Informative video for parents of all school students
Schools across the nation are looking for ways to help parents enhance literacy for their children at home. Dismally low reading scores coupled with severe budgetary restraints emphasize the need to find and promote creative methods that will help improve literacy skills. Viewing captioned media is an effective tool to do this, as demonstrated by research done by a variety of individuals and agencies. While most TV programs and videos shown at home are already captioned, most people are unaware of their beneficial qualities or how to access the captions to make the most out of this technology. Since captions already exist, and children and families all watch television and videos, there is a need for promoting the use of viewing captions to families, so they can participate more actively and fully in the development of literacy skills at home. This is not an attempt to advocate television watching, but to make TV a literacy tool by harnessing the power of captions to help kids learn to read, or to read better.
"Watch Your Language" is a short videotape that schools can provide to parents which will clearly explain and demonstrate:
what captions are
the benefits of captioning
how to find the hidden captions
laws
tips for getting children of all ages to watch videos or television with captions turned on
techniques for building literacy skills based on vocabulary and language appearing on captions.
"Watch Your Language" Can Help to Improve Literacy Skills!
Use it as an extra tip at any educational meeting.
Launch an in-depth session for staff on literacy.
Encourage caption use at Parent-Teacher Organization meetings.
Integrate it into a School District based reading remediation plan.
Offer it as a resource in your library.
Use it for teachers in professional development sessions.
Enable teachers to share it with individual parents.
Include it with other instructional best practices.
Show it as a public service on school district cable television.
Use it with Adult Literacy and ESL programs.
Purchase "Watch Your Language" from Caption*Lit!
Individual copies are $20, which includes shipping.
Large discounts available for multiple copies.
Phone 215-485-0094 or FAX 215-836-9348.