Teaching Content Is Teaching Reading

[makeiteasyable]

nice.. ur the best

[rh001YT]

If the parent values the child's education a clean and orderly home wil be provided and quiet study time enforced. The parent will not put his/her vanities ahead of the child's educative needs. The child will also be educated as to the ways of the world - gradually of course. The poor and/or hedonistic who teach their child to resent will reap their harvest of rotten fruit, and of course blame it on others. Dominance usally comes to the calm and ascetic types - university studies are not needed.

[rh001YT]

Does anyone think a study is needed to prove that distractions are or are not OK while learning the martial arts of Asia? The master requires total obedience to his will and total obedience to one's own will. If you pay attention to a distraction your will has come under the control of another. When you study in total concentration you are obeying the master and yourself - no others allowed. Then you must be tested and test yourself. Is this not obvious?

[jroyc07]

Ed 703????

[thisbirdsgotsoul]

Some very good points were made. However, I was very distracted at 7:24 by the bulletin board that had the word "marvelous" spelled wrong... ;)

[bizauer]

This is one of the best videos I've seen discussing bridging the gap between reading and understanding. I read "Why Students Don't Like School" by Dr. Willingham, and the information displayed here is elaborated on in his book. It is definately worth the read...hopefully you can continue to bridge the gap with your learning as well!

[sbeyer12]

Thank you so much for sharing! this is my belief as well. I will share this with my staff!

[Aritul]

Very informative video.

[jesuskopp]

very nice I agree!!!

[Speed202]

Lock and Load teachers.....

[jugazuhe]

congratulations.

[SayWahNot]

So true! Would add: reading aloud helps students learn the voice of a text. That's one reason theatre helps reading. Also helpful, to begin to see reading as conversation across time and space, a link to other human beings we can question, converse with, argue back to. That's why reading aloud even to high schoolers is important. Until they can HEAR Shakespeare, they can't read Shakespeare. Same for Emerson, or the Declaration of Independence. Thanks for this video.

[srinsriram]

really well made.. the music kept me engaged! of course, I didn't have to be persuaded about the main thesis... it seems remarkably peculiar that process is emphasized (in elementary school) over content

[whitestringofpearls]

I love this, too. You can't think at the "higher" levels of Bloom's until you have something to think about, right? How can I evaluate or synthesize when I have no "knowledge" to work with?

[nneworleans2000]

This video doesn't prove that homeschooling is better than other forms of educating children. It highlights the fact that educators must focus on critical thinking skills. Using language arts instructional time to teach language arts in mini-lessons and incorporate project-based learning help students to see observe, create, and understand knowledge. In short, Prof. Willingham shows us that we need to think about content and strategies.

[jenluv37]

Every reading teacher needs to watch this video . . . especially elementary teachers. If K-5 doesn't give a base, 6-12 don't have a shot at age appropriate comprehension!

[dbw8m]

Amen

[kangarc]

@jenluv37 : Actually, most teachers already know this and agree, but they have no say in the curriculum and its priorities. It's the administrators and school-board policy-wonks who typically don't understand this, and don't care to learn.

[yumyumyumify]

I love this! I teach reading and we discuss these things in class. I will show this video to my students! Thank you very much for posting this.

[lweingarden]

Please please PLEASE, post this video on TeacherTube!! I can see it from my home but my school system blocks YouTube so I can't share it with my colleagues!!!!

[abelltube]

You can't put too much water into a nuclear reactor. - A monty python sketch.

[BillyDumbasterisk]

I am so thankful to be homeschooling my kids! We read, talk and learn about life together. Thanks for confirming my choice. I will be posting this to facebook for my friends to read.

[Jinks1951]

This is a great video! I'm a school librarian also a reading specialist -- mostly I like to develop readers. I like to encourage wide interests and building curiosity among my elementary students. This is especially important with "disadvantaged" out-of-the-mainstream students. I will save this video.

[edennist]

I left teaching elementary science 2 years ago because reading had become the monster that ate the curriculum. I couldn't convince teachers that engaging students through rich science activities paired with great science books (not text books) would be a far more effective instructional strategy than using leveled fiction books of dubious quality. The school I left dismantled my science lab the next year and hired more literacy coaches. Reading scores have not improved.

*sigh*

[jsesky]

a literacy coach couldn't agree with you more!

