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WHAT ARE YOU THINKING? CONFERRING IN READER'S WORKSHOP

By Patrick A. Allen

Sitting down one-on-one with a student in a conference is the best way to differentiate instruction so all students can learn the comprehension skills and strategies that wise readers use. In his new video What Are You Thinking? Patrick Allen demonstrates how to connect with readers, how to monitor their progress through individual records, and, perhaps most important, how to encourage children to love books and reading while honoring their individuality. Each of the nine conferences has a different instructional focus, including determining importance in text, vocabulary, expository text, and reading with a writer's eye.

Item no.: JP07290063
Format: DVD
Duration: 96 minutes
Copyright: 2011
Price: USD 295.00

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WRITING WITH MENTORS

By Lynne Dorfman and Rose Cappelli

When learning how to write well, there is nothing more powerful than examining the work of the writers we admire. Real writers need mentors -- those writers who inspire us and demonstrate through their style and craft how we, too, can be successful writers.

In Writing with Mentors, Lynne Dorfman and Rose Cappelli, authors of Mentor Texts and Nonfiction Mentor Texts, take us inside two Pennsylvania classrooms and show us how we can use children's literature effectively to teach both informational and narrative writing.

Lynne joins fifth-grade teacher Dan Monaghan to teach a lesson on effective leads in nonfiction. They model the "Sharing a Secret" lead, where students transition from telling secrets about themselves to using these secrets as a lead in longer essays to effectively hook readers. Rose joins two second-grade teachers in their fully-inclusive classroom to teach students all about the importance of setting and place in a good piece of narrative writing.

This video contains two programs, each over 90 minutes long, that show how a writing lesson evolves over two days. Viewers will see master teachers in action, demonstrating modeling, shared writing, whole group lessons, small group and one-on-one conferences, using writer's notebooks, and the all-important reflection upon the lesson.

Real-world writing and real writers don't follow a script. Join Lynne and Rose as they show us how to teach writing the way it was meant to be taught.

Item no.: PF00140538
Format: 2 DVDs
Duration: 195 minutes
Copyright: 2011
Price: USD 395.00

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DAILY FIVE IN KINDERGARTEN, THE

By Joan Moser

Join Joan Moser of "The Sisters" for a visit to her lively kindergarten classroom. You'll see Joan in action as she teaches whole-class lessons, leads small groups, and confers with students during rounds of Daily Five in literacy. The video also includes one round of Daily Five in math, as well as a peek at how the CAFE assessment system is integrated into the daily literacy block. Bonus tracks include an extended classroom tour, explanations of book boxes, and a guide to the "pensieve"--the notebook that houses record-keeping forms and conferring notes.

Item no.: MF07290043
Format: DVD
Duration: 118 minutes
Copyright: 2010
Price: USD 159.00

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IMPROVING ADOLESCENT WRITERS

By Kelly Gallagher

How can we teach today's students to write with clarity, passion, and purpose? How can we move all students - even those who struggle or are reluctant - forward in their skills as writers? In Improving Adolescent Writers, Kelly Gallagher invites you into his classroom for an in-depth look at ways to successfully answer these questions, and more. Through a variety of methods - modeling, mid-process assessment, small-group conferring, grammar and editing mini-lessons, revision techniques, and identifying the many real-world purposes for writing - Kelly demonstrates how to teach writing so that adolescents internalize the habits and skills of good writers. Along the way they learn that writing is messy, hard work but well worth the struggle and effort. They become more than better writers; ultimately, they become better thinkers.

The DVD features three programs: The Importance of Modeling, Writing with Purpose, and Assessment That Drives Better Student Writing.

Item no.: ZG07290048
Format: 2 DVDs (With Viewing Guide)
Duration: 128 minutes
Copyright: 2009
Price: USD 395.00

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MORE TIME TO TEACH: MANAGING CONFLICT WITH STUDENTS

When teachers and students are in conflict, the teacher's response will often determine whether the situation escalates or de-escalates. MANAGING CONFLICT WITH STUDENTS gives teachers the tools to respond to conflict situations in a way that keeps problems small. Designed for general/special education teachers, administrators, and university instructors, MANAGING CONFLICT will reduce classroom disruptions, improve school atmosphere, and bring the joy back to teaching.

Item no.: RA06420005
Format: DVD
Duration: Approx. 20 minutes
Copyright: 2009
Price: USD 80.00

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MORE TIME TO TEACH: OFFERING CHOICES

Teachers often become angry or frustrated after making repeated requests for students to stop their disruptive behaviors. OFFERING CHOICES gives teachers the skills to remain calm and eliminates the need to constantly remind students. Designed for general/special education teachers, administrators, and university instructors, OFFERING CHOICES will help teach students responsibility as well as help teachers avoid the frustration of dealing with repeated misbehaviors.

Item no.: NS06420006
Format: DVD
Duration: Approx. 21 minutes
Copyright: 2009
Price: USD 80.00

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MORE TIME TO TEACH: WORKING WITH CHALLENGING PARENTS

When teachers are challenged by parents, their responses can become defensive, dismissive or divisive. This only seems to cause situations to get worse. WORKING WITH CHALLENGING PARENTS gives teachers the skills to respond to challenging parents in a confident manner that builds relationships. Designed for general/special education teachers, administrators, and university instructors, WORKING WITH CHALLENGING PARENTS will create a collaborative community between schools and parents to best help the child.

Item no.: KM06420007
Format: DVD
Duration: Approx. 20 minutes
Copyright: 2009
Price: USD 80.00

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MORE TIME TO TEACH: RESPONDING TO STUDENT BEHAVIOR (ELEMENTARY VERSION)

Designed for general/special education teachers and administrators, staff development coordinators, and university instructors, this innovative program offers a unique model for increasing teaching and learning time.

By using student and teacher dramatizations of actual classroom situations, MORE TIME TO TEACH empowers educators to respond effectively to student behavior.

Teachers who have implemented this program have experienced the following results:

  • an over 40% decrease in classroom disruptions
  • a dramatic improvement in classroom atmosphere
  • considerably less fatigue at the end of the school day

    Item no.: TH06420003
    Format: DVD
    Duration:
    Copyright: 2007
    Price: USD 99.95

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    MORE TIME TO TEACH: RESPONDING TO STUDENT BEHAVIOR (SECONDARY VERSION)

    Designed for general/special education teachers and administrators, staff development coordinators, and university instructors, this innovative program offers a unique model for increasing teaching and learning time.

    By using student and teacher dramatizations of actual classroom situations, MORE TIME TO TEACH empowers educators to respond effectively to student behavior.

    Teachers who have implemented this program have experienced the following results:

  • an over 40% decrease in classroom disruptions
  • a dramatic improvement in classroom atmosphere
  • considerably less fatigue at the end of the school day

    Item no.: TH06420004
    Format: DVD
    Duration:
    Copyright: 2007
    Price: USD 99.95

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    RTI & DI - THE DYNAMIC DUO

    By Lynn Heintzman and Helene Hanson

    Response to Intervention (RTI) and Differentiated Instruction (DI) are two powerful approaches for addressing the needs of all learners. They share many common elements, perhaps the most significant of which is their student-centered focus and utilization of on-going assessments to inform decision-making and facilitate good instruction. RTI, as a multi-tiered framework, uses a problem-solving process to match the needs of students to research-based interventions. DI is a way to plan/deliver curriculum and instruction to meet the needs of diverse learners. It is through DI that RTI can be successfully implemented. Indeed, RTI and TI are truly the "dynamic duo!"

    This DVD will help you learn how to effectively differentiate instruction in TIER 1 (core curriculum instruction) and TIER 2 (targeted instruction) stages of RTI. A range of strategies are demonstrated, such as the use of flexible grouping, support staff, continuous progress monitoring and data collection.

    Item no.: GW01560024
    Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 45 minutes
    Copyright: 2009
    Price: USD 139.00

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    THINK SMALL! ENGAGING OUR YOUNGEST READERS IN SMALL GROUPS

    By Debbie Diller

    With the advent of RTI (Response to Intervention), teachers everywhere are spending part of their day teaching in small groups. In Think Small! master teacher and author Debbie Diller plans and teaches various small-group lessons with students at different reading levels while the rest of the class works independently at literacy work stations. Teachers learn how to form groups, organize for small-group instruction, choose books, write lesson plans, and support student independence so they can teach more effectively in small groups with young readers.

    Debbie works with pre-emergent readers on rhyming and oral language in small groups. She teaches two differentiated lessons with an emergent group that focuses on learning high-frequency words, both in reading and writing. Other small-group lessons include a focus on fluency and comprehension in guided reading with first-grade readers. and a dynamic, engaging whole-group reading lesson in which Debbie models a skill all students need and later takes this same skill to small group. DVD extras feature a tour of the kindergarten small-group area, and an overview of the planning process and lesson structure.

    Think Small! -- particularly when used in conjunction with Debbie's book Making the Most of Small Groups -- is ideal for professional study groups or staff development programs designed to help teachers deliver more focused small group instruction.

    Item no.: GM07290062
    Format: DVD (With Viewing Guide)
    Duration: 90 minutes
    Copyright: 2009
    Price: USD 295.00

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    ADHD & LD: POWERFUL TEACHING STRATEGIES AND ACCOMMODATIONS

    By Sandra Rief

    Today's classroom teachers require greater skills than ever before. They are faced with both the challenges and opportunities of increased diversity, the inclusion of students with disabilities, as well as the demands of academic standards and high stakes testing. Education professionals must be well equipped to implement proven and successful strategies and accommodations.

