IRA Newsletter Weekly Project: Effective Literacy Website #3- Reading is Fundamental (RIF)

 IRA Newsletter Weekly Project: Effective Literacy Website #3

Reading is Fundamental (RIF)

Reading is Fundamental (https://www.rif.org/) , also referred to as RIF, is an online tool filled with free resources and support to improve children’s literacy. Its vision is to create an opportunity for all children to be successful readers. RIF provides a variety of resources including books, STEM- themed classroom activities, professional development for educators, and parent engagement materials.

The website’s design is well organized, user-friendly, and easy to navigate. The welcome page offers five sections: About Us, How We Help, Impact, Support RIF, and Donate. At the top right corner of the page you will find the link to Literacy Central and Literacy Network.

Literacy Central (https://www.rif.org/literacy-central) is where users are able to access books and literacy tools, such as eBooks, at-home resources, a puzzle creator, activity calendars, Literacy Trackers, and Mobile Apps. There is also a section to access various centers, such as Social Emotional Learning (SEL), Virus & Germ, and Reading Centers and a section filled with other resources, to include: Daily Book Bites, Lesson Plans, Puzzles, Read Aloud Videos, Reading Passages, and Author Interviews.

Literacy Network (https://www.rif.org/literacy-network)  is where users are able to sign up to become part of the RIF community. Users are able to get involved in a number of ways, one of which includes becoming a RIF Reader which involves volunteering to be a guest reader at community or school events. RIF also accepts donations which go toward providing free books and literacy resources to children across the nation.

            A few great resources that RIF provides are its Books for Ownership Reading Program (https://www.rif.org/sites/default/files/BFO_OneSheet_FINAL%201_9_19.pdf) , which enables children to select new, age appropriate books to take home, a Read for Success Program (https://www.rif.org/literacy-network/our-solutions/read-success) - an evidence-based, supplemental reading program designed to improve reading proficiency and encourage a passion for reading, a Skybrary, which is an interactive, digital library for educators, students and families and lastly, an RIF Literacy App which allows users to scan ISBN bar codes of specific books to launch the Literacy Central webpage and find activities, games, and helpful tips that are specific to those books.

RIF is an excellent resource for literacy development as its team is dedicated to developing content and resources that are aimed to improve children’s literacy skills as well as make a positive impact in the lives of students and their families through books.

Effective Literacy Website #3

 

IRA Newsletter Weekly Project: Effective Literacy Website #3

Website & URL: Storylineonline.net

            Storyline Online is an award- winning children’s literacy website, created by the SAG-AFTRA Foundation. There are many benefits that Story Online provides to promote literacy.  This website streams many videos featuring famous actors reading aloud books. Famous actors include Oprah Winfrey, Kristen Bell, Chis Pine, Sarah Silverman, Betty White, Wanda Sykes and many more. As the actors read, the book comes alive through creatively produced illustrations, which is something children of all ages will definitely enjoy.

             Story Online has many great features. It is free and available online for children, parents, caregivers and educators all over the world to use. On the website, the books are arranged alphabetically. Under each book, it indicates the author, illustrator, publication information, the name of the celebrity reading this book, the suggested grade level for the book and the run time. Under each book, there is also activity guides that teachers and parents can use. For teachers, it provides before, during and after reading activities, as well as writing prompts, all accompanied with supporting Common Core State Standards. For parents, it provides a synopsis and themes found in the story and sample questions parents can discuss with their child. Under each book, it also gives the option to buy the book on Barnes and Noble.

            Story Online is a great and effective tool that promotes literacy. Reading aloud has been shown to improve a child’s reading, writing and communication skills, logical thinking and concentration, and general academic aptitude. Reading aloud is a fun and meaningful activity for students and instills a lifelong love of reading.

Effective Literacy Website #2 - Read To Me International

    Read To Me International (https://www.readtomeintl.org/) is a nonprofit organization that was created by the governor's Council for Literacy and Lifelong Learning and the Rotary Club of Honolulu Sunrise whose mission is to simply share the love and joy of reading aloud. This organization provided parent-coaching programs that help families understand the importance of reading together to support a child's academic, social, and emotional growth (Read To Me International, 2020). 

    The website's homepage displays enlarged headings that are linked to different pages that include events, read-aloud videos, resources, and activities. Much of the information is aimed towards professional development for teachers of literacy and offer PowerPoints, session recordings, online resources, lesson plans, virtual adventures, tours, and much more that both parents and educators can use to supplement their child's learning. Read To Me International also includes a statement of the importance of reading aloud to children of all ages, the benefits it has, and some tips and techniques to try when incorporating read-alouds in the classroom. 

