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7 Comments Category: Teaching Literacy
Tags: 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, at, dress, fashions, From, Grade, Help, Literacy, Must, Please, Popular, Some, Were

In Advanced Contemporary Literacy, we are required to learn about the decades, and must dress according to each of them on specific days. Please help me, as i’m getting graded on this, and we haven’t been taught yet what fashions were in. Pictures would be nice too :)

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3 Comments Category: Books
Tags: American, at, Colloquial, colloquial dictionary, Contempos, Dictionary, dictionary of american slang and colloquial expressions, Expressions, Jargon, mcgraw hill dictionary, McGrawHill's, Most, Nonstandard, Popular, Pronunciation, Reference, Slang, UptoDate, Usage, Vulgarisms, Writing

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24 Comments Category: Literacy Rates
Tags: at, Books, Literacy, literacy rate, literacy rates, Popular, Reading, Still

Around the world, has the reading of books (not just literacy rates) gone down or up in recent years?