IRA Effective Literacy Website Project #2

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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 4th grade up to 12th 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 can make it easier for readers to chunk readings and draw them close/deeper into the readings. Also, students can add their own questions, ideas, and comments to guide class interaction. Teachers can even monitor their students' progress, or even see students' notes as they're writing in their own "copies" of texts. The app's developers continue to add features that make the reading experience more flexible and accessible, including language translation options and flexible text-to-speech features. Additionally, this website provides videos, blog posts, and extensive guidance on thoughtful ways to integrate this tool into the classroom. Most interestingly, this site is designed for 4th graders up to 12th graders. Concentrated in the content areas of English Language Arts, Science, and Social Studies to enhance or develop learners’ communication, collaboration, and critical thinking skills. It also empowers readers, keeps kids actively and independently engaged in any given task. Teachers can assign texts to students’ independently or in groups so that whole classes can read, annotate, and interact around texts at their levels.

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