DVD Workshop Kits
If you're looking for top-quality video of excellent teachers working in exceptional classrooms, consider purchasing a Choice Literacy DVD package. Our DVDs and Workshop Kits are designed to be used in a variety of professional development settings. Each kit includes a DVD of classroom footage, and a CD of print resources with step-by-step workshop suggestions, student work samples, and questions for discussion.
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Buy 6 DVD Sampler for Only $799
Save Over $300 Off the List Price of $1144
(Member Price: $699)
 Jumpstart your professional development program with an entire library of videos at one low price. The total package of 6 DVDs and 5 CDs includes suggestions for 40+ workshops, over 150 pages of student samples, templates, and short readings, and more than six hours of footage from classrooms across the country. Buy all 6 of the Choice Literacy Spring 2007 DVDs and save over 25% off the list price. more info > > >
The Choice Literacy Sampler $79
(Member Price: $59)
 Want just a taste of the video clips available in Choice Literacy's DVD professional development kits? The Choice Literacy Sampler includes excerpts from six different DVDs. more info > > >
Synthesizing Butterflies: Teaching Reading Strategies to Kindergartners $99 (Member Price: $69)
 "Synthesis is the beautiful way you live through a book." With these simple words, children are introduced to the concept of synthesis in Andie Cunningham's diverse kindergarten classroom. Viewers will see that even the youngest learners are ready, even eager, to take on the challenge of using strategies to deepen their reading experience. This workshop kit takes viewers into Andie's reading workshop during three consecutive days of instruction. The curriculum is integrated: reading, writing, science, talk, and movement all come together through the study of butterflies. more info > > >
Layered Coaching: Mentoring New Teachers
Jennifer Allen
$229 DVD/CD Workshop Kit (Member Price: $199)
 Literacy coaches are being added to elementary school staffs at an incredible rate. Yet there is little available that shows what the day by day role of a literacy coach looks like. Jennifer Allen's "layered coaching" approach includes gathering and providing resources to teachers, collaborative teaching and observation, study groups, new teacher mentoring, and curriculum mapping. more info > > >
Simply Beautiful: Classroom Design for Gracious Living and Learning $99 (Member Price: $89)
 Classrooms don't have to be dank and dreary places - in fact, teachers are discovering that more inviting classrooms create more opportunities for learning. In Simply Beautiful, Gail Boushey and Joan Moser (also known as "The Sisters") visit the classrooms of five new teachers to help each one deal with specific design challenges, from poor lighting to cramped storage areas. more info > > >
Simply Organized: Classroom Libraries and Storage Areas $99
(Member Price: $69)
 The Sisters (Gail Boushey and Joan Moser) take on classroom libraries and storage areas as they help two elementary teachers beautify their classrooms. more info > > >
The Literacy Principal in Action:
Supporting Learners of All Ages
Karen Szymusiak
$159 DVD (Member Price: $129)
 In The Literacy Principal in Action: Supporting Learners of All Ages, Karen Szymusiak takes you into her world of daily teaching, learning, and professional conversations about literacy at Glacier Ridge Elementary School in Dublin, Ohio. It is here where Karen works as a principal, guiding her colleagues and children in thoughtful, focused, and inspiring initiatives to improve literacy achievement and build lifelong reading and writing habits in children. more info > > >
Write from the Start: Conferring with Young English Language Learners $229 (Member Price: $179)
 How can a teacher confer with a child who speaks a different language? How can teachers confer with many children speaking many different languages, all in the same classroom? In Write from the Start: Conferring with Young English Language Learners, Andie Cunningham and Ruth Shagoury confer with five-, six- and seven-year-olds in Andie's kindergarten writing workshop. Daily conferences are an essential element of the literacy curriculum, helping students see the links between their home language and culture, English, and making meaning through print... more info > > >
Writers in Transition: Teaching Revision Strategies in Grades 3-6
Franki Sibberson
$229 DVD/CD Workshop Kit (Member Price: $199)
 By the end of the primary grades, children have mastered the alphabet, a sense of story, and the basics of writing workshops. What's next for young writers in transition? For many, a unit on revision makes sense because it helps them see a multitude of ways to refine and improve their writing. This video highlights the lessons, strategies, and goals of a writing unit of study on revision in Franki Sibberson's intermediate classroom, as Franki helps students focus on honing their drafts. The DVD includes sample whole-class lessons on fonts, character development, revision tools, goal setting, and titles. These lessons are integrated with inndividual conferences and small group instruction on leads and text features. The companion CD presents suggestions for using the DVD in workshop settings, student samples, and templates to accompany the lessons.
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CAFÉ in the Classroom: Helping Children Visualize Literacy Goals
Gail Boushey and Joan Moser ("The Sisters")
$229 DVD/CD Workshop Kit (Member Price: $199)
 Assessing young readers involves more than determining a reading level and moving them onto the next. Gail Boushey and Joan Moser developed the CAFÉ assessment system to help elementary students understand and master different strategies used by successful readers. CAFÉ is an acronym for Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency, and Expanding Vocabulary, and the system includes goal-setting with students in individual conferences, posting of goals on a whole-class board, developing small group instruction based on clusters of students with similar goals, and targeting whole-class instruction based on emerging student needs. The DVD/CD Workshop Kit includes video of many individual conferences, small group lessons, and whole class instruction in Joan Moser's K-2 multiage classroom. The companion CD presents workshop suggestions for use of the video in professional development settings, blank assessment forms for use in the teacher's conferring and planning notebook, student work samples, and profiles of students presented in the video to enhance the viewing experience. more info > > >
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