Effective Literacy Website 7

 

DeBrum T. Melander

ED638 Fall Intersession 2020

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy #7

Bookshare.org

          This website is an ebook library that is created to also tackle the barriers of dyslexic people to become more aware of the basic reading skills. Studies suggest that that if more students completed their school years with a basic reading level, it can reduce the poverty level in any society. Thus, Bookshare.org was designed to reach out to all people with reading disability.

          This website is funded by a non – profit organization called, Benetech. As their slogan reads, “Pioneering software for social good” the founder of this company not only financially supports this website but it also created software for this very purpose; to help struggling readers across the prism. As being an engineer student at a tech school, his desire was to develop a reading tool for the blind. Consequently, his dream became reality which one of the significant aspect of this website. Users can read more information about this amazing story in the “About” button at the bottom of the homepage.

          This website has the widest variety of ebooks in the world. When users become members of this website, they can access 949,248 titles of ebooks. This collection even contains books in more than 30 languages. More importantly, this library is supported by more than 800 publishers all over the world. Because this website is created for people with known reading disability, it is required for members to provide proof of their disability from recognized professionals.

          Because the website is funded by a non – profit organization, the cost for membership is free for students who are certified as “print disability” students. For non – students there is a puny amount for yearly memberships. The affordable prize will enable students to access books from this library to help them with their reading skills. 

          The creative mind of this pioneering founder to seek this type of effective reading technologies can positively change livelihoods in any society. Citizens will become productive citizens contributing to the society. With the statistics depicted in the website about people with reading barriers, more websites should be created to tackle this social issue.

 

Nickita Gilmete

ED 638 Fall Intersession

January 16, 2021

Farewell Reflection

Dr. Rivera and Classmates,

            Our course has come to an end, but the strategies and techniques learned from this course has just started. There are many new things learned from this course that will help me as a teacher. Even though I was challenged from the beginning of this course until the end I still learned a lot. I found out that there is nothing that is impossible, all we have to do is try our best and we can make it possible. Time was a challenge when taking this course, but I tried my best to make time for this class. During the Christmas break, I needed time for my family and this course, luckily I was able to make time for both my family and this course.

            Fellow classmates, I want to thank you all for the positive feedbacks and your help during this course. I want us to continue like this during this journey of working on our Masters. Your feedbacks and supports were very helpful and enables me to overcome the challenges of our assignments and works. Once again, thank you all.

            I want to thank you Dr. Rivera for everything I learned from this course. You were very patient with us and always answers our questions when we needed your help. Thank you for the commitment you made for us during our time together in this course.

 

 

 

Nickita Gilmete

ED 638 Fall Intersession 2020

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website #7

 

Epic

URL: https://www.getepic.com/about

            Epic is a website that makes books more accessible to kids. Epics is designed for kids so that they can read books on their electronic devices just like they play videogames and watch movies on their electronic devices. Epic gives families and classrooms unlimited access to thousands of books, videos, and quizzes to help kids everywhere read, learn, and grow. This website provides free access to thousands of books that children will love and these books are appropriate for students and children in kindergarten to sixth grade.  This website also feed the curiosity of every student. Epic has the right books at the right level and extra support with tools like Read-To-Me and Dictionary Look-ups. Epic also provide read-alouds, literacy centers, and research projects. Students can explore books in this website by grade level.

            I believe that Epic is an effective literacy website because students will read more books on this website and these books can help children with their literacy skills. Reading along with the read aloud will make students read fluently. These books in Epic will also help students and children when they will look up words that they do not know in the dictionary on this website. The read-to-me feature of Epic will also helps students who are beginning readers because they can use this feature and learn how to read. This website will be helpful for teachers because teachers can use this website to choose books from it for their reading lessons. I would recommend this website to other teachers, educators, parents, and students because this website will be very helpful and resourceful.

 

Farewell Reflection

 

Perihsa Moya

ED638 Fall Intersession

January 16, 2021

Farewell Reflection

“Things may end, but memories last forever!” This course has come to an end but the approaches or strategies I learned from this course will last forever by passing on to my students and to the future generations. This course ED 638 Teaching with the Internet has taught me a lot of effective strategies. I am grateful for all the skills and knowledge I have acquired from this class. I learned many helpful and informative strategies that I can apply in my classroom. Learning many things in Teaching with The Internet have changed my perspective and therefore will change my approach in teaching reading lessons to my students. This course is one hardest session and also very challenging, but to be challenged is one way that helps strengthen my knowledge.

Furthermore, I am grateful for all the things you have taught us from the very first start.  I have learned many effective websites that I can refer to them on doing my lessons to make it more interesting and motivating for students. It takes a lot of time to go through many effective literacy websites to choose to talk about but all those websites are worth it because I get to learn about many websites that can help me develop more interesting lessons. I now can use the websites to get worksheets, tutorial videos and many interesting resources. I have also learned some internet tools I can use to deliver my lesson and already have an account on talentlms I can use especially during this pandemic and will gladly share it with my colleagues for the better of our student’s learning skills. I also learned how to develop a lesson plan on using google earth. Google Earth is a great tool that can help student’s more familiar with their surroundings.