    Amongst all the features this website has to offer that support literacy through reading aloud, they also provide a recommended reading list categorized by age and topic and provide templates for activities to bring read-aloud time alive. 

    This website is a great resource for parents and teachers alike to help stimulate a for reading with their children, weather in the home or in the classroom. Many of the activities gear towards young readers ages 1-6 who may benefit from the engaging and animated read-aloud strategies this site has to offer.  

Reference: Read to Me International. (2020). About Us. Retrieved from: https://www.readtomeintl.org/aboutus/

IRA Newsletter Weekly Project: Effective Literacy Website #2

 

IRA Newsletter Weekly Project: Effective Literacy Website #2

Website: KidLitTV

 

URL: https://kidlit.tv/about/

 

            KidLit TV is a winner of the Parents’ Choice Gold Award and has been selected as an American Association of School Librarians Best Digital Tool for Teaching and Learning. KidLit TV was created by a community of parents, educators, librarians, kid lit creators, and award- winning filmmakers, all working together to create fun new ways to reinforce an appreciation of reading that children will carry with them for the rest of their lives. KidLit TV is a place to discover great children books and connect with people who create them. KiLit TV offers KidLit TV Shows, KidLit Radio, crafts and activities, and book trailers.

            KidLit TV shows include topics such as, StoryMakers, Read Out Loud and Ready Set Draw! In StoryMakers, authors are interviewed by Rocco Staino, who is an important figure in the book community. Here, students have the opportunity to hear authors and illustrators talk about the making of their book such as, how they created their illustrations or who inspired them to create their book. In Read Out Loud, students have the opportunity to listen to a read a loud by the book maker themselves. In Ready Set Draw, students have the opportunity to learn how to draw characters from a book from the book’s illustrators.

            KidLit Radio is a free literature podcast for kids. It offers a variety of audio books for kids, read by the author themselves! It also offers interviews from the author, which sometimes consists of them giving background knowledge of the topics found in their book or them talking about the inspiration for their illustrations.

            This website also offers many crafts and activities related to reading. There is a Kids Corner that features videos of activities students can practice that are related to literacy. There is also a Spark your Creativity section, where it showcases many arts and crafts students can do.

            Lastly, this website features many book trailers for many different books and provides the option for students to purchase the book online.

            KidLit TV is an effective literacy tool because it allows students to hear from the authors and illustrators of many wonderful books. KidLit TV provides free read alouds, podcasts, crafts and activities and book trailers. It also promotes children’s literature and inspires kids to read, write and draw.

 

Effective Literacy Website Exploration #2: Epic- Kid’s Books and Educational Reading Library by Maricon Reyes

 

Maricon Reyes

Ed638-40 Fall Intersession 2020

Dr. M.Rivera

IRA Newsletter Weekly Project: Effective Literacy Website #2: Epic- Kid’s Books and Educational Reading Library

 

              Epic (https://www.getepic.com/) is one of the leading digital reading platforms where thousands of high-quality interactive and curated books are easily accessed by children ages 12 and under.  This interactive tool has all reading levels and provides a wide variety of book types to include audio enabled read-to-me books, audiobooks, picture books, chapter books, comic books, books for early readers, storybooks and children’s bedtime stories, nonfiction titles, graphic novels, Spanish, Chinese, and French books, educational books, games, and quizzes. Epic has so many interesting features to start with free access to teachers and librarians. It is creatively designed for web and mobile use providing children with a personal library on-demand made appealing by the fun-game components that are readily available anytime and anywhere. Additionally, it is a very user-friendly virtual learning resource that can be used both in the classroom and for at-home learning.

            Offering 40,000 books from leading publishers such as Harper Collins, Macmillan, Smithsonian, National Geographic, Epic provides access to known books and series to include Clifford, Fancy Nancy, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Disney books, Goosebumps, Goodnight Moon, Big Nate, Flat Stanley, Warriors, Biscuit and National Geographic Kids.

    

          There are two versions available of epic which are Epic for Educators and Epic for Home. Epic for Educators account is completely of no charge to librarians and teachers. Teachers can access numerous and varied book types. This platform allows teachers to create personalized student profiles with book recommendations based on students’ reading levels and interests. Epic has a feature that allows teachers to track student’s growth and reading progress. On the other hand, the Epic for Home account allows up to four individual customized child profiles. Thousands of different book types and resources can be accessed by students online or offline on any device. One interesting feature is the reading log tracker that records students’ progress and made available to parents on a weekly basis via email.

