Effective number 6

 

Anderson Ponapart

ED638 Intersession 2020

Dr. M. Rivera

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website #6

               

                My sixth effective literacy is on reading partners at https://readingpartners.org.  The vision of the program is to help students to reach their reading skills at its potentials.  The mission of the program is to help children become lifelong readers and commitment on difference, fairness, and insertion of students.  The program engage community volunteers to provide one on one reading instructions to elementary students and helping students succeed in school and life.  The program believes the power of educational fairness among students.   They are committed to support the development and lifelong literacy skills of students. 

            The program provides one on one tutoring programs for students who are behind the reading level, allows partners to work in a safe environment, be able to adjust and in small group tutoring.  All activities aim on student literacy skills.  Reading power has developed a proprietary, easy to use, structured curriculum to help students gain the skills needed to become independent and successful readers.  The curriculum provided instruction and practices on literacy skills needed to push student-reading level to the next level. The reading partner’s curriculum was align to the common core state standards and one of the best reading instructions in the classroom. The program also provides resources for parents to help children become literal readers.   The program encourages family member to read to with their kids at home to prepare them in class. The program also provide literacy videos, text, and other resources that will make your kids enjoy reading.

           

Farewell Reflection

 Having gone through the course was challenging due to the very short duration of this course. However, the effective and engaged activities offered in this course made the journey endurable. Dr. Rivera for your relentless support and professionalism, Thank You Very Much. Hope to have you in future courses. Until then, continue to live and learn, everybody.

Farewell

 It was nice to work with everyone including our Professor Dr. Rivera. It was a very busy and challenging course, but a lot of things we gain from it. I hope we will be working together again for the coming courses. Farewell to everyone. 

Effective Literacy Website # 5

 Perihsa Moya

ED 638 Fall Intersession

January 15, 2021

Effective Literacy Website # 5

Bookopolis

According to this website https://www.bookopolis.com/#/, Bookopolis is a kid-friendly social network and book discovery tool designed to ignite a love of reading in elementary and middle school students. This is a free website and also a helpful website for both teachers and students.  Both teachers and students can create and account for this website. Teachers can create this website to get more interesting and helpful strategies to improve their teaching and also make their lesson interesting and motivating. Teachers can view the dashboard to view video tutorials to help their lesson be more engaging to the students.

This site is also available for parents so they can also help with their reading skills. This website also provides reading materials that are available for all the grade levels. Students can also search any kind of book they want to read. There are many activities students can do in the Bookopolis to improve their reading skills and also improve their love of reading. Students can create their own virtual bookshelves by logging the books they have already read and they can also earn points from the collections they have. Students can also share with their classmates or friends the book they have read or recommend books to friends. This is an interesting website because students can discover many new books to read to improve their reading skills.  Students can also practice persuasive writing, comprehension, and typing skills by completing review, reports, and reading logs online.

This is also a great website for teachers and parents because they can track or see where students are with their independent reading. I recommend that teachers and parents should refer to this website to enhance the children’s literacy skills. Bookopolis is a great site for students to connect to readers and explore books they’ve already read or may like to read. This website also provides a fun games section where students can engage in word games, trivia and puzzles. I believe that this website can easily improve our student’s literacy skills in a fast way.

Farewell Reflection

 

Anderson Ponapart

ED 638 intersession

Dr. M Rivera

Farewell reflection

                For most, let me thank our heavenly father for giving us his blessings on everything.  I also want to thank Dr. Rivera for her kindness and supportive through this course.  I also want to thank my fellow classmates for all the positive feedbacks on our assignments.  I know that we all encounter challenges and difficulties in this course, but we always stand on our two legs to move forward.  I am thankful to Dr. Rivera for showing me that we have literacy websites that we can use in helping our students.  

                The challenges that I encounter was during the Christmas break because I am busy with the family activities.  I started by stacking off because of the activities that took place in December, especially the break.  I thought that having the break would help me but it took away most of my time making me struggle along the way.  After missing the first 3 days of the assignments, I tried my best to meet all the deadlines to catch up with the assignments due dates.  I know that this course will be a challenge but I took pride in accomplishing the challenges and the hardships. The reason that I push myself because learning new skill and strategies will bring positive outcome to our students and will enhance our teaching skills.  Let us all try our best so we can graduate and stand high for this program.  Once again, a thousand thanks to Dr. Rivera for her commitment in helping us throughout this course. I am anxious and looking forward for our next class.

Effective Literacy Website #3

 

Victoria Braiel

ED638 Fall Intersession 2020

Dr. Rivera

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy #3

ABCya

One of the most well-known educational websites for bringing fun into learning to enjoy is www.ABCya.com. This website was founded by a schoolteacher in New Jersey in 2004. He created this site to make sure kids can navigate around the website with a positive environment, easy access, and nonviolence zone. Fortunately, he was also good with graphic designer that he planned out to set up this site and aligning it with educational lesson. He did not realize that some of the teachers in the school started to use his side without them knowing that he was the creator.

ABCya provides over 400 fun and educational games for grades PreK through 6. The activities are designed by educators and parents, who understand that kids learn better when they are having fun. This website is categorized by grade levels and subjects and under topics such as part of speech, pattern recognition, typing, multiplication and many more. Each game is provided under such grade level with the subject and given topic. It is free to explore and you can try to see how effective the games are.

Going through the website, they provided games such as word puzzle, spelling checker, building on vocabularies, identifying the part of speeches, and so on. The games are helpful for kids to learn more on identifying words and their meaning, the spelling of words and their part of speech. It is extremely useful for their reading skills as well as their writing skills to develop as they are having fun by playing the games on this website. Especially, when kids are having fun while learning, they comprehend it well. If you want to know more about the educational games, you can always go to the website link www.ABCya.com to find out more about it.

 

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.