Kamleen Sam

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy #2

 

    ReadWriteThink (http://www.readwritethink.org/) is a website that created for teachers and students to enhance their essential readings and writings skills. This site mainly focused on students from K-12. Teachers like us who are not using online technology tools needs to apply these skills for the benefit of our students. This will enable us to boost student’s skills and knowledge to another level. In this site student can do printing press, trading card creator, write poems, and do time line summary.
            Students can access this site, ReadWriteThink from their homes using various devices which make learning possible everywhere. Printing Press is designed to assist students in creating newspaper, brochure or flyers. Teachers and students can work together to do publishing after gathering ideas and information’s together. Students can also demonstrate their literacy knowledge and skills when writing popular culture texts or real world examples. They can create their own trading card using fictions, places, objects etc.
            This website provides an effective tool for teachers and students to use. It supports their literacy in teaching and navigating to stay motivated. Teachers can also teach students to write poetry or their favorite poems so that they can recognize the power of making poetry and reading them. Poems and poetry inspires emotions or feelings of people and behind it students can find meaning.
            In addition, many sites are very useful for having or conducting online classes in literacy and this is one of them. Teachers and students will enjoy because resources are set up already and ready for use. It is well prepared for educators who are ready to learn online.

Effective Literacy Website #2

 

Ketruth Resepwil

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website #2

Effective Literacy Website #2

            Learning Library site- https://education.com is a website that is full of teaching resources in different subjects. This Learning Library site is applicable for kids, preschool to elementary ages. This website has two options for a user to create an account for free or do monthly payment. If a user upgrades his account to Premium, he will pay for using it, but he will get more teaching resources.

             Learning Library site, teachers and homeschooler, like parents, could find it helpful and useful for their teaching because it provides different learning activities for teachers and students. Learning Library site- https://education.com has different sources that could address any student with different learning intelligence. I believe the teachers and students will enjoy the activities. Based on my exploration of this website, I, myself, found it interesting and I could imagine myself using the activities in my classroom.

Furthermore, teachers, homeschooler, tutor, and parents should explore this website to find more teaching resources, such as lesson plans, worksheets, games, songs, short videos, and other activities to use in teaching a child, especially lower grades and struggling learners. These activities on the website could help the children to be active in learning. Therefore, please visit https://education.com to learn more about the Learning Library for Kids.

IRA Newsletter Project 1

Ketruth Resepwil 

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy #1

Effective Literacy #1

 “This Reading Mama" site- http://thisreadingmama.com, is a created site by Becky Spence. This is a free site with different sources for preschooler to elementary ages of students. Becky Spence created this site or blog to share her goal on helping struggling learners. In this site, she shared her way of hands-on learning activities and helpful tips and resources. 

This Reading Mama blog, the parents, homeschoolers, classroom teachers, or tutor in preschool and elementary would find it helpful and useful. It provides so many different sources to use in order to address the struggling learners in literacy. It provides teaching strategies, printable worksheets and teaching materials, and how to apply the strategies in teaching.

Furthermore, this blog, This Reading Mama, teachers and parents could use it to find teaching materials and strategies to help with their children., especially during this pandemic. The teaching materials are created with passion and experience. Becky Spence found these teaching strategies and materials helpful and useful for her struggling learners, especially her children who are struggling in learning languages. Therefore, she created this blog along with the contents based on her passion and experience. 

Moreover, I am grateful and thankful that I was able to see this site. I will be using this site or blog to find the teaching strategies and student’s activities for my class. I believe this site or blog will be helpful for me since I am teaching class that are still developing languages. If you want to know more about This Reading Mama blog, visit http://thisreadingmama.com 

Assignment 1

 

Anderson Ponapart

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website #1

 

            My Effective Literacy Website #1 is “into the book.” (https://reading.ecb.org/index.html). Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for elementary students and teachers. It focuses on eight research-based strategies, Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. Students will register so all works completed can be save and continue. It’s an online activity with different activities and engaging videos that students will enjoy.

