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 * 1) Aesop's Fables - Short reading passages with a moral to analyze.
 * 2) American English Pronunciation - Fantastic site! Lessons are available on quite a few topics. Each lesson provides the pattern, gives examples, provided practice (a lot of practice), and ends with a quiz. Each word in the quiz can be pronounced for the student by clicking on the speaker icon. This site would be good for Language Arts or ESL classes.
 * 3) A Word A Day archive - archives of words that have been used since 1994
 * 4) **Bibliographic Style**
 * 5) Bibme - fully automatic bibliography maker that auto-fills. It's the easiest way to build a works cited page.
 * 6) Citation Machine - an interactive Web tool designed to assist teachers in modeling the proper use of information property (Students are welcome to use this as well)
 * 7) Citing Sources- Guide to Library Research - Documentation Guidelines: Citing Sources Within Your Paper
 * 8) MLA-Style Bibliography Builder - Choose a form, fill it out, and push the button... you will get an individual entry for a "Works Cited" page, which you may then copy and paste into your word processor.
 * 9) MLA, APA, AAA, Chicago (Turabian) Citation Guide - from North Seattle Community College Library
 * 10) Using American Psychological Association (APA) Format from the Online Writing Laboratory (OWL) at Purdue.
 * 11) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Bibliomania - Bibliomania has more than 2000 free texts, study guides and reference resources
 * 12) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Book Glutton - Read, annotate and discuss, right there, immersed in the text. Some classics are free online reads and you can bookmark your place!.
 * 13) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Catalogue of Electronic texts, a collection of digital documents collected in the subject areas of English literature, American literature, and Western philosophy. Searchable by author or title.
 * 14) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Character Cards - helpful cards to collect data while researching
 * 15) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Challenge test - Prepare for national tests using this English Challenge Test
 * 16) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">A Chapter a Day - Books online divided up into chapters with vocabulary words for the chapter and quotes. Many classical novels here.
 * 17) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Chapter Books On-line - Many classic novels online with tools to help students read on line.
 * 18) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Class Anatomy - online "class anatomy"- a documentation and analysis of one instructional period.
 * 19) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Classic Short Stories - online text of some of the short story classics.
 * 20) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Comic Strips - Make up your own comics, using characters, emotions, and more
 * 21) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Comic Strips - Create your own comics and your own characters also!
 * 22) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Common Errors in English Usage - Do you "shutter to think" of horrible misusage of the language? Find that and more at this site.
 * 23) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Diagramming Sentences - "Understanding the functions of parts of the speech in a sentence and their relationship to one another can be very helpful in learning to construct good sentences"
 * 24) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Drama - The Mercury Theatre on the Air, Audio Radio Shows - "The finest radio drama of the 1930's was The Mercury Theatre on the Air, a show featuring the acclaimed New York drama company founded by Orson Welles and John Houseman. In its brief run, it featured an impressive array of talents, including Agnes Moorehead, Bernard Herrmann, and George Coulouris. The show is famous for its notorious War of the Worlds broadcast, but the other shows in the series are relatively unknown. This site has many of the surviving shows, and will eventually have all of them."
 * 25) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Every-Day-Edit - provides daily practice in a wide variety of basic language skills with a daily paragraph having ten built-in errors of basic spelling, grammar, punctuation, or capitalization
 * 26) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Electronic Text Center - The Modern English Collection contains fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts and illustrations from 1500 to the present, arranged for browsing by author's last name or by category of interest.
 * 27) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">English 11 - Reading and Writing - practice tests from Virginia Department of Education released SOL tests
 * 28) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The English Teacher's Companion - Lessons, tools, publications, and much more can be found at this site.
 * 29) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">English Teacher Resources - Many links for strategies in writing, poetry, literature, reading and more
 * 30) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">English-Forum by Aardvark presents interactive English language exercises for use in ESL or EFL classes.
 * 31) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">English Grammar Quizzes - self checking quizzes
 * 32) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">English Grammar The Easy Way - This site has a very comprehensive collection of brief grammar explanations for students. A great site if you want some concise support.
 * 33) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Etymologic: The Toughest Word Game on the Web - In this game you'll be presented with 10 randomly selected word origin or word definition puzzles to solve; in each case the word or phrase is highlighted in bold, and a number of possible answers will be presented. You need to choose the correct answer to score a point for that question.
 * 34) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Fluency through Fables - These Fables will help you to improve your reading comprehension of English. Various sets of questions follow each fable.
