Effective Literacy Website #3

Evenger Waltu

ED638 Intersession 2018

Dr. Rivera

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website #3

            Literacy Leader (https://www.literacyleader.com/) was created as your one-stop shop for reading teachers and learners with a wealth of resources for teaching literacy at all levels. The goal is to gather activities, strategies, and best practices in instruction for teaching students to effectively read, write, listen, speak, and think.

            Literacy Leader includes information about the five major components of reading: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension. We have also included ideas for reading intervention and have a special section on adolescent literacy. In addition to resources for writing, you will find ideas for effective instruction and motivation. New resources to support literacy education continue to be added regularly.

            The site has seven icons that would take you places. On the home icon. that is where you will find all the areas to visit as you go into the web. For the icon on Blog, you will find exercises on order of adjectives, conjunctions, grammar, use of leveled text, back to school reading, reading fluency, etc. When you click on these links, they will take you to

                 For conjunctions, most grammar texts define conjunctions as words that “join” or “connect,” and they are usually listed as function words. Content words (nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs) generally carry the meaning of a sentence while function words (determiners, conjunctions and prepositions) are the grammatical glue that holds the sentence together.   Therefore, grammar lessons on conjunctions should start with meaning. Teachers need to ensure that students understand what each conjunction means. I can place conjunctions into five general categories: temporal words (then, after, meanwhile), words that add equal information (and, additionally, also), words that show the opposite or a contrast (but, however, instead), words that demonstrate result (for, therefore, since), and words that state a conditional relationship (if, whether, unless)

            Under the icon that says differentiated activities, it says hat differentiated instruction is a practice used by many to make sure students learn. There isn't a single formula for creating a differentiated classroom, but there are key ideas about differentiation that teachers can pay attention to as they plan for student learning. At the same time under the reading link, we have reading assessment. This would really help and benefit not only the students but also the teachers. It talks about strategies on preparing tests and other guideline that we can use to help our reading programs. Then under the writing link, there are eight best practices that will help students to learn more writing. They are positive atmosphere, organize for writing, meaningful writing opportunities, reading and writing connection, writing across the content areas/writing to learn opportunities, constructive response to writing, collaboration, and mini lessons.

            All these will help students to improve their reading and writing skills. So because of this, I encourage you and I to implement some of the strategies we find on this site and improve literacy teaching and learning.