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ENGLISH LANGUAGE

ENGLISH LANGUAGE


LITERACY: COMPREHENSION

This program focuses on the importance of full and effective comprehension of texts by students. Examining textually explicit or literal comprehension, implicit or inferential comprehensions and creative comprehension this is a thought-provoking and information-packed program for students.

Item no.: WK08860678
Format: DVD
Duration: 25 minutes
Audience: Upper Elementary, Junior High
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 95.00

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LITERACY: CRITICAL LITERACY

With a clear focus on the vital importance of good literacy skills This program elucidates strategies and skills to enhance student's ability to read critically, research issues and write responses. Examining a range of views from newspaper articles, editorials, letters to the editor, internet sites, magazine articles, cartoons, photographs and other graphic representations.

Item no.: DB08860679
Format: DVD
Duration: 25 minutes
Audience: Upper Elementary, Junior High
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 95.00

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LITERACY: SPELLING

The first of VEA's dynamic literacy programs, This program focuses on the importance of correct spelling with strategies and methods to improve student abilities. A key skill for every subject area.

Item no.: SG08860680
Format: DVD
Duration: 25 minutes
Audience: Upper Elementary, Junior High
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 95.00

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WRITER'S CIRCLE, THE: ANALYZING CONCEPTS

Explores concepts in various points of contact at work, school, church, home, sports events, concerts, community events. Students develop support for a concept in beginnings, endings, placement of ideas, paragraphing and concluding. Students confirm that a concept is relevant to a reader, is clearly expressed and understandable. Students verify the understanding of a concept through analysis and communication of the ideas that lie beyond the concept.

Item no.: HK08860740
Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
Duration: 28 minutes
Audience: Senior High
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 99.00

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WRITER'S CIRCLE, THE: ANALYZING IMAGES

Describes the process of selecting an image and examining an image to explore its relationship to viewers. Students develop a focused point about an image and support it by evaluating the intensity of the writer's voice. Revision focuses on pruning language for vitality, avoiding vague pronouns and participating in peer review.

Item no.: FN08860741
Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
Duration: 28 minutes
Audience: Senior High
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 99.00

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WRITER'S CIRCLE, THE: BUILDING ARGUMENTS

Provides tools for persuading an audience on how to think about a particular topic by employing a variety of strategies to convince the audience. Students deliver an argument to discover and encourage new ways of thinking about a topic. Students analyze the arguability of a thesis, develop support, evidence, logic and appeals, and organize counterargument and concession effectively in an argument.

Item no.: JL08860742
Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
Duration: 28 minutes
Audience: Senior High
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 99.00

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WRITER'S CIRCLE, THE: DISCOVERING VOICE

Interprets the skills necessary to judge and respond to works of art. Students analyze and delve deeper into an art work rather than doing a surface evaluation. Students attend to the writer's voice and learn to avoid over-enthusiasm and harsh description in order to promote wonder. Revision techniques involve reworking the title, introduction and conclusion of an analysis of a work of art.

Item no.: YE08860743
Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
Duration: 28 minutes
Audience: Senior High
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 99.00

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WRITER'S CIRCLE, THE: EVALUATING AND ORGANIZING

Introduces evaluation skills for argumentative writing. Students analyze a topic and establish criteria for judgment, organize and arrange the elements of evaluation to apply and prioritize criteria, and revise based on global revision questions. Students communicate the ability to make judgments, distinguishing the best course of action and clarifying options when many seem available.

Item no.: EP08860744
Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
Duration: 28 minutes
Audience: Senior High
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 99.00

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WRITER'S CIRCLE, THE: EXPLAINING RELATIONSHIPS

Examines narration and description in writing. Students develop a thesis, explore beginnings, paragraphing and conclusions and revising for best placement of thesis and main idea. Students communicate a discovery of the qualities of a relationship and increase understanding of the existence of undiscovered relationships.

Item no.: AD08860745
Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
Duration: 28 minutes
Audience: Senior High
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 99.00

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WRITER'S CIRCLE, THE: EXPLORING THE PROCESS

Introduces the recursive writing process and the processes of reading, invention, delivery and revision. Students narrate a past experience with new insight or revelation. Students discover process and how to generate ideas, the writer's voice and peer review techniques.