 * 35) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Folktale of the Month
 * 36) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Free Rice - a vocabulary site that donates 10 grains of rice through the United Nations with each word you define correctly.
 * 37) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Grammar Activities - posted by Ohio University
 * 38) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Grammar Aquarium - many online quizzes
 * 39) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Grammar Exercises - many online quizzes [this expired page is from the Internet Archive known as the **Wayback Machine** .]
 * 40) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Grammar and Style notes from Jack Lynch at the University of Pennsylvania. Example entry on the subject of Boldface; "There's no reason to use boldface in an academic paper; spend your time writing, not fiddling with the word processor."
 * 41) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Grammar and Writing - interactive quizzes
 * 42) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Grammar Worksheets and Printables - Free English grammar and vocabulary worksheets and printable handouts
 * 43) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Guide to Grammar and Writing - Maintained in memory of Professor of English Charles Darling for English courses at Capital Community College in Connecticut. (for use by the college's students and staff and for the general online community)
 * 44) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Homonyms and Homophones**
 * 45) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">A Feast of Homonyms - a Quia quiz
 * 46) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Homonym Practice - a Quia quiz
 * 47) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Homophone Quiz - three levels are available in this BBC quiz
 * 48) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Self-Study Homonym Quizzes - 52 quizzes listed
 * 49) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Word Confusion - choose the Hard level in this FunBrain quiz
 * 50) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Word Pairs - This quiz checks your understanding of homophones. Listen to the sentence and select the correct word from the pair.
 * 51) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Idioms - Set one ; Set two [this expired page is from the Internet Archive known as the **Wayback Machine** .]
 * 52) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Idioms and collocations - exercises practice collocations - words that 'sound good together' (rush hour/catch a cold/soft drinks), phrasal verbs - two-or-three word combinations (consisting of a verb and particle) that make sense only if looked at together as one single unit (take off/drop out/get over) and idioms - expressions consisting of words that can't be understood literally. from EnglishGateway site
 * 53) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Inference Notes - a way to graph the concept of inference
 * 54) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Inference - Inference for Middle School Students - Includes lessons, activities, and graphic organizers
 * 55) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Interactive Grammar Quizzes - Grammar and punctuation. [this expired page is from the Internet Archive known as the **Wayback Machine** .]
 * 56) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Interactive lessons**
 * 57) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Middle School**
 * 58) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Bibliographic Blunders ( 6 - 8 ) Students use notecards to collect information.
 * 59) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Information Elimination ( 6 - 8 ) Students model, instruct, and practice narrowing a topic for expository writing.
 * 60) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">One Source ( 6 - 8 ) Students compare primary and secondary sources.
 * 61) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Paraphrase Craze ( 6 - 8 ) Students practice paraphrasing for expository writing.
 * 62) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Prewriting Tactics ( 6 - 8 ) Students organize and group related ideas.
 * 63) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Trailblazing Conclusions ( 6 - 8 ) Students develop a sense of ending by using closure and thought-provoking statements.
 * 64) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Trailblazing Introductions ( 6 - 8 ) Students develop a sense of beginning by using strong leads.
 * 65) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Which Writing? ( 6 - 8 ) Students choose an appropriate format for writing.
 * 66) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**High School** [ lesson opens on a new page ]
 * 67) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Setting ( 9 - 12 ) Travel back in time with Shakespeare's Romeo as he teaches about setting through great works of literature.
 * 68) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Internet Classics Archive - bringing the wisdom of the classics to the Internet since 1994
 * 69) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Jog Lab - create your own mnemonic by entering target words then choosing jog words from the pull down lists
 * 70) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Journalism: Student writing for the real world - Journalism is not just for the newspaper staff! All students can improve their writing as a result of instruction in journalism.
 * 71) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">LawBuzz - stories online about famous trials from the past. No questions for the stories are given, just reading material for reluctant readers.
 * 72) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Learn Out Loud - podcasts of novels
 * 73) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Literary Elements - Interactive game (from Glencoe)
 * 74) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Nursery Rhyme Expansion - practice with the aspects of purpose, voice, and audience in their writing. New ideas for old material. Here is a site with stories inspired by nursery rhymes that students can see to help them write their own versions.14 Funny Stories based on Mother Goose Rhymes
 * 75) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Literature Quizzes - online quizzes in poetry, essays, comprehension, and story elements
 * 76) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Middle and Secondary English - Language Arts - Resources to support the curriculum in English and Language Arts for K-12 educators.) [this expired page is from the Internet Archive known as the **Wayback Machine** .]
