Literacy

Literacy Resources [|Reading Rockets]offers a wealth of reading strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help young children learn how to read and read better. Our reading resources assist parents, teachers, and other educators in working with struggling readers who require additional help in reading fundamentals and comprehension skills development. Reading Rockets is an educational initiative of WETA, the flagship public television and radio station in the nation's capital, and is funded by a major grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs. This is a valuable resource for pre-school to elementary age students.Reading Rockets is an informative and easy to use resource.The multi-media format offers easy to use tools for everyone involved in the education of a child learning to read. Rating* * * * *
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[|Curl up with a kindle] Joanne Meirer blogs about reading with a Kindle, portable electronic devices that allow you to download, store and read books wirelessly. This tool allows a reader to download hundereds of books. Many schools are throwing out their text and using these devices. Mierer questions if this tool will replace or should it replace the book that you can cuddle up and read with. Although expensive this could save alot of money for school districts and the students would have the most recent updates available. Rating * * * * *

**[|Sound It Out]** Parents often tell their child sound it out. Joanna Meier's blog post her insights on how to help young readers learn to read. Learning to read is more than just sounding out words and she offers other strategies to parents and teachers as they help young reader develop their reading skills. Students will benefit from the exposure to strategies such as using picture clues, determining if the word makes sense in the sentence, looking for smaller words in the bigger word and other startegies to build their decoding skills. Participate in her blog and share your insights and communicate with others. Rating * * * * *

[|Helen Keller's Kid Museum] This is a great resource for teaching the genre biography and the novel //Helen Keller. It offers great insight into the world of Helen Keller using timelines, pictures and interactive games using braille. The students also have the opportunity to ask questions to the great grand niece of Helen Keller. It is very user friendly and sponsored and maintained by the American Foundation for the Blind.// Rating * * * * *

[|Learn English Kids] This is a resource that can be used for English language learners. It offers games, songs amd stories that students can work on independently or with guidance. Students will benefit from the many activities that includes skills in basic English vocabulary, alphabetical order and phoneme matching. Teachers can download materials in the read write section to develop student's reading and writing skills. Rating * * * * *

[| Dolchworld.net] is a wonderful site for teachers and students K-3rd grade. It provides grade level games to teach sight words, flashcards and word lists to help students learn the most frequently used words in our language. What I love most about the site is the memory game it utilizes. You can check out this great game at  Dolchworld. Rating * * * *

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