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.

 

Effective Literacy Website 7

 Ketruth Resepwil

ED638 Fall Intersession 2020

Dr. Rivera

IRA Project: IRA Effective Literacy Website #7

Effective Literacy Website 7

Inkless Tales- http://www.inklesstales.com/readers/ is my effective literacy #7. This website created by Elizabeth Williams Bushey. This is a great useful literacy website that teachers, parents, and students could use. It consists of poems, different kind of stories, and games. Furthermore, the activities on this website are owned by Elizabeth Williams Bushey.

As a classroom teacher for lower grade, I found this website useful for me. The stories, poems, and games, I believe my students will enjoy it because the students can watch and read along. This website would help the students with their listening and speaking skills, reading and writing skills. For example, the story of Lady Bug, click on the link, http://www.inklesstales.com/ladybug.html, to see the story. This story is a good short story for kids. The children could read along the story following the subtitles that shown. So, Inkless Tales is a wonderful website for younger children.

Lastly, I believe Inkless Tale is going to be a useful source for teachers and parents. They could use the activities on the website to help their children with their reading and writing skills. This website aimed to help children with their literacy skills. In an early age, the children will love to read and write. Therefore, if you want to learn more about Inkless Tale, please visit the website by clicking on the link, http://www.inklesstales.com/readers/.

Effective Literacy Website 6

 

DeBrum T. Melander

ED638

Effective Literacy Website #6

KidsRead2Kids.com

          Coined by Dyslexic and ADHD brethren, this website’s goal is to have children with reading difficulties to not only gain confidence in their reading skills but also to provoke their interests in reading. This website offers great support for parents and teachers, especially elementary teachers. The resources and assistance from the experts of this website can surely create effective ways for any educator to intervene in the reading skills of these kids.

          One significant aspect of this website is that it uses mostly videos throughout the whole website. From the homepage to the other featured pages consists mostly of videos. For example, in the “OUR TEAM” page, it contains a video of the young founders of this website. Users of this website can surely experience an inviting atmosphere for reading.

          Another one of much significance in this website is the founders. Because they were also struggling readers, they understand the world of confusion with this type of readers. Thus allow the interest of such children to emerge and develop. Young users can relate themselves with these innovative founders and therefore they can gain that confidence in reading as well.

          Lastly but not necessarily the least is the collection of resources that this website contains. The sub – page in the “OUR BOOKS” page also contains a library of audio and videos for early learners. The selections in this special feature have classic audio story books along with kids’ favorite Disney stories. With this wide collection of audio books children with reading challenges can surely utilize it to improve their reading skills.

          Being exposed to this effective literacy website, parents along with teachers can help develop ways to help improve the reading skills of their children. Children will not only enjoying the resources and activities in this website but also will comfortably learn from the experienced and resourceful founders of this website.

Effective Literacy Website 6

Ketruth Resepwil

ED 638 Fall Intersession 2020

Dr. Rivera

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy #6

Effective Literacy #6

My effective literacy website #6 is https://www.kizphonics.com/. This is a great website for any grade level. Also, this website is fully available online because it created by the professors who teach English and ESL to children. Kiz Phonics has different lessons, such as on alphabets, phonics, pronunciation, sentence structure, and reading techniques. It also has great instructional tools for classrooms and homeschooling environments. Kiz Phonics is created by 27-member panel of teachers who work daily in reading and language arts education. This website is supported by several tenured professors of language from around world.

Kiz Phonics is a useful site for teachers, homeschooler, parents, and students to enjoy the stories by listening and or reading. For teachers, homeschooler, parents, and tutors, they use this website for reading, listening and speaking, and writing subjects. Because this website has different activities that students can do. For instance, the teacher could use the compound words phonics video. Each of the video already has the instructions on what the child will do. One example of the instruction is “The children should watch the video the first time non-stop. Second time, they watch and pause at each word to repeat. Finally, put the video on silent mode and let children try to read the words.”

