ELW #4 Reading Rockets

Cheryl Habuchmai

ED 638 Fall Intersession 2018

Dr. M. Rivera

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website #4

Reading Rockets http://www.readingrockets.org/audience/teachers is a national multimedia literacy initiative offering information and resources on how young kids learn to read, why so many struggle, and how caring adults can help. Reading Rockets was created to bring reading researches to life. It was also created to give teachers, librarians, administrators, parents and child care providers the best place to help understand and use the strategies and “what works” to children. There are so many resources available and easy to access on reading rockets and it is interesting because it also provides the guidelines to use if we choose a resource to use.

Clicking on the Teaching Reading section, can also gives us so many classroom strategies, proven ideas for the classroom, tips to share with parents, video of best practices, expert interviews, and the latest research on print awareness, the sounds of speech, phonemic awareness, phonics, informal assessment, fluency, vocabulary, spelling, comprehension, and writing. With these many resources a teacher will never run out of what to teach in the whole school year. The other section shares many ways to help struggling readers improve and become better in reading. It also gives examples of what kind of child facilitators assist and how they develop throughout their academic learning. Children books and authors are also available there too. Visiting Reading Rockets website can help a teacher get a quick access to getting free resources from a click of a button. This website provides all resources available in literacy from all grade levels.