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This booklet was developed as part of the AMERICA READS CHALLENGE: READ*WRITE*NOW!
initiative to help children read well and independently by the end of the third grade. Additional
activities are provided to help improve children's reading and writing skills through sixth grade.
The principal authors of this publication are Dr. Edward J. Kameenui and Dr. Deborah C. Simmons of the University of Oregon. The Department also wishes to acknowledge the assistance of Susan Roman and Eileen Fitzsimons of the American Library Association for providing reading lists and coordinating the design of this booklet, and Ernie Fleishman, John Mason, and illustrator Mark Teague of Scholastic Inc. for providing the illustrations. Staff at the U.S. Department of Education who helped develop and produce this guide include Terry Peterson, Alan Ginsburg, Adriana de Kanter, Val Plisko, Susan Thompson-Hoffman, Manny Smith, Brenda Long, Azalea Saunders, Jessica Ellsworth, and Corey Chatis.
Illustrations ©1996 by Mark Teague. The illustrations are based on the Poppleton books by Cynthia Rylant, which are illustrated by Mark Teague and published by the Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc. |