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Videotape, DVD, and CD-ROM Collection

Lending Policy

The materials included in this listing are available for checkout by local teachers, school administrators, and UIUC faculty by contacting the Center for Education in Small Urban Communities. Materials may be borrowed for two week intervals. Please note that any damaged or lost materials must be replaced at the expense of the individual borrowing the materials.

Videotapes:

1. Developing Independent Learners: A Reading/Writing Workshop Approach, Linda

(ISBN 1 57110 382 1).

Description:

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 video

series, Donnie Skinner and Vicki Altland demonstrate how they implemented

reading and writing workshops in two Arkansas schools.

2. Read, Write, and Talk: A Practice to Enhance Comprehension, Stephanie Harvey

Study Guide. (ISBN 1 57110 415 1).

Description:

This lively video invites you to join Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis, authors of

Strategies That Work, in an intermediate-grade reading workshop where students

engage in real-world literacy. Read, Write, and Talk is an on-going practice, not a

stand-alone lesson. Once students have learned this process, they can apply it

across the curriculum and throughout the year, with science and social studies

reading, literature study, and even with text books. 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.

by Stenhouse Publishers. Four (4) VHS, and Study Guide. (ISBN 1 57110 335 X).

Description:

In this four-tape video series, Stephanie and Anne invite you to join them in the

classrooms of Leslie Blauman, Mary Buerger, and Debbie Miller, three teachers with

whom they have worked for many years. All teach reading comprehension in the

context of reading workshop, modeling their thinking and giving students ample time

to practice so they learn what proficient readers do to make sense of the text.

4. Think Nonfiction!: Modeling Reading and Research, Stephanie Harvey & Anne

Guide. (ISBN 1 57110 371 6).

Description:

In Think Nonfiction! The focus is on comprehension strategies for gaining

information—specifically noticing new learning, asking questions, and determining

importance. We watch Steph and Anne teach alongside Barb as she launches a

nonfiction study and helps kids learn how to read for information, choose a topic, and

do research.

5. Meeting the Challenge: Teaching Reading 3-5: Professional Development

Resources For the Improvement of Reading, Statewide Reading Initiative Staff

Development Resources, Illinois State Department of Education, Springfield, Illinois,

Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois. Four (4) VHS, modules 1-4.

(ISBE).

Description:

Volume 1: In this video, procedures for teaching comprehension strategies within the

framework of guided reading will be explored.

Volume 2: In this video, numerous strategies will be demonstrated for both word

analysis and word strategy.

Volume 3: In this video, teachers capitalize on opportunities across the subject areas

to increase student interaction with the text and foster the transfer of strategies as

tools for learning in a variety of disciplines.

Volume 4: This video will enable viewers to develop an understanding of the

connections between reading and writing processes and to use that knowledge to

further develop students reading and writing abilities.

DVDs:

1. A day of words: Integrating Word Work in the Intermediate Grades, Max Brand,

(ISBN 1 57110 417 8).

Description:

In the two-part DVD series, A Day of Words, fifth-grade teacher Max Brand

demonstrates how he helps students search for, study, and celebrate words. 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.

2. At Work in the Differentiated Classroom, Carol Ann Tomlinson, and Leslie J.

and Curriculum Development. One (1) DVD, and Facilitator’s Guide.

(ISBN0-87120-459-2, At Work in the Differentiated Classroom Series; ISBN

0-87120-487-8, Facilitator’s Guide; ISBN 0-87120-460-6, Tape 1: Planning

Curriculum and Instruction; ISBN 0-87120-461-4, Tape 2: Managing the Classroom;

ISBN 0-87120-462-2, Tape 3: Teaching for Learner Success.)

Description:

This video-based professional development series consists of three videotapes and a

facilitator’s guide. Tape 1 examines planning curriculum and instruction in a

differentiated classroom. Tape 2 provides information on managing a differentiated

classroom. Tape 3 focuses on the teacher in a differentiated classroom.

3. Seeing Possibilities: An Inside View of Units of Study for Teaching Writing,

One (1) DVD. (ISBN-13: 978-0-325-00968-1; ISBN-10: 0-325-00968-6).

Description:

Two (2) hours of minilessons, conferences, whole class shares, and voice-over

coaching commentary from Lucy Calkins. This DVD vividly conveys the inner

workings of writing workshops in a variety of elementary classrooms.

