Assignment 1

 

Anderson Ponapart

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website #1

 

            My Effective Literacy Website #1 is “into the book.” (https://reading.ecb.org/index.html). Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for elementary students and teachers. It focuses on eight research-based strategies, Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. Students will register so all works completed can be save and continue. It’s an online activity with different activities and engaging videos that students will enjoy.

            It’s a free multimedia resource for students from grade K1 to grade 12.  This website uses pictures, videos that will help readers to connect to themselves.  It helped readers to connect the reading to own life and connecting the reading helps them understand and enjoy what they read.  This website is easy to use because the organization is easy to follow.  One thing that I really liked about this site because it provided audio that will help student with unfamiliar words. Another fascinating thing about this site, it helped readers to evaluate text and websites. This website was mainly on reading but in almost every subject area like social studies, science, health, and so on.

            Into the book was designed to help improve elementary reading comprehension skills, their ability to think and learn the curriculum.  The reading resources that provided by this program are online activities, videos, lesson plans and many more. The academic standards for “In to the book” focused on common core state standards for English Language Arts. Common core standards focused on fundamental skills, literature, informational text, writing, language, and listening and speaking.

            Resources that are available in “Into the book” include the following:  prior knowledge, making connection, questioning, visualizing, inferring, summarizing, evaluating, synthesizing, and strategies together. In each resource, it provided lesson plans, teacher guide, downloads, videos and more. It also includes student websites, teacher websites for featuring video clips, posters, teacher guides, lesson plans and matrix linking the activities with common core state standards, information on how to use Into the Book and professional learning websites.
            Into the Book was developed by PBS Wisconsin Education, with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction and a team of experienced educators. The videos were produced by PBS Wisconsin and the Agency for Instructional Technology. The website was created by Eduweb and the project was supported by Wisconsin's Reading First U.S. Department of Education funding.   To learn or discover the cross-curricular K to 12 grades, visit pbswisconsineducation.org  to learn more.