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.  

Effective Literacy Website #6

 

Victoria Braiel

ED638 Fall Intersession 2020

Dr. Rivera

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy #6

Have you ever wondered what educational website will be the most effective literacy website for your kids or students? Have you ever wondered how you will motivate your kids to enjoy reading? I have the best website that will grasp the attention of young children and make them fall in love with reading. The website is Mighty Book. If you want to check out the website link is www.mightybook.com. It has the best children books, stories, sing along songs for children at the age of 2-10. In the stories there are soundtrack, often with music and sound effects, and they are created in Macromedia/Adobe Flash. The words in the story highlight when they are read by the storyteller. Isn’t that amazing? Of course, it is. It will be easy for kids to follow along a story when they know where the reader’s at. The music and sound effects in the stories make it more realistic for the kids to enjoy the reading and less bored. That is why mightybook.com develop reading skills for those who struggle in reading.

Mighty Book was founded in 1999 by the founding partners, George Fogelman and Betty Eaves. They are former educators, teaching for 20 years. All the books in Mightybook.com are designed to entertain kids while improving their reading skills. It is also an excellent teaching resource for special education and English as a Second Language. The website has categories of ages in groups with the books that are relevant for each cluster. There are also categories of books for selection, games and puzzles, Nursery Rhymes, songs, poems, arts and music, and many more choices that will improve your students or children’s reading skills.

Effective Literacy Website #5

 

Victoria Braiel

ED638 Fall Intersession 2020

Dr. Rivera

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy #5

There are a lot of effective literacy websites so far, but I have one that I want to share.  The website is Reading A-Z www.readinga-z.com. This website was launched 2009. It was known to be the most populated website on the internet. It has 17,000 members and it has won so many educational awards for its innovation in reading instructions. Among the awards are a Parents' Choice Recommended Award, a Global Learning Initiative Award, and a Teachers' Choice Award. Since Reading A-Z delivered over the internet, each month it changes its program. It gives new books, new lesson plan and more resources. It continually increases materials. The website has more than 2,500 downloadable books (including English, Spanish, and French versions) and thousands of teachings and learning materials that are projectable and printable. Reading A-Z resources are for K-6. The materials are at range for grade levels in special education and special needs, remedial reading ELL, and ESL.

There are a lot of teaching resources and learning materials on this site for reading and writing. The reading part which has phonics and fluency resources for children to learn and teaching materials for the teacher. One good thing about this website Reading A-Z is everything comes in a package. The reading lesson plan with the books and other materials that help children to understand the reading lesson. All the lessons match with the Common Core Standard and State Standard. It improves reading comprehension, phonics, and fluency for our children. The lesson provided for each reading book has differentiate instructions to meet the needs of all learners. It also applies to improving writing skills.

For the writing section, there are tools and lessons for the different types of learners from the emergent learners to the skill writers. This site provided all the needs for our children to be successful writers. All we must do to joint this site is sign up to be a member. There is a free trial and if you want to get the package you can always order them online. To get a full access you need to be a member. So, I suggest you if you want to learn more about the Reading A-Z feel free to click the link.

 

 

Kamleen Sam

ED 638 Fall Intersession 2020

Dr. M. Rivera

 

                                                      Farewell Reflection

 

What a journey! I would like to start with giving thanks to our father in heaven for everything. Second thanks to Dr. Rivera for this course. There are many challenges and difficulties that I faced when taking this class but moreover I learned a lot that will be helpful to our teachers, students and parents too. I am not good with technology but gained a lot when doing researches and posting on blogs along with making accounts.

One challenge is during the holiday’s time when it is a busy month for families, relatives, schools, churches etc. Activities piled up along with this session going on which makes me behind for some submission assignments. I would say that having the spirit of celebration for this year 2020-21 is totally different. But I do not have regrets, everything is worth it. I gained lots of things and still continuing with my colleagues in achieving good effort out of this course.

Now I can share my knowledge with others in finding websites that will be good for teaching. It is good to let them know that there are many websites that are free to use online. Because of this virus covid-19, teachers on the island needs to be trained ASAP for preparation and I believed that me and my colleagues will be happy to help in any way that we can along with those that already graduated with their Master Degree’s.

Lastly, thank you Dr. Rivera for everything, for having a humble heart; opening and answering all our questions for the needs of clarifying.  This is what students needs from teachers and I salute you for that. Thanks to my colleagues for your positive feedbacks, encouragement words, inputs and group works that we had together from the first time we jumped into the realm until now. Let’s run the race and complete it together!