         Below are some tutorial videos on how to set up accounts, use epic, and assign books.

1. Epic! is an Amazing FREE Tool for Teachers

      https://youtu.be/3p_VtqI2S_U

2.  Epic Books for Kids

     https://youtu.be/FD8DwVqR0_s

3.  How to Use Epic Books

     https://youtu.be/Q46XnR9dAMQ

4.  Assigning Books in Epic

     https://youtu.be/9Qwj9c3UmZI

             Epic is a great platform where students, teachers, and families can all benefit through accessing quality books, enjoy reading while making progress, growing appreciation, and love for it.

         

Merlyn's Effective Literacy Website #1: readwritethink.org

 Readwritethink.org

URL: http://www.readwritethink.org/

                  Readwritethink.org is a website that provides educators, parents and afterschool professionals access to high quality practice in reading and language arts through a variety of free materials. This website provides classroom resources, professional development, videos and parent and afterschool resources that support literacy development. 

        Classroom Resources

                  On the top of the homepage, you will see a tab labeled "classroom resources." Under this tab, there are lesson plans that support literacy from grades K- 12 and are aligned with the Common Core State Standards. Each lesson is provided with a short preview, aligned standards, resources and preparation, instructional plan, related resources and the option comment and provide feedback. When looking for a particular lesson plan, you also have the option to refine your search by grade level or lesson objective. Under this tab, you will also come across student interactives, which are games students can play for free. There is also a list of mobile apps, calendar activities and printouts that teachers can use in their classroom.

       Professional Development

                  Under the "professional development" tab also found on top, there are strategy guides that define and provide examples of effective literacy teaching and learning strategies and offer a wealth of related resources to help teachers sharpen their instruction.  Under this tab, there is also a professional library that provide books and journal articles that offer great insights on effective literacy instruction. There are also online conventions and web seminars teachers can attend.

       Videos

                  Under the "videos" tab, there is a wide selection of videos that demonstrate how specific literary strategies are used in a real life classroom and videos of professionals presenting on literary topics. 

              

       Parent and Afterschool Resources

                  Under this tab, parents have access to activities and projects, games and tools, tips and how to's, printouts and podcasts that support literacy development from grade K-12.
       

                  Readwritethink.org is an excellent tool that supports literacy development because it offers educators a variety of resources educators can use in the classroom, professional development, videos and additional resources for parents.

 

Effective Literacy Website #2- CommonLit

IRA Newsletter Weekly Project: Effective Literacy Website #2

 

CommonLit

CommonLit (https://www.commonlit.org/) is a free literacy resource that is designed by a team of expert educators for teachers and students from grades 3-12. The welcome page describes the website as, “A reading program that reaches all students.”  The website provides teachers with research-based instructional materials that are aligned to the Common Core State Standards. The resources, which includes a free digital library, are designed to help students develop advanced reading and writing skills and help support struggling readers and English Language Learners. This website offers a variety of tools to help support struggling readers. Some of these tools include: a Guided Reading Mode, which breaks reading into chunks and provides students with feedback on their understanding, Read Aloud, which provides auditory engagement, and Translation and Annotations, tools used for vocabulary and with English Language Learners.

The welcome page presents visitors with links that will take them through the website to explore all that CommonLit offers. There are links to products, such as the free library (https://www.commonlit.org/en/library )  and to  formative insights and professional development for administrators (https://www.commonlit.org/en/school-essentials) to enroll their school or district into the program.

What I found most interesting about CommonLit is that its free digital lesson library contains lessons and materials from authors such as J.K. Rowling and Martin Luther King Jr., that are relevant and will keep students engaged. Users are able to filter through the books by content type, grade level, Lexile Range, genre, themes, literary devices, standards, and even languages.

            CommonLit is an effective literacy website as it is a research-based program. It offers a variety of resources developed to improve and support literacy skills in students from the elementary level to the high school level, at no cost to its users. CommonLit is designed to be simple, easy to navigate, and is integrated with Google Classroom.

Maricon's Effective Literacy Website #1: Rewordify.com

 IRA Newsletter Weekly Project: Effective Literacy Website #1

 

        Rewordify.com (http://rewordify.com/) is a free website that provides help by improving reading comprehension and aids in vocabulary development by rewording a sentence or a paragraph. Its main goal is to simplify the text and allows for more readability by the students. Students in different groups such as the ESL, with learning disabilities, and with reading disabilities will greatly benefit from this website.

