Nickita Gilmete

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website #5

Magic Blox

URL: https://magicblox.com/authors-publishers

            In 2009, Magic Blox set out to make books more accessible, engaging, and fun by giving children a reading experience to get excited about, while at the same time, making it easier on parent's wallets.  With a large and growing collection of eBooks for kids 1 to 13 years old, your children get to enjoy new books all the time from award winning authors and publishers from around the world.  In addition to titles you are familiar with from traditional publishers, they also have the opportunity to discover new stories from authors they've never heard of, or try out new languages they've never seen. Use our online kid's book library as a resource to discover new books you've never seen, bring books with you on the road, or just find something fun to read without having to buy a book or leave the house. Our books come from authors & publishers all over the world, who upload new titles pretty much every day, and once we review and approve them to make sure they are safe and appropriate, we add them to our shelves for you to read.  You should feel good knowing that your monthly payments are used to pay the authors and publishers of the books you choose to read every month.

            This website is an effective literacy website because it contains many different types of books that our children or students will want to read. In the website, children or students can choose the reading level that they want to start with or the reading level that matched their own reading levels. The books are categorized too and will be easy for students to search for a certain book they are looking for. The books in this websites contains many features like illustrations, music, photos, chapters, narrations, and sounds. This features will help students with the development of their literacy skills. The home page of this website looks very enticing to children and students of the age group 1-13 years of age. This website is not free, but the payment plan is not that much comparing to how this website will help students, teachers, and parents.