Level 30 English Language Arts
Videos are listed chronologically by date added, beginning with the most recent
New and Converging Technologies (videos 45 to 51)
Series: Scanning Television, 2nd Edition
These short videos are designed to increase media literacy skills. Students should develop an understanding of and how to use the mass media. The programs should assist students to understand and enjoy how media works, how meaning is produced, how media is organized, and how media constructs real...
The Global Citizen (videos 37 to 44)
Series: Scanning Television, 2nd Edition
These short videos are designed to increase media literacy skills. Students should develop an understanding of and how to use the mass media. The programs should assist students to understand and enjoy how media works, how meaning is produced, how media is organized, and how media constructs real...
Our Constructed Worlds: Media Environments (videos 25 to 36)
Series: Scanning Television, 2nd Edition
These short videos are designed to increase media literacy skills. Students should develop an understanding of and how to use the mass media. The programs should assist students to understand and enjoy how media works, how meaning is produced, how media is organized, and how media constructs real...
Selling Images and Values (videos 15 to 24)
Series: Scanning Television, 2nd Edition
These short videos are designed to increase media literacy skills. Students should develop an understanding of and how to use the mass media. The programs should assist students to understand and enjoy how media works, how meaning is produced, how media is organized, and how media constructs real...
Seeing Ourselves: Media and Representation (videos 1 to 14)
Series: Scanning Television, 2nd Edition
These short videos are designed to increase media literacy skills. Students should develop an understanding of and how to use the mass media. The programs should assist students to understand and enjoy how media works, how meaning is produced, how media is organized, and how media constructs real...
Plagiarism. What Do You Value?
Little positive learning is achieved when students fall into the plagiarism trap. In this program, plagiarism is defined in all its modern and common forms. Opportunities are provided for students and educators to discuss why some people copy. Students will learn quoting and referencing skills th...
Assessment That Drives Better Student Writing
Series: Improving Adolescent Writers
In this program, Kelly works from the first drafts of his ninth-grade students' Romeo and Juliet essays to build a rubric. The rubric includes required elements for the whole group as well as individual components based on emerging student needs.
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Writing with Purpose
Series: Improving Adolescent Writers
In this program, Kelly teaches a class of seniors how understanding the purpose of any piece of writing helps both readers and writers. He models how a purpose chart can be used to generate 25 different writing topics from one person's life. Viewers will also see the elements in place in Kelly's ...
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The Importance of Modeling
Series: Improving Adolescent Writers
In this program, Kelly models how to find and develop a writing topic with his ninth-grade students. Students then complete a writing "blast" or "sneeze" and use this writing for a "question flood" with peers. On the second day, students use the STAR (Substitute, Take out, Add, Rearrange) revisio...
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One Question, One Comment
Series: Building Adolescent Readers
In this bonus segment, students share either a comment or question about their reading of Lord of the Flies.
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Second Draft Reading
Series: Building Adolescent Readers
Revisiting a text helps students uncover its deeper layers of meaning. Kelly demonstrates numerous strategies that help students move past an "I read it once; I'm done" mentality and into richer second draft reading. He also discusses the importance assessment plays in planning an effective readi...
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First Draft Reading
Series: Building Adolescent Readers
Adolescent readers often adopt one of two universal strategies when they are confronted with difficult text: they either quit or dutifully continue, even though they do not understand what they are reading. In this program, Kelly models a number of useful strategies to help students not only moni...
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The Six Building Blocks
Series: Building Adolescent Readers
Before we teach students how to read better, we need to help them understand why they should be readers. Kelly outlines his six blocks for motivating students to read more - both recreationally and academically. He models specific classroom lessons that help students to internalize the value of r...
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