            It’s a free multimedia resource for students from grade K1 to grade 12.  This website uses pictures, videos that will help readers to connect to themselves.  It helped readers to connect the reading to own life and connecting the reading helps them understand and enjoy what they read.  This website is easy to use because the organization is easy to follow.  One thing that I really liked about this site because it provided audio that will help student with unfamiliar words. Another fascinating thing about this site, it helped readers to evaluate text and websites. This website was mainly on reading but in almost every subject area like social studies, science, health, and so on.

            Into the book was designed to help improve elementary reading comprehension skills, their ability to think and learn the curriculum.  The reading resources that provided by this program are online activities, videos, lesson plans and many more. The academic standards for “In to the book” focused on common core state standards for English Language Arts. Common core standards focused on fundamental skills, literature, informational text, writing, language, and listening and speaking.

            Resources that are available in “Into the book” include the following:  prior knowledge, making connection, questioning, visualizing, inferring, summarizing, evaluating, synthesizing, and strategies together. In each resource, it provided lesson plans, teacher guide, downloads, videos and more. It also includes student websites, teacher websites for featuring video clips, posters, teacher guides, lesson plans and matrix linking the activities with common core state standards, information on how to use Into the Book and professional learning websites.
            Into the Book was developed by PBS Wisconsin Education, with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction and a team of experienced educators. The videos were produced by PBS Wisconsin and the Agency for Instructional Technology. The website was created by Eduweb and the project was supported by Wisconsin's Reading First U.S. Department of Education funding.   To learn or discover the cross-curricular K to 12 grades, visit pbswisconsineducation.org  to learn more.

 

IRA Newsletter Project #1

 

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 12^th grades can always learn a lot from it. Especially at this time of pandemic this website is right for you.

 

Kamleen Sam

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy #1

    ABC Reading Eggs (https://readingeggs.com.au/schools/) is a website that created for teachers and students to enhance student’s essential reading and phonics skills. Their aims are for beginning readers, emerging readers and early readers. Educators need to adapt technologies for learning for the benefit of our students to be aware that lots of materials are available out there online for them that can boost students’ knowledge and skills.

    Students can access ABC Reading Eggs at schools, homes using various devices which make learning possible everywhere. It can build their spellings, and readings and comprehension skills. This website has books, movies, games, songs and much more for motivation. Students can have direct access or explore all areas within the program with parents helping them.

    How does it help teachers? It provides an effective learning tools for teachers to use for students. It supports their literacy in teaching and navigating to help students stay motivated. Teachers also have effective curriculum and guided practice to follow with students. They have assessment on this site to differentiate learning levels of students along with training themselves to from feedback from parents.

    In addition, many sites are very useful for having or conducting online classes and this is one of the best sites for starting readers. This site has many tools for beginners and new strategies for literacy. Teachers and students will enjoy because resources are set up already and ready for use. It is well prepared for educators who want to extend their students learning skills online. 

 

DeBrum T. Melander

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy #1

Common sense education (https://www.commonsense.org) is a website that is designed to help nurture our children to participate fully in their communities by helping them in their digital skills and knowledge. As it is stated in the homepage of this website, “Our award winning K – 12 Digital Citizenship Curriculum addresses top concerns for schools, prepares students with critical 21 – century skills, supports educators with training and recognition, and engages the whole community through family outreach.

The Digital Citizenship can help ease the hassles of searching and adapting their curriculum to incorporate technology into their own. This website arranges and groups timely topics and lesson plans according to grade levels. For example, in grades K,1,2, a topic is Media Balance and Well Being. In this topic for kindergarten, the students will be able to “know when to take breaks from device time”. If schools and educators implement and incorporate this curriculum, students will become more aware of the importance of technological ethics. It also supports educators by having classroom advises and professional development trainings.

Not only does this website benefit the schools and educators, it can also positively impact the students’ skills in using the internet resourcefully. This website also contains educational video games and interactive activities. These games and activities are created for every type of learners.

Finally, the website also offers a multifarious collection of reviews regarding significant ways to monitor what their children are doing on their devices and online. In addition it contains a collection of suggested movies for kids to watch and online games that may help the kids with their technology skills. It also communicates with parents and the community on issues regarding the well – being of the children in the digital age.

Being developed by experts from one of the most prominent universities in the United States, Harvard University, common sense education can surely make common sense common again. The resources and assistance from these experts are handy for any learner or educator who is willing to use the internet as a learning and teaching tool.