Videos

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

Part of preparing students to meet College and Career Readiness Standards in English language arts (ELA) involves helping them become adept at integrating and evaluating information in a variety of different media formats.

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.

Children who are at risk for reading failure boost their reading skills using a technique called dialogic reading.

Literacy expert Sandra Wilborn shares three key ways to build your young child’s vocabulary.

A parent asks what he might do to help his third grader use more interesting words when he is speaking and writing.

Reading expert Linda Farrell shares her thoughts on early reader series as well as the importance of reading aloud to build vocabulary and background knowledge.

Writing expert William Van Cleave explains that prefixes and suffixes are useful to learn because they help children understand meaning, build vocabulary, and learn how to spell and decode.

Early literacy expert Bernadette Pilar Zermeño says that parents can watch for and support pre-reading skills.