    This DVD incorporates a Response-to-Intervention (RTI) framework to help teachers address the needs of students who present the characteristics of ADHD and/or LD in their general education classrooms. Sandy Rief, nationally acclaimed author and leading authority on educating students with attention, behavioral and learning difficulties, presents a wide range of proven and successful strategies that can be used in the initial stages of RTI implementation. The most comprehensive resource of its kind on the market today!

    In this video, you will observe:

  • differentiating instruction in the classroom
  • collaborating and teaming for success
  • engaging students' attention and active participation
  • classroom management and behavioral intervention
  • organization, study skills & written language strategies

    It specifically illustrates how educators can greatly assist students with attentional, behavioral, and learning challenges within their classrooms using these effective techniques and provides a powerful tool for learning and teaching students with ADHD and LD in the general education environments.

    The viewer will be able to:

  • Implement specific teaching strategies within general education classrooms
  • Identify a range of possible approaches to implement for students with a variety of ADHD & LD characteristics
  • Apply field tested techniques to assist students with attentional, behavioral, and learning strategies in each of the following areas: 1. Engaging students' attention and active participation 2. Differentiating instruction in the classroom 3. Classroom and behavioral interventions
  • Implement the Response to Intervention (RTI) Framework

    Item no.: HD01560038
    Format: DVD
    Duration: 52 minutes
    Copyright: 2008
    Price: USD 130.00

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    ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY: POWERFUL SOLUTIONS FOR SUCCESS

    By: Brian S. Friedlander, Ph.D.

    Technology is not only having a profound impact on the way we live our lives, but also how we learn and access information. For students with disabilities, technology can make the difference between success and failure in general education environments. Assistive Technology (AT) provides a means to help students compensate for their disabilities while building upon their strengths. Utilizing the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), this revised and updated DVD takes you into classrooms where AT solutions are being successfully implemented for students requiring:

  • auditory processing supports
  • fine-motor and writing supports
  • reading supports

    Observe first-hand how hardware and software programs not only assist students in being more successful academically, but how AT empowers them to be more confident and independent learners.

    How to use this DVD
  • If you are a principal or school administrator, use this DVD at faculty meetings to build the skills of your staff.
  • If you are a professor/instructor at a college or university, use this DVD to enhance your classroom instruction.
  • If you are a staff developer or trainer, use this DVD with new and/or experienced teachers.
  • If you are a classroom teacher, use this DVD as a resource for proven Assistive Technology solutions.
  • If you are a parent, use this DVD to better understand the value of Assistive Technology

    The viewer will be able to:
  • Describe the value of Assistive Technology in helping students access the general education curriculum
  • Explain how Assistive Technology adheres to the theory of Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
  • List a variety of hardware and software programs available for use as AT solutions
  • Identify specific AT devices and software programs to support students experiencing auditory processing, fine-motor, writing, as well as reading problems
  • Identify the five steps to successfully implement Assistive Technology

    Item no.: NR01560036
    Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 37 minutes
    Copyright: 2008
    Price: USD 139.00

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    CAFE IN THE CLASSROOM: HELPING CHILDREN VISUALIZE LITERACY GOALS

    By Gail Boushey & Joan Moser

    Assessing young readers involves more than determining a reading level and moving them onto the next. Gail Boushey and Joan Moser developed the CAFE assessment system to help elementary students understand and master different strategies used by successful readers. CAFE is an acronym for Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency, and Expanding Vocabulary, and the system includes goal-setting with students in individual conferences, posting of goals on a whole-class board, developing small group instruction based on clusters of students with similar goals, and targeting whole-class instruction based on emerging student needs.

    The DVD includes video of many individual conferences, small group lessons, and whole class instruction in Joan Moser's K-2 multiage classroom.

    Item no.: WW07290039
    Format: DVD (With Viewing Guide, CD)
    Duration: 90 minutes
    Copyright: 2008
    Price: USD 229.00

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    7 EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES FOR SECONDARY INCLUSION

    By: Lisa Dieker, Ph.D.

    Inclusion of students with disabilities at all levels is a challenge, one that has been intensified by the mandates of NCLB and the reauthorized IDEA. More specifically, NCLB states that students with disabilities will be counted in calculation of annual yearly progress, and thus must be proficient in curriculum content; and IDEA '04 states that special education teachers must have certification in specific content areas in order to be highly qualified to provide self-contained instruction to students with disabilities.

    These two legislative actions have a tremendous impact on teachers, schools, families and, most importantly, secondary students with disabilities. Furthermore, they make it essential for secondary teachers to know what is working in effective, inclusive schools across the country.

    This exciting and practical video is specifically designed for those educators who are either developing or currently working to include students with mild to moderate disabilities in secondary classrooms.

    The viewer will:
  • Understand the key components of effective secondary inclusive instruction
  • Learn practical ideas to meet the needs of a range of learners
  • Observe interdisciplinary teams of teachers address issues such as instruction, curricular development and grading
  • Learn how secondary schools are meeting state and local standards by providing universally designed curriculum for all learners
  • Understand how the learning environment impacts outcomes, including: 1. How co-teaching can be used to meet the educational needs of a wide range of learners 2. How administrators, teachers, families and students work together in inclusive schools to produce effective outcomes

    Item no.: JH01560034
    Format: DVD
    Duration: 65 minutes
    Copyright: 2007
    Price: USD 130.00

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    ABC'S OF BULLYING PREVENTION, THE: A COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOLWIDE APPROACH

    Now for the first time, a comprehensive approach to provide school communities a complete package on bullying prevention. This series targets four of the major stakeholder groups:

  • Parents
  • Paraprofessionals
  • Teachers
  • Administrators & Pupil Services

    Dr. Kenneth Shore, family and educational psychologist and nationally renowned author of books such as Keeping Kids Safe, Special Kid's Problem Solver and The Parents' Public School Handbook, presents an innovative plan to address bullying prevention across all constituencies who play a role in a school community.

    What is needed are strategies that are based on current research which can be integrated into the fabric of the school. Dr. Shore presents powerful and proven strategies that target specific groups, as well as providing valuable resources. Showing a video to students in their classrooms and other "one-shot" approaches do not produce a lasting impact!

    Through the use of the program, each stakeholder group learns critical information on what he/she can do to specifically address, reduce and eliminate bullying in our schools. The best training program of its kind!

    The viewer will be able to:

  • Understand the pervasiveness of bullying in schools.
  • Define characteristics of bullying and its various forms.
  • Identify the consequences of bullying for its victims as well as for the general student population.
  • List the key elements of an effective bullying prevention program.
  • Identify ways to promote a caring classroom culture in which students come to the aid of bullying victims and/or report incidents to adults.
  • Recognize behavioral signs in a student that suggest that he or she may be a victim of bullying.
  • Develop skills in counseling students who have been victims of bullying. Learn strategies for providing discipline as well as guidance to students who have been bullying others.
  • Understand how to work cooperatively with the school to deal with a situation in which your child is being bullied or your child is doing the bullying. (for parents)

    Item no.: WG02050007
    Format: 4 DVDs (With Manual)
    Duration: 118 minutes
    Copyright: 2005
    Price: USD 350.00

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    AUTISM IS A WORLD

    "Autism Is A World" is a rare look at this disability through the words of a young woman who lives with it. Produced and directed by Gerardine Wurzburg, Academy Award winner for "Educating Peter," and narrated by actress, Julianna Margulies (E.R. and The Grid), this documentary is about Sue. "Autism Is A World" takes the viewer on a journey into her mind, her obsessions, and her world. The documentary explores autism from the most authentic perspective, an individual who is living with this often misunderstood disorder.This film provides great insight to all those professionals, teachers and parents who are striving to better understand autism spectrum disorders and related disabilities. It also demonstrates how assistive technology can effectively facilitate communication.

    An excellent staff development tool to help educators recognize and appreciate the potential that exists within each special student whose lives they touch.

    Note
  • Nominated for an Academy Award

    Item no.: GV06500030
    Format: DVD
    Duration: 40 minutes
    Copyright: 2005
    Price: USD 99.00

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    AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS & THE SCERTS MODEL

    Assistive Technology (AT) has been frequently associated with students who exhibit severe disabilities, particularly those with physical and/or orthopedic challenges. However, only 1.3% of the six million students with disabilities (ages 6-21) under IDEA fall under this category. So, many special educators working with other less severe disabilities have not looked for AT solutions to help their students. Advancements in AT devices, as well as in the services that support them, have created a whole new paradigm!

    We no know we can address the myriad of students with more subtle disabilities under IDEA or Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. They can be significantly helped through the use of AT solutions.

    This new, one of a king DVD is specifically designed for those educators who are mandated to provide services that are identified in an IEP or 504 Plan, in inclusive, as well as self-contained learning environments.

    Auditory Processing/Language Writing and Grapho-motor Reading Enable students in your district to become more empowered and less frustrated as they are helped to function more effectively and meet higher standards through AT.

    The mystery and ignorance surrounding AT will be dispelled as educators, students, and parents become more aware of its efficacy and ease of use.

    Item no.: KC00140031
    Format: DVD
    Duration:
    Copyright:
    Price: USD 279.00

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    BRAIN-COMPATIBLE PRACTICES FOR THE CLASSROOM: SPECIAL EDUCATION

    By Pat Wolfe

    Given the overwhelming amount of research being conducted on the human brain, it is imperative for educators to identify those instructional practices that best align with the findings of those studies. Too often it is fashionable for instructional programs to claim that they are based on brain research, when they truly are not.

    To help ensure that the role of brain-compatible instruction becomes a "foundation" to educational practices, and not a passing "fad", Dr. Pat Wolfe, author and world renowned expert on brain-compatible learning, presents a compelling and practical approach to help educators grapple with the high volume of brain research inundating the field of education today.

