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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Hi gang,</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">The newest issue of NAEYC’s
<i><span style="font-style:
italic">Young Children</span></i> contains a nice little article about reading readiness:</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial"><a href="http://www.naeyc.org/files/yc/file/201201/Rocking_and_Rolling_Jan2012.pdf">http://www.naeyc.org/files/yc/file/201201/Rocking_and_Rolling_Jan2012.pdf</a></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">The article references a pretty cool early learning guideline that contains some good information (I recommend you check it out):</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial"><a href="http://cte.jhu.edu/onlinecourses/HealthyBeginnings/HBFINAL.pdf">http://cte.jhu.edu/onlinecourses/HealthyBeginnings/HBFINAL.pdf</a></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Take care!</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Rick Samuelson, Youth Services Librarian<br>
Washington
County Cooperative Library Services<br>
111 NE Lincoln,
MS 58A<br>
Hillsboro,
OR 97124<br>
(503) 648-9809 5#<br>
ricks@wccls.org </span></font></p>
<p><i><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-style:italic">"The clever men at
Oxford<br>
Know all that there is to be knowed.<br>
But they none of them know one half as much<br>
As intelligent Mr Toad!"<br>
</span></font></i><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">-Kenneth Grahame,
<i><span style="font-style:italic">The Wind in the Willows</span></i></span></font><i><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic"></span></font></i></p>
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