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

  Name: Nancylynn Peter Course: ED 638 Fall Intersession 2022 Professor: DR. Matilda Rivera IRA Effective Literacy Website Project # 7               Amplify reading ( https://amplify.com/programs/amplify-reading/ ) is a supplemental ELA program focusing on close reading of arguments, literary analysis, and writing . The targeted grade level is 6-8 grades in the content area English language arts to develop students reading, writing, comprehension, and critical thinking skills. This site helps educators to be creative in teaching by providing many interactive and engaging resources for direct instruction.             This website provides engagement activities and procedures that can facilitate or support educators to teach reading and writing to a targeted level within English language Arts. This website can also help students to be creative in develo...

  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!

Belinda Lynn Welles ED638 fall 2022 Dr. M. Rivera Effective Literacy Website Review # 7 Reading Rockets For my #7 Effective Literacy Review, I reviewed Reading Rocket https://www.readingrockets.org. Reading Rocket is an excellent resource site for anyone who helping a Struggling reader toward success. Reading Rockets is a national public media literacy initiative offering information and resources on how young kids learn to read, why so many struggle, and how caring adults can help. Reading Rockets project received the David M. Rubenstein Prize in 2016. The project is made up of leading researchers and experts in the field of reading. It is also recognized as the top honor in the Library of Congress Literacy Awards program. Reading Rockets' mission is to take that research-based and best-practice information and make it available to as many people as possible through the power and reach of television and the Internet. Launched in 2001, Reading Rockets is an edu...

Belinda Lynn Welles ED638 fall 2022 Dr. M. Rivera Effective Literacy Website Review #6 The Story Place My #6 Effective Literacy Website review is on this site called Story Place https://www.storyplace.org/. Story Place is a place where children and their families have enjoyed attending story times for years. This site allows kid to interact in games and activities and join Charlotte Mecklenburg program in various locations. If you’re a teach or parent looking for stories for your little ones, Story Place is the place for you. It is full of great activities for learners to explore. Just choose a theme by clicking the icons in the home page to start the fun. My little two-year-old loves to play who am? Story place was first launched in 2000 and has been newly designed to present favorite stories and activities in a format compatible with desktop and mobile devices. This site also includes early literacy information for parents and caregivers. Story Place is a Kid friendly environment...

Belinda Lynn Welles ED638 fall 2022 Dr. M. Rivera Effective Literacy Website Review #5 My Story Book My fifth literacy website review is on my story book https://www.mystorybook.com/. My story book is easy-to-use book creator and book-sharing app. It allows students and teachers to create books using photos, typed content, voice recordings, and drawings created on the app. The drawing option offers many creation choices including 20 colors, multiple tools, and different sizes for each tool. To start your creation of a book, choose to create a new book, and follow the written directions that will instruct you along the way. There is also a tutoring video available if you need help. Kids these days enjoy games where they can create their own avatar or character. With my story book, students can create the story character and choose the detail looks for their character. Teachers who want to introduce students to digital story creation for the very first time, I recommend mystorybook.c...

Belinda Lynn Welles ED638 fall 2022 Dr. M. Rivera Effective Literacy Website Review #4 Starfall Starfall https://www.starfall.com/h/index-kindergarten.php started in September 2002. It has been a free public service to teach children to read. The home page provides two tabs into activities for Kindergarten and pre-k, and the other one for grades 1, 2, and 3. Since its open, it has grown to include language arts and mathematics for preschool to third grade. Starfall focuses on phonemic awareness, systematic sequential phonics, and common sight words in conjunction with audiovisual interactivity and it has proven to have effective resources for teaching emergent readers. The parent- teacher center on the menu bar has multiple free printout activities and lesson plans for grades 1-3 math that are also free. I especially like that Starfall activities are align with the Common Core State Standards in English language arts and mathematics. I have shared to several friends of mine about th...

