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Activity A

Visit the official government website for No Child Left Behind at www.ed.gov/nclb/landing.jhtml?src=pb. Read "The Facts About Reading Achievement" which is located under "K-12 Education Funding" on the homepage.

1. According to the U.S. government, what proportion of fourth grade students are proficient readers?
2. What action is proposed to improve reading achievement in the United States ?
3. Does your instructor agree with the official conclusions of our federal government?

Activity B

The Cave of Lascaux is a superior website and an excellent resource for socials studies, art, geosciences, and language arts. After you have had an opportunity to explore the site in French, Dutch, Spanish, or English, take the Virtual Visit to the Shaft of the Dead Man. The authors refer to the "narrative possibilities" in the cave. Could this represent the literacy of 17,000 years ago? If so, what is it that makes the literacy of today different from the literacy of Stone Age humans?

http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/lascaux/en/index.html

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