Videos

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.

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.

One of the most important things parents can do is provide lots of language and literacy experiences at home.

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.