Effective Literacy # 4

Perihsa Moya

Literacy Website # 4

Ereading Worksheet

https://www.ereadingworksheets.com/

By exploring the literacy websites, I found the Ereading Worksheets useful and helpful for both teachers and students. Ereading Worksheets provides teachers, parents, and motivated students with high-quality reading worksheets, activities, and resources aligned with Common Core State Standards. This website uses a skill focused approach where each activity targets a specific skill set, but you can also level. The resources on this website cover a broad range of reading, writing, and language arts skills. And this site has a growing collection of online reading activities.  You can click on the navigation button to look for online tests, worksheets, reading, writing, and language art that can provide you lots of resourceful and interesting activities that can enhance student learning skills.

This website features a sampling of the reading worksheets on this website, organized by skills. You can find more activity by browsing the pages that are dedicated to each reading skill. On the Ereading Worksheet, you can also select grade level and it will give you lessons, handouts, videos, PowerPoint presentations and worksheets for the level grade you selected. Ereading Worksheets provides a wide variety of worksheets covering different literacy topics such as figurative language, text structure, main ideas, point of view, etc. Within each topic, lessons are guided for ease and worksheets are categorized by grade level. In addition, every variation of each worksheet includes an answer.

I’ve been using this website for helpful resources for my students. This website also provides printable worksheets. Teachers can also search the topic of their lessons on the Ereading Worksheet and it will provide you the worksheets, examples, reading passages, or even give you activities on how to deliver your lesson plan in an interesting way for students to easily learn your lesson. E Reading Worksheets is a great resource for teachers to use to help promote literacy in the classroom.

 

Nickita Gilmete

ED 638 Fall Intersession 2020

Dr. Matilda Rivera

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website #4

Read Works

URL: https://about.readworks.org/about.html

            The vision of Read Work is to ensure that every children in the United States can read well with deep comprehension because all educators teach reading effectively with the superb reading content and curriculum they need. Read Work is a nonprofit website that partners with K-12 teachers across the country to solve the nation's literacy crisis. ReadWorks does this by bridging the gap between research and practice in reading comprehension instructions. Million teachers and students are using ReadWorks to improve teaching and learning in their classrooms today. ReadWorks regularly update their remote and hybrid resources for educators and families. ReadWork is completely free and they have free contents, curriculums, and tools to empower teaching and learning from Kindergarten to 12th grade.

            You can use ReadWorks in three ways. The ways are digital classes, print, and projectors. In digital classes, students can highlight, annotate, and complete assignments online; and teachers can access progress reports and automatic grading on this site. As for print, teachers and students can easily print any of the contents and curriculum to discuss in class. The other way is teachers can easily project their instructions from this site.

            I strongly believe that this website will be helpful for teachers and students here on the island. This website does not only focus on certain grade levels, but it can help teachers from Kindergarten all the way to 12th grade. Teachers can go to this website and use the strategies used in this website that makes reading comprehension instructions works. Therefore, I encourage that teachers here on the island visit this websites since our students are having difficulty comprehending reading materials assigned to them and answering comprehension questions.

 

Effective Literacy #4

 

Anderson Ponapart

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website #4

               

                My fourth effective literacy is between the lions (https://guam.pbslearningmedia.org).   It is an effective reading site to help kids get wild about reading.  This program provides collection of materials for early reading and language arts resources.  All the materials are organized by early elementary and pre-school literacy skills.  The program also provided videos on fluency skills, phonemic awareness, phonics, text comprehension skills and many more.  This program was design for pre K to high school.   The program provided activities for different ages and grades. 

            “BETWEEN THE LIONS” is a new PBS television series for children ages 4 - 7.   It is named after the four families of lion.  The names were Theo, Cleo, Lionel, and Leona.   The doors “between the lions” opened to reveal a magical place where characters pop off the pages, vowels sing, and words take on a life of their own. The series combines state-of-the-art puppetry; animation, live action, and music to achieve its mission of helping young children learn to read.

            BETWEEN THE LIONS uses a comprehensive literacy curriculum kit to beginning readers. It was developed with reading and literacy experts from across the country, emphasizes the pleasures and value of reading as well as the skills needed for learning how to read. With this approach, it combed the whole language and phonics, helps confusing readers into an entertaining adventure for children and their families.

            Get Wild about Reading created to help teachers integrate BETWEEN THE LIONS and its curriculum into your current classroom strategies. Topics are integrated into the classroom curriculum are Reading Aloud, The Sounds of Words, Print All around Us, Writing, and Using Technology.  The guide models the series of new approach. In addition to activities for the classroom, you’ll find suggestions for BETWEEN THE LIONS episodes or segments to watch, separate take-home activities for families. The home-school connection was the crucial one in reinforcing the series goal of teaching skills while conveying the joy of reading.

            The take-home page in the guide offers fun, simple ways for families to engage in literacy activities together with the child.  Teacher must not assign these pages as homework.   Teacher may want to encourage children to bring the completed pages back to share with the class.  You can also adapt the classroom activities for take-home use.  All activities can be modified to suit your student and family population. The book lists for each section are also ideal for sending home to encourage parents and caregivers to read to their children. So get ready to get wild about reading!

