Effective Literacy Website #4

Jessica Herry

ED638-41

Dr. Rivera

01/03/19

Sesame Street

            Sesame Street is a website that provides activities and tips for the challenges and joys of reading and writing. Its supports can make a huge difference in the life of a young child.

            You can find different topics on this website that fits your desire. Literacy is one of the topics that help educators especially parents, teachers, and providers for children’s literacy skills. This website provides activities such as printable, videos, and more on topics to help the families you work for. This website helps build vocabularies and comprehension skills and helps prepare children to succeed in school.

            Under the Type menu on the literacy page, you will find storybooks, printable, videos, article, interactive, and workshops. Under the Time menu, you may select the duration between 1-10+ minutes and search for the selected activity you want for that time. The activities are fun, especially for children at these ages. Children are interested with pictures, videos, animations, and even reading along with parents. Parents are children’s first and most important teachers.

            There are also training videos, webinars, courses and interactive trainings, events, and forums set up on the website as professional developments for parents. Reading together opens doors to new and exciting worlds. Nurturing an early love of reading helps kids build vocabulary and comprehension skills, which prepare them to succeed in school…and in life!

https://sesamestreetincommunities.org/topics/reading/

Effective Literacy #4 Oxford Owl

Peter Enicar

ED 638 Fall Intersession 2018

Dr. M.Rivera

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website #4

Oxford Owl (https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk) is an award-winning website from Oxford University Press, created to support children’s learning both at home and at school. You can find top tips and fun ideas to help you support your child’s learning at school or home. On the website, you can find out more about our phonics, home learning and children's fiction books, and discover expert book recommendations to nurture a love of reading. It has fun games and activity sheets designed to support the English and math skills needed at primary school.

Navigating the education system can be tricky sometimes. The things children are expected to learn and the way they are taught at school have changed since many of us were at school. As parents, we all want the very best for our child, but finding the right advice and resources can be a challenge.

Oxford Owl for Home is written specially for parents to help you be as well-informed as you can be, making sure you’re best equipped to help your child have the smoothest journey through school possible. From learning to read to understanding a tricky bit of math, from the first day at school to making sense of exams, Oxford Owl can provide the important information you need when you need it. Written by leading experts in education, the site is full of advice and ideas to help you to help your child.

Starfall

Catherine Gonzalez

ED638-41

January 2, 2019

Effective Literacy Exploration #4

Starfall is a website for children who teach them the basic reading and writing skills. This website is catered to preschoolers, kindergarteners, and 1^st graders. Browsing through the website I found a parent-teacher center with supplemental resources and games for students to use as a reinforcement.

The student’s website allows students to learn in an environment of imagination and play. Students have a variety of games to choose from while on the main page. It is very interactive and animated. Students will be able to learn about their alphabets, learn how to read, phonics, and have fun while reading. Not only does this website touch on the reading skills but also the basic writing skills. Students will be able to form sentences and be able to write different types of writing such as writing letters to people. The parent-teacher center website is available for everyone. It provides worksheets, curriculum downloads, informative guides, and the latest Starfall news. The website meets and exceeds state and Common Core standards ensuring students will be ready for the next grade level.

Website: http://more.starfall.com/?

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.

IRA #4- CommonLit

Drystal Silbanuz

ED 638- Teaching with the Internet

Dr. M. Rivera

Fall Intersession 2018

International Reading Association Newsletter: Effective Literacy Website #4

            Commonlit (https://www.commonlit.org/) offer resources that are flexible, research-based, aligned to Common Core State standards, and are created by teachers for teachers. Its resources are free and for students in grades 3-12. From various leveled texts of poems, short stories, historical documents filtering can be applied either by grade, theme, genre, etc. Almost all passages have footnotes that include vocabulary words and background information of the text. Teachers can use the rich literacy based resources to plan and implement engaging lessons that aims to assist and improve student’s reading needs within a specific theme. A fast filter can assist to find the leveled passage for student’s reading in one common theme or topic. CommonLit has a reading toolbar that makes it easier to access for students who are reading based on their reading level and ability. Also included are the discussion questions to boost student’s critical thinking about the reading during or after. Such resources surely contribute to building of student’s background knowledge on a specific topic.

Effective Literacy Website #4: Quill.org

            Quill.org is an interactive website that provides students with online grammar practice. Students can practice combining multiple ideas into a single, grammatically correct sentence. They can also practice identifying and correcting fragments, punctuation placement, and much more. Quill.org is able to provide students with instant feedback so students can see and correct any errors they make as they go along. It is important to note that the website will count all errors, even an incorrectly capitalized word. It ensures students take their time while writing / typing, which is great because many students rush through their seatwork. Quill.org will reward students who actually take their time and carefully review their work before submitting.

            Sentence practices are broken down into a variety of topics. Teachers can choose leveled texts from 1st grade through university levels. This is a great way for teachers to provide differentiated instruction for each and every student.

Quill.org is able to import student rosters directly from Google Classroom with a click of a button to make it easier for teachers to use. The website also offers a diagnostic test that can assess the needs of the students and display the relevant data to guide teacher instruction. Teachers are able to view class performance at a glance and see what skills their students are proficient in and what skills need to be retaught.