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Ray RodriguezNational Education Consultant
Classroom Connect
Using Online Resources to Improve Literacy
In many states, half of 4th graders perform below the basic reading level on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
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“Several recent NICHD supported studies and surveys…indicate that teachers feel unprepared to address the individual learning needs of their students, and they report that they are particularly under prepared to provide adequate reading instruction.”
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Using Online Resources to Improve Literacy
“the ability to write”
“the ability to read”
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What do you think?
What is Literacy?
Reading is “a complex system of deriving meaning from print that requires all of the following:
a. The skills and knowledge to understand how phonemes, or speech sounds, are connected to print
b. The ability to decode unfamiliar wordsc. The ability to read fluentlyd. Sufficient background information and vocabulary to foster
reading comprehension; e. The development of appropriate active strategies to
construct meaning from print; andf. The development and maintenance of a motivation to read.
Reading First, NCLB
Your students Classroom
environment Areas of need Access to
resources in school and away from school
Strategies and Considerations
Phonemic Awareness Fluency Comprehension Phonics Vocabulary Development
2000 National Reading Panel
The ability to notice, think about, and work with the individual sounds in spoken words.
Partnership for Reading
Phonemic Awareness
Working with students to:
hear, identify, and manipulate the
sounds and their letters
Teaching Phonemic Awareness
Crankophone (Students practice listening and distinguishing skills) http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/cvc/crank/index
.shtml
GameGoo http://www.cogcon.com/gamegoo/gooeyhome.html Paw Park and Alien Scavenger Hunt
PBS’s “Between the Lines” http://pbskids.org/lions Fuzzy Ears and Pounce
Web Sites
TeachersPlanet http://www.teachersplanet.com/subjects/pa.
shtml
AlphaBites http://www.alphabet-soup.net/alphabite.html
ProTeacher http://www.proteacher.com/070000.shtml
More Web Sites
Phonics includes the relationships between the letters (graphemes) of written language and the individual sounds (phonemes) of spoken language. National Institute for Literacy
Phonics
Abundance of online printable worksheets
The BEST allow teachers to select sounds or letters for the students
Avoid activities with extreme graphics
Phonics Online
Printable tools and resources (books!)
Wide variety of leveled readers, decodable books, alphabet resources, and other resources
Some paid, some free Multiple resources for the teacher
Reading A-Z(http://www.readinga-z.com/)
Interactive, well designed books Lots of support for beginning
readers Sound enables student to hear the
word sounded out phoneme by phoneme
Fun!
Starfall (www.starfall.com)
Clifford’s Sound Match http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/flash/phonics/index
.htm
Get “it right” and Clifford “woofs” for you! BBC’s Digby Mole
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/4_11/literacy.shtml Lots of fun choices for parents, teachers, and kids
Marvin Morrison’s Word Puzzles http://www.soundpuzzle.com/index.html This is not for young learners.
Additional Phonics Resources
The ability to read accurately and quickly, recognize words, and comprehend what is read, all simultaneously.
Fluency
Reading material online Free copies of books,
worksheets, student certificates
Lyric sites Student news sites Online audio books and
stories
Fluency Resources Online
C.J. Heck’s Poetry for Children http://www.barkingspiderspoetry.com
Sports Illustrated for Kids http://www.sikids.com
A Girl’s World http://www.agirlsworld.com
Reading Materials Online
MysteryNet’s Kids Mysteries http://kids.mysterynet.com
The Electronic Classroom’s Reading Theatre http://www.readingonline.org/electronic/elec
_index.asp?HREF=carrick/index.html Aaron Shepard’s Reader’s Theatre
http://aaronshep.com/rt/index.html
More Reading Sites
KIDiddles Classic Children’s Songs and Folk Songs http://www.kididdles.com/mouseum/index
.html
Flying Pigs Campfire Songbook, Volume 3 http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/flying.pigs
Lyric Sites
Student News Net http://www.studentnewsnet.com
CNN Student News http://fyi.cnn.com/fyi/
The New York Times Learning Network http://www.nytimes.com/learning
Scholastic News for Kids http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/
Time for Kids http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/index.html
Student News Sites
Web-Pop (Cool music here) http://www.web-pop.com/bookpopchooser.html
Light Up Your Brain (Good stories) http://www.lightupyourbrain.com/stories.html
Classic Fairy Tales http://www.classicfairytales.com/en/
Alice in Wonderland Online Audio Book http://wiredforbooks.org/alice/
Online Audio Books and Stories
Both oral vocabulary and reading vocabulary are important in reading whether it is by reading aloud to students or by having students read extensively.
Vocabulary Development
Education Place: Fake Out http://www.eduplace.com/fakeout/
Education Place: Wacky Web Tales http://www.eduplace.com/tales/index.html
Kid Crosswords and Other Puzzles http://www.kidcrosswords.com
Vocabulary Development Resources
Scholastic: Annie’s Rhyme Time http://teacher.scholastic.com/annie/index.asp
Merriam Webster’s Word Central http://www.wordcentral.com
Vocabulary University http://www.vocabulary.com
More Vocabulary Development Resources
Comprehension is the real reason for reading; without it, we have decoded a message that is meaningless.
Comprehension
Offers beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/mythology/mythology.html&edu=elem
Windows to the Universe: Mythology
Graphic Organizers Printable PDF Graphic Organizers Electronic Graphic Organizer
Makers WebQuests
Comprehension Resources
Learning Resources http://www.eduscapes.com/tap/topic73.htm
GO Index http://www.graphic.org/goindex.html
SCORE http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/actbank/
torganiz.htm Write Design Online
http://www.writedesignonline.com/organizers
Graphic Organizers
Education Place (English and Spanish) http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/
Curry School of Ed. @ the Univ. of VA http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/edis771/notes/
graphicorganizers/graphic/
TeacherVision http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-
6293.html?s2&detoured=1
Printable PDF Graphic Organizers
Region 15 Curriculum Resources http://www.region15.org/curriculum/graphicorg.html
4 Blocks Literacy Framework http://www.k111.k12.il.us/lafayette/fourblocks/
graphic_organizers.htm
Printable PDF Graphic Organizers
Teachnology http://teachers.teach-nology.com/
web_tools/graphic_org/
Software Inspiration: Free Trial Download
http://www.Inspiration.com
Electronic Graphic Organizer Makers
Inquiry-oriented activities Designed to get students to the
analysis, synthesis, and evaluation levels of thinking about what they read
Multiple examples
WebQuests (http://webquest.sdsu.edu)
“An “at-risk” student is any student who leaves school before or after graduation with little possibility of continuing learning.”
Consideration
All teachers are teachers of reading or literacy coaches. We are role models and examples; we may be the only literate adults some students know.
Use the Internet to access the resources that will benefit you and your students.
Use Online Resources to Teach Literacy
We help teachers become better reading teachers.
