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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 106 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
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,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 16 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The ultimate test of a student's knowledge about words is the ability to transfer this information to reading and writing. A word study intervention must include opportunities for students to apply word-solving strategies to connected texts. Organized around 11 teaching episodes, including assessing word knowledge, modeling the word-solving process, providing guided practice, and prompting students to apply strategies during reading and writing, Small...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (14 video files, approximately 105 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Since its publication, teachers throughout the world have made The Daily 5 one of the most widely read books in education. Through this proven structure, teachers experience for themselves the power of students gaining independence and monitoring their own behaviors. Join Gail and Joan as they work with third- and fifth-grade teachers in two diverse Midwest classrooms where the Daily 5 has been in place for several years. As the popularity of the...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video files, approximately 15 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This video shows how Jeff Anderson uses playful strategies and mentor texts to engage writers in grammar and editing. In the "Apostrophe-thon," Jeff's sixth-grade students in San Antonio, Texas search through a mentor text excerpt to find examples of apostrophes and then categorize them as possessives or contractions based on a wall chart the class has compiled. Using real text, the students never fail to come up with some interesting examples such...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 41 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Watch Mark Overmeyer as he conducts six individual writing conferences and one group conference with students in grades three and five. Mark describes how he uses conferences to meet the needs of all writers, including beginning English language learners, advanced students and students who struggle to develop ideas when they write. A bonus section includes a peer conference, in which Mark comments on how to help students support each other. In each...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 120 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
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...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 110 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Organizing for Literacy is a professional development series for implementing a balanced early literacy program based on apprenticeship theory. The series presents a complete early literacy resource, with the option of using individual videos to focus on a specific area of need. The programs illustrate the reciprocal nature of teaching and learning across a range of reading and writing events. Each program is designed to allow you to view it in its...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 15 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Editing invitations takes you into Jeff Anderson's sixth-grade classroom as Jeff demonstrates how he naturally links grammar instruction to writer's craft through his 'Invitations to Notice'. The invitations are a warm-up activity used at the beginning of writer's workshops to help students learn to play close attention to mechanics, style and craft. They can be used as an alternative to daily oral language for those teachers who are looking for stronger...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 128 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
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...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 240 min.)
Language
English
Description
Combining focused writing instruction with a media literacy perspective, Writing About Media serves as an invaluable tool for college and upper-level high school writing and composition teachers. This package features more than four hours of clips selected from a range of MEF films, and a detailed curriculum containing dozens of exercises developed in consultation with composition theorist Peter Elbow, acclaimed author of Writing With Power.
Publisher
Video Aided Instruction
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
Standard format.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 311 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tips and techniques for refining the skills needed for the GED language arts reading test, which covers many different types of reading materials such as fiction, non-fiction, poetry and drama.
Publisher
Wonderscape Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 20 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The brand-new, 2016, high-definition program meets Common Core standards, as it teaches kindergarten students all about question words. Who, what, where, when, why, and how are presented with great, sample sentences to illustrate proper usage. On-screen, multiple-choice reviews at the end of each segment reinforce important concepts and make learning fun.
Publisher
Wonderscape Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 19 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This program meets Common Core kindergarten standards, as it introduces young children to the basic concepts of print. It teaches new readers directionality, the way to read words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page through any given book. It further fosters phonological awareness, understanding that the spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters.
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 132 p. ; 19 cm.).
Language
English
Description
Great writing begins--and ends--with the sentence. Whether two words ("Jesus wept.") or 1,287 words (a sentence in William Faulkner's Absalom! Absalom!), sentences have the power to captivate, entertain, motivate, educate, and, most importantly, delight. Understanding the variety of ways to construct sentences, from the smallest clause to the longest sentence, is important to enhancing your appreciation of great writing and potentially improving...
15) Please stand by
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young autistic women runs from her caregiver and looks to submit her manuscript to a Star Trek writing contest.
Series
Publisher
Baby School Co
Pub. Date
©2008.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (30 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Simple animated stories provide little ones with a fun, new way to build their vocabulary in this special DVD edition. Each scene introduces a new word such as "ball," "car," and "hat." Thirty words in all! Bonus interactive games section offers more learning fun!
Series
Reading rainbow volume 126
Publisher
GPN
Pub. Date
[2006], c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (30 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Segment of the television program featuring the story about the Earth's celebration of the birth of a child.
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