ED638-41: Teaching with the Internet - Fall Intersession 2021

  Name: Nancylynn Peter Course: ED 638 Fall Intercession 2022 Professor: DR. M. Rivera IRA News Project Effective Literacy Website #6               Wattpad ( https://www.wattpad.com/ ) is a website or is a place where teens and adults can publicly share their fiction writing in a blog-like format, as well as read and comment on work from other users. This website is designed for grades 7 to 12. Wattpad concentrated in the content area of English language arts to generate and develop creativity, character, communication and collaboration.              This website provides many selections for English language arts that you can choose to utilize within a regular classroom. This site is very easy to search for stories or to upload your own. This is a great community for readers and writers to share their passion for storytelling.  It also contains li...

Name: Nancylynn Peter Course: ED 638 Professor: Dr. Matilda Rivera IRA Effective Literacy Project #5 Approaches to teaching reading ( https://literacyonline.tki.org.nz/Literacy-Online/Planning-for-my-students-needs/Effective-Literacy-Practice-Years-1-4/Approaches-to-teaching-reading )  is a free literacy online tool that provides information to support teachers in implementing a range of approaches. This site can help students develop their knowledge, strategies, and awareness required to become effective readers. The reading approaches include the following: reading to, shared reading, guided reading, independent reading, reciprocal teaching, and literacy circles. Under each approach, it’s given the explanation, steps and procedures to follow, resources needed, follow up activities to engage students in reading.  The approaches to teaching reading website is a handful site because it features the necessity activities, procedures, ideas, and resources that can enhan...

Effective Literacy Website #4 Reading Rockets ( https://www.readingrockets.rog ) is one of the best websites I find really interesting. This website is a national multimedia project that offers reading strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help young children learn how to read and read better. This interesting website can do assist parents, teachers, and other educators on many things related to reading skills. Additionally, it helps struggling readers build vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension skills. In 2016 this website received the top honor in the Library of Congress Literacy Awards program.  The awards recognize groups doing exemplary, innovative and replicable work, and they spotlight the need of the global community to unite in striving for universal literacy.             Reading Rockets website provides certain indicators at the top of the homepage which include teaching reading, helping struggling read...

  Effective Literacy Project #3 Whooo’s Reading ( https://www.whooosreading.org/ ) is a website or internet tool that allows students to read, write, and share innovative independent reading platform. This website is designed for learners within grade 4-8. The targeted content area is English language arts and skill that can be developed is critical thinking. It’s also good for differentiate instructions and formative assessments. Over 250,000 teachers have used whooo’s reading. This website also helps students’ master reading, communication, and critical thinking skills. Whooo's Reading has been an absolutely invaluable part of literacy. Students are motivated and engaged in high level questions that address key reading strategies. The most important benefit that I have found with Whooo's Reading is that the activities provide a direct instruction in writing.              This website provided special features or...

  Name: Nancylynn Peter Course: ED 638 Fall Intersession 2022 Professor: Dr. Matilda Rivera Effective Literacy Project #2 Actively Learn ( https://www.activelylearn.com/ ) is a reading platform where students can highlight, annotate, and discuss text as they read. This website or tool contains thousands of free ELA, science, and history texts, from "The Picture of Dorian Gray" to George Washington's Farewell Address to recent news reports on climate change. Teachers can upload any text they want to read about. This website is a great tool in implementing in the classroom in the content areas of English language arts, Science, and Social studies for 4 th grade up to 12 th grade to help empower learners to become fluent readers and keep kids actively and independently engaged in a given task. At the same time, it helps develops learners’ communication, collaboration, and critical thinking skills. Moreover, this website offers engaging questions and media that c...

Dear Dr. Rivera and classmates, Thank you for allowing us to explore the various internet tools on the internet and reflect on how we can incorporate them in our instruction. The tools that we have shared and reviewed gave me a glimpse of the vast number of possibilities of augmenting my lessons. I will look back to this blog and our personal blogs when creating my future lessons. I am confident that I can facilitate much more classroom engagement. Thank you!