[SherryHutchins]

I just turned in my Master's thesis on the importance of being able to read content knowledge. My professor sent me the link for your video. Excellent! Thanks for sharing such a vital idea.

[mr5tein]

Are you saying students actually need to learn stuff? I thought that's what Google and their personal learning networks were for...

[2255babies]

Thanks for the vid~ really a great help for me~

[msufan66]

...and this is why wealthy children read better. They have the life experiences to lend meaning to more of what they read.

[dbw8m]

Agreed, this seems to be a very important factor--wealthy families can provide a richer home environment. . .

[MiaZgra]

All children can go to the library. There are a wealth of children's authors who write about math, science, history, baseball - anything and everything. Any parent can take their kids to the post office and teach them about mail. Any parent can take their kids to the grocery store. You don't have to be well-traveled or well off to have life experiences. Life experiences happen to everyone, regardless of whether they are "wealthy" or not.

[mr5tein]

Why do you think wealthy children have more life experiences? Seriously, I would think wealthy children have _less_ day-to-day learning experiences. I grew up lower-middle-class and my memories teem with life experiences, e.g. (as MiaZgra points out) from running errands with my parents, reading, listening to the news, etc.

[dbw8m]

ON AVERAGE, kids from wealthy homes hear a more varied vocab., are talked to more, more often go to libraries, museums, are asked their views and opinions by parents more often. . .these data are from studies in which observers go into homes and just record what happens. . .

[kangarc]

@dbw8m : The data shows that you're right about wealth being a predictor of academic achievement, but wrong about the correlation with going to museums and libraries, and being read to. For whatever reason, it's been very difficult to determine WHY economic advantage so often equals academic advantage.

[rh001YT]

@dbw8m Families are "wealthy" usually because the father, and sometimes mother, are the descendants of a lineage that metaphored-up at sometime in the past, or it could be that the father was the first in his lineage to do so, and lived in a place where affluence was attainable (thus, not Nepal for the most part). Poor parents often discourage abstract thinking (metaphor) in their children out of their own vanity. I encourage children to understand the ratty game and manuever up & out of it.

[rvictor46]

It might interest you to know that there is a current movement in developmental literacy to infuse more non-fiction in the early grades. There have been many good books published for early readers and for developing readers, too. The International Reading Association identifies books each year for children and young adults that are particularly good books to use with students. Also, NCTM, NSTA, and NCSS publish lists of books [many keyed to standards] to use with students.

[dbw8m]

I have heard this. . .I hope it gains traction. . . .read alouds are important too!

[rvictor46]

Ok - I'll buy the importance of prior knowledge. Just one question: If you prior knowledge is essential for comprehension, how do you get any [through reading] anyway??? In order to read unfamiliar text, you must have comprehension strategies --

[dbw8m]

Right, as the %age of material in the passage that is familiar drops, it gets harder to understand, and most people quit trying when it gets below 80% or so. I'm sure that reading strategies can push that a little lower. . .but most people don't use them in everyday contexts. . . they quit.

[rvictor46]

Which is why teachers need to help students develop academic persistence! I agree that we need to use informational text in the early grades as students are learning to read - it is a win, win situation. Informational text is the kind of text adults encounter most often in the "real world" and it is increasingly the kind of text students are required to deal with as they move through middle and high school.

[dbw8m]

Agreed! And in early grades when students can't get much from reading themselves, there are other ways of conveying this information, of course: read-alouds, etc.

[mr5tein]

And educational video, whether aimed at kids or not, Bill Nye, History Channel, Discovery channel--I watch shows like this with my first-grader whenever he is interested, and we ask and answer questions about what we see and hear. If his mother and I are talking about politics, we might summarize it for him so he not only feels participant, but he can learn something, too. To me we have such a wealth of accessible, media-rich information there's lots for kids to explore and learn from.

[tozzer577]

as a teacher for geography and social studies: thank you so much!

[emctigue]

This video is such an excellent explanation for future teachers. I'm using it in my Reading in the Content Area Class.

[enuffer]

Wow - what a great way to teach this critical info to both prospective teachers and the general public! I am so impressed.

Okay now - be honest - how much time did it take to put this together?

[dbw8m]

Thanks! I'm not sure how long I spent on it, but it was a looong loooong time. . . .