Belinda Lynn Welles ED638 fall 2022 Dr. M. Rivera Effective Literacy Website Review #3 My third Literacy Website review is on the Roy the Zebra. Roy the zebra is a free resource that’s all about supporting emerging readers with their literacy skills. It is used at schools and at home. This site has great introduction literacy resources ranging from reading, spelling, and punctuation games, as well as guided reading story readings totally free. This site aims for those who are just starting to read and those who aren’t progressing as expected in reading. Roy the Zebra guarantee readers with interesting and fun activities that will build confidence both in reading and spelling. Readers will have fun reading the tale of the Singing Zebra called Roy. Trying to escape the horrible zoo he is trapped in, Roy tries to escape with the help of his friends. This guided reading of Roy the Zebra is packed with adventure, suspense and humor. Those who are in need of help. The resources found in Roy...

Belinda Lynn Welles ED638 fall 2022 Dr. M. Rivera Effective Literacy Website #2 Busy Teacher https://busyteacher.org is another great, great resource site. It has 17,300 free printable worksheets and lesson plans for Language Arts teachers. It’s been said that Busy Teacher is a favorite for many ESL teachers on the go. No matter if you teach kids or adults, beginners or advanced students; BusyTeacher will have what you need. It was so easy to me to go through the website and I know using this resource will save me hours in preparation time. Best of all, no registration required. It has many worksheets and lesson plans for the busy teacher. Because the site is well organized, it is easy to explore all the grammar, vocabulary, speaking, reading, listening, writing and pronunciation worksheets available to print or download. In addition to being able to download materials, users can upload their worksheets to the website and share them with thousands of other English teachers by clic...

Thank you, Dr. Rivera for the patience and guidance. I really appreciate it. ED638 has taught me how to integrate technology in the classroom in fun and creative ways. I will surely take the knowledge, tools and resources I gained from this course into my classroom whenever I can. I look forward to seeing the impacts it will have on my students. I am sure they will enjoy it just as much as I did. To my classmates, we have reached the end of the course. It was surely not easy with assignments due on the daily, but I am glad we were all able to work hard and keep pushing. It has been a pleasure working with you all again. May we continue to become better in our craft and never stop learning. Good luck to everyone! Wishing you all the best! Until next time, Maria

Farewell, but not forgotten. I had the most productive learning experience in this course and with this Cohort. This farewell is only for a short time, and we are back again. I can already see the flicker of light at the end of the tunnel. We are almost there, and I am beginning to get excited. I am thankful to be part of this Cohort, and I pray that we will continue to have good health and more knowledge for the upcoming classes. For now let celebrate this accomplishment, drink some Kava or what every you like, rest, and let the Holy Spirit activate your mind and spirit for the remaining courses. Goodbye and Kaselehlie to everyone.

 Andrea Lainos  January 15, 2022                I appreciated all the instructions and assistance that are given in this course from our instructor, Dr. Rivera. Which I learned teaching resources that will be useful for me to use in my classroom. All the effective literacy websites and internet tools will benefit my students learning to enhance their literacy skills. I am also appreciated learning from each one of my teammates. I believe that we all did good work on committing our time to meet the requirements of this course. I am honored and enjoyed learning from each of my teammates. Therefore, I want to give thanks to our instructor and have a nice weekend everyone.  

 Andrea Lainos  January 15, 2022 According to my research, the Tumble Book Library ( https://www.tumblebooklibrary.com )  is for teachers and parents to use to build literacy and technological skills. Tumble Premium combines everything you love about the Original Tumble Book Library Deluxe, with Tumble Book Cloud Jr’s books for older readers into one easy access point. Our Tumble Premium collection has over 1100 titles and is perfect for public libraries and elementary schools, with content most appropriate for those in grades K-6. It includes animated talking picture books, chapter books, videos, non-fiction titles, graphic novels, playlists, and books in French and Spanish. Teachers can use this website for the collection of educational resources such as lesson plans, quizzes, educational games, and puzzles related to literacy, comprehension, and language skills. Another benefit that this website provided is the common core portal for K-5 which provides resources to ali...

