participants can take the audit, and the system provides 
individual and aggregate results:

http://www.just4kids.org/bestpractice/self_audit_framework.cfm

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3) Poems for a long winter's night
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Today is the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year in the 
Northern Hemisphere, and a good day for some quiet time of 
reflection. The University of Chicago has compiled some winter 
poems that are a welcome break from the frenetic holiday pace:

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/News/winterpoems.html

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4) Happy Holidays from Stenhouse
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This is the last issue of Newslinks for 2004. From all of us here 
at Stenhouse, have a wonderful holiday break and a happy New Year!

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