Kamleen Sam

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy #7

 

            OxfordOWL help children to learn to read and write. You can visit the site at https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/. This site helps children learn with expert advice and have many free activities. It is available for children at age of 3 to 11 years old. They have Free eBook library, phonics guidance and reading schemes along with levels. They even have a book shop that contains with popular series characters for kids.

            OxforOWL also has a curriculum for learning English. Topics are grammar, punctuation, handwriting, spelling, vocabulary, writing, and literacy glossary. They even have story teller videos that are fun to watch with families. One of the interesting things is that they have activities for cooking too with many recipes for parents, teachers and students to follow. Instructions, ingredients and methods are also provided there for learners. Parents can prepare snacks following their recipes while waiting for their kids to take a break.

            OxfordOwl has guides for leveled readers to support students reading development. It is very detailed finely graded progression-taking learners from their very first steps in reading all the way to the being skillful, independent readers. Getting into this site and using information from their page, teachers or parents can reflect on their student’s readings and can easily find the Oxford level that matches their current stage of development. Following guidance procedures teachers will be able to find a wide range of appropriate resources at these levels to help students extend and develop their skills further. The levels run from 1-20. Each new level offers new language, new themes, and a chance to practice what a child has learned already.

            Oxford leveled books have helped millions of children learn and love to read. They believed that a good reading scheme; support a child’s phonic learning and helps support the skills required for fluent reading, widens a child’s reading experiences, offers carefully scaffolded content to ensure children are reading at an appropriate level to their age and ability and lastly reinforces independent reading for pleasure. These are their most popular reading scheme. This is one of the best sites for students.

 

Nickita Gilmete

ED 638 Fall Intersession 2020

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website #6

 

Scholastics

URL: https://www.scholastic.com/parents/books-and-reading.html

            Scholastic is a website that is a distributor of children's books, connecting educators and families online. This sites provides a literacy curriculum, professional services, and classroom magazines. Scholastic provides children books, support teachers and students in their literacy instructions, and international services around the world. Scholastics makes sure that they work continually to ensure that their operations are beneficial to all stakeholders-teachers, parents, schools, employees, local communities, and customers. In Scholastic, they mainly focus on helping educators and parents with teaching kids and students. For educators, this websites have book clubs, teaching tools, teacher store, classroom magazines,  and Scholastic Teachables and Education . As for parents, this websites provides book clubs, parent store, book fairs, egift cards, Scholastic parents, and klutz.  An important question I attained in scholastic.com is asking their authors and illustrators "What's a reason you love to read?" and the answers goes "We all have reasons to love reading". This is true since everyone has their reasons for their love of reading. I have my own reasons for love of reading and I know that my reasons are different from other readers.

            This website is an effective literacy websites because it can help our students to increase their literacy skills. With so many books on this websites, students and children can go online and read the books. As for teachers and parents, they can go online to download the lessons from this site and use it to help students with their literacy skills or their literacy classes. There are activities that are printable in this website that will make a parent or a teachers job more easier in helping students and children. The list of books in this websites can be read by students or children from the age of one to 13 years old.

 

 

Effective Literacy # 6

 

Perihsa Moya

ED 638 Fall Intersession

January 14, 2021

Effective Literacy website # 6

Super Teacher Worksheet

https://www.superteacherworksheets.com/comprehension.html

The super teacher worksheet is also a great website for both teachers and students. Teachers can get resourceful materials from this website to strengthen their lessons and enhance student learning in reading and writing skills. This is a free website; teachers and students can create an account to become a member for this website. Teachers can navigate the homepage to look for worksheets and lessons on reading comprehension, reading and writing, phonic, early literacy, grammar, spelling list and book chapter. There’s also a worksheet generator for teachers to generate word search, multiple choice, and fill in blanks.

This website also provides a worksheet for all the grade levels. If teachers do a lesson on reading comprehension, they can just click on the grade level they want and it will provide a useful reading comprehension worksheet. It also provides more reading materials or different kinds of genre for teachers to use. The reading corner also provides animal articles, biographies, poems and poetry for kids, readers’ theater scripts, mini books and also literature circle and book club. For the reading corner, it provides many curricular engagements for students to be more interested in reading. This website also provides activities and worksheets for early literacy, how to teach young readers to be active in reading. It also provides rules on how to teach long and short vowels along worksheets. It also provides spelling words from grade one to five. This is an effective website for it provides a worksheet and lesson on all the parts of speech.

I recommend that the teacher refer to this website for its free worksheet and teacher and it also provides a worksheet generator. It also provides engaging activities that teachers can use to make students motivated in the lesson and learn them easily. For example, on the grammar worksheet, teachers can go through each part of speech to explore how they can incorporate the activities in a fun way that covers all the student learning styles.