Internet Tools Review

Mayleen S. Wichep ED 638 Dr. Rivera Effective Literacy Website #7 In 2002, Starfall was launched as a free service to teach children to read.    This program was made possible by Dr. Stephen Schutz and provided by the Starfall Education Foundation.   The targeted learners were students in kindergarten to third grade.    Starfall.com offers resources for language arts and mathematics.   The skills addressed for language arts include phonemic awareness, systematic sequential phonics, and common sight words with the integration of audiovisual.   All the activities are research based and aligned with Common Core State Standards in ELA and Mathematics. Since the targeted grade level is kindergarten to third grade the program highly emphasizes learning through exploration, play, and encouraging learners to become intrinsically motivated in their learning development.   Although the article mentioned that the progra...

Mayleen Wichep Fall Intersession ED 638 Dr. Rivera Effective Literacy Website #6   Reading Rockets is a national public media literacy initiative offering information and resources on how young kids learn to read.   Reading Rockets was launched in 2012.   The goal of Reading Rockets is to enable parents, educators, librarians, administrators and anyone else who is involved in helping a young child become a confident reader.   Reading Rockets brings the reading research to life enabling parents and educators with reading instruction that works for the learner.   Reading Rockets provides free evidence-based information about reading through a PBS television program, online services and professional development opportunities.   To learn more about Reading Rockets go this website https://www.readingrockets.org/about . The homepage https://www.readingrockets.org has several tabs that include:   Teaching Reading, Helpin...

Mayleen Wichep Fall Intersession ED 638 Dr. Rivera Effective Literacy Website #5   Teach Thought was founded by Terry Heick in 2012.   Initially, the idea was to create a blog to support educators in teaching and learning for a 21 st century audience targeting grades K-12.   The Mission was to innovate education through the growth of innovative teachers.   In 2016 and 2017, Teach Thought began offering professional development and conference to schools.   In 2018, Teach Thought began the development of teaching materials and curricula to support teachers in innovation in their own classrooms.   Today, Teach Thought is preparing to launch a learning platform for teachers. Teach Thought develops content such as blog posts, eBooks, eCourses, videos, podcasts and etc.   They also provide professional development for this 21 st century curricul...

Mayleen S. Wichep ED 638 Fall Intersession 2019 Dr. Rivera Effective Literacy Website #4 https://www.google.com/search?q=Into+the+book Into the Book can be accessed using this website https://reading.ecb.org/index.html .   This tool is a multimedia package designed to aide elementary students and teachers in reading comprehension.   It focuses on eight research based strategies:   Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing.   It includes online interactive activities that can engage students in the mentioned skills.   Into the Book was developed by PBS Wisconsin Education with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction and a team of experienced educators. The homepage contains a student website, a teacher website and a professional learning website.   The student website includes a number of activities for each of the targeted eight str...