ORC Resource Types

Discipline: English Language Arts

Professional Commentary: The Lab School in Washington, D.C. serves children with learning disabilities.  This video shows master teacher Pam Knudsen as she demonstrates one-on-one tutoring to help a child develop phonemic awareness and phonics.  Highlighted is an activity for phonemic blending using letter/sound association. To play this clip, a copy of the free RealOne Player is required. Most computers already have it installed, or you can download it using the link available at the Reading Rockets website.  (author/jlkrause) 

Discipline: English Language Arts

Professional Commentary: This video clip filmed at DeZavala Elementary School in San Marcos, TX shows a lesson for second grade students on the "bossy r".  The teacher takes on the role of the "bossy r" to demonstrate how the letter "r" controls nearby vowels.  The children are learning the association between the letters and sounds, the spelling pattern, and the reliability of this letter/sound association.  The teacher introduces this spelling pattern in isolation and later in the context of a newspaper. To play this clip, a copy of the free RealOne Player is required. Most computers already have it installed, or you can download it using the link available at the Reading Rockets website.  (author/jlkrause)

Discipline: Mathematics

Professional Commentary: This opening chapter in the PRIME: PRompt Intervention in Mathematics Education monograph describes the rationale for the PRIME initiative funded by the Ohio Department of Education. The PRIME monograph provides a review of the research literature related to prompt intervention and identifies a range of successful methods and programs....

Discipline: Mathematics

Professional Commentary: This second chapter in the PRIME: PRompt Intervention in Mathematics Education monograph describes a number of models that school leaders can consider when designing intervention programs for children. These models are more concerned with early intervention for children in need of assistance than as remediation for those who have been unsuccessful throughout their schooling experiences....

Discipline: Mathematics

Professional Commentary: This third chapter in the PRIME: PRompt Intervention in Mathematics Education monograph takes as its premise that good teaching is the best intervention for all students and explores the notion of culturally relevant pedagogy as one form of good teaching. A few successful intervention programs are described and research about students within the contexts of socioeconomic status, urban, rural, language (including English as a Second Language), and gender is discussed. (author/sw)

Discipline: Mathematics

Professional Commentary: This fourth chapter in the PRIME: PRompt Intervention in Mathematics Education monograph is a review of the literature related to family as an intervention factor in student success. Among the findings discussed are these: Parents’ involvement in their children’s education has been shown to have a positive impact on school achievement. Parental support has been found to have a greater impact on achievement than family characteristics....

Discipline: Mathematics

Professional Commentary: This fifth chapter in the PRIME: PRompt Intervention in Mathematics Education monograph focuses on the promotion of self-regulated learning as an intervention mechanism. Educators are beginning to think about their role in supporting young learners’ development as strategic learners. It is important for school and district-level administrators to implement plans for developing students’ learning behaviors in systematic, building-level programs across grade levels....

Discipline: Mathematics

Professional Commentary: This sixth chapter in the PRIME: PRompt Intervention in Mathematics Education monograph focuses on constructivist methods of teaching as a type of proactive intervention. However, recent studies show that not all students benefit from constructivist instruction without curricular and instructional modifications and adaptations. For a multitude of reasons, even best practice with modifications sometimes fails to reach some students, making small-group or individual intervention necessary....

Discipline: Mathematics

Professional Commentary: This seventh chapter in the PRIME: PRompt Intervention in Mathematics Education monograph focuses on curriculum as a mechanism for intervention. Mathematics has long been considered a highly organized and sequential subject....

Discipline: Mathematics

Professional Commentary: This eighth chapter in the PRIME: PRompt Intervention in Mathematics Education monograph asks you to stop and think about the use of technology in the modern day mathematics classroom. In many cases, the use of technology in the mathematics classroom is out of sync with the technology embraced in other aspects of our daily lives....