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  • Rio Del Oro Elementary School
  • Plumas Lake, CA
  • More than a third of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Through distance learning, these books will be used to help teach reading skills and strategies while also offering many examples of how wonderfully diverse our world is. This group of books has a range of reading levels to reach many readers in 5th grade! These will also be read aloud both in person and via virtual learning in order to inspire small group and while group discussions about celebrating and acknowledging our many cultures. Multiple sets of books will also be used in reading groups so that small groups of students can study, discuss, and draw their own conclusions about each motivating and inspiring story.

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Through distance learning, these books will be used to help teach reading skills and strategies while also offering many examples of how wonderfully diverse our world is. This group of books has a range of reading levels to reach many readers in 5th grade! These will also be read aloud both in person and via virtual learning in order to inspire small group and while group discussions about celebrating and acknowledging our many cultures. Multiple sets of books will also be used in reading groups so that small groups of students can study, discuss, and draw their own conclusions about each motivating and inspiring story.

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