OCR 2000 Training Videos (VHS) and DVDs

TITLE	SUMMARY
OCR 2000 Kindergarten Training, Reading Lions Center, 2002 TRT: 22 Minutes	A curriculum specialist delivers a lesson to a kindergarten class. She teaches Oral Blending, Word Parts, Initial and Final Consonants, Segmentation, Letter Recognition (including the singing of The Alphabet Song), and the Alphabetic Principle.
OCR 2000 Fluency: Grade 1, Reading Lions Center, 2001 TRT: 14:47 Minutes	This video features ways that fluency is taught and practiced throughout the first grade day, including during Morning Routine, Preteaching for Fluency, Reading the Decodable, Reviewing High-Frequency Words, Partner Reading, and Workshop.
OCR 2000 Writing in the First Grade, Reading Lions Center, 2001 TRT: 28:28 Minutes	This video is appropriate for teachers of Grades K-6 using either Houghton Mifflin or Open Court who want to focus on the prewriting and draft phases of the writing process. This first grade teacher explicitly teaches the first phases of the writing process, focusing on Prewriting: Journals, Prewriting: Organizing Ideas, Prewriting: Sharing Ideas, Prewriting: Web, Prewriting: Seminar, Prewriting: Extending the Web, and Drafting. Writing during Independent Work Time/Workshop (OCR) and Universal Access Time (HMR) is also featured. APPROPRIATE FOR K-6 TEACHERS OF OCR 2000, OCR 2002, and HMR
OCR 2000 Independent Work Time, Grade 2, Reading Lions Center, 2001 TRT: 35 Minutes	Shown in a second grade classroom, though pertinent for grades K through 6, this video takes a step-by-step approach to launching Independent Work Time, or Workshop. The teacher moves through phases of Independent Work Time implementation until students are able to work in multiple, flexible groups while the teacher leads differentiated instruction. APPROPRIATE FOR K-6 TEACHERS OF OCR 2000, AND OCR 2002
OCR 2000 Writing a Personal Narrative, Grade 3, Reading Lions Center, 2001 TRT: 56:23 Minutes	Third grade students review the entire writing process and specific writing skills as a teacher explicitly teaches and models each phase of the writing process including prewrite, draft, revise, proofread, and publish. APPROPRIATE FOR K-6 TEACHERS OF OCR 2000, OCR 2002, AND HMR
OCR 2000 Blending Techniques, Reading Lions Center, 2001 TRT: 13 Minutes	This video provides systematic instruction for Sound-by-Sound Blending, Whole Word Blending, and Syllable Blending, with opportunities to practice each step and to check your progress. APPROPRIATE FOR K-6 TEACHERS OF OCR 2000, AND OCR 2002
OCR 2000 Dictation and Spelling, Reading Lions Center, 2002 TRT: 13 Minutes	A description of the fine points of Dictation and Spelling is delivered as a teacher leads the students through Sounds in Sequence Dictation, Whole Word Dictation, and Sentence Dictation, as well as Proofreading. APPROPRIATE FOR K-6 TEACHERS OF OCR 2000, AND OCR 2002
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"When Stars Read" National Institute of Child Health and Human Development TRT: 11:18 Minutes	This upbeat video was made by students who at one time were poor readers, but go on to learn to read and explain how reading changes lives. The students point out that in most cases children can learn to break the code of reading. The video lists, and encourages discussion of, components of the best reading instruction.
Report of the National Reading Panel "Teaching Children to Read" 2000 TRT: 19:50 Minutes	An Evidence Based Assessment of the Scientific Research Literature on Reading and its Implications for Reading Instruction Congress established the National Reading Panel to guide effective instruction of reading in America's classrooms. The panel's work focused on Phonemic Awareness, Phonics Instruction, Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension, Teacher Education, Computer Technology, and identifying gaps in how children learn to read and how to teach to areas of weakness.

TITLE

SUMMARY

OCR 2000 Kindergarten Training, Reading Lions Center, 2002

TRT: 22 Minutes

A curriculum specialist delivers a lesson to a kindergarten class. She teaches Oral Blending, Word Parts, Initial and Final Consonants, Segmentation, Letter Recognition (including the singing of The Alphabet Song), and the Alphabetic Principle.

OCR 2000 Fluency: Grade 1, Reading Lions Center, 2001

TRT: 14:47 Minutes

This video features ways that fluency is taught and practiced throughout the first grade day, including during Morning Routine, Preteaching for Fluency, Reading the Decodable, Reviewing High-Frequency Words, Partner Reading, and Workshop.

OCR 2000 Writing in the First Grade, Reading Lions Center, 2001

TRT: 28:28 Minutes

This video is appropriate for teachers of Grades K-6 using either Houghton Mifflin or Open Court who want to focus on the prewriting and draft phases of the writing process. This first grade teacher explicitly teaches the first phases of the writing process, focusing on Prewriting: Journals, Prewriting: Organizing Ideas, Prewriting: Sharing Ideas, Prewriting: Web, Prewriting: Seminar, Prewriting: Extending the Web, and Drafting. Writing during Independent Work Time/Workshop (OCR) and Universal Access Time (HMR) is also featured.

APPROPRIATE FOR K-6 TEACHERS OF OCR 2000, OCR 2002, and HMR

OCR 2000 Independent Work Time, Grade 2, Reading Lions Center, 2001

TRT: 35 Minutes

Shown in a second grade classroom, though pertinent for grades K through 6, this video takes a step-by-step approach to launching Independent Work Time, or Workshop. The teacher moves through phases of Independent Work Time implementation until students are able to work in multiple, flexible groups while the teacher leads differentiated instruction.

APPROPRIATE FOR K-6 TEACHERS OF OCR 2000, AND OCR 2002

OCR 2000 Writing a Personal Narrative, Grade 3, Reading Lions Center, 2001

TRT: 56:23 Minutes

Third grade students review the entire writing process and specific writing skills as a teacher explicitly teaches and models each phase of the writing process including prewrite, draft, revise, proofread, and publish.

APPROPRIATE FOR K-6 TEACHERS OF OCR 2000, OCR 2002, AND HMR

OCR 2000 Blending Techniques, Reading Lions Center, 2001

TRT: 13 Minutes

This video provides systematic instruction for Sound-by-Sound Blending, Whole Word Blending, and Syllable Blending, with opportunities to practice each step and to check your progress.

APPROPRIATE FOR K-6 TEACHERS OF OCR 2000, AND OCR 2002

OCR 2000 Dictation and Spelling, Reading Lions Center, 2002

TRT: 13 Minutes

A description of the fine points of Dictation and Spelling is delivered as a teacher leads the students through Sounds in Sequence Dictation, Whole Word Dictation, and Sentence Dictation, as well as Proofreading.

APPROPRIATE FOR K-6 TEACHERS OF OCR 2000, AND OCR 2002

Also Available

"When Stars Read" National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

TRT: 11:18 Minutes

This upbeat video was made by students who at one time were poor readers, but go on to learn to read and explain how reading changes lives. The students point out that in most cases children can learn to break the code of reading. The video lists, and encourages discussion of, components of the best reading instruction.

Report of the National Reading Panel "Teaching Children to Read" 2000

TRT: 19:50 Minutes

An Evidence Based Assessment of the Scientific Research Literature on Reading and its Implications for Reading Instruction

Congress established the National Reading Panel to guide effective instruction of reading in America's classrooms. The panel's work focused on Phonemic Awareness, Phonics Instruction, Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension, Teacher Education, Computer Technology, and identifying gaps in how children learn to read and how to teach to areas of weakness.