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

  ED638-41 IRA Newsletter Exploring Literary Websites #6: fluencyandfitness.com Heidi Cameron                   As an active teacher battling her own tendency to get bored in class with the same old strategies, I was excited when I found the site www.fluencyandfitness.com . The name describes perfectly what it is. On this site you can expect to find resources that pair fluency skills with fitness activities. The focus of this site is on reading fluency, math fact fluency, and phonics. As we all know drill practice takes the fun out of learning and it does not work for all learning. The videos and resources on this site are intended to activate multiple areas of the learners’ brain all at once. Students are performing fact recall while hearing, seeing, saying, and moving. Research as shown us that learning is most meaningful when it is accessed in multiple ways. The resources also include works...

Greda Irons ED 638-41 Effective Literacy Website #5                My Effective Literacy Website #6,   I will be reviewing MobyMax ( https://www.mobymax.com/ ). It is for educators and families, it has close learning gap with adaptive learning for all K-8th subject. This website helps many struggled learners to quickly catch up to their grade level. It also offers fluency team games that are available in interactive class for Math, Language and Reading.  The teacher can assign a single skill games to any subject. It builds up the student interest in one other subjects and have intergradation of subjects to allow student to be more interested in the lesson. MobyMax has free version and it is free with complete curriculum for K-8 th  grade subject and even the state test prep. MobyMax is known to unlock the power of personalized and blended learning to help student learn twice as fast. Therefore, students earn game time for the a...

      My sixth review on an effective literacy website is on Sumdog (http://www.sumdog.com).  Sumdog is a website that offers free educational games for students to practice their math and reading skills. Teachers can assign specific Common Core State Standards (CCSS) questions to students, which is a great tool use after teaching the class a specific skill. The games are interesting and motivating for children because of their graphics and different levels students need to complete. Data is quickly provided after each activity, and teachers can use this data to plan instruction. Reports include data to show breakdown of strengths and weaknesses in different skills.             After signing up for a free Sumdog account, the website guides you through a step-by-step process on how to create a class and add students. It was very simple to do and easy to follow. The only downside to this website is t...

Balmeo, Shirley ED 638 Actively Learn (https://www.activelylearn.com/) ILA Newsletter Weekly Project: Effective Literacy Website #6 How can we promote active learning?      Actively Learn is an application that provides teachers with resources to work with students in close reading techniques in literature and informational text in Social Studies and Science.  It’s a great tool for across content literacy.  The platform offers a wide variety of reading resources based on curriculum units, genre, or themes.  It is a digital curriculum that drives student engagement and equity through deeper learning.           Teacher sign up is free, but for the upgraded resources, a paid subscription is required. Actively Learn has a number of useful features that allow teachers to assess student progress using innovative techniques. Teachers may include questions and comments in the text that point students to the main ideas of the readi...

  Maria Patricio ED638-41 Dr. M. Rivera ILA Newsletter Weekly Project: Effective Literacy Website #6             Want to bring joyful reading that embraces cultural diversity into the classroom? Unite for Literacy ( https://www.uniteforliteracy.com ) is an excellent website that aims to bring a world where all children have access to a diverse range of books that celebrate their languages and cultures while also encouraging a lifelong love of reading. Unite for Literacy offers captivating digital picture books in a variety of languages, all with audio narration choices. These books can be found on the site’s bookshelf. Unite for Literacy is also easily accessible on any user device, including a computer, tablet, or smartphone. The books are free for all readers, and no personal information or registration is required.  Teachers can choose books to read from the library shelves by browsing the main page. Each book can ...

  Jerydine Guerrero ED638-41 Effective Literacy Website #6                Skybrary ( https://www.skybrary.org ) is a carefully curated interactive library of eBooks and real-world video explorations designed to engage and inspire young readers. It was actually formerly called Reading Rainbow. Skybrary has over 500 books and videos. I think it’s pretty neat because the experience is similar to going to the library but virtually. Kids can choose books to download to their "backpacks" by visiting "reading islands" that organize books by theme such as animals, people, and more. Kids can read a book on their own or have it read to them, and each book includes a few simple animations and a game. Backpacks can hold up to five books, and when the children are finished reading, they place their books in the return slot – just like at a library. Kids can also check out the video field trips that cover history, science, ani...

Elvin De Leon ED638-41 Dr. Rivera ILA Newsletter Weekly Project: Effective Literacy Website #5 Kiz Phonics ( www.kizphonics.com ) is a website that utilizes modern programming to teach kids reading, writing, and phonics from grades preschool to second grade. While the website requires a membership fee, it offers many materials that you can use for free. By navigating the homepage, you will be able to explore the various activities you can use to teach specific focuses of reading or writing. Some of the activities available on the website include Phonics Worksheets, Phonics Games, Word Family Games, Flashcards, and Phonics Games. Many more activities can be found by simply hovering over the Activities tab located at the top of the website. Kiz Phonics provides a phonics program for each grade level. Clicking on each grade level will bring you to a category of educational tools and resources that can be used to teach children.  You will also find a compilation of activities for ...