Volume 2, Edition 11 – Using Video to Teach Literacy

Welcome to this week’s edition of Best Practices Weekly. Today we’ll be discussing best practices for using video to teach literacy.

Videos are often seen in a negative light when it comes to their use for serious academic instruction in the elementary grades. In an article for The Reading Teacher, two NYU professors discuss what recent research has shown about the most effective ways to use video to supplement literacy instruction.

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