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• Awesome Authors
  The selected DVL lesson is taught by Karyl O'Banion, a 3rd grade teacher from Dolby Elementary School in Lake Charles, Louisiana. The lesson is entitled Awesome Authors and demonstrates students learning how to participate in an online discussion, how to videotape live interviews, and how to conduct Internet searches to research an author.
• Oral Communication
  For this final class project, students in the Nevada Reading Excellence Act Master�s Cohort developed a brochure to assist parents in understanding the importance of oral communication with their children. According to research, storytelling ability in kindergarten children predicts comprehension and vocabulary success in fourth graders.
• Oral Reading Fluency/Accuracy - Relevant Quotations
  Quotes from experts and research related to Oral Reading Fluency/Accuracy (ORF/A) as a General Outcome Measure for reading proficiancy.
• The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy
  This website contains information on applying for family literacy grants from this foundation. Also included are Lessons Learned from grant recipients which may assist design and implementation of other grants.