 Andrea Lainos  January 12, 2022 Effective Literacy website #6 The Google Lit Trip (googlelittrips.org) is a nonprofit website founded by educator Jerome Burg, which uses Google Earth to take students on virtual literature tours. The teachers and students will have the opportunity to travel with characters from a particular piece of literature through their adventures and journeys. This website provides reading stories that students will have the ability to read and do comprehension questions. Which they will read a story and make several “stops” at actual locations in the book. At each stop, there are placemarks with pop-up windows containing a variety of resources including essential reading questions, thinking-about-the-story conversation starters, vocabulary words, related pictures, and videos. Through these Lit Tips, the students will construct their learning of different places. They will engage in each learning activity on this website, which will lead them to improve t...

ED638 was filled with a variety of Internet-related tasks and assignments. I'm appreciative of all the literacy websites that I've read and learned through my peers. Although it was time-consuming and we've faced some challenges, I'm glad we all made it through this Fall Intersession together! Take a deep breath because guess what? We're almost there! I'm truly honored to be a part of this cohort. Dr. Rivera, thank you for your guidance and support as well.  Enjoy your weekend, everyone! You all deserve it. And see you all soon. 

  In Chuuk, it is our custom that we offer something as a token appreciation and thankful; the Lei or Mwaramwar symbolize Appreciation and being Thankful for. Also the Coconut drink also symbolize appreciation and being Thankful for.   I am offering this picture to all us for all the hard work we have put together so far. I am saying Farewell for Now and Thank You all. As it being by ending one chapter, I will miss learning and working with each o of you. Thank you, Dr. Rivera, for all the patient, help and time you’ve shared on the forums.I am thankful for great support with this class, as I strive to get to be proficient with Technology. I will always look back at what I have accomplish with fond memories. May the next one be equally rewarding for each of us.

  Jerydine Guerrero ED638-41 Effective Literacy Website #7   BoomWriter                BoomWriter ( https://boomwriter.com ) is a web-based writing tool that encourages students to work together as authors and readers. StoryWriter, WordWriter, and ProjectWriter are three sorts of writing projects that teachers can assign. The most enjoyable is StoryWriter. It gives students the opportunity to co-author their own books. Teachers provide a "story start" – first chapter, for example – and students create a follow-up chapter, which they submit to the teacher for approval. Other students, meanwhile, anonymously vote on acceptable chapters; only the author of the winning chapter is disclosed, and their chapter is later included in the novel. Students then return to the drawing board to compose revised versions of chapter three, submit for approval, and vote once more. The procedure is repeated until the book is complet...

Elvin De Leon ED638-41 Dr. Rivera ILA Newsletter Weekly Project: Effective Literacy Website #7 Seussville ( www.seussville.com ) is a website dedicated to sharing the works of Dr. Seuss and guiding educators to incorporate his books into lesson plans throughout the year. Based on the age groups selection, the resources found on this website cater to children of ages baby to twelve; however, there, you will also find books suited for young adults. Throughout the website, you will find games, activities, and printables to use at home and in your classroom. While the website offers a range of resources for all content, the focus of Seussville is to engage children in reading Dr. Seuss’s books. When navigating the website, you will see tabs leading to the books and their famous characters. Through this experience, children can immerse themselves into the world of Dr. Seuss’s. While the website does not offer free access to the book themselves, the digital resources such as activities a...

http://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/ Oxford Owl has two websites: Oxford Owl for School, where users can find teaching resources and expert school improvement support, and Oxford Owl for Home, where users can find free resources to support learning at home. For this review, I will focus on Oxford Owl for Home. Oxford Owl for Home provides advice and support for parents, educational activities and games, and free eBook library for children 3 to 11 years old. On the Oxford Owl for Home website, there will be different drop menus to explore. There are drop menus for Reading, English and Math that are arranged by topic age and year group, which is very convenient for navigating through specific skills children need to focus on. There is a drop menu for At School that is arranged by milestones, school year and homework help. The sections give parents and teachers an idea of what to expect from their children and students at different stages in their life and offer helpful tips. There is a drop ...

