Technology Products
Technology Products
CORE Online Learning Library and Instructional Video Series
Ensure that your staff has access to instant and ongoing professional development resources to improve their daily instruction with CORE’s powerful Instructional Video Series and Online Learning Library.
The CORE Online Learning Library
By enhancing your professional development with the CORE Online Learning Library, all of your educators receive just-in-time, high-quality learning tools. The on-demand features of the resources give your staff the convenience to review the information as many times as necessary to reach mastery.
The entire CORE Online Learning Library includes five content libraries, which can be customized to meet the needs of your district or school site.
- The Literacy Library (including the following content)
- Open Court Reading OR
- Houghton Mifflin Reading
- The English Language Learner Library
- The Effective Instructional Strategies Library
- The New Teacher Support Library
- The Mathematics Library
Each content library includes
- Video resources of research-based best practices in action in actual classrooms
- Text resources designed to deepen understanding, with research summaries that support the featured practice, including why and how the practice works
- Graphical models that enable participants to manipulate and engage with the content and promote greater understanding of complex topics and key ideas
- Communication and collaboration tools designed to support ongoing communication among professional learning community members and provide a virtual forum for participants to collaborate and process new learning
Instructional Video Series
Blending Routines DVD
Blending Routines spotlights the four different methods used by most commercial reading and language arts core and intervention programs to teach students to sound out and blend words. The video includes demonstrations of sound-by-sound blending and continuous blending, which are important techniques for beginning readers; whole-word blending for students who have more mastery; and spelling-focused blending to help students transition to automatic word blending. The use of each blending method is discussed and time for participants to practice each method is included.
Running time: 19 minutes, 6 seconds
Audience: K–12 literacy educators
Format: DVD
Foundation Skills for Teaching Reading DVD
Foundation Skills for Teaching Reading is a three-video set designed to provide educators with an understanding of the linguistic underpinnings of learning to read and two critical foundational skills essential for reading success: phonics and multisyllabic word attack skills. These topics do not represent all of the components of learning to read. However, by understanding the structure of English phonemes, basic principles of phonics instruction, and multisyllabic word instruction, educators will have the knowledge necessary to help students decode words rapidly and accurately, which in turn leads to fluency, a necessary condition for reading comprehension.
Running time: 49 minutes, 19 seconds
Audience: K–12 literacy educators
Format: DVD
CORE Reading Coach Video and Facilitator Guide
The CORE Reading Coach Video models a three-phase strategy for a coach that includes initiating and planning, executing, and reflecting and giving feedback. Coaches can use the strategies to help teachers learn program routines, identify needs and instructional procedures for struggling students, and use data to plan important adjustments. The video helps coaches develop strong listening skills, analytical skills, leadership skills, flexibility, persistence, empathy, and creativity. It is designed to be used with groups of coaches as part of their personal professional development, or it may be used at school sites to assist the coach-administrator team.
The Facilitator Guide contains a sample one-day agenda for a professional development session and provides a blackline master for participant handouts.
Running time: 20 minutes, 30 seconds
Audience: Reading coaches and administrators
Format: DVD and booklet
Testimonials
"CORE's second edition of the Teaching Reading Sourcebook joins my collection of great books for making a difference in scientifically based practices. Combined with Assessing Reading: Multiple Measures, these resources provide a practical link to instructional planning by showing what to assess and how to interpret the data for good decisions."
– Mark R. Shinn, Ph.D.,
Professor of School Psychology, National Louis University
"San Bernardino City Unified School District has used CORE's Assessing Reading: Multiple Measures as a guiding tool in developing the district assessment plan for determining the types and frequency of assessment for individual students as well as determining placement in intervention programs. The second edition of Assessing Reading: Multiple Measures will continue to provide this guidance and support as we continue to refine the progress monitoring of our most fragile learners."
– Jean Snell, Director of Elementary Instruction,
San Bernardino City Unified School District
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Publications
CORE Sourcebook Package*
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Teaching Reading Sourcebook, 2nd Edition
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Assessing Reading: Multiple Measures, 2nd Edition
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