Time for nonfiction /

Journey with Tony Stead as he explores many amazing ways to make nonfiction reading and writing come alive in the classroom. This four-part video set takes you inside two classrooms at The Manhattan New School where Tony works with first-grade teacher Lauren Benjamin and third-grade teacher Lisa Eli...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stead, Tony
Other Authors: Benjamin, Lauren, Moynihan, Lisa Elias
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Portland, ME : Stenhouse Publishers, 2004.
Series:Education in video.
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Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:Journey with Tony Stead as he explores many amazing ways to make nonfiction reading and writing come alive in the classroom. This four-part video set takes you inside two classrooms at The Manhattan New School where Tony works with first-grade teacher Lauren Benjamin and third-grade teacher Lisa Elias Moynihan. Watch how literacy centers literally come alive in the classroom and see some of the original ways students respond to their nonfiction reading. Learn how to organize a nonfiction classroom library and to support children as they select appropriate texts. From learning about frogs, crows, and static electricity, to debating whether zoos should exist, you'll enjoy watching the whole-class mini-lessons that successfully integrate the content areas with language process.
Physical Description:1 online resource (126 min.)
Audience:For teachers of Primary students.