    Visit classrooms where students with disabilities are benefiting from brain-compatible instructional strategies as an integral part of their day; hear from staff who are effectively using brain compatible strategies such as Response to Intervention, and learn how to become educated consumers by differentiating the realities of brain research from its many modern myths.

    Item no.: DB01560047
    Format: DVD
    Duration: 56 minutes
    Copyright: 2007
    Price: USD 99.00

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    BRIDGES TO INDEPENDENCE: GUIDED READING WITH NONFICTION

    Guided reading has long been recognized as a dynamic process that supports children's skills as readers in all genres, yet fiction accounts for over ninety percent of the texts we select for these small-group encounters. If children are to be empowered, life-long readers, who read for many different purposes, they need concentrated, small-group encounters with informational texts.

    In this series, Tony Stead works with third-grade teacher Lisa Elias Moynihan and first-grade teacher Lauren Benjamin to explore guided reading instruction with early emergent, developing, and fluent readers, using a variety of informational texts. After an introduction, three in-depth programs look at what happens before, during, and after the reading-accessing students' prior knowledge; overcoming text challenges; introducing the focus of the lesson; sharing and reflecting and, most importantly, determining if the students have understood what they read.

    Program 1: Getting Started An introduction to key issues for ensuring successful guided reading sessions: forming groups using assessments, selecting the focus and text, and managing the rest of the class.

    Program 2: Guided Reading with Early Emergent Readers Lauren and Tony each conduct guided reading sessions with young learners, focusing on the importance of making children aware of what they are learning about the world as they read.

    Program 3: Guided Reading with Developing Readers The importance of using procedural texts in guided reading is highlighted as Tony and a group of children read through How to Make a Paper Airplane. Will the children be able to follow the instructions and make a plane that can fly?

    Program 4: Guided Reading with Fluent Readers We watch as Lisa Elias Moynihan works with her fluent third-grade readers using a biography and then reconvenes the group a few days later to follow-up.

    Item no.: PS04980041
    Format: 2 DVDs
    Duration: 120 minutes
    Copyright:
    Price: USD 395.00

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    BRINGING READING TO LIFE

    Readers in grades 3-6 present unique challenges and opportunities for teachers. Many intermediate readers can decode text well, but few have the skills required for the thick textbooks and complex literature they will encounter in the middle grades and beyond. Teachers need to guide students as they develop sophisticated strategies for tackling a variety of new text, while helping students cultivate the independence and self-reflection they need for reading success beyond the elementary grades.

    Bringing Reading to Life is a series of four programs filmed in Franki Sibberson's fifth-grade classroom. The eighteen classroom vignettes present a vibrant portrait of readers at work, delving into novels and nonfiction with ease and confidence, even as they grapple with the new demands of increasingly difficult texts. Franki and colleague Karen Szymusiak show the importance of thoughtful room design and classroom library layout, carefully structured reading groups, brief whole-class lessons, extended discussions that build on previous reading experiences, and individual reading in a wide range of texts.

    Franki and Karen also demonstrate a multitude of teaching and learning strategies that help students in grades 3-6 thrive, including mini-lessons, conference and discussion techniques, reading notebook design and use, small-group structures and writing extensions, and read-aloud routines.

    Item no.: TH06500042
    Format: DVD
    Duration: 120 minutes
    Copyright:
    Price: USD 395.00

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    BUILDING ADOLESCENT READERS

    By Kelly Gallagher

    In Kelly Gallagher's high school classroom in Anaheim, California, students are not only learning to comprehend difficult novels and texts, they are developing the skills and behaviors of lifelong readers. Drawing from his books Reading Reasons and Deeper Reading, Kelly's new video set brings effective reading strategies to life. Presenting examples of both small- and whole-group discussions, Building Adolescent Readersdemonstrates how to engage students with a variety of texts, teaching them what it means to be a good reader.

    Program 1: The Six Building Blocks Before we teach students how to read better, we need to help them understand why they should be readers. Kelly outlines his six blocks for motivating students to read more-both recreationally and academically. He models specific classroom lessons that help students to internalize the value of reading.

    Program 2: First Draft Reading Adolescent readers often adopt one of two universal strategies when they are confronted with difficult text: they either quit or dutifully continue, even though they do not understand what they are reading. In this program Kelly models a number of useful strategies to help students not only monitor their comprehension, but to also fix their comprehension when it begins to falter.

    Program 3: Second Draft Reading Revisiting a text helps students uncover its deeper layers of meaning. Kelly demonstrates numerous strategies that help students move past an "I read it once; I'm done" mentality and into richer second draft reading. He also discusses the importance assessment plays in planning an effective reading lesson.

    Reviews
  • "All of the ideas presented in the production are valid and easily put into practice...the suggestions would be easily implemented with a minimum of effort on the part of the teacher." - Library Media Connection - August/ September 2006

  • "Primarily designed for English teachers, the series is built on sound principles, with Gallagher's presentation methods promoting critical thinking skills in his students, as well as helping them see the fun and worth of reading. Highly recommended." - Video Librarian

    Item no.: TA07290003
    Format: 2 DVDs (With Viewing Guide)
    Duration: 90 minutes
    Copyright: 2005
    Price: USD 295.00

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    COLLABORATIVE PLANNING: TRANSFORMING THEORY INTO PRACTICE

    DVD 1 - Collaborative Planning: Transforming Theory into Practice

    This DVD will provide you with an understanding of the value of collaborative planning and a thorough understanding of the five essential components to an effective collaborative teaming process. Richard Villa, nationally renowned lecturer and author of Creating an Inclusive School and Restructuring for Caring and Effective Education, presents a comprehensive overview of collaboration identifying the history, rationale and elements for its successful implementation in our nation's schools. From research and practice, Villa provides important information about how collaborative teams can function optimally. He visits with teachers engaged in transforming the theory of "collaborative planning" into successful instruction in the classroom. Collaborative teams of teachers are profiled and educators share how they met the many challenges and obstacles that needed to be overcome.

    The viewer will learn:

    To differentiate instruction through the power of collaborative planning To design collaboration using the P-I-G-S Face Model To identify how research-based theory can be transformed into practice To implement practical strategies that promote collaboration in schools To design inclusive classrooms based on collaborative planning and teaming

    DVD 2 - Collaborative Teaching: The Co-Teaching Model

    This second DVD in the Collaboration Series provides valuable information in the use of "co-teaching" as an effective instructional and organizational arrangement. Building on the five essential components of collaborative planning detailed in Tape 1, Villa reviews four basic models of "co-teaching":

    Supportive Complimentary Parallel Split Team Teaching In addition to observing these models as they function in actual classrooms, you will see Villa as he helps educators address the most common issues and concerns related to implementing collaborative teaching in their schools. Richard Villa shares his expertise based on research and practice of professionals working across the country. Collaborative Teaching provides clear, concise and research-based information that enables educators to meet the challenges that any collaborative process entails.

    The viewer will learn:

  • To implement four approaches to successful co-teaching (supportive, complementary, parallel, and team teaching

  • To select appropriate strategies to ensure effective co-teaching in inclusive classrooms

  • To overcome obstacles that are deterrents to the implementation of co-teaching

  • To design co-teaching experiences based on the collaborative teaching model

  • To differentiate instruction through the power of co-teaching

    Item no.: WH06500545
    Format: 2 DVDs
    Duration:
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    Price: USD 199.00

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    COMPREHENDING CONTENT: READING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

    Teachers of adolescents across the country are under enormous pressure to cover more content in their disciplines, to make instruction more relevant to students, and to help students acquire the reading skills they need to succeed on standardized tests and beyond. In this set, high school teacher Cris Tovani brings viewers into her school and classroom and shows how she and her colleagues are meeting the challenge of improving students' reading skills across the curriculum. The tapes include examples of Cris working with students using texts from multiple disciplines in her classroom, as well as collaborating with colleagues throughout the school.

    1: Modeling What Good Readers Do
    Using examples from technical text and novels, Cris models her own reading process to show students how to read and understand difficult material.

    2: Interpreting Data: Charts, Graphs, Standardized Tests Cris works with students as they analyze charts, data and graphs, and discusses how standardized test scores led her to place more emphasis on data reading across the curriculum.

    3: Reading Like a Mathematician Cris and math teacher Jim Donohue co-teach, working with struggling readers on strategies for completing math problems, and talk about their collaboration.

    4: Synthesizing Complex Ideas Cris assists students as they integrate reading from history textbooks with current articles in newspapers and magazines. Students synthesize background knowledge and new information to understand wars from the last seventy years.

    Item no.: SA00140073
    Format: 2 DVDs (With Viewing Guide)
    Duration: 120 minutes
    Copyright: 2004
    Price: USD 395.00

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    CRAFT OF GRAMMAR, THE: INTEGRATED INSTRUCTION IN WRITER'S WORKSHOP

    By Jeff Anderson

    Teachers are urged to integrate grammar instruction with lessons on writer's craft, but what does that look like in real classrooms with real kids? In The Craft of Grammar, Jeff Anderson shows how he brings grammar and craft together meaningfully for student writers. Jeff and his sixth-grade students move easily from analyzing sentences to freewrites in writer's notebooks to "express-lane edits" of their writing in daily workshops. The lessons, individual conferences, and small-group activities on the video demonstrate how to use high-quality children's and young adult literature as mentor texts and as an alternative to "Daily Oral Language."

    This sixty-minute DVD includes examples of:

  • developing whole-class lessons focused on short mentor text;
  • linking the writer's notebook to grammar instruction;
  • assisting students in individual conferences as they test new writing strategies and analyze text;
  • scaffolding learning through guided practice and small-group work;
  • creating mnemonic devices to help students retain key rules;
  • celebrating student success and tactfully correcting errors.