 * 77) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Mindomo - interactive graphic organizer (free registration)
 * 78) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Navigating the Newspaper - Learn how newspapers package words and pictures. Learn correct terminology for the different parts of the newspaper.
 * 79) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Novels On-Line found at the Carnegie Mellon University English server.
 * 80) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Novel Guides - from Classzone; activities and suggestions for novels.
 * 81) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Novel Guide-Novel Analysis - literary analysis on the web; an educational supplement for better understanding of classic and contemporary Literature Profiles, Metaphor Analysis, Theme Analyses, and Author Biographies.
 * 82) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Novel Units Online - Novel Guides and Units
 * 83) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The On-line Books Page - You may search by author, title, or subject.
 * 84) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Prefixes**
 * 85) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Prefix Mix - working with "Pre" and "Post," prefixes with opposite meanings
 * 86) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Prefixes Make New Words - drag and drop the prefixes to complete the words correctly
 * 87) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Prefixes Say Plenty - choose the word that best completes the sentence
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Poe, Edgar Allen, Quote the Raven - Welcome to TeachersFirst's "Interactive Raven," a look at the vocabulary and literary devices in Edgar Allen Poe's famous poem, The Raven. This unit lets users view each stanza of the poem, pointing out Poe's use of some common literary devices.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Poetry**
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Poetry 180] - Welcome to Poetry 180. A Poem a day for American High School students. Poetry can and should be an important part of our daily lives. Poems can inspire and make us think about what it means to be a member of the human race. By just spending a few minutes reading a poem each day, new worlds can be revealed.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Poetry Index of Canonical verse] at the Carnegie Mellon University English server. Poets from Angelou to Wordsworth.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">30 days of Poetry - Each lesson gives you a format to follow and student examples. In many cases your teacher will direct you to write more than one poem in a lesson. This gives you an opportunity to use the form and, most often, create an even better poem in doing so. Enjoy your lessons! [this expired page is from the Internet Archive known as the **Wayback Machine** .]
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Poet's Pantry Tour - Virtual fieldtrip of the many types of poetry. Within the tour there is a list of at least 40 types of poetry and examples of each form!
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Power Proofreading from Houghton Mifflin - Help! The power has gone out at HME-TV, and proofreaders are needed to fix TV scripts, memos and other writing at the station. HM has provided a special power screen so your students can help them.
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Pre-Reading notes - help students prepare for information obtained in reading
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Proofreading Exercises - online with answers
 * 10) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Reading Placement Assessments - tests to download (answer key given)
 * 11) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Reading Comprehension - free Reading Comprehension worksheets for Middle and High School students to reinforce skills such as context clues and word meanings
 * 12) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Reading Comprehension - for High school students [this expired page is from the Internet Archive known as the **Wayback Machine** .]
 * 13) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Reading for Results - Online practice, many concepts
 * 14) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Reading for Thinking - online passages and questions for many concepts- middle and high school
 * 15) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Reading Keys - online passages and questions for many concepts - middle/high school
 * 16) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Reading Passages - vocab, word selection, sequencing and conclusion activities.
 * 17) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Reading Passages - vocab, word selection, what did you learn, spelling and more.
 * 18) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">ReadPrint - free online library, thousands of free books.
 * 19) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Reading Skill Stories - written for adult ESL learners, these stories can be a timed reading; there is audio for each story so it can be used for a read-along, and there are questions at the end of the stories. [this expired page is from the Internet Archive known as the **Wayback Machine** .]
 * 20) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Root Words**
 * 21) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Putting Down Roots - Drag and drop the roots into the blanks to complete the words.
 * 22) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Putting Down Roots (2) - Drag and drop the roots into the blanks to complete the words.
 * 23) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Putting Your Roots into Action - Now that you know five new roots, start looking for them in unfamiliar words.
 * 24) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Putting Your Roots into Action (2) - Now that you know five more new roots, start looking for them in unfamiliar words.
 * 25) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Root Word Lessons - free interactive vocabulary puzzle and activity sessions use Latin and Greek "roots and cells" to help unlock word meanings.
 * 26) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">What's a Root? - In this lesson, you'll work with five roots. Once you know a few roots, you'll see them everywhere.
