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​Elementary ELA Video Resources


​Video Playlist: Five Essential Practices in the Elementary ELL Classroom - This is a new series from the Teaching Channel, in partnership with SFUSD, that steps inside SFUSD classrooms where teachers are using strategies to engage and support all learners, especially their English Language Learners (ELLs).

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UDL: Principles and Practice
Analyzing Informational Text
Building Community
National Center on Universal Design for Learning Director David Rose explains how UDL helps meet the most pressing issues facing educators today. Drawing on brain research and the latest learning sciences, Dr. Rose describes the three UDL principles and what they mean for classroom practice.
Length: 7 minutes         Grade Level: ALL     
Speaker: David Rose                                                        
​Organization: National Center on Universal Design for Learning
In this video, Ms. Brewer has her students discuss, analyze and write about informational text. Length: 5 minutes                      Grade Level: 5th grade          School: Stevenson Elementary
Teacher: Stacy Brewer               Location: Bellevue, WA
This video highlights the importance of building community and provides possible structures that allow for student independence.  Length: 6 minutes
Teacher: Madeline Noonan        Grade Level: 5th grade        
School:
Think College Now School        Location: Oakland, CA
Managing Transitions
In this video, Ms. Noonan discusses and demonstrates ideas for classroom management that maximize learning time.  Length: 5 minutes    Teacher:  Madeline Noonan    
​Grade Level:  5th grade     School:  Think College Now School     Location: Oakland, California
Morning Meeting
In this video, Ms. Noonan weaves the building blocks of Academic Conversations, including sentence frames and vocabulary development, together with infusing metacognition into the regular routine of a Morning Meeting.  
Length: 4 minutes       Teacher:  Madeline Noonan     Grade Level:  5th grade    
School: 
Think College Now School     Location: Oakland, California
Interactive Read-Aloud
In this video, Ms. Noonan demonstrates the use of a picture book read-aloud and literature discussion with a concrete purpose that will support students as they take on deeper thinking about more complex texts. 
Length:  5 minutes
Teacher:  Madeline Noonan     Grade Level:  5th grade     School:  Think College Now School     Location: Oakland, California
Differentiation
In this video, Ms. Porfirio’s first grade students have the opportunity to assess themselves as learners and choose how they will retell a popular folktale.  The teacher highlights the way she makes learning accessible to all students and the students have the opportunity to reflect on what they learned from the experience.  Length: 13 minutes
Teacher:  Melissa Porfirio     Grade Level:  1st grade     School:  Crestwood Elementary School     Location: Springfield, VA
Academic Conversations
In this video, Ms. Hartman facilitates a whole-class discussion about an informational text that was read aloud.  She gives students the opportunity to practice conversational skills that they have learned, prompts them to further each other’s thinking, and insists that they return to the text as the basis for their discussion.  
Length
: 6 minutes (Begin at 2:00 after introduction)
Teacher:  Amanda Hartman     Grade Level:  2nd grade     Location: New York, NY
Check out these videos highlighting the use of digital technology in the classroom!
Poetry Workstations
In this video, students analyze and explore poetry through a class blog and podcasting.
​Length: 2 minutes         Grade Level: 4-8    
Speaker: Kerri McAllister                                                        
​School:  Bonne Ecole Elementary School    Location: Slidell, Louisiana
Using Technology to Boost Confidence
In this video, students use technology to build communication skills.
Length: 2 minutes         Grade Level: ALL     
Teacher: Jo Paraiso                                                       
​Organization: Oakland Unified School District
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