 

        Since Rewordify.com is a web app; it has a simpler and faster set-up. Users can use any device they have from laptops, tablets, and phones. It doesn’t require personal information and no need to complete a lengthy set-up of accounts. Accounts are completely anonymous. Simply type in the browser the site and immediately access and use it.

                                

         One great feature of this site is the Rewordifying Engine.  As you read and come across a difficult text, copy and paste it into the yellow box at the top of the page. Through this tool, complicated words, text, and paragraphs are converted into simpler and easier to understand version. The highlighted version matches the usage of the word in the original text. With the use of Learning Sessions, difficult words identified by the software are presented to the student. The student is able to choose the words to learn and practice with. In the process, words and phrases are heard, type them, and read them. The student has been retaught the words and phrases until they are all learned and ready to move into new words. Additionally, the software allows students to chart their progress. Documents may also be saved online for other students to be able to read.

 

        This software helps students and teachers achieve the learning outcomes for it saves time when reading hard text, improves comprehension, and teaches vocabulary which increases student’s self-confidence.  It improves engagement as it allows individualized instruction and allows for differentiation of learning styles and reading readiness. Lastly, it improves reading time by students which leads to pleasurable reading with appreciation and eventually love for it.

 

 

Effective Literacy Website #1 - PBS Kids

PBS and PBS Kids (https://pbskids.org/) is a public broadcasting system that offers a wide range of free resources that include movies, games, articles, and much more. The resources cater to children, parents, and teachers as they provide content on various subject matter that are standards-aligned and interactive.

Much of the videos and games provided on PBS Kids and PBS Kids Go! are appropriate for children ages 2-8 and incorporate content that illuminate diverse backgrounds. Depending on the show and game, the producers use a variety of literary elements to promote literacy such as the use of books, written words, images, and oral language. Others may also use online resources, historical archives, maps, and charts. Along with videos and games, PBS Kids also has a link for parents (https;//www.pbs.org/parents). HEre they are able to locate many hands-on activities that connect to their child's favorite shows. 

The PBS Kids website in itself is very enticing, with its colorful scheme, bold letters, and pictures, it is a guaranteed attention grabber. As you hover over certain links, it dictates the words displayed. This is a convenient feature for children who are still learning to read and allows them to navigate the site fairly easily. Since the site is intended for a young audience, a bulk of the content is displayed in the parental portion whereas PBS Kids displays simple, easy to follow features.

PBS Kids is a great literacy website because it builds on the interests of children and incorporates many literary elements into their games and videos. The website is also designed around educational standards which prepares children with the background knowledge and experience needed to succeed in a school environment. 

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website #1

               Storyline Online (https://www.storylineonline.net) is a literacy website that streams videos of popular actors or actresses reading books to children. It has won many awards just from providing a reliable source of read alouds that educators and students can explore on their own. Storyline Online’s most recent awards include the 2020 Notable Children’s Media Recognition and 2019 American Association of School Librarians Best Website Recognition.

The website was created by a non-profit organization called the SAG-AFTRA Foundation. This organization continues to devote their time to create content on Storyline Online every year. Their main goals are to share the love of reading and to strengthen comprehension and verbal and written skills for English-language learners. 

Storyline Online includes a large selection of books that are easy to navigate on the homepage. The books are organized into many genres and features many topics that are relatable to issues in current events. There is a separate page that leads to the website’s library that presents all the books in alphabetical order.  

When a person selects a book to read, the user is brought to another page where he or she can find the video of the read aloud and several links to sources on where to purchase the book. Beneath the video, there is also an in-depth description of the book and a short biography of the person who reads the story. The video will have the featured guest introduce the book. Short animations would play while the special guest reads the book. This is the unique feature that the website is most notable for.

Storyline Online is a great literacy website for teachers to share with their students. It provides the interaction of what a classroom read aloud would be like. This website would be most useful during this time of remote learning. It would also be a great resource for students who just love read aloud time.

Effective Literacy Website #2 Into the Book

Into the Book

            Into the Book (https://reading.ecb.org/teacher/index.html) is a free, reading comprehension resource for teachers and students. This is a project developed by PBS Wisconsin Education and aims to help literacy through focusing on eight components: using prior knowledge, making connections, questioning, visualizing, inferring, summarizing, evaluating, and synthesizing. This resource offers a student and teacher website that is free to use with and without an account. However, assignments and progress will only be saved on an account. This website also offers the content in English and Spanish. 