 * 27) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">What's a Root? (2) - In this lesson, you'll work with five more roots..
 * 28) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Schoolhouse: English and Language Arts - Lesson plans and Internet resources in the areas of Poetry, Reading, and Writing. The site also includes Internet resources in the areas of Literature, Philosophy, and Plays. Schoolhouse also includes links to Standards sites.
 * 29) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sentence-combining exercises - a lesson followed by quizzes
 * 30) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Short Fiction on the Carnegie Mellon University English server.
 * 31) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Short Story Elements - online interactive quiz from Quia
 * 32) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Short Story Elements - online quiz
 * 33) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Skimming and Scanning - links that contain lessons and activities to practice these skills.
 * 34) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">SparkNotes - Study Guides, Message Boards, Complete Texts of an enormous amount of various types of literature taught in High Schools. You must register to get to the guides, but registration is free.
 * 35) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Story Elements Questioning Cards - Great for independent work after reading a book.
 * 36) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Story Modules - modules designed to test comprehension of a news story ( Click on **Story Archives** on the left to find the stories )
 * 37) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Style Manual by William Strunk Jr. - Reference site to find verse, authors, fiction, nonfiction links.
 * 38) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Suffixes**
 * 39) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Suffixes Make New Words - drag and drop the suffix to the correct root word to make a new word
 * 40) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Suffixes Say a Lot - pick the best definition of the capitalized word
 * 41) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Success with Suffixes - fill in the blanks with words ending in "er"
 * 42) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Summarizing and Paraphrasing - online exercises and lessons.
 * 43) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Teacher's Desk - A literacy resource designed for teachers of grades five and six. This site is a collection of lesson plan ideas and classroom activities.
 * 44) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Think About it cards - excellent task cards to place beside students while reading for information
 * 45) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Timed Reading - Read this passage and time yourself!
 * 46) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Visual Thesaurus - Really cool way to look up synonyms. It is just a trial version but you can look up a few words at a time without paying.
 * 47) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Vocabulary Enrichment**
 * 48) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Analogy Quiz1 - Determine which choice has a relationship similar to the original words or phrases. ( HS Level )
 * 49) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Analogy Quiz2 - Determine which choice has a relationship similar to the original words or phrases. ( HS Level )
 * 50) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sentence Completion - Fill in the missing vocabulary words. ( Middle/High School level )
 * 51) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sentence Completion Quiz - Fill in the missing vocabulary words. ( Middle/High School level )
 * 52) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Vocabulary Enrichment - Each Quiz picks 10 questions from a fifty word list and you can hear the word spoken, allowing you to not only learn its definition, but how its pronounced
 * 53) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Vocabulary University - Vocabulary puzzles to enhance vocabulary mastery. These exercises help prepare for SSAT, PSAT, GED, SAT and ACT tests, they supplement personal vocabulary acquisition, and are being used in home-schooling and ESL programs
 * 54) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Vocaboly - Vocabulary test - Multiple choice, different formats
 * 55) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Word Detective on the Web is the online version of The Word Detective, a newspaper column answering readers' questions about words and language.
 * 56) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">World Wide Words - Each week you will find at least one short article or extended definition of a word which is too new to appear in most dictionaries
 * 57) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Words Count - Vocabulary exercises - self checking
 * 58) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Writing Tests - ( Scroll down to the bottom of the page to get to this section )These tests cover vocabulary, writing style, mechanics, focus, and understanding of the topic. Answer key given.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Compact for Reading Guide is a user-friendly handbook designed to walk your family-school compact team through the steps of building and implementing a Compact for Reading. It provides information, strategies, examples, and checklists to help parents, educators, and community members develop effective, workable compacts that can improve your school, increase family involvement, and increase student skills and achievement in reading.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children **-** The focus of this report is prevention. The report sketches a picture of the conditions under which reading is most likely to develop easily - conditions that include stimulating preschool environments, excellent reading instruction, and the absence of any of a wide array of risk factors.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Starting Out Right (A guide for promoting children's reading success) - Parents want to provide their preschool children with a good start in literacy. A school district tells its teachers to change the way they teach reading. Preschool caregivers want to be sure that the children they care for are ready for school. A mother attending a school meeting hears confusing messages about the best way to teach beginning reading. A corporate executive wants the company to support an after-school tutoring program, but is not sure where to start. This book is for all these people. It is written particularly for parents and others who can influence the education and development of young children, especially policy makers, caregivers, and teachers.