Guess that is good for pre-literate munchkins. We USED to have a schoolwide program where we bought class sets of books 4 times a year. After we used them for the unit the kids brought them home to keep. It was great. Applelady - We have a wonderful network in our school and min.
Kids get to use it one hour a week.
JCooper - I think beyond WWW sites, there are other options the Net affords us that need exploring regarding literacy. I feel that this reaches into the core of literacy. I had to sub for the comp tech in our building for three months and people panicked if they couldn't find me to fix it for them, rather than try on their own. JCooper - I posed a question to students, but may have posed it to the teachers as well, namely, if I gave an assignment to you 35 students, whose responsibility would it be for you to learn. I agreed with him, since indeed, if one project were to reach 35 students a lot of responsibility would be on the teacher.