Farewell Reflection

 

Perihsa Moya

ED638 Fall Intersession

January 16, 2021

Farewell Reflection

“Things may end, but memories last forever!” This course has come to an end but the approaches or strategies I learned from this course will last forever by passing on to my students and to the future generations. This course ED 638 Teaching with the Internet has taught me a lot of effective strategies. I am grateful for all the skills and knowledge I have acquired from this class. I learned many helpful and informative strategies that I can apply in my classroom. Learning many things in Teaching with The Internet have changed my perspective and therefore will change my approach in teaching reading lessons to my students. This course is one hardest session and also very challenging, but to be challenged is one way that helps strengthen my knowledge.

Furthermore, I am grateful for all the things you have taught us from the very first start.  I have learned many effective websites that I can refer to them on doing my lessons to make it more interesting and motivating for students. It takes a lot of time to go through many effective literacy websites to choose to talk about but all those websites are worth it because I get to learn about many websites that can help me develop more interesting lessons. I now can use the websites to get worksheets, tutorial videos and many interesting resources. I have also learned some internet tools I can use to deliver my lesson and already have an account on talentlms I can use especially during this pandemic and will gladly share it with my colleagues for the better of our student’s learning skills. I also learned how to develop a lesson plan on using google earth. Google Earth is a great tool that can help student’s more familiar with their surroundings.

To conclude, it was nice working with my classmates because I also learned a lot from them by sharing ideas together and getting help from them. I would also like to give a big thanks to my professor Dr. Rivera for all the helpful things she taught me. Those challenging tasks, helpful strategies, feedback, and suggestions surely enhance my learning skills and will surely enhance my teaching skills. You taught, not just what ought to be taught, but also what you thought we needed to learn. Thanks for everything, farewell.

 

Effective literacy 7

 

Anderson Ponapart

ED638 Intersession 2020

Dr. M. Rivera

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website #7
            My seventh Effective Literacy Website is Free Children’s Stories at (https://www.freechildrenstories.com).  A literacy site offers free stories to help student become fluent readers.  Each book contains guideline for teachers and parents, explaining the reading skills for the the story.  Stories are design for different age level for kids at age 3 to 5, 5 to 8, 8 to 10, and for middle grade levels.  The programs have rhyming stories and non-rhyming stories that can develop reading skills.  The site made children to learn every day word and every rhyme.  The program provides written program for parents and guardians to make sure that we have everything to support our child’s education in reading and other subject areas. 

            The program was founded in 2008 and operates on a simple principle that develop reading skills at this highest level. The mission is to over traditional and meaningful storytelling to every child, parents, and teachers.  Daniel Errico who left his career as a bank investment to create freechildrenstories.com founded the program; he has many bestselling children’s ebook with B & N and has books in stores nationwide.  His works made in books, animated films, apps, and even Schiffer Publishing.  He is the creator of the award winning Hulu Orginal Series, and The Braves Knight.  To make things possible, he stories are available online to enhance literacy and free media for kids.  The specific skills are use to help student in understanding the reading and target skills are phonics, early literacy, reading comprehension, and vocabulary.  Children can read the stories that are available for kids to practice their reading skills, comprehension skills, and writing skills.   

 

Farewell Reflection

Ketruth Resepwil

ED638-41 Teaching with Internet

Fall Intersession 2020

Dr. Rivera

Farewell Reflection

This Fall Intersession 2020 course, ED638-41 Teaching with Internet, is one hardest session I encountered. I didn't expect that it would be challenging. However, I am thankful and grateful to my colleagues (classmates) and my instructor for all the encouragement words. I once thought to myself that to withdrawn for this course, but, from the encouragements I am able reach the end of this course. From the words of encouragements, I once thought to myself that why others could accomplish the course, and why I. Thank you instructor Dr. Rivera can’t and colleagues, it's my pleasure to learn from you. I learned so much from all the assignments and from the posts that each of you posted. 

Furthermore, I am grateful and thankful for this course because it taught me many things. I learned many new different things from this course. I learned about the possible Internet Tools that I could use, especially during this pandemic. I could use them by creating classes, continuing to keep in touch with them, and helping them with their learning. For the Effective Literacy Websites, I am thankful for these sources because I would be able to use and share them with my colleagues at work. We would be able to use them to find different activities to use in our classrooms. Effective Literacy Websites are helpful for our English Learners. Lastly, the Google Earth is another useful source. This Google Earth will help us in the unit of Social Study. It is a great website or app to use in our teaching. Therefore, all the sources that I learned from this course worth a lot to me as a classroom teacher to English learners. 

Effective Literacy Website # 7

 

Perihsa Moya

ED638 Fall Intersession

January 16, 2021

Effective Literacy # 7

 https://teachingmadepractical.com/

Being a reading teacher, I found this website very interesting and helpful. As stated in the website, practical resources for busy teachers provide activities, ideas, resources, freebies, and more to help you teach more effectively while protecting your time. Kalena Baker is the sole individual who founded Teachingmadepractical.com. You can find free resources on this website. This website provides effective resources for teachers to make their teaching practical in the classroom. Some of the resources in this website require a membership account prior for users to be able to download.

