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Series Books as a Source of Increased Summer Reading

    Author: Anne McGill-Franzen & Stergios Botzakis, University of Tennessee

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    • Grade 2-5: Talking Points For Kids
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    • Middle School: Stories of Words
    • High School: StoryLabs
    • High School: Heroes
    • High School: TeenReads™
    • All Grades: TextModels: AI Curated Texts
    • The Reading GPS
    • Read-Aloud Favorites

    Resources for Teacher Educators

    • Teaching Vocabulary: Best Practices
    • Choosing Classroom Texts
    • The Science of Reading
    • Text Matters—a Magazine for Educators
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    • Presentation Slide Decks

    Resources for Vocabulary Instruction

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    • Lesson Plan for a Fluency Intervention

    Recent Updates

    • Introducing TextProject’s StoryLabs: Building the Reading Fluency Adolescents Need
    • Why Every Minute of Reading Matters
    • Webinar: Using AI to Select, Teach, and Assess Word Knowledge
    • The Power of Text Sets: Freddy Talks with the Melissa & Lori Love Literacy Podcast
    • Freddy joins host Lindsay Persohn on a new episode of Classroom Caffeine podcast!

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