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Words Alive!: Video Workshop for Teachers

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Clip 1: Introduction

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Clip 2: Word Walls

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Clip 3: Student Involvement

The 90-minute video workshop for teachers, Words Alive!: Building Vocabulary and Stimulating Writing, focuses on multi-sensory activities that use Word Walls (large displays of words, phrases, sentences, and symbols selected by students) and Commonplace Books (multi-sensory journals and annotated personal anthologies) to help students improve both their vocabularies and their writing skills.

The video workshop includes footage of teachers participating in the Words Alive! workshop presented at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, interviews with the workshop leader, Dr. John C. Carr, about issues related to the implementation of the ideas presented as well as interviews with participating teachers about the benefits of such work for students.

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Clip 4: Commonplace Books

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Clip 5: Benefits to Students