Teaching Content Is Teaching Reading

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!!!!

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

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.

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.

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*

a literacy coach couldn't agree with you more!

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. . .

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.

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.