Videos

Watch this short video to learn how you can use multimedia to help support your instruction in social studies and history.

Dr. Rebecca Silverman talks about how to strengthen children’s vocabulary skills through conversation, the rich language in books, and quality educational television.

This video, part of Professional Learning Community: Emergent Literacy, shows a preschool teacher implementing Dialogic Reading to support vocabulary development using an expository text. 

In this video, Sam Modest discusses the process he and his co-teacher, Erin Metcalf, are going through to refine structured word inquiry practice in their Grade 2 class at the Nueva School.

Kids and volunteers engage in a summer reading program developed by The Reading Connection.

It’s still okay to encourage your child to look up unfamiliar words in the dictionary, but that’s just the first step.

Dr. Leala Holcomb, an expert in Deaf education and literacy, says that all children — hearing and deaf — need the experience of being read to by a caring adult.

Master teacher Dr. Rebecca Palacios runs a dual-language immersion preschool and mentors teachers-in-training on how to provide top-notch teaching in a preschool environment.

Reading aloud is a great way for children to learn new words.

Dr. Leala Holcomb, an expert in Deaf education and literacy, says that reading aloud together is a superpower in developing your child’s literacy skills.