  Furthermore, I believe that Kiz Phonics is a website that all the people could use; however, a user should sign up for it. It has different lessons or activities that every teachers, parents, homeschooler, tutors, and students could listen and read during this pandemic. It will help improve a child’s language development. So, please visit the website by clicking the link, https://www.kizphonics.com/.

Effective number 6

 

Anderson Ponapart

ED638 Intersession 2020

Dr. M. Rivera

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website #6

               

                My sixth effective literacy is on reading partners at https://readingpartners.org.  The vision of the program is to help students to reach their reading skills at its potentials.  The mission of the program is to help children become lifelong readers and commitment on difference, fairness, and insertion of students.  The program engage community volunteers to provide one on one reading instructions to elementary students and helping students succeed in school and life.  The program believes the power of educational fairness among students.   They are committed to support the development and lifelong literacy skills of students. 

            The program provides one on one tutoring programs for students who are behind the reading level, allows partners to work in a safe environment, be able to adjust and in small group tutoring.  All activities aim on student literacy skills.  Reading power has developed a proprietary, easy to use, structured curriculum to help students gain the skills needed to become independent and successful readers.  The curriculum provided instruction and practices on literacy skills needed to push student-reading level to the next level. The reading partner’s curriculum was align to the common core state standards and one of the best reading instructions in the classroom. The program also provides resources for parents to help children become literal readers.   The program encourages family member to read to with their kids at home to prepare them in class. The program also provide literacy videos, text, and other resources that will make your kids enjoy reading.

           

Farewell Reflection

 Having gone through the course was challenging due to the very short duration of this course. However, the effective and engaged activities offered in this course made the journey endurable. Dr. Rivera for your relentless support and professionalism, Thank You Very Much. Hope to have you in future courses. Until then, continue to live and learn, everybody.

Farewell

 It was nice to work with everyone including our Professor Dr. Rivera. It was a very busy and challenging course, but a lot of things we gain from it. I hope we will be working together again for the coming courses. Farewell to everyone. 

Effective Literacy Website # 5

 Perihsa Moya

ED 638 Fall Intersession

January 15, 2021

Effective Literacy Website # 5

Bookopolis

According to this website https://www.bookopolis.com/#/, Bookopolis is a kid-friendly social network and book discovery tool designed to ignite a love of reading in elementary and middle school students. This is a free website and also a helpful website for both teachers and students.  Both teachers and students can create and account for this website. Teachers can create this website to get more interesting and helpful strategies to improve their teaching and also make their lesson interesting and motivating. Teachers can view the dashboard to view video tutorials to help their lesson be more engaging to the students.

This site is also available for parents so they can also help with their reading skills. This website also provides reading materials that are available for all the grade levels. Students can also search any kind of book they want to read. There are many activities students can do in the Bookopolis to improve their reading skills and also improve their love of reading. Students can create their own virtual bookshelves by logging the books they have already read and they can also earn points from the collections they have. Students can also share with their classmates or friends the book they have read or recommend books to friends. This is an interesting website because students can discover many new books to read to improve their reading skills.  Students can also practice persuasive writing, comprehension, and typing skills by completing review, reports, and reading logs online.

This is also a great website for teachers and parents because they can track or see where students are with their independent reading. I recommend that teachers and parents should refer to this website to enhance the children’s literacy skills. Bookopolis is a great site for students to connect to readers and explore books they’ve already read or may like to read. This website also provides a fun games section where students can engage in word games, trivia and puzzles. I believe that this website can easily improve our student’s literacy skills in a fast way.

Farewell Reflection

 

Anderson Ponapart

ED 638 intersession

Dr. M Rivera

Farewell reflection

                For most, let me thank our heavenly father for giving us his blessings on everything.  I also want to thank Dr. Rivera for her kindness and supportive through this course.  I also want to thank my fellow classmates for all the positive feedbacks on our assignments.  I know that we all encounter challenges and difficulties in this course, but we always stand on our two legs to move forward.  I am thankful to Dr. Rivera for showing me that we have literacy websites that we can use in helping our students.  

