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International Literacy Association: Podcasts
A list of podcasts from the International Reading Association on various topics in Language Arts. Several discuss ideas in teaching reading and writing, others on vocabulary, reading fluency, and early literacy. Several are available in...
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Pbs: Key Ideas and Details: Strategies for Students With Cognitive Disabilities
Learn how to recall key ideas and details of a text by watching this video t.hat demonstrates effective strategies for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities.
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Pbs: Using a Communication Device to Participate in a Small Group Discussion, Part 1
Watch how a student uses his communication device to tell another student what he liked about her story during an Author's Chair writing activity.
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Pbs: Utilizing a Cloze Activity to Promote Decoding
video shows how to use a cloze activity to promote decoding as an effective strategy for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities in literacy instruction.
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Pbs: Retelling Key Events in a Story
In this video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, a high school teacher supports students in retelling a story allowing students access to a text and a communication system, if needed.
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Pbs: Using a Timeline Containing Historical Events to Illustrate Text to Self
Video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, demonstrates the use of a timeline containing historical events to illustrate text to self.
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Pbs: Retelling a Story: Strategies for Students With Cognitive Disabilities
Video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, demonstrates an activity for retelling a story.
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Pbs: Opportunities to Engage With the Word Wall
In this self-contained high school classroom, the teacher has students identify the beginning sound in a word, then selects a student to match the beginning sound of a word to the correct letter on the word wall.
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Pbs: Conveying a Clear Message
In this self-contained high school classroom, a teacher supports her student in being persistent in her communication attempt. They use both the student's verbal abilities and her augmentative communication system to try and convey a...
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Pbs: Indicating Letters With an Eye Gaze System
The video demonstrates effective strategies for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities in literacy instruction, in particular the eye gaze system.
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Pbs: Setting a Purpose for Reading Story Map, Part 3
This video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, demonstrates how to set a purpose then listen to see if you can find the solution.
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Pbs: Setting a Purpose for Reading Story Map, Part 1
In this video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, the teacher uses a literature book to set a purpose for reading and the students successfully listen to achieve the purpose: to identify the...
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Pbs: How Do We Know What the Character Is Feeling
This video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, demonstrates how to identify how the character feels in a story.
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Pbs: Big Paper Writing: Strategies for Students With Cognitive Disabilities
This video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, shows a classroom doing Big Paper Writing.
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Pbs: Setting a Purpose for Reading Story Map, Part 2
In this video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, students are asked to identify the story elements, specifically the problem in the story.