ORA VIDEO LIBRARY

Nathan Traller has turned over the ORA lending libraries (book and video) to Jane Koivisto of the Portland Council.

Please use this address to return videos:
ORA Lending Library
c/o Jane Koivisto
2811 NE Holman St.
Portland, OR 97211
        
   
To borrow a video, please contact Jane at: jkoivisto@cu-portland.edu or use the video request form.

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AVAILABLE TITLES: DVDs

HAPPY READING (DVD): Miller, D. (2003).Happy Reading. Portland,ME:Stenhouse. First-grade teacher Debbie Miller chronicles her work teaching reading comprehension in her popular book Reading with Meaning. In this three-part series, Debbie takes you beyond comprehension instruction, and shows how she sustains a thoughtful primary reading program that challenges and supports readers of all abilities and needs. (From the Stenhouse Website)

STRATEGIC THINKING (DVD):  Harvey, S., & Goudvis, A. (2007).  Strategic Thinking.Portland, ME:Stenhouse. Nothing matters more than kids' thinking.To help them turn thinking into meaning and to understand what they read, students need an arsenal of strategies to navigate and synthesize text. And they need to know when, where, and how, to use these strategies. In this four-part video series, Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis spend a week with Jessica Lawrence and her students focusing on two essential strategies for intermediate and middle-grade students: inferring in fiction and determining importance in nonfiction. (From the Stenhouse Website)

STRENGTHENING STUDENTS’ PHONEMIC AWARENESS K-1 (DVD):  Bureau of Education and Research (1999). Strengthening Students’ Phonemic Awareness. Bellevue, WA: BER. In this videotape training program kindergarten and first grade children are engaged in a wide variety of activities and lessons that strengthen phonemic awareness in young children. Activities that encourage language play and focus children's attention on the sounds within spoken words are demonstrated in actual classroom settings. In addition, you observe children working with print in ways that enhance the growth of phonemic awareness and support emerging literacy. (From the BER Website)

AVAILABLE TITLES: Video Tapes

"WHEN STUDENTS WRITE" by Ralph Fletcher and Joann Portalupi

Tape 1: "Building a Writing Community"
Students need to assimilate a daunting number of skills as they become competent writers and that doesn't happen overnight. Writing teachers need to create the kind of community where students can live as writers, find their voices, and take risks that allow them to develop competemce as writers. The teachers and principal at Bailey's Elementary School show how they create this atmosphere.

Tape 2: "Teaching Writing Skills in Context"
We explore how skilled writing teachers teach mechanics, such as contractions and spelling. You will see what management tools teachers devised to assess students' needs in skills instruction and how they situate skills teaching in a larger, real-world context.

Tape 3: "Literature That Support Writing"
This tape focuses on the reading-writing connection.

Tape 4: "Craft Lessons to Stretch Young Writers"
This tape talks about what a craft lesson is, how you teach one, and how you know what lesson to teach.

CRIS TOVANI TAPES:
THOUGHTFUL READING: TEACHING COMPREHENSION TO ADOLESCENTS:

Tape 1: "No Magic Formula: Teaching Struggling Readers" 25 minutes
Cris shares her four guiding principals for teaching comprehension, leads a whole-class discussion on text features, and assists students as they try out a comprehension strategy during individual conferences.

Tape 2: "Beyond the Game of School: Challenging College-Bound Seniors " 24 minutes
By the time many teenagers graduate from high school they have learned that they can often get by with responses and written work that summarize text without any depth of reflection. Cris shows how she pushes students to read critically, and back up opinions with specific text references.

Tape 3: "Engaging Students: Choice, Respect and Talk " 22 minutes
Thoughtful reading and honest response in any classroom begins with a climate of respect. Cris and students discuss the classroom environment, including fostering healthy relationships between teachers and students.

Tape 4: "Making Thinking Visible: Comprehension Tools " 25 minutes
The challenge for teachers is to give students a variety of tools to help them make thinking visible. In this tape Cris shows how any comprehension tool or activity needs to match the goals of instruction. She also demonstrates what teachers can do to help students understand why it is essential for them to keep records of their thinking while reading.

AUTHOR TAPES

Tape 1: “Eric Carle: Picture Writer” 27 minutes
Eric Carle invites you and your children into his own studio where he reads from The Very Busy Spider, The Very Quiet Cricket, and Draw Me a Star. He shows how step by step he prepares his colorful tissue papers and creates brilliant collage pictures.

Tape 2: “Get To Know Lynne Cherry” 19 minutes
Lynne Cherry is a committed environmentalist. Your students will walk with Lynne Cherry in the woods and learn how nature helps her create her wonderful books.

Tape 3:“In Search of Dr. Seuss” 115 minutes
Take off with a reporter in search of the real Dr. Seuss. In a world that combines wonderful and wacky live-action with classic animation you will learn the story of the man who made generations of children love to read.

Tape 4: “Mem Fox” 18 minutes
Mem takes you to visit kangaroos, emus, and koalas in gum trees in her native land. She tells you her stories and her own story – as only she can.

HOME/SCHOOL RESOURCE TAPES:

TAPE 5: Scholastic Parent Video: "Giving the Gift of Reading" 20 minutes
This video talks about the benefits and importance of reading with your child to help insure academic success.

TAPE 6: Home Involvement Video: "You Make the Difference" 30 minutes
This video models specific ways families can support their children’s development.

TAPE 7: The Little Things Make A BIG Difference" 15 minutes
Principles, teachers and parents have to work as a team. This video shows parents what they can do to make a positive impact on theirs children’s academic success.

TAPE 8: Primary "Literature, Literacy and Learning" 22 minutes
Dr. Dorothy Strickland presents different approaches to language arts – who language, integrated language arts, literature-based curriculum – and presents the key principles and characteristics that are common to all.

TAPE 9: "An Adult Guide to What Children Need in Order to Read: Preparing Young Children For Reading Success" 30 minutes
Marilyn Jager Adams provides parents with the best possible tools and strategies to prepare children for reading success before they enter first grade.

TAPE 10: “I Am Your Child: Ready to Learn” 24 minutes
This video is hosted by Jamie Lee Curtis and LeVar Burton. It provides helpful information concerning what parents and caregivers can do to help build a child’s literacy skills from the time he/she is born. It is available in English and Spanish. NEW

TAPE 11: “Reading To Me – Reading: A Vital Skill In Today’s Complex World”
13 minutes
This video describes how reading to children from the time they are born can help them become enthusiastic, active readers.

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If you have any video tapes or DVDs to recommend for our library, please email Jane at: jkoivisto@cu-portland.edu