  As Fall intercession draws to a close, I am glad for the learning opportunities that this course has provided. Despite a rocky start and a wave of overpowering emotions, I am proud of myself for persevering through the course. I am grateful for my cohort's support as well as all of your aid, Dr. Rivera, in offering assistance and guidance whenever needed. I've discovered a multitude of online digital tools, ideas, and resources that will help me, as a teacher, improve literacy education in the classroom. To my colleagues, give yourself credit for you have pushed through the course! As we continue forward with our master's program, I wish you all the best. Although it may appear to be a long way off, we are almost there (kinda)! But hang in there, we've got this! See you all soon in a few days for Spring semester!

  Maria Patricio ED638-41 Dr. M. Rivera ILA Newsletter Weekly Project: Effective Literacy Website #7             DOGO News ( https://www.dogonews.com ) is a global literacy website that provides a huge collection of articles about current events. This platform seems to appeal to the upper elementary, middle, and high school grade levels. As I navigate through the website, I have found that DOGO News is mostly produced by kids for kids as means to provide news from a younger perspective. Current events, science, social studies, civics, the world, and environment are among the topics covered. Articles can be easily searched by category, word count, interest level, and grade level from K-12. Articles are also several paragraphs long and are supplemented by multiple strong visuals such as pictures, infographics, or videos. These add to the content by encouraging students to keep reading as well as comprehend what they have jus...

https://magicblox.com/           MagicBlox has a wide variety of children’s books to select from. The website is easy to navigate and can be arranged by reading level, category, A to Z, media, title, listing date, and language as well. The languages offered are English, French, German, Mongolian, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish, which I thought was neat. Some websites rarely offer books in other languages than English and Spanish. Furthemore, many of the books from this website are self-published. The books come from publishers and authors from around the world. They are approved for the age group prior to being released on the website, which makes it safer for children to browse through. It is nice to take a break from famous books and well-known authors, and give other books a chance. However, there are some books by small well-known publishers as well. Each book has a rating scale from 1 star to 5 stars. Children are able to see what books other childr...

     Thank you, Dr. Rivera and to my classmates for making the learning experience in class enjoyable and worthwhile. I appreciate all the information shared online, email, and on text.  This class has made teaching with technology less daunting and challenging as we face a new level of technology-literate learners.  Even old dogs (like myself) are still able to learn new tricks.      Good luck to everyone as we continue to move forward with the Program. We’ve got this!      I know this isn’t necessarily good-bye, just see you later. In the meantime...

Greda Irons ED 638-41 Effective Literacy Website #7      International Children’s Digital Library ( http://www.childrenslibrary.org)  is a website or more like an online library for all the children around the world. It is partnership with University of Maryland. This site is fast and reliable where children can get access with different kinds of books. There is collection of freely available complete children’s books from around the world. The front page gives you access to list of books, by language, color, shape, format, and genre of different kinds, books by character, and books by true and make believe. However, it is online library that provide books from a wide variety of culture and languages. It also as books that are optional and book that can be downloaded as PDFs.     As an educator this website will help your student gain more knowledge and  will have literacy skill when they are given options with a wide variety of books.It can be educati...

  Dr. Rivera, Thank you very much for this course. I appreciate you and your time you spent assisting me in many occasions. Thank you for answering my questions promptly whether it is through via Whatsapp or email. This was a tough course with forum discussions due every day and assignments due almost every other day. However, it made me work my tail off day in and day out. So, thank you for that.    To my colleagues, I wish you the best of luck moving forward with this master’s program. Thank you for the resources you shared in our class blog. Just know that they do not go unnoticed or stuck on view/read. I use them in my classes and my students love them as well. Thank you again, and I’m pretty sure we’ll be teamed up in one of our upcoming assignments. Till then!