                The challenges that I encounter was during the Christmas break because I am busy with the family activities.  I started by stacking off because of the activities that took place in December, especially the break.  I thought that having the break would help me but it took away most of my time making me struggle along the way.  After missing the first 3 days of the assignments, I tried my best to meet all the deadlines to catch up with the assignments due dates.  I know that this course will be a challenge but I took pride in accomplishing the challenges and the hardships. The reason that I push myself because learning new skill and strategies will bring positive outcome to our students and will enhance our teaching skills.  Let us all try our best so we can graduate and stand high for this program.  Once again, a thousand thanks to Dr. Rivera for her commitment in helping us throughout this course. I am anxious and looking forward for our next class.

Effective Literacy Website #3

 

Victoria Braiel

ED638 Fall Intersession 2020

Dr. Rivera

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy #3

ABCya

One of the most well-known educational websites for bringing fun into learning to enjoy is www.ABCya.com. This website was founded by a schoolteacher in New Jersey in 2004. He created this site to make sure kids can navigate around the website with a positive environment, easy access, and nonviolence zone. Fortunately, he was also good with graphic designer that he planned out to set up this site and aligning it with educational lesson. He did not realize that some of the teachers in the school started to use his side without them knowing that he was the creator.

ABCya provides over 400 fun and educational games for grades PreK through 6. The activities are designed by educators and parents, who understand that kids learn better when they are having fun. This website is categorized by grade levels and subjects and under topics such as part of speech, pattern recognition, typing, multiplication and many more. Each game is provided under such grade level with the subject and given topic. It is free to explore and you can try to see how effective the games are.

Going through the website, they provided games such as word puzzle, spelling checker, building on vocabularies, identifying the part of speeches, and so on. The games are helpful for kids to learn more on identifying words and their meaning, the spelling of words and their part of speech. It is extremely useful for their reading skills as well as their writing skills to develop as they are having fun by playing the games on this website. Especially, when kids are having fun while learning, they comprehend it well. If you want to know more about the educational games, you can always go to the website link www.ABCya.com to find out more about it.

 

Effective Literacy Website #7

 

Victoria Braiel

ED638 Fall Intersession 2020

Dr. Rivera

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy #7

Roy the Zebra

Another effective literacy website that I want to share is Roy the Zebra. If you want to check out the site, you can click the link www.roythezebra.com. Roy the Zebra is a website for age 5-7 and for readers who are falling behind their reading level. This website is free to join. However, there is also website that is part of this website, but you pay monthly fee to be a member which is called Club Roy, the link is www.clubroy.com. Both websites have the same goal to help emergent readers to be successful readers as well as the ones who are behind their reading level.

Roy the Zebra has excited guided stories, lesson plans, games, and songs for your children. Everything is free but you need to sign up for the website to send you occasional updates via email. The stories on Roy the Zebra started of with an excitement beginning that will grasp the attention of children to focus more on the reading. It motivates children and make them want to learn more about reading and become successful readers. The games on the website are educational games that will make reading fun. They will not be aware that while they are having fun with the games, they are learning a lot.

Roy the Zebra is an excellent site for children, teachers, and parents. The resources that are available on the websites are free. There are also worksheets that you can go through and choose the types of worksheet you like the most. Or you think it fits what your lesson will be about. The worksheets can be used in however a teachers or parents plan on using it. It can be for leisure time, homework, classwork, or group work.

The songs are fun for the kids to sing along, to dance with the music, and learn at the same time. I bet this one is good for the kinesthetic learners and auditory learners. Roy the Zebra make sure the resources that it provided are core standards and they are appropriate for all types of learners. I would also recommend this website to parents and teachers to visit and sign up to gain more for the sake of our children literacy to be successful in the future.