    Jeff presents simple and imaginative tools and memory devices-from the whoop of the AAAWWUBIS to the clever and catchy FANBOYS-that help students see the value of grammar and mechanics in crafting powerful writing and retain that knowledge.

    Filmed in his diverse, Title I classroom in San Antonio, Texas, and featuring Jeff's unique brand of energy, passion, and self-deprecating humor, The Craft of Grammar helps teachers of intermediate and adolescent writers find new and engaging ways to connect the writing process with grammar and mechanics.

    Item no.: ZS07290041
    Format: DVD (With Viewing Guide)
    Duration: 60 minutes
    Copyright: 2007
    Price: USD 195.00

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    DAILY FIVE ALIVE, THE! STRATEGIES FOR LITERACY INDEPENDENCE

    By Gail Boushey & Joan Moser

    It's a common dilemma: Teachers need time to work in one-on-one conferences and in small groups with students during literacy workshop. Yet assigning "busywork" to the rest of the class doesn't help students develop the essential reading and writing skills they need. Can we really expect young readers and writers to tackle challenging work on their own without constant support and intervention from teachers?

    This question led Gail Boushey and Joan Moser ("the Sisters") to develop The Daily Five-a structured set of literacy tasks that research shows are linked to literacy achievement. The five tasks are outlined in detail in Gail and Joan's book The Daily Five. This video, shot in Joan's K-2 multiage classroom, focuses on launching three of the "Dailies" - read to self, read to someone, and work on writing.

    Item no.: TJ07290042
    Format: DVD (With Viewing Guide, CD-ROM)
    Duration: 85 minutes
    Copyright: 2007
    Price: USD 275.00

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    DAY OF WORDS, A: INTEGRATING WORD WORK IN THE INTERMEDIATE GRADES

    Literacy floats on a sea of words in any classroom-in conversations, textbooks, and essays written by students. By the intermediate grades, pulling out and analyzing individual words is a complex task for teachers and students. In the two-part series, A Day of Words, fifth-grade teacher Max Brand demonstrates how he helps students search for, study, and celebrate words. Taped over the course of one day, we see distinct word instruction segments that Max has planned, along with many spontaneous teaching moments that occur for word work (with both individual students and in whole class settings). Through Max's emphasis on noting words systematically in every curricular area, his students learn that word work is about more than just gaining spelling skills or vocabulary knowledge, and become more naturally accomplished in their understanding and use of words in all contexts.

    Program 1: Morning shows how Max starts the day with content area studies. Students use inquiry notebooks while reading textbooks. Max reviews notes with students, charting words and definitions, which will be used later for writing to a prompt. During science and math, students analyze individual words as part of the more challenging process of understanding sophisticated new concepts.

    Program 2: Afternoon presents word work during the literacy block throughout the afternoon. Max uses a timed word activity to help a small group who struggle with fluency during independent reading. He confers with individual students as they write in reading notebooks and writing daybooks, reads aloud as students note words for placement on the word wall, and presents a mini-lesson highlighting language use in his own daybook.

    A Day of Words is more than a collection of snapshots from random word work lessons-it captures the feel of a classroom where students are exposed to a rich variety of texts and are constantly focused on the specifics of language.

    Item no.: PA04980099
    Format: DVD
    Duration:
    Copyright: 2005
    Price: USD 195.00

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    DEVELOPING INDEPENDENT LEARNERS: A READING/WRITING WORKSHOP APPROACH

    The goal of teaching is to promote independent learning so reading and writing becomes a lifelong habit. As children become better readers, they also become better writers. A workshop format provides a literacy context for building connections between the reading and writing processes. In this two-part series, Donnie Skinner and Vicki Altland demonstrate how they implemented reading and writing workshops in two Arkansas schools.

    Program 1: Exploring Literature in Third Grade In the first part, Donnie Skinner and third-grade students at Boone Park Elementary in North Little Rock, Arkansas, explore how literature is used to promote deeper comprehension during reading and writing workshops. The first part of the tape demonstrates the components of writing workshop, including a mini-lesson for crafting a good lead, independent practice, and writing conferences. The second part illustrates the components of reading workshop, including a mini-lesson for teaching a visualization strategy, independent practice, reading conferences, and a literature discussion group. The features of the workshop include:

  • guided demonstrations and think-aloud;
  • guided practice with teacher assistance;
  • independent practice with teacher and peer conferences;
  • language interactions that promote deeper comprehension.

    Program 2: Conducting Research in First Grade In the second part, Vicki Altland and her first graders at Ida Burns Elementary in Conway, Arkansas, use a workshop approach to conduct research with nonfiction texts. Vicki scaffolds her first graders as they apply a ten-step process for conducting research, including choosing a topic, gathering materials, organizing information, and publishing the results. The features of the workshop include:

  • mini-lesson with guided practice;
  • group work with teacher conferences;
  • group sharing with teacher assessment.

    Item no.: YW04980108
    Format: DVD (With Viewing Guide)
    Duration: 60 minutes
    Copyright: 2003
    Price: USD 195.00

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    DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION & THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNER

    Nationally renowned expert on English Language Learners (ELL), Jo Gusman, presents a powerful and compelling model to differentiate instruction in our nation's culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms. Jo outlines her FOUNDATION-FRAMEWORK-TOOLS model to help educators create effective language acquisition programs that meet the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) requirements.

    Item no.: NH00140110
    Format: DVD (With Viewer's Manual)
    Duration:
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    Price: USD 139.00

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    DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION: A FOCUS ON INCLUSION

    This video will target customized practices that are most effective in classrooms where special education students are fully included.

    Item no.: VN01560049
    Format: DVD
    Duration: 50 minutes
    Copyright: 2003
    Price: USD 129.00

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    DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION: A FOCUS ON THE GIFTED

    This video will target customized practices that are most effective in classrooms that seek to challenge gifted/high achieving students.

    Item no.: WU01560070
    Format: DVD
    Duration: 50 minutes
    Copyright: 2003
    Price: USD 129.00

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    DOING MORNING MEETING: THE ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS

    Morning Meeting is a simple and powerful tool for improving classroom climate. In K-8 classrooms nationwide, students and teachers begin each day with this daily routine in which classmates gather in a circle to greet one another, listen and respond to one another's news, practice academic and social skills, and look forward to the events in the day ahead. In this video, you'll see Morning Meetings in action in two classrooms, a first grade and a fifth grade at Kensington Avenue School in Springfield, Massachusetts. The video has four segments, each devoted to one component of Morning Meeting:

  • Greeting
  • Sharing
  • Group Activity
  • News and Announcements

    You'll see teachers Leslie Cirone and Maureen Russell as they use daily Morning Meetings to foster an atmosphere of trust and respect, an atmosphere where children feel safe enough to take the risks necessary for learning. You'll also see the many ways in which Morning Meetings can be used to give students daily practice in important social and academic skills.

    Scenes from the classrooms are interwoven with teachers reflecting on their practice and offering ideas for making Morning Meetings successful. This video is intended for staff development, as well as for providing an introduction to Morning Meeting for teachers, families, and administrators.

    Review
  • "The time one commits to Morning Meeting is an investment that is repaid many times over. . . . Morning Meeting is a microcosm of the way we wish our schools to be-communities full of learning, safe and respectful and challenging for all." - Roxann Kriete, The Morning Meeting Book

    Item no.: CK07290008
    Format: DVD (With Viewing Guide)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Copyright: 2004
    Price: USD 95.00

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    DUDE, LISTEN TO THIS! ENGAGING BOY WRITERS

    By Ralph Fletcher

    In his groundbreaking book, Boy Writers: Reclaiming Their Voices, Ralph Fletcher took an expedition into the murky and sometimes dangerous world of boys and writing. He examined what inspires them and what shuts them down, and delved into ways teachers can do a better job of nurturing boys' wonderfully quirky contributions. Ralph's video, "Dude, Listen to This!", explores the issue face to face as he meets with a group of boys who voluntarily give up recess time each week to meet and talk about their writing. "Dude," you may ask, "how does that happen?"

    The video offers us three views of boy writers: In the first segment Ralph joins Jennifer Allen, literacy specialist at Albert S. Hall Elementary School in Waterville, Maine, and becomes a temporary member of her weekly boy writers club. After the meeting, Ralph follows the boys into their fourth-grade classroom, teaches a lesson, and then confers with several students. The final segment shows Ralph meeting with a teacher study group from the Hall School that has been reading Boy Writers and examining these issues throughout the year. As the group discusses the challenges of connecting with boys and motivating them as writers, we see how their teaching has changed.

    "Dude, Listen to This!" thoughtfully examines the exuberance, sly humor, and surprising sensitivity of boy writers. It unearths important issues surrounding this topic and provides solid examples of the ways educators can become more adept at understanding boys and meeting their needs. An extensive workshop guide accompanies the DVD, including questions for discussion, classroom extensions, handouts linked to the DVD sections, and student work.

    Item no.: AV07290044
    Format: DVD (With Viewing Guide)
    Duration: 45 minutes
    Copyright: 2008
    Price: USD 125.00

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    EDUCATING FOR UNDERSTANDING BY PROJECT ZERO

    This comprehensive professional development program, filmed at Harvard University, presents the work of Project Zero, a research group at the Graduate School of Education that explores the development of learning in children, adults, and organizations. Through this video series and accompanying staff development guide, Project Zero staff provide an examination of how understanding can be viewed, taught, assessed, and deepened. Former co-directors of Harvard's Project Zero, Howard Gardner and David Perkins, present a foundation upon which the concept of understanding can be more fully explored, evaluated and enhanced. Presenting with Drs. Gardner and Perkins in this video series are many senior researchers from Project Zero. Topics range from The Mindful Classroom to Rubrics for Thinking and Understanding.