Thank you Dr. Rivera for your patience and guidance as we sped through this course guided by your mentorship. I appreciate your willingness to assist and support us when needed. Friends and classmates,  I am sorely missing the comradery built from face to face classes, but you guys have been a great resource of strength and encouragement. Even if no one actually reads this, know that you are appreciated and someone is rooting for you. (It's me... I'm rooting for you). To close, I couldn't think of a better sentiment than this one. A timeless remnant and a cult classic.  A poem by Vitamin C: As we go on We remember All the times we Had together And as our lives change Come whatever We will still be  friends forever Cheers to you all! I'll see you on the flip side in a couple of days when we start the next leg of our journey down this path to Mastership! (I know it's not a real word) 👀😂It's ok to laugh in the Master's program right? Am I getting an F for thi...

  Reading is a skill that is imperative to success as we all know. Students are pressured and reminded daily at school of how important it is and I’m sure at times have felt defeated when or if they struggle to make sense of the all the sounds and graphemes that are introduced to them. The pressure to be a good reader can at times make reading not fun or enjoyable and why would a kid want to do something that is not a good time? The site Teach Your Monster to Read is a site that helps remove that pressure as they foster independence within the program. Teachers or parents start by creating a group of students and printing or downloading their personal passwords to log in. When students log in, they immediately are greeted by a friendly automated voice that walks them through personalizing their monster and then on to their first adventure. The graphics are bright and whimsical, and the voice-over has a slight British accent. The instructions are clear however it does encourage th...

                  My seventh and final review on an effective literacy website is on Room Recess (http://www.roomrecess.com).  Room Recess is a website that offers free educational games for students that are fun.  Their online games reinforce skills that are aligned with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). An elementary school teacher who had the goal of reinforcing concepts in math, reading, spelling, language arts, and problem solving developed the site. Students can simply load up an activity without having to set up an account.  Everything on the website is free!             After browsing through some of the games the website has to offer, I focused my attention to on the different reading and ELA word games. Their reading games covers strategies including main idea, author’s purpose, cause and effect, fact and opinion, context clues, and ...

Balmeo, Shirley ED 638 ILA Newsletter Weekly Project: Effective Literacy Website #7 News is the first draft of history...      Newsela (https://newsela.com/) is an online news platform posting a variety of articles at different Lexile reading levels.  This platform provides high –interest, cross-curricular informational text to help improve student’s reading skills. The articles are updated daily in a cleanly designed website so that students are not distracted and are engaged with their reading.  Newsela also offers text in Spanish language for diverse learners.      The site is valuable to literacy instructors as it offers reading comprehension quizzes, writing prompts, and annotation features.  Along with a library of articles, Newsela provides real-time assessments of student comprehension. Each article is accompanied by a four-item quiz that examines the following areas and skills:  what the text says, central ideas, people, events,...

Elvin De Leon ED638-41 Dr. Rivera ILA Newsletter Weekly Project: Effective Literacy Website #6 Roy the Zebra ( www.roythezebra.com ) is a free online resource focused on enhancing the literacy skills of emerging readers of ages five to seven years.  The website provides a plethora of literacy-enhancing activities such as reading, spelling, and punctuation games, guided reading stories, lesson plans, printables, and songs. To access these wonderful materials, all one would need to do is sign up for an account. The website's homepage is minimalistic, making it easy to navigate. You will find links to literacy games, interactive whiteboards, and other activities. Upon clicking on Games, you will find featured games and tabs that filter the games based on your focus – punctuation, reading, or spelling. Each game comes with printable resources like worksheets and graphic organizers, and a lesson plan. When you click on a game to play, you are met with a pop-up video that provides an ove...