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For more information, visit these websites:

• Hawai‘i Department of Education Content Standards
  www.doe.k12.hi.us/standards/index.htm
• Hawai‘i Guidelines for Culturally Healthy and Responsive Learning Environments
  www.olelo.hawaii.edu

• Hawai‘i’s Aloha State Council
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• International Reading Association
  www.reading.org
• National Institute for Literacy
  www.nifl.gov

• Reading Research Quarterly
  www.reading.org/rrqonline
• earlyreading.info
  www.earlyreading.info

• University of Guam, College of Education (stories from Guam, Micronesia, and the Pacific)
  www.uog.edu/coe/paclit