    Project Zero researchers, internationally renowned in the field of teaching and learning, provide a complete package for teachers, administrators, professors, and staff developers who are committed to improving understanding in all environments, and for learners of all ages.

    1. Experiencing Understanding (40 minutes) Tina Blythe
    2. Unmasking Understanding (48 minutes) David Perkins
    3. Minds and Understanding (79 minutes) Howard Gardner
    4. The Teaching for Understanding Framework (58 minutes) Lois Hetland, Tina Blythe, Mark Church, Shehla Ghouse, & Joan Soble
    5. Understanding in the Disciplines (53 minutes) Veronica Boix Mansilla
    6. The Mindful Classroom (43 minutes) Ron Ritchhart
    7. Rubrics for Thinking and Understanding (39 minutes) Heidi Goodrich Andrade
    8. Collaborative Assessment (40 minutes) Steve Seidel

    Item no.: NP04980550
    Format: 8 DVDs (With Guide)
    Duration:
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    Price: USD 495.00

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    HAPPY READING! CREATING A PREDICTABLE STRUCTURE FOR JOYFUL TEACHING AND LEARNING

    By Debbie Miller

    First-grade teacher Debbie Miller chronicles her work teaching reading comprehension in her popular book Reading with Meaning. In this three-part series, Debbie takes you beyond comprehension instruction, and shows how she sustains a thoughtful primary reading program that challenges and supports readers of all abilities and needs.

    How does Debbie create a learning environment that fosters such sophisticated talk around texts? How is comprehension instruction balanced with teaching decoding skills? How does she help students develop the skills in independence and collaboration necessary for successful reading workshops? Debbie and her students tell this story through a wealth of classroom segments as Debbie reflects on the reasoning behind her instructional decisions and the connections between her practice and the theories that inform her work.

    While many examples of Debbie teaching comprehension and students practicing reading strategies are presented, they are only part of a larger portrait of how she carefully organizes the classroom environment and designs effective instruction. You will see her assessing students in the midst of teaching, tailoring instruction to emerging needs, and taking the time to build a community of learners.

    Program 1: Essentials: Tone, Structure, and Routines for Creating and Sustaining a Learning Community This segment documents how and why the room is organized to support readers; the basic components of readers' workshop; how to get started with students who have few decoding skills; and the rules and procedures for whole-group sharing, conferences, and small-group work.

    Program 2: Explicit Teaching: Portraits from Readers' Workshop This segment presents explicit teaching in a variety of contexts, including word study, scaffolding individual readers in conferences, and using observations to assess students; whole- and small-group instruction in comprehension; and small-group guided practice in decoding.

    Program 3: Wise Choices: Independence and Instruction in Book Choice Informed student book choice is essential to a successful reading workshop. Students need a balanced reading diet of different types of text, and when we teach them how to make good choices it fosters independence and engages and motivates them to read for longer periods of time. Nonfiction is key, and teaching students how to access it broadens their choices and helps them become successful in a variety of texts with varying degrees of difficulty."

    Item no.: RL07290010
    Format: 2 DVDs (With Viewing Guide)
    Duration: 90 minutes
    Copyright: 2006
    Price: USD 295.00

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    IN THE BEGINNING: YOUNG WRITERS DEVELOP INDEPENDENCE

    While literacy development begins long before children are of school age, the kindergarten classroom marks an important moment as students embark on their lifelong journey as writers. In the Beginning: Young Writers Develop Independence offers a close-up view of master teacher Emelie Parker's writing workshop at Bailey's Elementary School for the Arts and Sciences in Falls Church, VA, a school where nearly all students enter kindergarten as English language learners.

    In the Beginning captures the sights and sounds of a busy kindergarten classroom as Emelie works with her students. Viewers will observe a skillful teacher who knows how to listen, record, and tailor her instruction to writers at widely varying levels of development. We see how Emelie creates a workshop environment that nurtures her students while holding them accountable for their learning.

    This program explores many of the essential teacher-student transactions that support young children as they break into print including teaching skills in context, word work, and conferring with young writers. The camera follows one student, Jesse, from start to finish in a segment that reveals how simple and powerful the publishing event can be for a child.

    Throughout, we see the crucial, ongoing link Emelie forges between her students' reading and their writing. In the Beginning offers a rare view inside the mind of an accomplished teacher as she makes a million moment-to-moment decisions during a hectic kindergarten day, while never losing sight of her primary goal: to help her students develop into independent writers.

    Item no.: NC04980180
    Format: DVD
    Duration:
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    Price: USD 95.00

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    INCLUSION: A SERVICE, NOT A PLACE - A WHOLE SCHOOL APPROACH

    By Alan Gartner, Kerzner Lipsky This production provides a comprehensive framework for administrators, teachers and staff developers to build an effective schoolwide approach that focuses on "service" rather than "location" in teaching special education students. Using clips from actual classrooms. the framework takes on additional meaning as its main features are seen "in action." This is true theory in practice and includes reference to RTI.

    The viewer will, by watching the video be able to:
  • Understand the concept of a "whole school" approach to inclusion
  • Recognize the value that an effective school-wide approach has on all students
  • Observe best inclusionary practices, based upon experience and current research that support growth of all students
  • Identify the components of effective co-teaching, and be familiar with print resources from the manual that support on-going development of collaborative teams
  • Recognize that inclusive environments support the needs of a diverse learning community, such as ELL, at risk, etc.
  • Identify roles of all stakeholders in the implementation of a whole school approach
  • Better understand Response to Intervention (RTI)

    Item no.: WN01560054
    Format: DVD (With Publication)
    Duration: 38 minutes
    Copyright: 2008
    Price: USD 150.00

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    INSIDE NOTEBOOKS

    Inside Notebooks Bringing Out Writers, Aimee Buckner

    Writers? notebooks allow students of all ages to brainstorm ideas, test strategies for crafting writing, and develop tools for drafting and revision. In this two-part series, Aimee Buckner takes viewers into her classroom as students use their writers? notebooks across the curriculum to hone skills and play with language. The series features numerous mini-lessons that help students develop strategies for using their notebooks, including:

  • Lifting a Line to mine previous entries;
  • Highlighting and Word Hunting to document thinking;
  • List and Star to create writing topics;
  • Daily Page to promote fluency;
  • Questioning the World to respond to reading;
  • Anchor Charts to foster a sense of audience;
  • Point of View to cultivate voice; and
  • Reread and Reflect to encourage self-assessment. The program also features a comprehensive look at using the notebooks in a persuasive writing genre study, demonstrating how notebooks can be at the center of reading, writing, thinking, and talking about multiple perspectives.

    Item no.: WG06500184
    Format: DVD (With Viewing Guide)
    Duration: 175 minutes
    Copyright: 2006
    Price: USD 195.00

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    INSIDE READING AND WRITING WORKSHOPS

    By Joanne Hindley

    In her book In the Company of Children, Joanne Hindley invites you inside her third-grade New York City classroom to "have a look" as she describes her reading and writing workshops.

    Joanne extends the invitation once again through a series of four video programs that give you a close-up look at mini-lessons and conferences during those workshops.

    In the two programs on reading mini-lessons and writing mini-lessons, she explores and rethinks the resources, teaching strategies, and challenges surrounding the lead-in to a workshop. She sorts this whole-class instruction into three categories:

    1. workshop management: practical matters of how books are organized in the room, how the room runs, and how to keep reading logs;

    2. literary elements: how an awareness of the qualities of good writing, differences between genres, or the attraction of series books affects how children choose books;

    3. strategies: understanding and developing the skills necessary to become successful readers and writers. The two programs on conferences also explore resources, this time regarding the one-to-one conversations on reading and writing that Joanne has with her students. "Conferring is a topic that will always be of great interest to all of us," she explains. "We all relate to that uneasy feeling of not knowing what to say, fearing that we don't always know enough to push our students further, and our uncertainty in general with just how much to push in the first place. I doubt that any of us will ever get to the point where we think, 'Oh, conferring - I'm great at that'." Joanne explains what resources she relies on to help her feel more confident in her conferring, including:

  • keeping records on conferences with each child;
  • using children's literature;
  • sharing the teacher's own history as a reader and writer;
  • using other students'; writing as models.

    In a crowded classroom setting, this practical series of videos shows how one teacher deals with the diversity of students as readers and writers, and how the students in that classroom serve as the most important curriculum informants.

    Review
  • "Inside Reading and Writing Workshops provides teachers with an excellent resource. Hindley is an admirable role model for beginning and experienced teachers." - Language Arts, September 1999

    Item no.: SD07290014
    Format: 2 DVDs (With Viewing Guide)
    Duration: 80 minutes
    Copyright: 2006
    Price: USD 395.00

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    JOY OF CONFERRING, THE: ONE-ON-ONE WITH YOUNG READERS

    While reading Debbie Miller's book, Reading With Meaning, or viewing her Happy Reading series, one wonders at Debbie's ability to orchestrate a buzzing classroom full of first-graders into a cooperative literacy community. The Joy of Conferring lets us focus in with Debbie and see what happens at the individual level as she conducts reading conferences with her students.

    Program 1: Listen and Guide-The Dynamics of Conferring Debbie engages in a series of six conferences with students who have a range of needs, from decoding and comprehension, to writing thoughtful responses to their reading. She maintains certain consistent practices across all of the conferences, such as referring back to her previous conferences with each student (either through notes or in oral exchanges), looking closely at the text to focus in on a word, concept or big idea, and listening to the child read and think aloud.

