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Channel Highlights
Write to the Point
News Writing teaches writing, reporting, editing, and communicating information in the public interest, including insights from 100 journalists working in print, radio, and television. With Teaching Reading, 3-5, intermediate elementary teachers learn how to help their students transition from "learning to read" to "reading to learn." The series features leading experts who discuss current research on learning to read and teaching strategies that help build fluency, vocabulary and comprehension. Making Meaning in Literature: A Workshop for Teachers, Grades 6-8 offers teachers practical ways to help their students develop lifelong enthusiasm for reading.
America's Story
Looking for a new approach to teaching America's history? Consider America's History in the Making. It explores American history from the Pre-Columbian era through Reconstruction, with programs divided into three sections: historical era overviews, biographies of individuals that illustrate larger events, and a behind-the-scenes look at how history is studied, documented, and presented. Primary Sources uses primary-source documents to research and interpret American history and features informal lectures on pivotal events from the settlement of Jamestown to the Cold War. Look for its companion series, A Biography of America, which brings history to life through first-person narratives.
Learning Channels
Test your assumptions about how children learn with Annenberg Channel teacher workshops and courses. The Learning Classroom: Theory Into Practice illustrates a variety of learning theories with applications to classroom practice and is appropriate for grades K-12 and all subject areas. Looking at Learning...Again, Part 1 features seven leading educators who share their ideas on how children really learn-an important step toward improving mathematics and science teaching. The Whole Child: A Caregiver's Guide to the First Five Years provides latest information about child development and childcare in the critical years from birth to the age of five.
A World of Choices
Ethics in America II is a new collection of programs that explore gripping ethical dilemmas using the time-honored Socratic Dialogue format. Eminent leaders from government, business, science, and academia debate some of the most difficult questions Americans face as individuals and as a country. Featuring communities around the world that are grappling with major socioeconomic change, Human Geography: People, Places, and Change combines economic and cultural geography to explore the relationships between humans and their natural environment, and the broad social patterns that shape human societies. Exploring the World of Music changes the tune, with an introduction to music with a global perspective.
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