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.