International Literacy Association Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website #2

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Elvin De Leon

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Dr. Rivera

ILA Newsletter Weekly Project:  Effective Literacy Website #2


AdLit is a multimedia project under WETA that strives to offer information and resources to parents and educators for enhancing the literacy skills of  struggling adolescent readers. To address the low literacy proficiency skills of eighth-graders in the nation, AdLit’s mission is to help as many adolescents as possible by spreading as much information and resources as possible by using the internet.

In the homepage of AdLit, you will find information and resources grouped by different tabs. These tabs include the following: AdLit 101, In the Classroom, Books & Authors, and Topics. You will also find links that will lead you to various blogs and AdLit videos. If you scroll down the homepage, you will also find various featured content that range from articles, books, news headlines, and strategies. 

While exploring the In the Classroom tab, you will find a wide variety of classroom strategies that are categorized based on the phase of the reading or writing process they are most useful for.  Additionally, you may also use the navigation tool to filter the strategies based on their focus. Upon clicking on each literacy strategy, you will be given an overview of what it is and how to use it. You may also download a printable PDF and an editable copy of the graphic organizer they have created for this specific strategy; however, you do not have to use it. You may use the principles of the strategy and apply it as you see most fit for your classroom and students. 

Other features of this website include author interviews, book finders, and themed booklists to assist users in finding the most appropriate books for their focus. From my exploration, I found these themes to be multicultural and include contemporary movements. 

In sum, AdLit is an amazing website for information and resources in general to both students and adults. As an eighth-grade Social Studies teacher, this website is incredibly resourceful for providing appropriate strategies and information to encourage and facilitate engagement with my adolescent students.  In addition, the themed booklists will be immensely helpful with immersing my students in literature about their culture as well as issues or movements taking place around the world, and find a way to connect that information to themselves and what we are learning in class.


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