4. Big Lessons from Small Writers, Lucy Calkins and The Teachers College Reading

One (1) DVD (ISBN 0-325-00748-9).

Description:

This DVD is two (2) hours of video clips. It is a comprehensive, easy-to-navigate

instructional resource that presents 22 video clips of Lucy and others teaching

minilessons, conferences, and whole class shares—with optional voice-over

coaching commentary from Lucy.

5. Teaching Reading: Strategies from Successful Classrooms, a six-part national

Teacher training video series. Produced by: Center for the Study of Reading ,

University of Illinois, at Urbana-Champaign. http://csr.ed.uiuc.edu

Video Titles:

1. Emergent Literacy 4. Literacy in Content Area Instruction

2. The Reading/Writing Connection 5. Fostering a Literate Culture

3. Teaching Word Identification 6. Teaching Reading Comprehension:

Experience and Text

Publishers. Two (2) DVDs, and Viewing Guide. (ISBN 1-57110-430-5).

Description:

Presenting examples of both small- and whole-group discussions, Building

Adolescent Readers demonstrates how to engage students with a variety of texts,

teaching them what it means to be a good reader.

7. What Every Teacher Should Know About Reading Comprehension Instruction,

Heinemann. One (1) DVD, and Viewing Guide. (ISBN 0-325-00881-7).

Description:

In What Every Teacher Should Know About Reading Comprehension
Instruction,

Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis give teachers, administrators, and literacy

specialists the chance to listen in as they interview renowned reading researcher and

comprehension theorist P. David Pearson to get the inside scoop on the research

behind high-quality comprehension instruction.

8. Classroom Assessment for Student Learning: Doing It Right-Using It Well,

(www.ets.org/ati or (800) 480-3060).

Description:

Listening. Learning. Leading. Video Segments: Demonstrations and Presentations.

9. Thoughtful Reading: Teaching Comprehension to Adolescents,

Description:

This four-part series shows Cris working with a wide range of students, from college-bound seniors to students who have been referred to her classroom because of
their struggles with reading. You'll see Cris leading the whole class, launching small-group activities, thinking through instructional design, teaching individual students,
and assessing learner needs and strengths. The series includes examples of how to:

design small-group instruction;
teach students to work together in groups;
initiate one-on-one conferences with students;
teach comprehension strategies to the whole class;
help students learn to monitor their reading through notes, logs, and discussions;
create "comprehension constructors" and other instruction tools that link reading, writing, and thinking;
promote student independence through whole-class discussions and student presentations;
provide a range of genres to meet the needs of diverse students.

10. Comprehending Content: Reading Across the Curriculum, Grades 6-12,

Description:

In this video program, 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 programs include examples of Cris working with students using texts from multiple disciplines in her classroom, as well as collaborating with colleagues throughout the school. Accompanying the Comprehending Content video is a detailed viewing guide with sample workshop activities, reading materials used by students on the program, focus questions for viewing, and tips for using the related book, Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?, with the video in a study group setting.

CD-ROMs

1. Differentiating Content for Gifted Learners in Grades 6-12, Susan Winebrenner,

by free spirit publishing. One (1) CD-ROM, (ISBN-13 978-1-57542-188-9).

Description:

This stand-alone CD-ROM gives you everything you need to start differentiating

content for your gifted or high-ability middle school and high school students.

2. A CD-ROM of Customizable Forms for Teaching Gifted Kids in the Regular

Classroom, revised, expanded, updated edition, Susan Winebrenner, free sprit

publishing. One (1) CD-ROM, (ISBN-13-1-978-157542-101-8).

Description:

An invaluable classroom tool, this CD-ROM includes all of the reproducible forms

from Susan Winebrenner’s revised, expanded, and updated edition o Teaching

Gifted Kids in the Regular Classroom, plus a variety of additional extensions menus

in several subject areas—more than 80 forms in all.

3. A CD-ROM of Customizable Forms for Teaching Kids with Learning

Difficulties in the Regular Classroom, Susan Winebrenner, free spirit

publishing. One (1) CD-ROM, (ISBN-13 978-157542-208-4).

Help your students with learning difficulties, and help yourself, with this valuable

and timesaving CD-ROM companion to the revised and updated classic book by

Susan Winebrenner, Teaching Kids with Learning Difficulties in the Regular

Classroom. This CD-ROM includes all of the reproducible forms from the book,

plus numerous additional Content Organization Charts and Vocabulary Attributes

Charts in several subject areas—over 90 forms in all.