[CASL-L] [EXTERNAL] Fwd: Reading in Uncertain Times

[Egan, Danelle]

What about the free books that JLG made available for reading? I know there
were some at middle school level, so I’m thinking there would be HS level
too. They could be for whole class reads.

On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 10:53 AM Jennifer Rocca <roccaj at brookfieldps.org>
wrote:

> It’s really nice they are allowing this for the younger grades.
>
> My high schoolers are still going to have a hard time finding books,
> however. There are lots of individual places to find downloadable texts but
> whole class reads are pretty much out (unless they're classics).
>
> Tomorrow I’ll start helping teachers find the books they need for kids but
> I’m sure many of them will secretly give kids illegal pdf copies they find
> online because our options are limited.
>
> On Mar 20, 2020, at 4:24 PM, Jane Martellino <janemartellino at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> 
>
> All,
> Please read thru what the publishers require as far as creating video read
> alouds.  We need to inform our staff and model legal use ourselves.
> See below.
> Jane
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