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.
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