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Titles:
A Focus on Thinking
These two 30 minute videos feature RWCT Volunteer, Faye Brownlie, teaching Aconnecting,
processing, and transforming and personalizing, much like Evocation/Realization of
Meaning/Reflection framework. Features
live classroom segments, K - to senior secondary. - Offered by The Video Journal
A Best Practices in Teaching: Reading and Writing in the Elementary
Classroom A three part series covering
the following topics:
Video 1: What is a Balanced Reading and Writing Program?
- Developing Phonemic Awareness - Developing Phonemic Awareness - Teaching Phonics -
Spelling
Video 2: Supporting Emergent Readers and Writers - Organizing for
Teaching with Literature - Teaching with Guided Reading - Helping Students Become
Strategic Readers
Video 3: Focusing on Words - Reading Across the Curriculum - Teaching the
Writing Process - Using Assessment to Inform Instruction
- Offered by Allyn and Bacon
A Teaching Reading: Strategies from Successful Classrooms (1991) A
six-part national teacher training video series with viewers guides covering:
* The Reading/Writing Connection
* Emergent Literacy
* Teaching Reading Comprehension: Experience and Text
* Teaching Word Identification
* Fostering a Literate Culture
* Teaching Reading: Strategies from Successful Classrooms
Offered by the Center for the Study of Reading, University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign
A What is Reading? This documentary video features the reading process,
and targets the parent/teacher audience, offering viewers a A window on the reading
process. - Offered by Literacy Possibilities
A Whole Language: A New Zealand Approach Written by Pam
Coote & Ron Stevens
Video 1: Away to a Good Start with Reading and Language.@
(18 min.) A class of new entrants is shown working co-operatively and independently
throughout a morning programme. We examine the classroom organisation and routines
(including involvement of parent helpers) which enable this to happen and demonstrate ways
that reading/language abilities are developed.
Video 2: AUsing Whole Language: A Means to an End@ (14 min.) Shows ideas
from several classrooms and
suggested activities to make your programme more interesting, more relevant and more
effective in helping children to speak, read and write.
Video 3: AIt Takes Time to Become a Good Reader@ (14 min.) If you want to
run an individualised programme
you will be helped by this tape. The reasons why children in a Standard 4 class show
exceptional sophistication
in their appreciation of literature are examined. Includes the roles of research and
written language.
Video 4: AEvaluation in Whole Language Programmes@ (20 min) A new look at
evaluation which takes the
pressure off both child and teacher. A range of performance aspects and ways of evaluating
them with immediate feedback into class programmes are examined. Offered by Christchurch
College of Education CCE Video Production Unit
A Literature, Literacy & Learning (22mins.)
This was created for Library Media Specialists, Reading Specialists and Classroom
Teachers. It presents new
and revitalized approaches to language arts, whole language, integrated language arts, and
literature-based
curriculum. It features many classroom examples. Narrated by Dorothy S. Strickland,
Teachers College,
Columbia University. ISBN 0-8347-5255-7 - Offered by Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational
Corporation
Sources:
Heinemann Educational Books http://www.heinemann.com.
The Video Journal 1-800-572-1153
Center for the Study of Reading, College of Education, University of Illinois, Champaign,
Il 61820.
Allyn and Bacon, www.abacon.com.
Literacy Possibilities, P.O. Box 220 Orange, California 92666
CCE Video Production Unit, Christchurch College of Education, Christchurch, NZ
Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation, 310 South Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL
60604.
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