Yoneko Kanichy
ED 638
Dr. M.N. Rivera
Fall 2018 Intersession
Rewordify.com, http://rewordify.com/, a powerful and free literacy website is dedicated
to improving reading, learning, and teaching aimed at improved learner’s comprehension
level. This app is free, fast, and safe
for all users. Both students and parents
can become members and have access for a better and monitored learning. Created by Neil M. Goldman, this site’s aim
is to help more people understand materials read to enhance their reading
skills. After ten years of teaching experience, Mr. Goldman realized the need
to further build on reading skills and decided to develop an app for struggling readers who need to work very hard to
understand materials read. He further stressed that despite the fact that
dictionaries are already in place the help is minimal. As a result, he created this
site to allow all learners the opportunity to attain their maximum capability.
This application eliminates the difficulty to understand words and replaces
them with simplified words while keeping as much of the original meaning
as possible. Being a user-friendly site, it gently introduces learners to new
words, teaches meaning, and empowers them to make necessary changes as they see
fit for enhanced learning.
The goal of Rewordify.com is to build on its
learners reading comprehension and vocabulary development by making the
language easier to understand. It also allows the ability of rewording sentences
or paragraphs in simplified forms. This app is an important part of reading
instructions and vocabulary instructions for ESL students, people with reading
disabilities, people with a learning disability, or anyone who wants to improve
reading skill. Benefits of this app
includes saving time when reading hard texts, improves comprehension and
self-confidence, improves vocabulary and word retention, reduces frustration
and improves comprehension just to name a few. This site has received several
positive comments from various educators which includes “pretty remarkable”,
“one of the most innovative websites”, “this is amazing”, “a fantastic web
app”, “excellent tool to enhance comprehension”, “makes your life easier” etc.
With the use of rewordify.com,
materials will become simplified to boost understanding. When understanding is in place for sure learning
will become productive. As
educators, we ought to learn more about this app and utilize it in the learning
environment especially that it’s free of charge. Since we are ESL learners, this tool is matches
our capability and is more appropriate for our use to maximize learning.
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