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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
Boy, Roald Dahl's bestselling autobiography, is full of hilarious anecdotes about his childhood and school days. With fabulous new line drawings by Quentin Blake. "An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details. This is not an autobiography". (Roald Dahl). This reissue includes 30 delightful new line drawings by the inimitable Quentin Blake. Throughout his young days at school and...
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Dave Pelzer, victim of one of the worst child abuse cases in California history, tells the story of his adolescent years after he was removed from his home and placed in foster care, and discusses the influence on his life of Dan Brazell, the man he came to regard as his father.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
In 2011, the Colorado General Assembly passed House Bill 11-1027 (sections 26-6-601-605, C.R.S.) which required the CDHS to develop a quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) for school district and charter school early childhood education programs are embedded in licensing for all early education and care programs, including programs based in public school districts and charter schools.
5) Rascal
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
The author recalls his carefree life in a small midwestern town at the close of World War I, and his adventures with his pet raccoon, Rascal.
6) Me ... Jane
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Holding her stuffed toy chimpanzee, young Jane Goodall observes nature, reads Tarzan books, and dreams of living in Africa and helping animals. Includes biographical information on the prominent zoologist.
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Series
Issue brief volume 19-13
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
This issue brief provides an overview of early literacy education and assessment programs, specifically the provisions of the Colorado Reading to Ensure Academic Development (READ) Act, the assessment of reading skills, and the oversight of local education providers as it pertains to literacy education.
12) Supporting K-3rd grade literacy development: overview of the READ Act and implementation timeline
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Achieving reading competency by the end of third grade is a critical milestone for every student and predicts ongoing educational success. If a student enters fourth grade without achieving reading competency, he or she is significantly more likely to fall behind in all subject areas beginning in fourth grade and later grades. Early literacy development is not only a critical milestone in a child's path to success, but it is also one of Colorado's...
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
The Department of Early Childhood (DEC or department) was established by H.B.21-1304 and will consist of early childhood programs. The Governor's Office requests, on behalf of the future department, funds to establish the executive and administrative infrastructure for the department. The request will provide for department administration and leadership, human resources, finance and budget, program management, policy and communications, and data analytics....
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Several decades of research have established the benefits of high-quality early care and education (ECE) to children's short and longer-term social-emotional and academic outcomes. Early educators are considered "the single most important factor" in high-quality ECE. Yet despite the fact that early educators' jobs have expanded in recent years, the professional qualifications required, the compensation that they receive, and the environments in which...
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