Organizing for Literacy is a professional development series for implementing a balanced early literacy program based on apprenticeship theory. The series presents a complete early literacy resource, with the option of using individual videos to focus on a specific area of need. The programs illustrate the reciprocal nature of teaching and learning across a range of reading and writing events. Each program is designed to allow you to view it in its...

Learning about literacy is a social act. Young children develop the necessary skills they will need to be competent and confident readers and writers from the people around them and their environment. Children need to know about their language(s) and the sounds and all about print and its uses. They need to develop a love of books and storytelling and have the confidence to express themselves, use their imagination and be creative. It is young children's...

The first three months of life are portrayed in detail, concentrating on communication and showing how the encouragement of early interaction lays the foundations for a satisfying relationship right from the start. The film follows three babies and their interactions with their families. It shows how to help stimulate and understand communicative behaviour and establish a rewarding relationship during the babies’ first few months of life.

Originally published 1995 in Spanish under title: Parlem de Jesus. Also published 1996 in French under title: Parlons de Jesus.

The hopes, fears, and aspirations of adolescence are expressed in the close friendship of two Afghan boys. As their acceptance of the filmmakers leads them to express their feelings more and more openly, the film grows rich in fact and themes of universal concern.

A story-poem about the activities of such unusual animals as the Nook, Wump, Yink, Yop, Gack, and the Zeds.

Demonstrates that "hands are not for hitting" by suggesting many positive uses for them, such as saying hello, playing, creating, and helping.

A “measured and haunting” modern gothic tale (New York Times Book Review) from the author of The Pilot’s Wife and The Weight of Water-the story of one man’s attempt to uncover the obsessions that killed a neighbor and blinded a beautiful girl seventeen years earlier.