Videos

Learn how to use the word work mat with students.

Learn how to play the Say It and Move It game to practice phonemic awareness.

 Students who struggle with fluency may read slowly, in a monotone, ignoring punctuation, or in choppy start-and-stop rhythms. Support these students with tools that allow for repeated readings and performance, and model expressive reading with audiobooks, e-books, and your own live readings.

Students who struggle with fluency may read slowly, in a monotone, ignoring punctuation, or in choppy start-and-stop rhythms. Support these students with tools that allow for repeated readings and performance, and model expressive reading with audiobooks, e-books, and your own live readings.

Texting and “text speak” can be used to help build foundational reading skills such as word recognition and phonological awareness. 

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

Dr. Paula Kluth provides viewers with a peek inside her books, articles and DVDs. 

Listen to a Reader’s Theater performance of The Wizard, the Fairy, and the Magic Chicken.

Dr. Leala Holcomb, an expert in Deaf education and literacy, offers practical suggestions for encouraging your child to read on their own.

Kate Duke frequently visits classrooms to teach kids about plot, character, and setting — without writing down a word!