On the home page, teachers can click on the reading tap to get a free printable worksheet and can also find more free resources like back to school, text features, character traits and main idea.  Teaching made practical also provide lesson objectives that can help you develop more interesting lessons on reading such as main idea, cause and effect, compare and contrast, comprehension passages, point of view, asking/answering questions, connotation, summarizing, task card, theme, figurative languages, parts of speech and even multisyllabic word lists. Clicking on each reading resource will give you a worksheet and also provide an objective on what students will do or the activities they can do under each given reading resource. Teaching made practical also provides resources for the teaching genre. It provides reading passages, activities, and more for teaching students the characteristics of different genres. The  teaching made practical website also display seven reasons to do seminar style discussion in your class, provide mini lessons for teaching point of view and biographies, autobiographies and memoirs to engage upper elementary.

The home page of this website also provides back to school ideas, classroom management and scaffolding instructions. Back to school tab can give you ideas like icebreaker and back to school procedure. Under classroom management, it will give you ideas to help your upper elementary classroom run more smoothly and efficiently. Under the scaffolding instructions, it will provide you ideas and activities you can do to help your students be successful with difficult skills. This website also provides read-alouds that encourage overcoming obstacles, using rubric to make grading easier, and help students monitor their comprehension and low prep cause and effect centers. I recommend that we should refer to this website for it provides effective resources that can enhance our student’s literacy skills.

 

Effective Literacy Website 7

 Ketruth Resepwil

ED638 Fall Intersession 2020

Dr. Rivera

IRA Project: IRA Effective Literacy Website #7

Effective Literacy Website 7

Inkless Tales- http://www.inklesstales.com/readers/ is my effective literacy #7. This website created by Elizabeth Williams Bushey. This is a great useful literacy website that teachers, parents, and students could use. It consists of poems, different kind of stories, and games. Furthermore, the activities on this website are owned by Elizabeth Williams Bushey.

As a classroom teacher for lower grade, I found this website useful for me. The stories, poems, and games, I believe my students will enjoy it because the students can watch and read along. This website would help the students with their listening and speaking skills, reading and writing skills. For example, the story of Lady Bug, click on the link, http://www.inklesstales.com/ladybug.html, to see the story. This story is a good short story for kids. The children could read along the story following the subtitles that shown. So, Inkless Tales is a wonderful website for younger children.

Lastly, I believe Inkless Tale is going to be a useful source for teachers and parents. They could use the activities on the website to help their children with their reading and writing skills. This website aimed to help children with their literacy skills. In an early age, the children will love to read and write. Therefore, if you want to learn more about Inkless Tale, please visit the website by clicking on the link, http://www.inklesstales.com/readers/.

Effective Literacy Website 6

 

DeBrum T. Melander

ED638

Effective Literacy Website #6

KidsRead2Kids.com

          Coined by Dyslexic and ADHD brethren, this website’s goal is to have children with reading difficulties to not only gain confidence in their reading skills but also to provoke their interests in reading. This website offers great support for parents and teachers, especially elementary teachers. The resources and assistance from the experts of this website can surely create effective ways for any educator to intervene in the reading skills of these kids.

          One significant aspect of this website is that it uses mostly videos throughout the whole website. From the homepage to the other featured pages consists mostly of videos. For example, in the “OUR TEAM” page, it contains a video of the young founders of this website. Users of this website can surely experience an inviting atmosphere for reading.

          Another one of much significance in this website is the founders. Because they were also struggling readers, they understand the world of confusion with this type of readers. Thus allow the interest of such children to emerge and develop. Young users can relate themselves with these innovative founders and therefore they can gain that confidence in reading as well.

          Lastly but not necessarily the least is the collection of resources that this website contains. The sub – page in the “OUR BOOKS” page also contains a library of audio and videos for early learners. The selections in this special feature have classic audio story books along with kids’ favorite Disney stories. With this wide collection of audio books children with reading challenges can surely utilize it to improve their reading skills.

          Being exposed to this effective literacy website, parents along with teachers can help develop ways to help improve the reading skills of their children. Children will not only enjoying the resources and activities in this website but also will comfortably learn from the experienced and resourceful founders of this website.

Effective Literacy Website 6

Ketruth Resepwil

ED 638 Fall Intersession 2020

Dr. Rivera

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy #6

Effective Literacy #6

My effective literacy website #6 is https://www.kizphonics.com/. This is a great website for any grade level. Also, this website is fully available online because it created by the professors who teach English and ESL to children. Kiz Phonics has different lessons, such as on alphabets, phonics, pronunciation, sentence structure, and reading techniques. It also has great instructional tools for classrooms and homeschooling environments. Kiz Phonics is created by 27-member panel of teachers who work daily in reading and language arts education. This website is supported by several tenured professors of language from around world.

Kiz Phonics is a useful site for teachers, homeschooler, parents, and students to enjoy the stories by listening and or reading. For teachers, homeschooler, parents, and tutors, they use this website for reading, listening and speaking, and writing subjects. Because this website has different activities that students can do. For instance, the teacher could use the compound words phonics video. Each of the video already has the instructions on what the child will do. One example of the instruction is “The children should watch the video the first time non-stop. Second time, they watch and pause at each word to repeat. Finally, put the video on silent mode and let children try to read the words.”

  Furthermore, I believe that Kiz Phonics is a website that all the people could use; however, a user should sign up for it. It has different lessons or activities that every teachers, parents, homeschooler, tutors, and students could listen and read during this pandemic. It will help improve a child’s language development. So, please visit the website by clicking the link, https://www.kizphonics.com/.