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  Thorndike answered the question by saying that learning had to do with changes in behavior.
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  Fredric Bartlett proposed the idea that old knowledge influences new knowledge.
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  The reader response theory discusses that each reader has their own reading experience based off of who they are and what they know.
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  This test measured the level and speed of the comprehension of students.
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  A series of books were designed to teach reading to students in 1st-6th grade.
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  This approach teaches children to read words as whole units instead of a group of letters.
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  Textbooks designed to teach students reading and other skills.
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  Separate but equal education rights for the whites and African Americans.
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  Federal funding for improving instruction in the subjects in the classroom.
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  Early instruction improves children's spelling and comprehension.
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  This program was created to help promote literacy development in infants and toddlers.
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  Fair and equal opportunity for children to receive high quality education.
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  This is a list of all the ideas that will be covered based on a specific curriculum.
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  No child will be denied education based on their sex.
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  A non for profit organization that is focused on academic advancments.
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  A federally funded program that helps promote the understanding of the text.
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  This program was created to better English instruction.
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  This theory focuses on the students literacy outside of the classroom and promotes the idea that teachers and parents discuss literacy.
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  This is an approach that states students should create their own meaning of what they are reading and look at words as whole pieces of language.
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  Competitive grants given to schools to help improve skills of students and instructions for teachers.
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  Libraries were introduced in order to promote reading for students and surrounded them with books that they all could read and enjoy.
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  Familiarize teachers with the English sound symbol system.
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  Thematic units in literacy.
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  Setting standards for students would improve outcomes for individual students.
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  Transaction between reader and the text.
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  This is a multi tier approach that catches students learning and behavioral needs.
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  Schools competed for grants that would be given to their schools to help innovate their classrooms.
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  Academic Standards for math and and English.
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  This is a response to the rti approach and is the instruction and help that students need with learning or behavioral needs.
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  Technology has been incorporated into each classroom and has changed the way the world teaches and learns.
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  Students who are at risk of failing need help from a good teacher who is willing to help them.
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  Sutori, www.sutori.com/story/history-of-literacy-instruction-timeline--RNQBSeSQzc87fbSqeEgukqFZ. The Timeline of the History of Literacy in America. www.preceden.com/timelines/34135-the-timeline-of-the-history-of-literacy-in-america.