Tricks of the Trade

This document shows you how to capture and edit still images from a video segment, using either a PC or a Macintosh computer.

Building Video Literacy: Types of Shots

This resource will help you and your students understand how analyzing video is similar to reading texts.

Building Video Literacy: Storyboarding

In this activity developed by EDC's Center for Children and Technology, students explore the relationship between types of shots and storytelling.

Building Video Literacy: Framing

In this activity created by EDC's Center for Children and Technology, students explore how the framing of a shot affects the meaning of an image.

Building Video Literacy: Video Logger

Help your students build video literacy with this interactive tutorial, developed in collaboration with EDC's Center for Children and Technology.

Building Video Literacy: Sound

This activity, created by EDC's Center for Children and Technology, explores how sound is used to create meaning.

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Building Video Literacy: Movement

Explore the different ways movement can occur within a shot in this activity developed by EDC's Center for Children and Technology.

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Building Video Literacy: Response

In this activity developed by EDC's Center for Children and Technology, explore how each shot of a video can evoke a different response in the viewer.

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Building Video Literacy: Purpose

This activity developed by EDC's Center for Children and Technology explores what a shot is designed to accomplish to create the overall meaning of a film.

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About Inspiring Middle School Literacy

This professional development video from WGBH shows how teachers work with their students, using the self-paced lessons from the Inspiring Middle School Literacy collection, to improve content knowledge and literacy skills.

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Cathy Garner, Winter Unit

In this video from SERVE, see how kindergarten teacher Cathy Garner introduces new vocabulary to her students through picture cards, storybook reading, and unscripted, rich conversation throughout the day.

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Emma Orsby-Jackson, Winter Unit

Watch how kindergarten teacher Emma Orsby-Jackson introduces her students to new vocabulary words through the use of picture cards, storybook reading, and informal, unscripted conversation in this video from SERVE.

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Enhancing Vocabulary

This animation from SERVE shows how kindergartners taking part in vocabulary intervention grow their active vocabulary to include a wide range of words.

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Introduction to Vocabulary Intervention

Get a brief overview of the concerns, research, and solutions surrounding vocabulary acquisition among underserved kindergartners in this video from SERVE.

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MARTHA SPEAKS Reading Buddies in Action

In this video from the MARTHA SPEAKS mini-tutorial on vocabulary, teachers Weddy Youn and Joseph Cooke describe their success in using the cross-age literacy program, MARTHA SPEAKS Reading Buddies.

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MARTHA SPEAKS Reading Buddies Up Close

In this video from WFSU, staff and students describe how the MARTHA SPEAKS Reading Buddies Program works and discuss the benefits of pairing younger and older students.

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Research Principles for Supporting Middle School Literacy

This self-paced lesson designed for teacher professional development introduces research principles for middle school literacy and shows them in action in the Inspiring Middle School Literacy collection.

Rich Conversation

This animation from SERVE illustrates how rich conversation with a teacher works as a key component of kindergarten vocabulary intervention.

Using Inspiring Middle School Literacy in Afterschool Programs

This self-paced lesson designed for professionals in afterschool programs shows how to use the Inspiring Middle School Literacy collection to support language instruction and engagement in learning.

Using the Inspiring Middle School Literacy Collection

This self-paced lesson designed for teacher professional development introduces teaching strategies for integrating the Inspiring Middle School Literacy collection into your curriculum.