Video List
From Foundations For Literacy
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Video 1: Rob Savage – Importance of Evidence for Developing Reading Programs
Video 2: Dale Willows – Teacher Preparation
Video 3: Dale Willows – Balance of Time Devoted to Reading Components
Video 4: Linda Siegel – How Children Learn to Read
Video 5: University Lab School – Phonological Awareness
Video 6: University Lab School – Phonemic Awareness
Video 7: University Lab School – Letter-Sound Correspondence
Video 8: Monique Senechal – Inventive Spelling – Exploring the Connection Between Sounds and Letters
Video 9: University Lab School – Inventive Spelling
Video 10: Andrew Biemiller – Vocabulary Worth Teaching
Video 11: Andrew Biemiller – Vocabulary Instruction (in three parts):
- A. Vocabulary Building
- B. Indirect Learning via Derivation of Word Meanings
- C. Vocabulary Enriching Activities – Explicit Instruction Through Storytelling
Video 12: Dale Willows – Teaching Spelling
Video 13: University Lab School – Guided spelling
Video 15: University Lab School Kindergarten – Pencil grip
Video 16: Dale Willows – Scaffolding and Metacognitive Thinking
Video 17: Dale Willows – Role of Teachers
Video 18: Janette Pelletier - Importance of literacy rich Kindergarten
Video 19: University Lab School – Print at children’s level
Video 20: Alain Desrochers – Assessment
Video 21: Alain Desrochers – Types of Assessment
- A. Reading Assessments for Directing Intervention Programs
- B. Optimal Timing for Conducting Reading Assessments
- C. Explaining the Assessment of Phonological Awareness
Video 22: Monique Brodeur – High Quality Kindergarten Instruction to Prevent Reading Failure (in four parts):
- A. The Importance of Instruction Based Upon Research-Based Methods
- B. Taking a Balanced Approach to Teaching Literacy
- C. Effects of Taking a Balanced Approach to Teaching Literacy
- D. Screening and Progress Monitoring for Disadvantaged Children
Video 23: University Lab School – Differentiated Instruction
Video 25: Univ. Lab School Kindergarten – Using shared reading as a context for developing writing
Video 26: University Lab School – Guided Reading as a Context for Decoding Words
Video 27: Eileen Wood and Jacqueline Specht – Using Computers in the Classroom (in five parts):
- A. Eileen Wood – Computers as a Tool for Teaching
- B. Eileen Wood – Experimentally-Tested Reading and Writing Programs
- C. Eileen Wood – Technology-Supported Learning in the Classroom
- D. Jacqueline Specht – Computers for Peer-Collaborative Learning
- E. Jacqueline Specht – Computers for Monitoring Individual Learning Needs
Video 28: Rob Savage – ABRACADABRA (in five parts):
- A. The Development of the ABRACADABRA Literacy Program
- B. Who and What is ABRACADABRA for?
- C. Research Basis for ABRACADABRA Program
- D. Differentiated Instruction Using ABRACADABRA
- E. Feedback on Effectiveness of ABRACADABRA
Video 29: Janette Pelletier – Role of Parents
Video 30: Esther Geva – Evidence on the Needs of ESL Students (in seven parts):
- A. Differentiating Between Similar-Sounding Phonemes (Parts of Words)
- B. Differentiating Between Similar-Sounding Phonemes (for ESL Children)
- C. Negative Transfer of Language Elements
- D. Complex Nature of Vocabulary Acquisition
- E. Role of Teacher in Providing Extra Help
- F. Learning Disability in Addition to ESL
- G. Benefits of Foreign First Language for Acquisition of English
Video 31: Janette Pelletier and Esther Geva
Video 32: Linda Siegel – Explaining Dyslexia (in two parts):
Video 33: Fred Genesee – Research on Children Learning to Read and Write in French Immersion (in four parts):