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Grados 1–2 actividades de lectura: Historias y cuentos

Van a recibir lecciones de lectura para cinco días, con las que su hijo podrá explorar el tema de los cuentos tradicionales más de cerca.

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Grados 3–5 actividades de lectura: Historias y cuentos

Van a recibir lecciones de lectura para cinco días, con las que su hijo podrá explorar el tema de los cuentos tradicionales más de cerca.

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How to Hold a Virtual Read-Aloud While Schools Are Closed

Learn how to do a virtual read-aloud. Follow these five simple steps for holding virtual read-alouds with young students in your class.

Katie Risolo Radovich
First-Grade Teacher

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Grades 3–5 Daily Reading Activities: Stories and Tales

Have your children in Grades 3-5 explore traditional tales with free reading lessons.

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Kindergarten Daily Reading Activities: Stories and Tales

Explore five days of reading lessons designed to engage your child in an exploration of traditional tales.

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Grades 1–2 Daily Reading Activities: Stories and Tales

Have children dive into traditional tales with five days of reading lessons for first and second graders.

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Grades 3–5 Daily Reading Activities: Animals

Have your children in Grades 3-5 explore the animal world with free reading lessons, updated throughout the week.

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Kindergarten actividades de lectura: Animales

Vamos a proporcionarles lecciones de lectura que duran cinco días, y las cuales servirán para explorar el mundo animal con su hijo.

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Grados 3–5 actividades de lectura: Animales

Vamos a proporcionarles lecciones de lectura que duran cinco días, y las cuales servirán para explorar el mundo animal con su hijo.

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Kindergarten Daily Reading Activities: Animals

Explore five days of reading lessons designed to engage your child in an exploration of the animal world.

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Grados 1–2 actividades de lectura: Animales

Vamos a proporcionarles lecciones de lectura que duran cinco días, y las cuales servirán para explorar el mundo animal con su hijo.

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5 Reading Resolutions for Educators: #3—Make Knowledge Building a P–12 Priority

HMH's Chief Research Officer examines recent research on why the pursuit of knowledge is integral to learning to read and learning about ourselves, others, and the world.

Francie Alexander
Senior Vice President, Efficacy & Consulting Research

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Keep Class in Session at Home: Tips From ICLE Partner Weston Kieschnick

With schools closed, ICLE's Weston Kieschnick offers tips to keep the academic momentum going and ideas on what to focus on as children learn at home.

Weston Kieschnick
Associate Partner, ICLE

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Keep Kids Reading While Schools Are Closed

Supplying students with free books is just one way to help them stay engaged, especially if they lack the necessary digital tools for online learning.

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The Power of Stories: In Difficult Times, Storytelling Offers Respite…and Delight!

While schools are closed, the best learning resource could lie within us: our stories, those we tell our children, and the stories they have to tell us.

Carol Jago
HMH Author and Associate Director, California Reading & Literature Project at UCLA

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Coaching SEL Through Literacy: Ideas and Things to Look For

By folding social-emotional learning into instructional strategies educators already use to teach literacy, SEL begins to feel less daunting.

Sherry St. Clair
HMH Contributor

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Why Reading Intervention Students Need Daily Writing Opportunities

Daily writing opportunities develop proficient readers and writers, and READ 180 provides chances for students to do just that.

Melanie Eskildsen
Reading Intervention Teacher, Weyauwega Fremont School District, Wisconsin

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5 Reading Resolutions for Educators: #2—Navigate the Two Worlds of Reading

HMH's Chief Research Officer examines recent research on the different demands placed on the reader by the modality and how to enable students to adapt between print and digital.

Francie Alexander
Senior Vice President, Efficacy & Consulting Research