Effective Literary Website # 2

 

Perihsa Moya

IRA Newsletter Project:

Effective Literary Website # 2

Flocabulary (https://www.flocabulary.com) is a learning program for all grades that uses educational hip-hop music to engage students and increase achievement across the curriculum. Teachers use Flocabulary’s standards-based videos, instructional activities and student creativity tools to supplement instruction and develop core literacy skills. The Flocabulary is a great website to help develop core literacy skills with its standard-based videos, instructional activities, and student creativity tools to supplement instruction. The Flocabulary provides lessons for all the subject areas which are language art, math, science, social study, life skills, vocabulary and current events. The lessons on language arts provide different reading and writing activities along with interesting videos that can help teachers provide engaging  lessons to students through songs, videos, and exercises that are both engaging and fun for the students and everyone participating. Using this website as a supplement resource can increase student learning for it combines all kinds of learning styles for students.

The Flocabulary provides hundreds of standard-aligned lessons, which includes videos and activities for all subjects, printable quizzes and activities to accompany each lesson, activity assignment for entire class or individual students, visibility into student activity results, dashboard to track student performance, and building-wide or district-wide access for all teachers and students. The inclusion of hip-hop music as a learning tool in the classroom is one way to help students recognize that they already possess many capabilities that can be used to develop positive identities. These identities and connections in the classroom help students develop into high achievers.

There are three ways Flocabulary engages your students. The three branches of engagement includes behavioral engagement which measure of persistence and participation, and of complying with classroom rules. The second branch is emotional engagement which measure of students feeling about school, their teachers, and their class work. The last branch is the cognitive engagement which is to measure how student feel about their abilities to complete work and how hard they’re willing to focus. Because student engagement is, in part, a measure of how invested a student is in learning and applying knowledge, it has strong ties to academic outcomes. As examples: a behaviorally engaged student is more likely to listen and participate in classroom discussions; an emotionally engaged student is less likely to skip school and more likely to respond to teacher directions; a cognitively engaged student is more likely to focus on and work through tasks he or she perceives as difficult.

The Flocabulary website is a great online resource for everyone who wants to improve student literacy skills with the tools provided and can help increase student’s learning. I recommend everyone to use this website because it provides useful strategies and can provide you with all the information to learn about what Flocabulary has to offer.