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This two-part PD Resource Kit not only demonstrates a dynamic three-stage instructional framework for the teaching of comprehension processes but also provides viewers with a wealth of strategies to deepen their students' understanding of text. Filmed in intermediate grade classrooms, the program highlights essential components of explicit comprehension instruction and broadens teachers' repertoires of engaging comprehension strategies.

This unique two-part PD Resource Kit takes participants inside several kindergarten, first and second grade classrooms to observe master teacher Jaime Bailey and other experienced, innovative teachers working with young writers using a six trait model. Participants will observe guided writing, practice activities, mini-lessons, independent writing time, and writing conferences specially designed to move young students forward as authors.

Guided reading is a powerful format for moving students beyond emergent-level skills and strategies. In this PD Resource Kit, outstanding guided reading teachers provide models, explanations and practical strategies for expanding developing-level students’ reading independence.

Viewers will observe a wealth of strategies ideally suited to guided reading lessons for near-fluent and fluent-level readers. Within the structure of guided reading, skilled teachers demonstrate how to strengthen young students’ reading comprehension – and thinking skills – across a wide variety of text.

This PD Resource Kit takes participants inside primary classrooms where teachers are using literacy centers to reinforce reading and writing skills and concepts. These centers accommodate a wide range of student interests and reading levels, provide meaningful practice, and enable you to work directly with groups of students or individual children.

This two-part PD Resource Kit is ideal for helping elementary educators transform their reading programs and practices through the Response to Intervention process. Participants will see how to maximize the achievement of struggling readers within Tier 1 core classroom reading programs and enhance students' reading development with targeted Tier 2 interventions.

Mini-lessons are an ideal way to help intermediate-grade students apply the six traits to their own writing. Participants will see teachers and students engaged in a variety of quick, high-impact lessons focused on each of the traits.

This PD Resource Kit features Janiel Wagstaff demonstrating how to optimize the use of word walls with early/fluent-level readers and writers.

This PD Resource Kit takes you inside intermediate grade classrooms where teachers are using outstanding strategies to expand the reading vocabularies of their students. Straightforward, practical and flexible, these strategies are well suited to busy classroom learning programs and effective across a wide range of subject areas and words.