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First steps to literacy.


The four-year-old 'doctor' who writes prescriptions for his ailing classmates Classmates can refer to either:
  • Classmates.com, a social networking website.
  • Classmates (film), a 2006 Malayalam blockbuster directed by Lal Jose, starring Prithviraj, Jayasurya, Indragith, Sunil, Jagathy, Kavya Madhavan, Balachandra Menon, ...
 is a classic example of Seattle Early Reading First success; he learns that print carries a message.

The program adds an early literacy twist to the traditional preschool focus on social skills. So as students race cars around the room a teacher would encourage a child to write speeding tickets Ask a Lawyer

Question
Country: United States of America
State: Ohio

I was traveling on a two lane street with an officer driving toward me in the opposite direction.
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A 'before' glance at SERF preschools shows sparsely stocked bookshelves with only about 25 books each; 'after' SERF shelves overflow with about 150 books, including dozens of new titles and multicultural and bilingual stories. Walls are papered with stories dictated and illustrated by children. New writing tables are stocked with Adj. 1. stocked with - furnished with more than enough; "rivers well stocked with fish"; "a well-stocked store"
stocked

furnished, equipped - provided with whatever is necessary for a purpose (as furniture or equipment or authority); "a furnished apartment";
 alphabet alphabet [Gr. alpha-beta, like Eng. ABC], system of writing, theoretically having a one-for-one relation between character (or letter) and phoneme (see phonetics). Few alphabets have achieved the ideal exactness.  stamps, pencils and markers.
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Title Annotation:District Profile
Publication:District Administration
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1U9WA
Date:Feb 1, 2005
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