Victoria Braiel
IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Project #1
ReadWriteThink Student
Interactives (www.readwritethink.org )
was published by International Literacy Association and National Council of
Teachers of English (ILA/NCTE). This website is free. You do not need to pay or
sign up for it. You are welcome to roam around and try all the activities in
it. It is for all grade levels. The website has classroom resources which
includes lesson plans that are align with the IRA/NCTE and to the standards for
each state in the Unites States of America. If you are an educator, you can
always go on this site www.readwritethink.org
and search type of a lesson plans you want to use in your classrooms. This
website integrate the other subject areas such as Math, Science and Social
Studies. Basically, it is based on Literacy development. It has a lot of
worksheets that can be printout for the students and teachers to use in the
classroom. The first incredible resources is the Student Interactives, these
are activities like games to play on the internet to have the students learn
and have fun at the same time. It includes matching letters with the sound for
lower grades and upper grades playing with figure of speech. Moreover, the
Calendar Activity which students can participate in involving with teachers,
parents and other kids who are using the website for learning literacy and
other subjects. For instance, writing essays or making videos, listening to
presentation from educators around the world and so forth.
The second useful
resource is the Professional Development. It has the Strategy Guides which
helps develop skills in professional teaching mostly in literacy. It provides
teaching strategies for different grade levels. For instance, it guides you in
how to use differentiate instruction and how to teach writing for beginners.
Furthermore, there is also an online professional development which the courses
are not accredited but it helps on furthering your professional teaching. There
is also library that has literacy for kids and adolescent, articles for
teacher, books, and other sources which you can always use the search button to
do a selection on what you want to read.
The Third amazing
resources there is the Videos. There are a lot of videos you can search for or
just view. The presentation videos for teaching, guiding, learning and just for
fun. These videos are educational learning where you an educator can watch how
other educators demonstrate how they implement their teaching strategies. Or a
student can learn by watching the classroom activities provided in this
website.
Last but not the least is
the Parents and After School Resources
section where parents that help their kids at home can always refer to, to
continue their learning at home. Or teachers can use it for cushion activities.
These activities are divided in grade levels. They are mostly likely fun for
kids and at the same time they are learning as well.
This website teaches a
lot of things to teachers, students, and parents. It has many resources to
develop professional teachings and help the students to learn more in Literacy.
There are a lot of games, worksheets, books, and videos for kids to learn and
have fun at the same time. I will recommend this website to visit if you are an
educator please to visit this site and see what it can surprise you with.
Students from Kindergarten to 12th grades can always learn a lot
from it. Especially at this time of pandemic this website is right for you.
No comments:
Post a Comment