    Program 2: Three Minutes or Less-Book Selection, Quick Conferences Two of the biggest concerns teachers have about conferring with students are that there is never enough time, and it is difficult to get students to choose the right books for independent reading. How can a teacher provide individual attention to students during daily workshops, when she has twenty five or more children requiring attention? How can teachers help children learn how to select books that provide a balanced diet of genre, topic, and challenging text? "Three Minutes or Less" presents in almost real time the ways Debbie is able to check in with an entire class of students. Many of these conferences are less than a minute long, yet Debbie still manages to find time to instruct, listen carefully, and leave students with challenges.

    Item no.: TD00140194
    Format: DVD (With Viewing Guide)
    Duration: 75 minutes
    Copyright: 2005
    Price: USD 195.00

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    LAUNCHING LITERACY STATIONS: MINI-LESSONS FOR MANAGING AND SUSTAINING INDEPENDENT WORK

    By Debbie Diller

    Literacy work stations are being embraced in many elementary schools as a way to ensure students of all ages are completing thoughtful, challenging tasks while their teachers meet with small groups of students.

    Debbie Diller, author of the book Literacy Work Stations, takes you into two primary classrooms to demonstrate how to create a thriving stations program. Patty Terry's first grade students and Vicky Georgas' second graders work in stations that include a wealth of literacy tasks designed to build academic and collaborative skills across the curriculum. This three-part video series captures the teaching conversations Patty, Vicky, and Debbie have with their students in real-time as new stations are introduced, problems with existing stations are analyzed, and the match between station tasks and student needs are assessed.

    Program 1: Launching Stations
    Debbie explains the basic principles, and then launches work stations in two classrooms-the drama station in first grade, and the science station in second grade.

    Program 2: Managing Stations
    This program provides examples of the nitty gritty issues that emerge with work stations, and how they are handled by teachers.

    Program 3: Sustaining Stations
    Ensuring students have interesting, engaging materials in stations and can work independently in them is an ongoing challenge for teachers.

    Item no.: JH07290016
    Format: 2 DVDs (With Viewing Guide)
    Duration: 120 minutes
    Copyright: 2006
    Price: USD 295.00

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    MENTORING: GUIDING, COACHING, AND SUSTAINING BEGINNING TEACHERS

    Mentoring has been proven to be one of the most effective means of keeping new teachers in the profession. In this two-part series, you'll see demonstrations and discussions of the effective components of a good mentoring program. Donna Niday and Jean Boreen expand on and illustrate the concepts found in their books, Mentoring Beginning Teachers and Mentoring Across Boundaries. Each program takes you to schools and classrooms in Flagstaff, Arizona, where you'll see new and student teachers working with their mentors to successfully navigate the crucial first years of teaching. Topics covered include:
  • what it takes to be a good mentor;
  • how to effectively hold preconferences and postconferences with new teachers;
  • how to successfully observe new teachers;
  • effective team-teaching practices with new teachers;
  • how to build strong relationships between mentor and mentee. At a time when many teachers are leaving the profession too early in their careers, mentoring provides an effective method for sustaining new teachers. Through mentoring, teachers not only learn to survive their first teaching experiences, but also learn to thrive and become accomplished professionals.

    Item no.: HC04980231
    Format: DVD (With Viewing Guide)
    Duration: 60 minutes
    Copyright: 2003
    Price: USD 195.00

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    MILESTONES IN MENTORING

    Determined schools, communities and businesses are sttepping in to help young people who are falling far short of their potential with mentor programs that match caring adult volunteers with youth at risk. "Milestones in Mentoring" explores the challenges a mentor can face throughout the relationship.

    Dealing with Diversity. Panelists discuss the differences between mentor and mentee and how those differences can actually enrich mentoring.

    Making It Work. What's the best way to start and maintain a mentoring relationship? Experienced mentors share their keys to success, and point to some common pitfalls.

    Troubled Families. Panelists discuss difficult situations where addictions, abuse, depression and other serious family problems affect the young person they mentor.

    Item no.: SE06500238
    Format: DVD
    Duration: 120 minutes
    Copyright:
    Price: USD 195.00

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    POWER OF RTI, THE: CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES

    By Jim Wright

    Response to Intervention is an effective method for helping struggling learners achieve academic success. The good news is that RTI can also be a powerful management approach to challenging behaviors in the classroom.

    Jim Wright, widely renowned authority on RTI and author of the national best seller, RTI Toolkit: A Practical Guide for Schools, presents powerful strategies for structuring classroom routines that minimize opportunities for student misbehavior. He focuses on TIER I techniques which address:

  • Classroom rules, routines, and schedules
  • Positive behavioral expectations
  • Simple strategies to manage defiant and con-compliant students
  • Targeted use of rewards and feedback
  • Structured lessons to incorporate meaningful student choices
  • Management of daily classroom transitions

    In addition to Tier I strategies, Wright provides constructive and positive approaches to address student misbehavior, if and when it occurs. Learn how to implement RTI to create optimal learning environments with a minimum of discipline and behavior problems.

    Item no.: NV01560022
    Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
    Duration: 68 minutes
    Copyright: 2008
    Price: USD 140.00

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    READ WRITE AND TALK: A PRACTICE TO ENHANCE COMPREHENSION

    Reading is a social act. We all love to talk about what we read, whether sharing the latest novel with a friend, reacting to an outrageous editorial with a colleague, or exploring a picture book with a child. Kids are no different-when they have opportunities to think and talk about their reading, they explode with thoughts, questions, and ideas. The Read, Write, and Talk practice provides a framework for reading, merging thinking with the information, recording thoughts, and talking about what has been read.

    This lively program lets you join Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis, authors of Strategies That Work, in an intermediate-grade reading workshop where students engage in real-world literacy. In this classroom, kids use comprehension strategies to better understand what they read. They grapple with issues, information and ideas that provoke thinking and spur lively conversation. The goal of Read, Write, and Talk is to give kids a chance to talk purposefully about their reading. As information is shared with others, thinking evolves and comprehension deepens.

    Read, Write, and Talk is an on-going practice, not a stand-alone lesson. Once students have learned this process, it is used across the curriculum and throughout the year, with science and social studies reading, literature study, and even with textbooks. It is an authentic process that replicates what "real" readers do, and supports and encourages kids to ask more questions, ponder information, and better understand what they read. In the program Steph models a complete Read, Write, and Talk lesson including: teacher modeling: Steph models her own thinking with a short article on a current topic of interest, stopping to jot down her inner conversation, questions, connections, new learning, and other observations;

    guided practice and discussion: During the shared reading, Steph asks kids to jot down their thinking and turn and talk to each other about information in the text. As kids share their thinking, Steph guides the discussion towards an understanding of bigger issues, ideas, and questions raised by the article;

    independent practice: After kids have practiced the process, Steph invites them to choose from among three articles to try this on their own. They read the article, record their thinking, and talk about what they read;

    sharing: The kids come together to share their responses, including new learning, big ideas, and lingering questions. They also discuss how the process of working and thinking together adds to their understanding.

    End-of-tape debrief: A conversation among colleagues about the Read, Write, and Talk practice and how it supports thinking and learning.

    Item no.: TP00140284
    Format: DVD
    Duration:
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    READING THE WORLD: CONTENT COMPREHENSION WITH LINGUISTICALLY DIVERSE LEARNERS

    Kids love to explore the real world-as young scientists they observe and relish nature, and through social studies they investigate other times, places, and cultures. In this series, authors and staff developers Anne Goudvis and Stephanie Harvey welcome you to the child-centered classrooms at Columbine Elementary in Boulder, Colorado, where the majority of the children are English language learners. In these culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms, kids read, write, talk, listen, and investigate their way through the curriculum, developing a common language for reading, writing, and speaking English.

    Join Anne and Steph in these classrooms where effective comprehension strategy instruction is integrated with content knowledge acquisition in science and social studies. The instruction students experience is responsive to the learning and language needs of English language learners in the primary and intermediate grades, giving them tools to understand and actively use information and ideas, and learn English along the way. Purposeful talk is central to instruction, as kids discuss and try out their ideas with each other, developing the confidence to become independent learners.

    1: Content Comprehension: Across the Day and Throughout the Year The first DVD provides the big picture-the school's vision as described by ELL consultant Nancy Commins, who shares practices that result in thoughtful, effective teaching and learning for all students. Observe classroom teachers, the librarian, and ELL teachers as they plan ways to engage kids, teach responsively, and differentiate instruction all day long. Peek into classrooms where kids are engaged in investigations with insects and tackling big ideas about immigration in social studies. For English language learners, reading and writing across the curriculum is a powerful tool for acquiring new information and then synthesizing it to share new learning with others.

    2: Learning and Wondering About Science We join first-grade teacher Brad Buhrow, whose kids are up to their ears in insects-observing them, reading and writing about them, and illustrating their own learning on large posters. As they read engaging information, the kids use comprehension strategies to enhance their understanding of insects. Brad and librarian Nell Box confer with these young readers and writers as they tackle their own research questions.

    3: Exploring Immigration in Social Studies Anne Goudvis, fifth-grade teacher Steve Ollanik, and several classroom and ELL teachers, collaborate with the librarian to integrate comprehension instruction with content as they engage the kids in an immigration topic study. Students read picture books to bring big concepts and themes to the surface, gather information from historical texts and photographs, and write their own immigration stories. Zeroing in on kids' conversations in small-and-large groups demonstrates the importance of talk and discussion as a cornerstone of learning, especially in classrooms with English language learners and native speakers.

    All kids respond to high expectations and thoughtful instruction. They become a community of learners when we challenge them to think more fully and deeply about topics of consequence-those that matter in their own lives and in the larger world.

