Literacy Unleashed

These companion videos to the book, Literacy Unleashed: Fostering Excellent Reading Instruction Through Classroom Visits introduce the concepts of the Literacy Classroom Visit Model (LCV), extend the content to help you visualize what it looks like in action, and convey how principals, literacy leaders, and district administrators can use the LCV structure in their schools and districts.

The video clips are in order as they are presented in the book.

A district team gathers together to conduct LCVs in one elementary school.

A teacher models the learning target in whole group and then monitors its application in small group and independent reading.

A 4th grade teacher delivers a whole-group lesson on making an inference about a character.

Small-group guided reading work connects to the whole-group lesson featured in Video 3.1.

During independent reading, the teacher assesses the application of the learning target modeled in Video 3.1 by conferring with individual students.

A principal and literacy coach share the LCV process at a staff meeting.

Five principals from one school district talk about how they informed their staff about the LCV Model and describe their teachers' reactions.

An LCV team receives orientation during a meeting at Jonathan Elementary School with Joan MacDonald, a guest principal, serving as the facilitator.

The Mounds View LCV team conducts its first classroom visit and then meets to calibrate the instrument.

The Mounds View team discusses strengths and needs identified in their LCVs.

Principals attending a four-day training sponsored by the Minnesota Elementary School Principals Association (MESPA) share their summary statements after school teams had conducted LCVs in each of their schools.

Principals at MESPA talk about whole-group instruction as an identified area of need.

A team from Gaithersburg Elementary School in Maryland meets to conduct LCVs, with a particular focus on independent reading.

Principals at MESPA ponder where to begin when multiple areas of need have been identified.

On day four of the four-day MESPA training, principals are trained in the LCV process.

Mounds View principals talk about the value of using the LCV Model in the whole district.

For your convenience, additional resources for the book are provided here. Some of these resources may require passwords to open, which are printed in the introduction of the book.