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Series Details

Subjects:
Language Arts
Grade Levels:
Primary, Elementary
Program Length:
Nine 15-minute lessons
Record Rights:
School Year, Available for losn or purchase, CC
Producer/Distributor:
AIT

Series Website

Air Dates

Air One
Lessons 1-2
November 5, 2008
from 5:00-5:30 a.m.
Lessons 3-9
November 7, 2008
from 3:30-5:15 a.m.

Air Two
Lessons 1-8
April 15, 2009
from 3:30-5:30 a.m.
Lesson 9
April 17, 2009
from 3:30-3:45 a.m.

Web Sites

Read, Write, Think
This site from the International Reading Association has lesson plans and a large collection of online student interactives designed to support literacy learning in the K-12 classroom.

Reading Rockets
This site from WETA provides a variety of resources all focused around building reading skills in young readers.

Houghton Mifflin English K-5
This site has writing tips, games, graphic organizers, and activities designed to improve language arts skills.

Reading Rainbow
Contest

Click here to learn more about the Reading Rainbow Young Writers and Illustrators Contest for children in grades K-5.

INTO THE BOOK

Join a group of ordinary students using powerful learning strategies to enter the world of the story. Each episode shows students how they can use these strategies when reading fiction, nonfiction, or everyday text. Each episode focuses on a specific reading strategy and shows several different ways that learners use the strategy to increase their enjoyment and understanding of the text. Viewers even get into a student’s imagination for a clever insight into the strategy at work. A complete curriculum resource including interactive online components, teacher’s guide, and printable graphics are also available at the INTO THE BOOK website.

Episodes

1.USING PRIOR KNOWLEDGE
In this episode, Mrs. Pingel teaches the students the strategy of activating prior knowledge. During a read-aloud of The Story of Kate Shelley, Emmet is so engaged that he goes "into the book" and helps Kate. He then uses the strategy to help him with his rock climbing.
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2.MAKING CONNECTIONS
Mrs. Pingel teaches students how to make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections using a newspaper article. Dring self-selected reading, Julia goes into ther book "Solo Girl," where she is able to help a character named Cass by making connections. Later the strategy is useful in her karate class.
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3.QUESTIONING
Mrs. Pingel uses a National Geographic magazine to model the questioning strategy. During a science lesson, Kamilah's own questions pull her into her Ranger Rick article about otters, where the otters themselves help her answer her questions. She later uses her new questioning skills to help a frantic zookeeper.
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4.VISUALIZING
Mrs. Pingel's students are introduced to the strategy of visualizing in their music class, then explore the process further during a small group guided reading lesson.
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5.INFERRING
Mrs. Pingel uses a movement activity to introduce her students to the strategy of inferring. When the class receives letters from their French Canadian pen pals, Lizzy realizes she needs to infer to understand hers. She soon finds herself inside a letter filled with humor and adventure. She later uses inferring to solve a mystery in her own attic.
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6.SUMMARIZING
Mrs. Pingel models the summarizing strategy with a book of short biographies about National Park rangers. As they search for what is important in the stories during paired reading, Conlin goes into his story and uses the strategy to save an injured hiker. His newfound summarizing abilities even help him during games at the park with his friends.
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7.EVALUATING
While students are doing research for a science project, Mrs. Pingel realizes they are ready for a new strategy. She introduces evaluating using class book reviews and examples from students' own lives. Malaika begins evaluating the books, Web sites and other resources she has gathered for her topic. She is drawn into a NASA web site, where she has to use the strategy to get out of a space emergency in her own rocket ship. She also manages to use the strategy to get a new dog from the Humane Society.
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8.SYNTHESIZING
In this episode, Mrs. Pingel teaches the students the strategy of activating prior knowledge. During a read-aloud of The Story of Kate Shelley, Emmet is so engaged that he goes "into the book" and helps Kate. He then uses the strategy to help him with his rock climbing.
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9.USING STRATEGIES TOGETHER

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ITV Database

You can search the Instructional Television Database by subject and grade level. For each series you will find detailed episode descriptions, schedules, related series, and links to related web resources. For many series you will also find lesson plans and streaming video. You can also find programming information in the 2007-2008 Knowledge Network Program Guide. This guide is in PDF format and you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to access it.

Find an ITV Program

Video On Demand

You can access selected series on the web via videostreaming. Some of the series are password protected. Contact the Knowledge Network for the password for your school or SAU. Home schools can also be issued a password. You will need RealPlayer to access these online videos. Recording Online Videos: If you are using the latest version of RealPlayer, you can also download videos to your RealPlayer Library.
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