    Item no.: BL06500458
    Format: 2 DVDs (With Viewing Guide)
    Duration:
    Copyright: 2005
    Price: USD 295.00

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    RESULTS THAT LAST: A LITERACY MODEL FOR SCHOOL CHANGE

    By Linda J. Dorn and Carla Soffos

    What are the features of a school change model? Can these characteristics be captured and shared with other schools? How can all members of the school community work together to effect change? In this four-part video series, teachers and administrators explore specific ideas for implementing an apprenticeship literacy model that includes on-the-job experiences in five critical areas:

  • assessing change over time in reading and writing progress;
  • colleague coaching and mentoring teams in the classroom;
  • school-embedded professional development;
  • a curriculum that uses literacy as a means for monitoring and promoting school-wide changes;
  • built-in accountability for assessing student (and program) performance.

    The replicability of the model is illustrated across four schools and seven classrooms.

    Program 1: Leadership for Literacy
    This segment illustrates the seven features of a comprehensive literacy model for school change. One of the most important features is a curriculum for literacy, which places a high priority on reading and writing and includes six essential elements of a balanced literacy program. Authentic examples from classrooms and team meetings illustrate the comprehensive nature of the change process. Four principals explain how they support teachers in implementing changes in their teaching practices, and they provide concrete details for managing a school climate that includes literacy team meetings, peer coaching, and mentoring sessions. The principals discuss the importance of using assessment to study change in student learning as well as in program effectiveness, and they authenticate each feature with examples from classrooms or team meetings. The program presents a balance between practical implementation issues and a theory of school change.

    Program 2: Assessing Change Over Time in Reading Development
    This program provides explicit guidance and clear examples for studying the reading development of emergent, early, transitional, and fluent readers. Teachers share specific details for assessing a student's reading level, including introducing a book, recording observations, and analyzing reading behaviors on a reading checklist. The segment illustrates how teachers can use formal and informal assessments to study change in students' reading behavior, specifically changes in fluency, comprehension, and decoding abilities. It also shows how teachers can use a reading assessment wall for studying individual and group progression along a guided reading continuum.

    Program 3: Assessing Change Over Time in Writing Development
    Here teachers will get explicit guidance and clear examples for studying change in the writing development of emergent, early, transitional, and fluent writers. An important focus is placed on the reciprocity of writing to reading, and vice versa. To illustrate the process, classroom teachers analyze the writing samples of writers at different stages and relate those samples to their reading behaviors. Three types of writing assessments are demonstrated: formal assessments that use writing checklists to document change, informal assessments based on daily conferences and portfolio analysis, and a writing assessment wall for studying individual and group progress along a writing continuum.

    Program 4: Teachers as Agents of Change
    This video provides explicit guidance for implementing coaching conferences and literacy team meetings that occur within the natural context of the school day. Classroom teachers demonstrate the importance of school-embedded professional development that includes literacy team meetings for collaborative problem-solving around teaching and learning issues and peer coaching and mentoring sessions around a specific learning goal. The three components of a coaching conversation are illustrated in three contexts: guided reading, literature discussion groups, and writers' workshop. Specific details are included for implementing effective literacy team meetings. Throughout the program, teachers demonstrate how to create an environment that promotes on-the-job learning.

    At a time when comprehensive literacy models are more important than ever, this staff development series provides schools with guidance for getting results that are long lasting and self-extending.

    Item no.: NE07290027
    Format: 2 DVDs (With Viewing Guide)
    Duration: 120 minutes
    Copyright: 2006
    Price: USD 395.00

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    RTI TACKLES READING

    By Karen Kemp

    This production addresses the five essential components of reading achievement as identified by the National Reading Panel and NCLB - phonetic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, text comprehension. It demonstrates how a Response to Intervention (RTI) model can be used to assist students in the acquisition of reading skills in the general education classroom, thus substantially reducing the number of referrals to special education.

    Ms. Kemp, innovative educator and national presenter, identifies specific strategies that can be used in reading instruction. Observe general education classrooms where effective RTI is being implemented, and learn how a district has moved separate and independent systems of special education and general education toward a unified and effective collaborative model that embraces all students.

    Item no.: RC01560025
    Format: DVD
    Duration: Approx. 30 minutes
    Copyright: 2007
    Price: USD 99.00

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    RTI TACKLES THE LD EXPLOSION: A GOOD IDEA BECOMES LAW

    What is RTI, and who is truly learning disabled? According to the research that prompted changes to the IDEA in 2004, 50% of children identified as students with disabilities in the United States are identified with learning disabilities. Of those, 70 to 80% would never have been identified if only they had been effectively taught to read. Determined to tackle the LD explosion, Congress introduced a whole new approach for identifying children with learning disabilities. While it authorizes an assessment of a child¡¦s response to research-based reading instruction in regular education- referred to as Response to Intervention (RTI) - as a prerequisite to referral, it eliminates continued reliance on the now discredited discrepancy model. Learn how these seemingly minor changes in federal law place new and far reaching demands on the entire school community and how they serve as a powerful catalyst designed to redefine the roles and responsibilities of special education and general education in tackling illiteracy. Karen Norlander, former managing attorney for the NY State Education Department, explains the changes in the federal law and the research that prompted them.

    By highlighting the implications of these changes and their relationship to another major challenge IDEA 2004 presents-the need to address the disproportionality of minorities identified under other categories of disabilities -Norlander provides a wake up call. National educational consultant Karen Kemp shares her experiences in moving the traditionally separate systems of special education and general education toward the unified and effective collaborative model the law demands. Together, Norlander and Kemp identify the obstacles, offer ways to overcome them, and provide a roadmap to facilitate the transition.

    Item no.: RK10830013
    Format: DVD
    Duration: 31 minutes
    Copyright: 2007
    Price: USD 149.00

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    SPOTLIGHT ON SMALL GROUPS

    By Debbie Diller

    Small groups are a crucial element of every teacher's reading program, and their importance only grows as teachers face more diverse learners. Spotlight on Small Groups gives viewers an in-depth look at two reading groups led by master teacher and author Debbie Diller. Debbie leads the groups through a structured routine (introduction, guided practice, conferring, check-in, and more practice), demonstrating how to balance whole-group and differentiated instruction and showing how visual aids such as strategy bookmarks pique student interest. One group in the video focuses on vocabulary development, working with a nonfiction title; the other shows how to teach the strategy of inferring in fiction. The third-graders in the groups are English language learners, with their regular teacher, Lisa Gregory, observing and debriefing with Debbie after each lesson.

    Spotlight on Small Groups, particularly when used in conjunction with Debbie's book Making the Most of Small Groups, is ideal for professional study groups or staff development programs designed to help teachers deliver more targeted instruction. The after-group discussion and reflection between Debbie and Lisa are also appropriate for analyzing literacy coaching techniques.

    Item no.: PA07290058
    Format: DVD (With Viewing Guide)
    Duration: 58 minutes
    Copyright: 2008
    Price: USD 175.00

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    STEPPING UP WITH LITERACY STATIONS: DESIGN AND INSTRUCTION IN GRADES 3-6

    By Debbie Diller

    Literacy work stations have taken the primary grades by storm, as teachers discover many ways to use them in supporting independent and thoughtful reading and writing.

    Now, Stepping Up with Literacy Stations provides teachers in third grade and up a way to tap into the energy and excitement of this innovative management and learning system. This DVD takes viewers into diverse third and fifth grade classrooms, where Debbie Diller coaches and guides children and their teachers through the process of designing and implementing stations.

    While many of the components and topics of the intermediate literacy stations are the same as those in the younger grades, there are some key differences. Debbie and her colleagues talk through how stations can be used to support achievement on standardized tests and provide reading and writing practice in the content areas. In addition, they explore the growing ability of older students to take on more responsibility for creating and maintaining stations.

    This dynamic and practical series can help intermediate teachers "step up" with their students to more purposeful, independent work in literacy stations.

    Item no.: NA07290059
    Format: DVD (With Viewing Guide)
    Duration: 90 minutes
    Copyright: 2007
    Price: USD 295.00

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    STRATEGIC THINKING: READING AND RESPONDING

    By Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis

    Nothing matters more than kids' thinking. As teachers, we want to honor kids' thinking and teach them to become critical, thoughtful, independent readers. To help them turn thinking into meaning and to understand what they read, students need an arsenal of strategies to navigate and synthesize text. And they need to know when, where, and how, to use these strategies.

    Strategic Thinking builds on the comprehension instruction in the book, Strategies That Work, and the videotape series Strategy Instruction In Action. In this four-tape video series, Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis spend a week with Jessica Lawrence and her middle school language arts students. They focus on teaching the comprehension strategies of inferring in fiction and determining importance in nonfiction. These two strategies are essential to comprehension for intermediate and middle-grade students

    On each tape, Steph, Anne, and Jessica plan instruction, lead mini-lessons, confer and share with the kids, and reflect on their teaching and the students' learning. Throughout the lesson sequences, students grapple with information, themes, issues and ideas as they read literature and content-related text. As the kids read and respond orally and in writing, they merge their thinking with the text, adding to their knowledge and discovering the power of their own thinking.

    Inferring Themes in Fiction: Parts One and TwoI On these two tapes, Steph uses fiction to explore the strategy of inferential thinking. She launches the three-day lesson with an interactive read aloud of Eve Bunting's picture-book, Gleam and Glow. Steph models the inner conversation she has with herself as she reads the book to the class. The students respond to the book as she teaches them how to use evidence in the text to infer the themes and bigger ideas. After discussing and writing about the themes in Gleam and Glow, the kids practice inferring themes in their independent reading.

