IRA Newsletter Weekly Project: Effective
Literacy Website #6
Website & URL: readingrockets.org
Reading Rockets is website that offers
teachers, parents, and childcare providers with proven strategies to help
children become successful readers and writers. This website provides free
resources about teaching children to read and helping kids who struggle. It
provides many different articles on reading related topics such as, early
literacy development, English language learners, fluency, oral language,
phonics and decoding, reading aloud, spelling and word study, STEM literacy,
parent engagement and much more. This website also offers teachers classroom
strategies, in-classroom videos, author videos, interviews from reading experts,
blogs related to reading, and professional development. Pre-K to 3rd
grade teachers can take a Reading 101 course, which is self-paced and presents
important information and a variety of strategies that teachers need to help
students become skilled readers and writers. It offers 9 course modules on
reading, writing and assessment.
Not only does Reading Rockets help
teachers but they also provide tips to parents and many other childcare
providers such as, principals, librarians, preschool teachers, school
counselors, school psychologists and speech pathologists.
Reading Rockets is definitely an
effective literacy website for teachers, parents and childcare providers. It
provides many resources and strategies to help students become successful
readers and writers.
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