Item no.: BY08860746
Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
Duration: 28 minutes
Audience: Senior High
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 99.00

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WRITER'S CIRCLE, THE: IMAGINING SOLUTIONS

Examines issues and problems to seek out the best solutions. Students find a problem to be solved and determine the public resonance of the issue. Students use rhetorical tools such as counterarguments and alternative solutions and analyze to see how the solutions they discover go beyond initial biases. Students communicate to readers that a problem must be addressed, that action is necessary and that the proposed solution has value.

Item no.: ER08860747
Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
Duration: 28 minutes
Audience: Senior High
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 99.00

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WRITER'S CIRCLE, THE: INTEGRATING RESEARCH

Provides guidelines for research using MLA or APA format. Students locate a variety of sources (books, periodicals, journals, newspapers, websites, search engines, films, videos, interviews) and integrate research findings via paraphrase, summary or quote. Students communicate the ability to apply the standard rules of research to integrate the ideas of others as well as the ideas of the writer.

Item no.: GV08860748
Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
Duration: 28 minutes
Audience: Senior High
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 99.00

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WRITER'S CIRCLE, THE: OBSERVING DETAILS

Explains the importance of observation in writing by discovering the unique details of a subject and communicating them in sharp, particular detail. Students discover what lies beneath the first sight. Students find the meaning in a subject, select sensory and specific details to support the thesis, and examine writer's voice.

Item no.: NP08860749
Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
Duration: 28 minutes
Audience: Senior High
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 99.00

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WRITER'S CIRCLE, THE: RESPONDING TO ARGUMENTS

Develops techniques to respond to existing arguments. Students respond to the positions taken in an argument external to the writer. Students find an argument for response by applying Toulmin's analytical tools, focus on voice, word choice, sentence structure and tone in delivery, and revise to avoid character slams, emotionality and preachiness.

Item no.: GC08860750
Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
Duration: 28 minutes
Audience: Senior High
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 99.00

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WRITER'S CIRCLE, THE: SEARCHING FOR CAUSES

Presents the possibilities of discovering the cause of behaviors, events or trends. Students discover a topic, develop support for the topic (including outside sources and interviews), and attend to writer's voice by creating credibility and projecting wonder. Students communicate an attempt to find the answers in a search for causes in everyday life.

Item no.: PL08860751
Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
Duration: 28 minutes
Audience: Senior High
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 99.00

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WRITER'S CIRCLE, THE: THE WRITER'S CIRCLE

The Writer's Circle is a college-level English composition course that introduces the basic approaches to essay writing: narration, description, observation, analysis, argument, evaluation and research. Students follow the writing processes of invention, delivery (rhetorical tools, organizational strategies, voice) and revision. The primary goal of the course is to teach distance learning students college-level writing skills for success in academia and the everyday world. Each lesson builds upon the preceding lesson honing student skills in analysis, synthesis, and basic rhetoric.

Item no.: FW08860752
Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
Duration: 28 minutes
Audience: Senior High
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 99.00

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WRITER'S CIRCLE, THE: THINKING RADICALLY

Communicates an effort to escape conventional thought patterns to imagine and write about something outside common intellectual activity.

Item no.: YD08860753
Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
Duration: 28 minutes
Audience: Senior High
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 99.00

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WRITER'S ODYSSEY, THE: ARGUING ARGUMENTS

Provides tools to assist a writer to go beyond agreement or disagreement with the arguments of others. Students make claims about the rhetoric of the argument, the strategies of the arguers and the value of the perspectives involved. Students communicate a position on a public argument using rhetorical tools to reveal values and unstated assumptions.

Item no.: GG08860754
Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
Duration: 30 minutes
Audience: Senior High
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 99.00

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WRITER'S ODYSSEY, THE: ARGUING WITH AGILITY

Offers skills for arguing about the hidden value of something that others do not see and reveal an issue often ignored or unrecognized. Applies techniques and processes necessary to communicate an argument about the social value of a policy, behavior, event, text or act. Students focus on development of thesis and support in addition to arrangement of an essay on value and counterargument.

Item no.: EW08860755
Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
Duration: 30 minutes
Audience: Senior High
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 99.00

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WRITER'S ODYSSEY, THE: ARGUING WITH COMPLEXITY

Explores options in seeing the options in discovering and examining a crisis. Students select a crisis to explore actions and determine solutions. Students apply the Hegelian model in developing a thesis, support and arrangement of an argument

Item no.: FL08860756
Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
Duration: 30 minutes
Audience: Senior High
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 99.00

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WRITER'S ODYSSEY, THE: ARGUING WITH INTENSITY

Interprets how to investigate a relationship between the past and the future on a theoretical basis. Students write about the future considering what has happened, what is likely to happen, and what could possibly happen. Students must convince readers that the chosen path is most likely way of the future. The lesson focuses on invention, arrangement, audience and voice, and revision.

