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
IRA Newsletter Weekly Project: Effective Literacy Website #1
ReplyDeleteRewordify.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 in 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 of the words and phrases until they are all learned and ready to move into new words. Additionally, the software allows students to chard 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 lead to pleasurable reading with appreciation and eventually love for it.