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.