Item no.: ES08860757
Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
Duration: 30 minutes
Audience: Senior High
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 99.00

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WRITER'S ODYSSEY, THE: BUILDING SUPPORT

Explores the various levels of definition and the creation of an argument about a particular definition. Students discover the meaning behind the meaning by developing support for an argument with evidence, examples and appeals. Students explore definitions using a variety of rhetorical strategies.

Item no.: WH08860758
Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
Duration: 30 minutes
Audience: Senior High
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 99.00

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WRITER'S ODYSSEY, THE: DOCUMENTING RESEARCH

Discusses skills in the process of documenting argumentative research papers both in-text and in Works Cited. Students practice revision skills related to documentation of external sources in a researched work. Students insure their stance in the argument serves as the framework in the paper in discovering appropriate ways to integrate external supporting research.

Item no.: MH08860759
Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
Duration: 30 minutes
Audience: Senior High
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 99.00

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WRITER'S ODYSSEY, THE: EVERYDAY RESEARCH

Offers a review of narration, evaluation, observation, argument and analysis in writing for all occasions. Students determine criteria for evaluation of subjects for personal research. Students analyze each alternative choice by criteria for personal research including various research processes

Item no.: TF08860760
Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
Duration: 30 minutes
Audience: Senior High
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 99.00

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WRITER'S ODYSSEY, THE: FINDING HIDDEN ARGUMENTS

Reveals the disguises of hidden argument and introduces particular strategies for seeing through the disguises. Students reveal an argument that others would often not recognize. Students explore a variety of disguises: objectivity disguise; personal taste disguise; spin; and propaganda. The focus of the lesson is on invention (analysis of text, context, subtext, audience, thesis, support and development), identifying hidden arguments and analyzing hidden arguments.

Item no.: ML08860761
Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
Duration: 30 minutes
Audience: Senior High
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 99.00

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WRITER'S ODYSSEY, THE: GATHERING RESEARCH

Examines the process of selecting sources (primary and secondary) for research on a specific topic. Students narrow a research topic for support by locating sources external to themselves. Students understand the pitfalls of plagiarism. Students follow the research path and narrow a topic to discover the many sources available for an objective and thorough research activity.

Item no.: VG08860762
Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
Duration: 30 minutes
Audience: Senior High
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 99.00

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WRITER'S ODYSSEY, THE: INTEGRATING RESEARCH

Provides tools to integrate external sources into the writing of a research paper. Students understand the process of writing a research paper and how to integrate sources internally with appropriate documentation. Students evaluate sources, learn to paraphrase passages from external sources, summarize passages from external sources and quote external sources.

Item no.: EN08860763
Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
Duration: 30 minutes
Audience: Senior High
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 99.00

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WRITER'S ODYSSEY, THE: REFINING A THESIS

Encourages investigation of the beginning of something or its moment of origin in order to understand the event in terms of present ideas, events and phenomena. Students focus on exploration of a topic by analyzing the situation and developing a narrow thesis and support. Students communicate why the origin of something matters and how it affects people's thoughts and lives.

Item no.: HC08860764
Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
Duration: 30 minutes
Audience: Senior High
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 99.00

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WRITER'S ODYSSEY, THE: THE ELEMENTS OF ARGUMENT

Introduces and reviews the basic elements of argumentative writing concentrating on an unresolved event from the past. Students analyse the event from the past and develop a thesis with specific support. Students revise paying specific attention to counterargument, concessions and qualifiers.

Item no.: WM08860765
Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
Duration: 30 minutes
Audience: Senior High
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 99.00

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WRITER'S ODYSSEY, THE: VOICING AN ARGUMENT

Describes the process of making meaning to share common experiences and to provide consistent cues through text. Students delve into the underlying meanings of ideas, books, concepts, or things. Students arrange the argument by finding support for the various meanings surrounding a topic. Students focus on audience and voice in uncovering and connecting details and imagining subtle links between the layers of a subject and its connection to the world.

Item no.: RJ08860766
Format: DVD (Closed Captioned)
Duration: 30 minutes
Audience: Senior High
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 99.00

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