Cathy Collins Block - Buddy Beside Me
Following is a video clip that features Cathy Collins Block demonstrating Buddy Beside Me. This activity is intended for paired reading, and focuses on students improving their comprehension by using summarizing, questioning and predicting. The clip is approximately 14 minutes long.
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Promising Practices
New York Higher Education Support Center (HESC)
This video clips features behavior and reading interventions as well as it highlights early literacy.
Video Clips - Fluency
- Reading Rockets
Watch and learn as Reading Rockets goes inside the classroom and captures effective techniques for teaching all aspects of Reading 101. The video clips are from Reading Rockets' PBS television series Launching Young Readers.
Video Clips - Phonics
- Reading Rockets
Watch and learn as Reading Rockets goes inside the classroom and captures effective techniques for teaching all aspects of Reading 101. The video clips are from Reading Rockets' PBS television series Launching Young Readers.
- Big Ideas in Beginning Reading
The following videos are featured on the University of Oregon website
- Alphabetic Principle: First Grade: Decoding
- Alphabetic Principle: Second Grade: Decoding and Word Recognition
- Alphabetic Principle: Second Grade: Decoding One-Syllable Words
- Alphabetic Principle: Second Grade: Decoding and Word Recognition
- Alphabetic Principle: First Grade: Reading Connected Text
- Alphabetic Principle: First/Second Grade: Reading Connected Text
- Alphabetic Principle: First/Second Grade: Reading Connected Text
Video Clips - Vocabulary
The following video clips demonstrate lessons and discuss theory.
- Reading Rockets
This video clip shows a bilingual kindergarten class learning new vocabulary.
Reading Rockets is a national multimedia project that offers research-based and best-practice information on teaching kids to read and helping those who struggle. It is an educational service of public television station WETA in Washington, D.C.
- Maureen Ruby
Maureen Ruby gives some guidelines on choosing words for direct vocabulary instruction. She shares information on teaching Tier 1, 2 , & 3 words, emphasizing that Tier 2 words contain a “new label for a known concept”. Ruby also provides a caveat in vocabulary instruction for English Language Learners.
Video Clips - Comprehension
- Reading Rockets
Watch and learn as Reading Rockets goes inside the classroom and captures effective techniques for teaching all aspects of Reading 101. The video clips are from Reading Rockets' PBS television series Launching Young Readers.
Video Clips - Phonemic Awareness
The following video clips demonstrate lessons and discuss theory.
- Big Ideas in Beginning Reading-
- Reading Rockets-
These videos feature Dr. Louisa Moats and focus on:
- the importance of visual input
- letters vs. phonemes
- phoneme segmentation
WXXI EdVideo
WXXI EdVideo Online features over 50,000 multimedia components. New York State Public Broadcasting stations provide the service free to all New York State K-12 & Adult Literacy educators, home schoolers and their students. EdVideo Online gives you streaming and downloading of educational video, audio, images and clip art. Create quizzes and lessons, and access teacher guides and student handouts. Create and publish classroom podcasts and access a large library of PBS programs and instructional multimedia, correlated to New York State Standards!
Dictionary Use
Maureen Ruby describes the traditional use of the dictionary in the classroom. She presents some research findings on students’ use of dictionary definitions. Ruby also shares options of excellent dictionaries to use and/ or purchase. Click here for the video
Word Walks: A Step Beyond Picture Walks
Maureen Ruby suggests trying “Word Walks” as a substitute for “Picture Walks”. To become accurate, efficient word readers, students need to have opportunities to interact with words. Pictures provide confirmatory clues, whereas more “thinking” (ie. predicting, inference) comes out of previewing vocabulary words. Click here for the video