Orem Library

Blues takes you to school: To school we go! Periwinkle is excited for his first day of school, but he's also a little nervous. Luckily, he's go good friends coming with him - Blue, Joe, and you! While helping Joe play Blue's clues to figure out Blue's favorite part of school, preschoolers help Periwinkle make friends, learn new routines, and have a peri-perfect first day! Numbers everywhere: Numbers, numbers everywhere! From refrigerator magnets...

Builds skills for reading success through phonetic awareness and letter/sound recognition.

Many words don't follow basic decoding rules and are taught in pre-k and kindergarten classrooms as 'sight words', 'instant words', 'high frequency words' or 'star words.' ... [This DVD featured sight words are] all, at, be, by, from , her, him, look, one, or, some, there, this, up & word.]

Focuses on skills such as: multiple letter-sounds; familiar objects; upper & lower-case; fun songs & music.

It's time to learn to read, sesame Street-style! Bert, Ernie and friends are putting on a new play and some of your favorite words are the stars. but, when their world famous closing act cancels at the last minute, everyone joins the mad scramble to find a new "grand finale."

When is the best time to invite students to become actively involved in think-alouds? Join classroom teacher, Patrick Allen, in this 35 minute video, and watch as he engages the students in his fourth-grade classroom, demonstrating that you don’t need to wait very long to make the most of your think-alouds. The importance of nonfiction literature in literacy instruction is. Using Seymour Simon’s Animals Nobody Loves, Patrick demonstrates how comprehension...

In Kelly Gallagher's high school classroom in Anaheim, California, students are not only learning to comprehend difficult novels and texts, they are developing the skills and behaviors of lifelong readers. Drawing from his books Reading Reasons and Deeper Reading, Kelly's new video set brings effective reading strategies to life. Presenting examples of both small- and whole-group discussions, Building Adolescent Readers demonstrates how to engage...

Designed to help an infant, toddler, or preschooler learn written language at the same time that they learn verbal language, during the natural window of opportunity for learning language. Includes starter video, v. 1-3, and review video.

In her book In the company of children, Joanne Hindley invites you inside her third-grade New York City classroom to "have a look" as she describes her reading and writing workshops. Joanne extends the invitation once again through a series of four video programs that give you a close-up look at mini-lessons and conferences during those workshops. In the two programs on reading mini-lessons and writing mini-lessons, she explores and rethinks the resources,...

While reading Debbie Miller's book, Reading with meaning, or viewing her Happy reading! video series, one wonders at Debbie's ability to orchestrate a buzzing classroom full of first-graders into a cooperative literacy community. The Joy of Conferring lets us focus in with Debbie and see what happens at the individual level as she conducts reading conferences with her students. About the author: Debbie Miller taught and learned from children in the...