To conclude, it was nice working with my classmates because I also learned a lot from them by sharing ideas together and getting help from them. I would also like to give a big thanks to my professor Dr. Rivera for all the helpful things she taught me. Those challenging tasks, helpful strategies, feedback, and suggestions surely enhance my learning skills and will surely enhance my teaching skills. You taught, not just what ought to be taught, but also what you thought we needed to learn. Thanks for everything, farewell.

 

Effective literacy 7

 

Anderson Ponapart

ED638 Intersession 2020

Dr. M. Rivera

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website #7
            My seventh Effective Literacy Website is Free Children’s Stories at (https://www.freechildrenstories.com).  A literacy site offers free stories to help student become fluent readers.  Each book contains guideline for teachers and parents, explaining the reading skills for the the story.  Stories are design for different age level for kids at age 3 to 5, 5 to 8, 8 to 10, and for middle grade levels.  The programs have rhyming stories and non-rhyming stories that can develop reading skills.  The site made children to learn every day word and every rhyme.  The program provides written program for parents and guardians to make sure that we have everything to support our child’s education in reading and other subject areas. 

            The program was founded in 2008 and operates on a simple principle that develop reading skills at this highest level. The mission is to over traditional and meaningful storytelling to every child, parents, and teachers.  Daniel Errico who left his career as a bank investment to create freechildrenstories.com founded the program; he has many bestselling children’s ebook with B & N and has books in stores nationwide.  His works made in books, animated films, apps, and even Schiffer Publishing.  He is the creator of the award winning Hulu Orginal Series, and The Braves Knight.  To make things possible, he stories are available online to enhance literacy and free media for kids.  The specific skills are use to help student in understanding the reading and target skills are phonics, early literacy, reading comprehension, and vocabulary.  Children can read the stories that are available for kids to practice their reading skills, comprehension skills, and writing skills.   

 

Farewell Reflection

Ketruth Resepwil

ED638-41 Teaching with Internet

Fall Intersession 2020

Dr. Rivera

Farewell Reflection

This Fall Intersession 2020 course, ED638-41 Teaching with Internet, is one hardest session I encountered. I didn't expect that it would be challenging. However, I am thankful and grateful to my colleagues (classmates) and my instructor for all the encouragement words. I once thought to myself that to withdrawn for this course, but, from the encouragements I am able reach the end of this course. From the words of encouragements, I once thought to myself that why others could accomplish the course, and why I. Thank you instructor Dr. Rivera can’t and colleagues, it's my pleasure to learn from you. I learned so much from all the assignments and from the posts that each of you posted. 

Furthermore, I am grateful and thankful for this course because it taught me many things. I learned many new different things from this course. I learned about the possible Internet Tools that I could use, especially during this pandemic. I could use them by creating classes, continuing to keep in touch with them, and helping them with their learning. For the Effective Literacy Websites, I am thankful for these sources because I would be able to use and share them with my colleagues at work. We would be able to use them to find different activities to use in our classrooms. Effective Literacy Websites are helpful for our English Learners. Lastly, the Google Earth is another useful source. This Google Earth will help us in the unit of Social Study. It is a great website or app to use in our teaching. Therefore, all the sources that I learned from this course worth a lot to me as a classroom teacher to English learners. 

Effective Literacy Website # 7

 

Perihsa Moya

ED638 Fall Intersession

January 16, 2021

Effective Literacy # 7

 https://teachingmadepractical.com/

Being a reading teacher, I found this website very interesting and helpful. As stated in the website, practical resources for busy teachers provide activities, ideas, resources, freebies, and more to help you teach more effectively while protecting your time. Kalena Baker is the sole individual who founded Teachingmadepractical.com. You can find free resources on this website. This website provides effective resources for teachers to make their teaching practical in the classroom. Some of the resources in this website require a membership account prior for users to be able to download.

On the home page, teachers can click on the reading tap to get a free printable worksheet and can also find more free resources like back to school, text features, character traits and main idea.  Teaching made practical also provide lesson objectives that can help you develop more interesting lessons on reading such as main idea, cause and effect, compare and contrast, comprehension passages, point of view, asking/answering questions, connotation, summarizing, task card, theme, figurative languages, parts of speech and even multisyllabic word lists. Clicking on each reading resource will give you a worksheet and also provide an objective on what students will do or the activities they can do under each given reading resource. Teaching made practical also provides resources for the teaching genre. It provides reading passages, activities, and more for teaching students the characteristics of different genres. The  teaching made practical website also display seven reasons to do seminar style discussion in your class, provide mini lessons for teaching point of view and biographies, autobiographies and memoirs to engage upper elementary.

The home page of this website also provides back to school ideas, classroom management and scaffolding instructions. Back to school tab can give you ideas like icebreaker and back to school procedure. Under classroom management, it will give you ideas to help your upper elementary classroom run more smoothly and efficiently. Under the scaffolding instructions, it will provide you ideas and activities you can do to help your students be successful with difficult skills. This website also provides read-alouds that encourage overcoming obstacles, using rubric to make grading easier, and help students monitor their comprehension and low prep cause and effect centers. I recommend that we should refer to this website for it provides effective resources that can enhance our student’s literacy skills.