Perihsa Moya

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literary Website # 1

 

https://www.readingrockets.org/teaching. 

 

Reading Rockets is a national public media literacy initiative offering information and resources on how young kids learn to read, why so many struggle, and how caring adults can help. According to Louisa Moats, reading is a complicated task so she titled her influential article about the skills and knowledge educators need to teach reading well "Teaching Reading is Rocket Science." That's how Reading Rockets got its name!

This website provides many useful tools from the building blocks of reading to classroom strategies to creating inclusive classrooms — everything you need to know to help young and struggling readers succeed. Here you'll find 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.

There are four main categories to conduct searches on the home page: Teaching Reading, Helping Struggling Readers, Reading Topics A-Z, and Children’s Books & Authors. The Teaching Reading category offers classroom strategies, videos on teaching reading and writing, as well as more professional development opportunities for teachers. The Helping Struggling Readers Category features articles and research briefs to enhance literacy. This particular category also offers strategies about enhancing a struggling reader’s self-esteem in relation to literacy and background information on why some children struggle with literacy. The Topic A-Z provides topics for reading skills and videos on how to teach and incorporate fun activities to enhance student’s reading skills. The last category offers different books for children.

Reading Rocket has a strong theme, great literary website, well designed and very professional looking so I recommend using this website for literary activities to enhance student’s knowledge in reading.