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The DVD 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. 90 minutes.

This two-hour DVD takes viewers into grades 3-6 classrooms with students who have a range of previous experience with the CAFÉ system. Filmed over two years, the program includes:

*   Sample whole-class and small-group lessons;
*   Conferring with diverse students;
*   Step-by-step explanation of the conferring notebook;
*   Coaching sessions with teachers;
*   Discussions of the specific needs of older learners;
*   Launching lessons and introduction of the CAFE menu;
*   Suggestions for using the CAFÉ system in classrooms of students who have a range of previous experience with the program. 114 minutes.

It's a common dilemma: Teachers need time to work in one-on-one conferences and in small groups with students during literacy workshop. Yet assigning “busywork” to the rest of the class doesn't help students develop the essential reading and writing skills they need. Can we really expect young readers and writers to tackle challenging work on their own without constant support and intervention from teachers?

This question led Gail Boushey and Joan Moser (“the Sisters”) to develop The Daily Five—a structured set of literacy tasks that research shows are linked to literacy achievement. The five tasks are outlined in detail in Gail and Joan's book The Daily Five. This video, shot in Joan's K–2 multiage classroom, focuses on launching three of the "Dailies" — read to self, read to someone, and work on writing.

The Daily Five Alive! package includes everything needed for productive professional development workshops. In addition to the DVD, the viewing guide (both printed and on CD-ROM) provides workshop suggestions and focus questions, a selection of related readings, and handouts. 85 minutes.

The Daily Five is a series of literacy tasks (reading to self, reading with someone, writing, word work, and listening to reading) which students complete while the teacher meets with small groups or confers with individuals. It is more than a management system or a curriculum framework; The Daily Five is a structure that will help students develop the habits that lead to a lifetime of independent literacy.

Now teachers in the intermediate grades are seeing the power of the system for older learners. This two-hour DVD takes viewers into grades 3-6 classrooms with Gail Boushey and Joan Moser (better known as "The Sisters") as your hosts. Filmed over two years in diverse classrooms, the program includes:

Teachers are always on the hunt for new ideas to help organize their classroom libraries and storage areas. In Simply Organized, Gail Boushey and Joan Moser (also known as "The Sisters") take you into the classrooms of Carrie, a second-year teacher, and Kelly, a veteran educator, to reorganize their libraries and storage areas. This hour-long video includes tips on:

Teachers love room tours! Extraordinary teachers from across the United States were asked to guide viewers through their classrooms, demonstrating the links between learning and beautiful classroom design. Each tour is 5-10 minutes long, with teachers sharing strategies for design that supports literacy learning. There are 12 classrooms from grades K-6 included on the DVD. Bonus tracks include tours of literacy rooms for teachers, and five bookrooms using different strategies for organizing books for grade-level team use. Introduction by "The Sisters". 115 minutes.

Organized around 11 teaching episodes—including assessing word knowledge, modeling the word-solving process, providing guided practice, and prompting students to apply strategies during reading and writing—Small Group Intervention features a small group of fourth grade students in a word study intervention that links to reading and writing. The small group format includes three components; word study lesson, reading a new book, and writing about the book. This DVD and accompanying CD, which includes observation protocols and discussion prompts for each teaching episode, support schools in implementing a small group intervention for intermediate readers who need tailored support in word study.

In Mentor Texts: Models for Reading Strategies and Writer's Craft, Aimee Buckner takes viewers into her 4th grade classroom, where children's literature, student texts, and Aimee's own writing serve as mentor texts in daily literacy workshops. The 90 minute video features two programs, one on mentor texts in the writing curriculum, and the second detailing how the strategy of rereading can be taught using a whole-class shared mentor text.

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. Debbie engages in a series of six conferences with students who have a range of needs, from decoding and comprehension, to writing thoughtful responses to their reading. 75 minutes.

Debbie Diller, author of the book Literacy Work Stations, takes you into two primary classrooms to demonstrate how to create a thriving stations program. Patty Terry's first grade students and Vicky Georgas' second graders work in stations that include a wealth of literacy tasks designed to build academic and collaborative skills across the curriculum. This three-part video series captures the teaching conversations Patty, Vicky, and Debbie have with their students in real-time as new stations are introduced, problems with existing stations are analyzed, and the match between station tasks and student needs are assessed. 90 minutes.

Literacy work stations have taken the primary grades by storm, as teachers discover many ways to use them in supporting independent and thoughtful reading and writing.

Now, Stepping Up with Literacy Stations provides teachers in third grade and up a way to tap into the energy and excitement of this innovative management and learning system. This DVD takes viewers into diverse third and fifth grade classrooms, where Debbie Diller coaches and guides children and their teachers through the process of designing and implementing stations. 90 minutes.

Small groups are a crucial element of every teacher's reading program, and their importance only grows as teachers face more diverse learners. Spotlight on Small Groups gives viewers an in-depth look at two reading groups led by master teacher and author Debbie Diller. Debbie leads the groups through a structured routine (introduction, guided practice, conferring, check-in, and more practice), demonstrating how to balance whole-group and differentiated instruction and showing how visual aids such as strategy bookmarks pique student interest. One group in the video focuses on vocabulary development, working with a nonfiction title; the other shows how to teach the strategy of inferring in fiction. The third-graders in the groups are English language learners, with their regular teacher, Lisa Gregory, observing and debriefing with Debbie after each lesson.

Spotlight on Small Groups, particularly when used in conjunction with Debbie's book Making the Most of Small Groups, is ideal for professional study groups or staff development programs designed to help teachers deliver more targeted instruction. The after-group discussion and reflection between Debbie and Lisa are also appropriate for analyzing literacy coaching techniques. The program includes an extensive viewing guide, with questions, work samples, and reproducibles for groups. 58 minutes.

With the advent of RTI (Response to Intervention), teachers everywhere are spending part of their day teaching in small groups. In Think Small! master teacher and author Debbie Diller plans and teaches various small-group lessons with students at different reading levels while the rest of the class works independently at literacy work stations. Teachers learn how to form groups, organize for small-group instruction, choose books, write lesson plans, and support student independence so they can teach more effectively in small groups with young readers. 90 minutes.