The text for this handbook was developed by the Saskatchewan Literacy Network.

The handbook has been adapted by the NWT Literacy Council to give it more northern content.

Printed by the NWT Literacy Council March 2002 with funding from the Government of the Northwest Territories Early Childhood Development Framework for Action

In creating this handbook the writers have, on occasion, adapted materials or directly quoted from other publications. Every effort has been made to obtain permission to do so. If material has been quoted or adapted without permission of the author, we do apologize for the oversight.

Please feel free to photocopy and distribute any portion of this handbook to parents. To reproduce for other purposes, please contact the NWT Literacy Council for permission.

Under no circumstances should this handbook, in any form, be sold for profit.

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