    Determining Importance in Nonfiction: Parts One and TwoI In these two tapes, Anne and Jessica show students how to determine important information as they read nonfiction. Anne and Jessica read through a text on the Civil War, modeling their thinking and taking notes with a Facts/Questions/Response form. Students respond on the FQR form, learning how to merge their thinking with the information. This strategy helps kids think about information rather than merely memorizing it, making them more likely to identify what is important and understand it. Throughout the lesson, students work in pairs and small groups to think through the information together. This strategy helps students come to a deeper understanding of text that is packed with information and ideas and supports them to become strategic readers across the curriculum.

    Review
  • "This excellent resource presents concrete ideas on how to teach students to critically read fiction and nonfiction text¡KThis well-produced program is suggested as a practical learning tool for teachers, administrators, and parents who homeschool their children." - Booklist, October 1, 2004

    Item no.: CW07290028
    Format: 2 DVDs (With Viewing Guide)
    Duration: 120 minutes
    Copyright: 2006
    Price: USD 395.00

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    TALKING ABOUT WRITING

    Watch and listen as accomplished teachers confer with students about their writing skills.

    Item no.: YC00140512
    Format: DVD
    Duration:
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    Price: USD 195.00

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    TEACHING WRITING: A PROCESS APPROACH - LEVEL 1

    In sports, a good coach is part of the team, and emphasizes participation rather than final scores. This program outlines a similar approach to the teaching of writing: the process model, in which the instructor treats students as fellow writers involved in a creative and unpredictable progression of ideas and actions. With commentary from veteran writing instructors-including Dr. Lois Matz Rosen, and Michael Steinberg, the program explores individual and group activities that facilitate steps in the process. Real-life classroom scenes showcase teachers achieving results by circulating among students with encouragement and constructive advice.

    Item no.: BJ00140366
    Format: DVD (With Teacher's Guide, Workbook)
    Duration: 44 minutes
    Copyright: 2005
    Price: USD 150.00

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    THOUGHTFUL READING: TEACHING COMPREHENSION TO ADOLESCENTS

    By Cris Tovani

    Teachers of adolescent readers face many challenges. Some students are skilled at decoding text but have few strategies for understanding complex genres. Others have entered their teen years struggling to decode even the simplest books and articles. Through her highly successful book, I Read It, but Idon't Get It, Cris Tovani, a high school teacher in Denver,Colorado, has provided welcome advice to teachers on the reading strategies that worked in her classroom.

    Now, Cris' practical and inspiring ideas for teaching reading come to life in the videotape series, Thoughtful Reading.

    This four-part series shows Cris working with a wide range of students, from college-bound seniors to students who have been referred to her classroom because of their struggles with reading. You'll see Cris leading the whole class, launching small-group activities, thinking through instructional design, teaching individual students, and assessing learner needs and strengths. The series includes examples of how to:

  • design small-group instruction;
  • teach students to work together ing roups;
  • initiate one-on-one conferences with students;
  • teach comprehension strategies to the whole class;
  • help students learn to monitor their reading through notes, logs, and discussions;
  • create "comprehension constructors" and other instruction tools that link reading, writing, and thinking;
  • promote student independence through whole-class discussions and student presentations;
  • provide a range of genres to meet the needs of diverse students.

    Prepare to enter a remarkable high school classroom where students who are reluctant to read are developing new skills and redefining their sense of themselves as readers. You'll leave with a wealth of ideas for instruction, energized by new possibilities for helping students.

    Item no.: AK07290032
    Format: 2 DVDs (With Viewing Guide)
    Duration: 120 minutes
    Copyright: 2006
    Price: USD 395.00

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    TIME FOR NONFICTION

    By Tony Stead

    Journey with Tony Stead as he explores many amazing ways to make nonfiction reading and writing come alive in the classroom. This four-part video set takes you inside two classrooms at The Manhattan New School where Tony works with first-grade teacher Lauren Benjamin and third-grade teacher Lisa Elias Moynihan.

    Watch how literacy centers literally come alive in the classroom and see some of the original ways students respond to their nonfiction reading. Learn how to organize a nonfiction classroom library and to support children as they select appropriate texts.

    From learning about frogs, crows, and static electricity, to debating whether zoos should exist, you'll enjoy watching the whole-class mini-lessons that successfully integrate the content areas with language process.

    Program 1: Setting Up the Nonfiction Classroom
    In a nonfiction classroom, the teacher and the students need to establish the classroom library and give all learners the opportunity to engage with nonfiction as part of independent reading and literacy centers.

    Program 2: Helping Readers Select Texts : Mini-Lessons and Conferences
    If children are to be encouraged to actively select nonfiction as part of their reading lives, then they need support in selecting appropriate texts. This program explores whole-class demonstrations and individual conferences.

    Program 3: Whole-Class Mini-Lessons
    Students need a variety of demonstrations in whole-class settings to help them as readers and writers of nonfiction. This segment highlights how to gather information and work with persuasive texts.

    Program 4: Completing the Jigsaw: Read-Alouds, Visual Literacy, and Responses
    This program explores other ways to increase the presence of nonfiction in the classroom. See how to make the most of nonfiction read-alouds and notice how much information Tony and the first graders find in a simple homemade calendar. Through their responses to nonfiction - whether dressing up as an ant or reading a recipe and baking a cake - these first and third graders learn-and have a lot of fun-when nonfiction becomes a central part of the curriculum. Review
  • "This professional development video series would be beneficial to elementary language arts and reading teachers looking to expand their classroom library collections." - Library Media Connection, January 2005

    Item no.: LU07290033
    Format: 2 DVDs (With Viewing Guide)
    Duration: 120 minutes
    Copyright: 2004
    Price: USD 395.00

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    WHEN STUDENTS WRITE

    By Ralph Fletcher and JoAnn Portalupi

    You can read books or attend workshops about how to teach writing, but there's no substitute for seeing master teachers put ideas into practice with real kids.

    When Students Write takes us into the classrooms at Bailey's Elementary School in the outskirts of Washington, DC, where teachers wrestle with the questions of what it means to become an effective writer and what is a teacher's role in developing students' competence as writers. The four videos cover all the practical components necessary for establishing and implementing a successful writing workshop, including the importance of choice, creating a risk-taking environment, the difference between skills and craft, the writer's notebook, the writing conference, revision, the role of literature, and much more. When used in conjunction with the authors' books, Craft Lessons and Nonfiction Craft Lessons, these programs provide a practical resource on how best to teach writing.

    Program 1: Building a Writing Community
    Students need to assimilate a daunting number of skills as they become competent writers. And this doesn't happen overnight. Writing teachers need to create a community where students can live as writers, find their voices, and take the kinds of risks that allow them to develop competence as writers. In this segment the teachers and principal at Bailey's Elementary School show how they create that atmosphere. Their environment is rooted in the ongoing professional development that is an integral part of this school. Viewers will see how each student's identity as a writer permeates the entire school and cuts across the curriculum.

    Program 2: Teaching Writing Skills in Context
    Although writing encompasses a bundle of skills, it could be roughly divided into two main branches-composing (craft) and editing (mechanics). In this program, we explore how skilled writing teachers teach mechanics such as contractions and spelling. At Bailey's the teachers demonstrate how important skills are taught in the context of an ongoing writing workshop. We see what management tools they use to assess students' needs in this area and how they situate skill teaching in a larger real-world context: What is your purpose for this piece of writing? Who is going to read this? How can we make this writing as "reader-friendly" as possible?

    Program 3: Literature That Supports Writing
    The writing in a classroom can only be as good as the literature that surrounds and sustains it. This videotape focuses on the reading-writing connection. Teachers at Bailey's continuously draw on a variety of literature--poems, picture books, chapter books--to nourish their students. Literature can be used to spark writing ideas, but at Bailey's the teachers go a step further: in many classrooms, a kind of "deep reading" takes place where teachers and students delve into a text to study an author's technique. Deep reading helps students get a feel for the structures and rhythms of written language and learn how texts are crafted from the inside out.

    Program 4: Craft Lessons to Stretch Young Writers
    What exactly is a craft lesson? How (and when) might you teach it? How can you assess the needs of your students so you know which craft lessons to teach? Nothing energizes a classroom more than when students see their own writing getting stronger. Teachers who help students add writing strategies to their toolbox provide them with powerful skills they will use for the rest of their lives. In this segment the teachers at Bailey's open up their classrooms and show the power of craft lessons to improve the quality of student writing. These demonstrations give even inexperienced teachers an entry into the world of writing workshop.

    Item no.: LS07290036
    Format: 2 DVDs (With Viewing Guide)
    Duration: 120 minutes
    Copyright: 2002
    Price: USD 395.00

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    WINNING STRATEGIES FOR INCLUSIVE CLASSROOMS

    By Dr Rebecca Hines and Dr. Lisa Dieker

    Winning teams execute sound strategies and good coaching. It is no different in today's inclusive classrooms where teamwork and collaboration are essential for success.

    Join Drs. Rebecca Hines and Lisa Dieker from the University of Central Florida as they provide winning strategies for general and special education staff working in inclusive environments. These strategies not only improve team functioning, but also raise student achievement.

    Utilizing a sports metaphor including pre-game and post-game analyses, Hines and Dieker take you into elementary classrooms where they present and review strategies that empower inclusive teams to more effectively:

  • Manage Their Time
  • Use Their Expertise
  • Collaborate on Content
  • Understand Their Roles & Responsibilities

    Learn how to execute winning Co-Teaching, Facilitative Support and Paraeducator staffing patterns and move your inclusion program forward. An informative, reality-based, fun-filled and practical DVD that can be used for general staff development as well as for enhancing current team practice and/or coaching new teams for success.

    Item no.: MP01560033
    Format: DVD
    Duration: 40 minutes
    Copyright: 2008
    Price: USD 140.00

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