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New Releases - Writing with Mentors

New Releases - Writing with Mentors


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
Audience: Grades K-5
Copyright: 2011
StdBkNo.: 9781601550255
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
Audience: Grades K-5
Copyright: 2010
StdBkNo.: 9781601550255
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
Audience: Grades 4-12
Copyright: 2009
StdBkNo.: 9781571107596
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
Audience: Educators
Copyright: 2009
StdBkNo.: 9780979220494
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
Audience: Educators
Copyright: 2009
StdBkNo.: 9780984179800
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
Audience: Educators
Copyright: 2009
StdBkNo.: 9780984179817
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:
    Audience: Educators
    Copyright: 2007
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    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:
    Audience: Educators
    Copyright: 2007
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    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
    Duration: 45 minutes
    Audience:
    Copyright: 2009
    StdBkNo.:
    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
    Audience: Grades K-2
    Copyright: 2009
    StdBkNo.: 9781571107695
    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
    Audience: Grades K-8
    Copyright: 2008
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    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
    Audience:
    Copyright: 2008
    StdBkNo.: 9780981991948
    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
    Audience: Grades K-2
    Copyright: 2008
    StdBkNo.: 9781601550026
    Price: USD 229.00

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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
    Audience: Grades 3-8
    Copyright: 2008
    StdBkNo.: 9781571107473
    Price: USD 125.00

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    POWER OF RTI, THE: CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES K6

    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
    Duration: 68 minutes
    Audience: Grades K-6
    Copyright: 2008
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    Price: USD 140.00

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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
    Audience: Grades 2-5
    Copyright: 2008
    StdBkNo.: 9781571107152
    Price: USD 175.00

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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
    Audience: Elementary
    Copyright: 2008
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    Price: USD 140.00

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    BRAIN COMPATIBLE PRACTICES FOR THE CLASSROOM

    With the flood of research being conducted on the human brain, it's essential for educators to identify instructional practices that best align with the latest research. Through exposure to classrooms that are successfully implementing brain-compatible instruction, Dr. Pat Wolfe helps you understand the best ways to translate valid research into effective instruction.

    Item no.: CH06581442
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 53 minutes
    Audience:
    Copyright: 2007
    StdBkNo.:
    Price: USD 159.00

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    BRAIN COMPATIBLE PRACTICES FOR THE CLASSROOM: SPECIAL EDUCATION

    Dr. Pat Wolfe, world-renowned expert on brain-compatible learning, presents a compelling, practical approach to help separate the facts from myths in today's high volume of brain research. Visit classrooms where students with disabilities are benefiting from brain-compatible instructional strategies, hear from staff who are effectively using RTI in their classrooms, and learn the essentials of brain structure and functions.

    Item no.: WE06581615
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 56 minutes
    Audience:
    Copyright: 2007
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    Price: USD 159.00

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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
    Audience: Grades 4-8
    Copyright: 2007
    StdBkNo.: 9781571104762
    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
    Audience: Grades K-2
    Copyright: 2007
    StdBkNo.: 9781571104953
    Price: USD 275.00

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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
    Audience:
    Copyright: 2007
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    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 childˇ¦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
    Audience:
    Copyright: 2007
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    Price: USD 149.00

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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
    Audience: Grades 3-6
    Copyright: 2007
    StdBkNo.: 9781571104755
    Price: USD 295.00

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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 DVD, 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 program 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 program 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.: EC00140113
    Format: DVD (With Viewing Guide)
    Duration:
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    Copyright: 2006
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    Price: USD 95.00

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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
    Audience: Grades 3-6
    Copyright: 2006
    StdBkNo.: 1571104372
    Price: USD 195.00

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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
    Audience: Ages 5-15
    Copyright: 2005
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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.

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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
    Audience: Grades K-3
    Copyright: 2005
    StdBkNo.: 1571104275
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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)
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    Audience: Grades K-6
    Copyright: 2005
    StdBkNo.: 1571104267
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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
    Audience: Grades 6-10
    Copyright: 2005
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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
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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
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    DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION PRACTICE SERIES

    Two Professional Development programs
    Program 1: Differentiated Instruction: Focus on Inclusion
    Program 2: Differentiated Instruction: A Focus on the Gifted

    Based on the core components of differentiation that govern ALL quality instruction, you will begin to learn how to more effectively:
  • Deliver appropriate curriculum content
  • Implement instructional processes
  • Inform your decision making
  • Use on-going assessments
  • Evaluate student products

    The first two programs in this series highlight practices which research has demonstrated to be effective when working in classroom environments. They acknowledge the diversity that exists in every classroom and present a foundation that begs for differentiated instruction.

    Each program briefly explores the changes in educational paradigms, and presents specific ways in which differentiated instruction responds to the current challenges that are presented by diverse learners in today's classrooms. Also incorporated is research-past and present-such as:
  • The Multiple Intelligences
  • Principles of Learning
  • Cooperative Learning
  • Brain Compatible Learning
  • Curriculum scaffolding
  • Environmental Organization

    Learn how you can differentiate your classroom or train others to differentiate theirs, by observing the teaching and learning process in real classrooms.

    These programs will assist you in customizing your instructional practices so as to ensure that all students can be successful. You will learn how to design and implement instruction, and facilitate and assess progress in ways that can meet the needs of ALL your students.

    Program 1 Differentiated Instruction: A Focus on Inclusion This program will target customized practices that are most effective in classrooms where special education students are fully included.

    Program 2 Differentiated Instruction: A Focus on the Gifted This program will target customized practices that are most effective in classrooms that seek to challenge gifted/high achieving students.

    Item no.: DJ04980111
    Format: DVD (With Viewer's Guide)
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    Audience: Grades K-12
    Copyright: 2003
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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
    Audience: Grades K-12
    Copyright: 2003
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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
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    Duration: 120 minutes
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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
    Audience: Grades 3-6
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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.

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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.

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

    As we move toward more inclusive environments in our nation's classrooms, educators need a blueprint to assist them in creating a "whole school" approach. The authors present a comprehensive framework that enables 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 an additional meaning as its main features are seen "in action." This is true theory in practice!

    The viewer will, by watching the program 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

    Item no.: LB06500181
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    INSIDE READING & WRITING WORKSHOPS

    In a crowded classroom setting, this practical series shows how one teacher deals with the diversity of students as readers and writers.

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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
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    Duration: 120 minutes
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    NEW TEACHER, THE: MEETING THE CHALLENGES

    There are two million new teachers projected to enter our school systems over the next ten years: administrators and staff developers as well as teachers and teacher educators need to be prepared to meet the challenge this presents.

    We cannot expect our students to reach higher academic standards if our teachers are not equipped to provide the quality instruction needed. Just as teacher preparation programs must realign their curriculum, so too must school districts be prepared to provide a comprehensive staff development program for their new teaching staff. Furthermore, there must be collaborative partnerships between higher education and the K-12 schools to ensure the effectiveness of classroom instruction. Join Linda Darling-Hammond, author of A License to Teach, Professional Development Schools , and The Right to Learn , as she reflects her research and experiences, and helps identify practical ways for this challenge to be met.

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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.

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    TALKING ABOUT WRITING

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

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