            The website organizes the eight components for teacher and student viewing. The content is delivered depending on what viewing mode you choose. For the teacher website, each category has a student and teacher definition of the word, online activities, lessons, books, videos, posters, and songs. All of the resources are connected to the literacy skill and easily accessible. The teacher website also aligns all the lessons with 3rd Grade Common Core Standards. Despite the website being geared towards 3rd grade curriculum, teachers are still able to get ideas and use the resources from the website. 

For the student website, the website becomes more user friendly with appealing and large graphics. The students will see the eight components organized. When students select one of the eight categories, they are able to select what story they will want to read. Each story focuses on the reading skill they are working on. The stories they choose play like a video game. They are able to pause and play the characters reading the story out loud. The online game has interactive parts where students can drag and drop text into text boxes. The games provide a fun and engaging way to practice the literacy skill.

Into the Book is a great literacy website that focuses on building important reading skills. Their library of free content for teachers and students are beneficial when learning these important literacy skills. Teachers will appreciate its organization and usefulness when utilizing these resources in the classroom. Students will appreciate the engaging format and interactive activities that will help them build their literacy skills.  

Effective Literacy Website #1 Reading Bear

Reading Bear

            Reading Bear (https://www.readingbear.org) is a free, non-profit literacy website that focuses on assisting beginning readers develop vocabulary and phonics skills. This website is geared towards beginning readers but can assist any struggling readers or English Language Learners. This website helps promote the beginning stages of literacy in young readers by focusing on letter sounds and meaning. 

            Reading Bear is a project created by WatchKnowLearn.org, a free educational website that offers many learning videos based on topic. Both Reading Bear and Watch Know Learn are projects of the St. Charles Place Education Foundation. Reading Bear is a non-profit website that is ad-free and completely free to use with and without an account. On the website, there are over 50,000 literacy-based presentations to help develop literacy skills. These presentations were created by website contributors and volunteers. All images and video clips were donated by ShutterStock. 

            Reading Bear is an engaging website that takes the traditional format of a regular reading workbook into a more modern setting. Each presentation focuses on one specific skill. For example, identifying the short vowel A sound. The viewer has seven choices of how the media is presented to them. They can choose to have words read out slowly or quickly, in flash card format, or without sound and just the words appearing. Each presentation is interactive and has a presenter prompt questions and gives time for students to read on their own. 

            All presentations have user friendly media controls such as play/pause, next, back, and repeat. Each presentation can have text size and audio adjusted. All the clips on the presentation are engaging and colorful, which will appeal to young readers. Each skill has different parts to the presentation, so readers get more practice with different words. When a reader is done with one letter, they are able to access a whole library of different decoding practice. 

            Reading Bear is a great website that allows young readers to practice beginning literacy skills. The website is simple enough to navigate around and get access to all the free resources. All of the available learning tools are user friendly and able to be customized to reader preference. Readers will surely enjoy the interactive presentations that allow them significant practice. 

Reading Bear - (IRA) Effective Literacy Website Exploration #2 - Marissa Maratita

Website: Reading Bear

URL: https://www.readingbear.org/

   Reading Bear

    Reading Bear (https://www.readingbear.org/) is a free, web-based literacy program that was published alongside the WatchKnowLearn (http://www.watchknowlearn.org/) non-profit projects of the St. Charles Place Education Foundation. The resources offered on this site are entirely accessible without requiring an account registration. However, creating an account can be done in one simple step; entering your email address. Parents can find registering for this website to be beneficial as it saves and tracks their child's progress. For teachers, registering with this website can allow them to create 40 free subaccounts (without the hassle of entering multiple e-mail addresses) for students. Students are able to utilize it during classroom instruction or at-home learning as teachers are able to observe their individual progress. 

    Reading Bear was creatively designed for a target audience of four- to seven-year-old children. However, the skills offered can easily be used with older English-Language Learners (ELL) or children receiving speech therapy. This program's main mission is to help children learn how to be efficient readers. This website is developed to be completely "learner-centered" as the program is self-paced. Reading Bear teaches beginning vocabulary concepts while introducing phonics patterns. Since the lessons are on advanced literacy skills, children should have the basic understanding of letter sounds. Nonetheless, Reading Bear offers "First Learn the Letter Sounds" development plan that prepares children to grasp the alphabet prior to beginning their set lessons. 