 

 

 

Kamleen Sam

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy #4

 Reading Rocket (https://www.readingrockets.org/audience/teachers) is a good site for teachers and students. They have extensive collection of resources about reading including topical research briefs and reports, descriptions and nonprofit, state and federal literacy organizations. They have classroom strategies; articles, books, videos, research brief and more for educators, parents, and other people working for young readers. Reading rocket has facebook, twitter, youtube and printerest. News tips sheets, children books, writing contests, literacy events and much more are available on this site. It is a well set up site to help a learner.

                Reading rocket has a goal to bring the reading research to life. Since 1965, the federal government has invested more than $100 million to find out why so many children have problems for reading. Members of reading rocket know how to identify children at risk and how to help them before they fall. So reading rocket creates and disseminates free –based information about reading through their 3 services; PBS television program, online services, and professional development opportunities.

Reading Rocket is also helping struggling readers as well. They have guidance for parents and teachers to follow when teaching. Their guidance explained and gives out reasons why reading is so hard. Reading Rocket believes that kids should start reading at homes before entering schools to start learning the curriculum. Parents helping students at home will help out teachers in schools with their lessons prepared right away in classrooms. It is the best way to collaborate together to help students increase their reading skills from level to levels. This is a good site to visit with a student to make them enjoy reading at all times.

 

 

Kamleen Sam

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy #3

            Starfall (https://www.starfall.com/h/) is one of the literacy management systems. This website is for kindergarten from grade level 1-3. It is emphasis on phonemic awareness, phonics and common sight words in conjunction. Starfall activities are based and aligned with language arts. It has a free content including songs, reading activities, games and movies where students can explore and enjoy themselves while learning. Parents and teachers can cooperate together while working with students on this site. It is a great site for beginners to learn and to enjoy education before stepping into another level for first graders.
            Starfall’s is founded by Stephen Schutz who struggles in his childhood for reading. He created this site to help children like himself “where children have fun learning to read”. This site is offered to the public completely free and it is multisensory interactive games that allow children to see, hear, and touch as they learn. It is for all different types of students; normal and up normal.
            Over the years, Starfall websites offerings have grown in the number of songs, books, other activities extending to second grade. In 2012, Starfall began providing its activities as apps for mobile devices and now it is a place where any child can learn to read through exploration.

        Star education is a great literacy website because it has free resources and along with teachers curriculum. It has Pre-K teacher guide and kindergarten ELA teacher guide. The contents are picture cards, customizing words, books, posters etc. It also has a common core ELA state standards; Literature information text and Foundational Skills where teachers/parents can follow through and work with their kids/students.

 

Effective Literacy Website #3

 

DeBrum T. Melander

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy #3

          ABC Reading Eggs (https://readingeggs.com.au/) is a website that was created by top notch educators, with over 30 years of experience, and intended for parents and educators to help enhance their child’s or student’s reading skills. It is mainly aimed to help emergent readers. This website has many effective and engaging activities resources that parents and educators can utilize to help their children.

          One of the distinguished features in this website is the Fast Phonics page which contains engaging phonics games where students can play while at the same time learning their alphabets and the different sounds or phonemes of the alphabets. Because of the multitude of solid studies conducted by the expert creators of this website, Fast Phonics has the proven power of methodical phonics instructions to enhance reading skills. With the 20 levels of fun – filled games that children can learn their phonic skills, parents and educators should utilize this tool to help their children.

          In addition, the Readingeggs Junior page offers a library of read a - loud books, alphabet games, and sound awareness activities that toddlers can learn from. With the funny animations in these activities, toddlers will have fun and develop their reading skills. Any parents and teacher should register in this website to allow the best reading skills to develop with their children’s physical growth.

          Lastly but not necessarily the least, the Reading Eggspress page can be used for reading real books, improve spelling skills, and structure reading comprehension skills. The resources in this pare are greatly engaging for children with ages ranging from 7 to 13 years old. Moreover, this online resource is crammed with hundreds of engaging reading activities and online books for children along with literacy games as well. With the solid researches done by the professional creators of this website, the activities in this program are proven effective.

          With these special features in this website, ABC Reading Eggs is truly an effective literacy website that parents and teachers can utilize to supplement the reading development of their children. We, as parents and teachers, should also research and find other websites that can also effectively assist their children in reading.

Effective Literacy #3

Ketruth Resepwil 

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website#3

Effective Literacy #3

 My effective literacy website #3 is https://poetry4kids.com. This website created by a former children poet (2013-2015) named Kenn Nebitt. This is a free website where you can find funny poems for kids, classic poems, games, poetry lessons and activities, plus a rhyming dictionary, videos, and many more. 

The https://poetry4kids.com, the parents, homeschoolers, classroom teachers, or tutor in elementary would find it helpful and useful. It provides so many different sources to use when teaching children to read and write poems. It provides poem lessons where it specifies how to teach the step-by-step on writing funny, rhyming, and or classic poems.

Furthermore, this website, https://poetry4kids.com,  teachers and parents could use it to find teaching lessons and activities to help with their children., especially during this pandemic. The teaching lessons and activities could help to improve the students writing skills, especially in writing different kinds of poems. Therefore, I believe the author is willingly to help teachers and students to expand their learning in reading and writing, but especially on poems.

Lastly, 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 will share this website with colleagues since some of them are teaching on writing poems. If you want to know more about Kenn Nebitt's sources of poems, please visit https://poetry4kids.com.