Madrid Borja's Technology Blog

WWW.EDUCATIONWORLD.COM   Education World is an online resource for teachers and administrators. It is corporate funded and updated daily. It is not an exclusively literacy focused website but there are so many features that promote literacy including blogs, lesson plans and printables. The site also offers online courses, many in literacy education. There are a couple of sections that I am especially excited to use with my students. One is a section with reading games that cover all grade levels and literacy skills: word finder, synonym toast, flash cards, grammar gorillas, spelling game, and more. I have access to tablets and laptops for my students so I can allow them to play these games if they finish their work early or as good behavior rewards. Another one of my favorite features is the section with news articles that are relevant and interesting to students. The lesson plans include English standards, vocabulary, anticipatory sets, articles, worksheets and answers, an...

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website #1 Whooo’s Reading ( https://www.whooosreading.org ) is a free literacy website that teachers for students grades 4-8 can use to monitor student progress, quiz scores, and writing from a more critical perspective. There are many features of this website that are appealing to both students and teachers. On the surface, students read a book, log minutes, take quizzes and get coins for it. They can use their coins to customize their avatar and see each others progress and avatars on their classroom dashboard. Students are also encourages to read books that interest them as opposed to books assigned to them. All of these features are designed to help incentives students to participate. One of the more teacher-focused features is that the quizzes utilize opened ended questions instead of multiple choice ones which is how teachers are able to assess student comprehension. A great feature of the website is that while they are typin...