    Teachers, parents, and students will find this program easy to navigate. The program begins with introducing short vowel sounds and continues with phonograms and syllables. The format of the website is entirely student-teacher friendly. Every lesson is laid out in a consistent seven components. However, students or teachers can begin at any point of the lesson depending on their comfort and comprehensive level. 

    At the beginning of every lesson, the skill in focus is "sounded out slowly". In this step, a video is shown with a person enunciating each phonogram. As the speaker sounds out the word, the letters are illuminated in a color to make the letter-sound connection. Next, children will practice the skill by "sounding it out quickly". Similar to the previous video, the speaker will now pronounce the word more quickly which introduces the skill of blending. As blending practice is performed, sentences and illustrations are shown to introduce the meaning of the word. This step is followed by independent practice, "let me sound it out". The printed word is displayed and gives the children time to practice pronouncing it on their own. After these three introduction videos, children are then taken into more comprehensive reading activities. 

    In the next four steps, children will interact with flashcards and sentences. Audio flashcards with the printed word displayed are matched with voiceover prompting. This step includes a video of a person saying the word naturally alongside images portraying the meaning. Children will then have silent flashcards, in which they will independently practice the skill. If a child stumbles upon the word, they can click on it for voiceover assistance. Then, the same procedure is repeated for the last two steps utilizing sentences: Audio Sentences and Silent Sentences. Children follow the entire lesson at their own speed/level. The option to repeat a step or go back for further review is always available. 

    Finally, every lesson concludes with a quiz. Teachers and Parents are encouraged not to present this quiz to the children until they have completed and showed independent comprehension of the seven steps mentioned previously. Each lesson contains three to six sections for constant practice. After every five sets of lessons, a review lesson is offered for the skills in that section. Ultimately, children will get the full benefits of repeated instruction for building vocabulary with phonics and reading comprehension. 

    With 50 representations that cover lessons on phonics principles and illustrating over 1, 200 vocabulary words, Reading Bear proves to be an effective literacy website for educators, parents, and students. 

IRA Newsletter Weekly Project: Effective Literacy Website #1: ReadWorks

 Website: ReadWorks

URL: https://www.readworks.org/

Read Works (https://www.readworks.org/) is a free website that offers differentiated instruction for reading, specifically comprehension. Its resources are driven by cognitive science research and offer world-class content, teacher guidance, and tools to help improve teacher effectiveness and student achievement.

Read Works is a non-profit website and collaborates with K-12 teachers to bridge the gap between research and practice in reading comprehension. This website contains a wide range of resources that can be used to increase student’s comprehension, provide extra support and offer differentiated learning activities for diverse learners.

The website offers several features that support various classroom setups. Teachers are able to assign lessons digitally, in print, or projected in their classrooms. Also available are resources that teachers can use to differentiate their instruction, which include: StepReads, which provide less complex versions of original passages, Audio Versions, so students are able to listen and follow along to texts and questions, and other resources that offer more support to ELL and SPED students.

The website’s homepage shares a link that will take you to a page where you can sign up to become a free member. If you click on the “Learn more” link (https://www.readworks.org/our-solutions) below the sign up button, you will be taken to the ReadWorks Solution page. This page discusses the types of resources that can be found within the website, including: reading passages, question sets, vocabulary, ReadWorks Article-a-Day, Paired Text, Step Reads, Lessons and Units, eBooks, and Student Tools. Each category provides you with a brief description about the resource and includes a drop down bar that discusses what research says about that particular resource.

Scrolling the homepage further, you will find a button link that will take you to a page that allows you to browse the Read Works content for different topics, including: STEM, Poetry, Social Studies, Literary Fiction, Arts, and Holidays & Events.

Read Works is a great and effective literacy website as it is filled with numerous resources for educators, parents, and students, at no cost. Its content is designed to improve teacher effectiveness and build better readers. The website is well designed, easy to navigate, and gets its mission across.

Into the Book - (IRA) Effective Literacy Website Exploration #1 by Marissa Maratita

Website: Into the Book

Url: https://reading.ecb.org/index.html

Post Effective Literacy Websites In This Class Blog

Hafa Adai ED638 Students,

This is where you’ll post your effective literacy websites.  You may guide yourself by visiting last intersession’s class blog at http://ed638-40fallintersession2019.blogspot.com.  Be sure to describe your selected websites using your own words.  Good luck, and here’s to a wonderful class of teaching with the Internet!

Best regards,

Dr. Rivera