Reading Rockets offers a wealth of reading strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help young children learn how to read and read better. Our reading resources assist parents, teachers, and other educators in working with struggling readers who require additional help in reading fundamentals and comprehension skills development.

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Podcasts & Videos

Watch and listen to Reading Rockets programs whenever and wherever you want! You can download our video or audio podcasts to your computer, iPod, or other media device.

Click below for information on the following:

Currently available podcasts

Meet the Author
View our exclusive interviews with top children's book authors and illustrators that you can download as video or audio podcasts through Google Video, iTunes, and others.
Meet the Experts
Hear directly from prominent professionals in the field of education. Topics include identifying learning difficulties, developing reading skills early, and the importance of phonics.
Watch & Learn
Seeing what works often makes more of an impact than reading about what works. Our "in the classroom" video clips provide videotaped examples of best practices in teaching reading.

Rights information

Please note that by downloading Reading Rockets video or audio podcasts, you agree to the following Creative Commons license.

About podcasts and videostreaming

Podcasts

Podcasts are video or audio files you can download to your iPod, computer, or other device. Many Reading Rockets' programs are available for download as either a video or audio podcast. Please note that a 20-minute video clip is about a 46MB file – this will take awhile to download, even if you have a broadband connection.

Reading Rockets podcasts are available from the following:

Google Video
The easiest way to watch and download Reading Rockets video podcasts is through Google Video. Go to video.google.com and search for "Reading Rockets" to see what's available. You can watch immediately or download the video to a Windows or Mac computer, Video iPod, or Sony PSP.
iTunes
Reading Rockets audio podcasts are available through iTunes. Download the iTunes player and search for "Reading Rockets". When "Meet the Author" comes up, click on the arrow next to "clean" to see all of our audio podcasts. You can subscribe to Reading Rockets podcasts, which means that new ones will automatically be made available to you as they are released.

Videostreaming

Many people want to watch a program online without downloading it. This is called videostreaming. The advantage of videostreaming is that it's very quick – the video plays immediately on your computer. The quality of videostreaming is not as good as podcast downloads, however, and you can't save the file for later viewing or put the file on a portable media device.

Videostreaming links are provided throughout the Reading Rockets web site so you can watch online. The video will appear in Windows Media Player, which most PC computers already have installed. Macintosh users can download the free Flip4Mac playback file, which allows you to play Windows Media files in your QuickTime player.

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