Using Online Resources to Improve Literacy

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Using Online Resources to Improve Literacy
Ray Rodriguez National Education
Consultant Classroom Connect
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Student performance is a pressing concern
In many states, half of 4th graders perform
below the basic reading level on the National
Assessment of Educational Progress.
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Funding Sources Have Unique Requirements

• Reading First
• Title I
• State/Local Funds

that put teachers and students on the road to
success
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Many Teachers Feel Under Prepared

• Several recent NICHD supported studies and
  surveysindicate 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.
• G. Reid Lyon, Ph.D., Education Research and
  Evaluation and Student Achievement Quality
  Counts, May 2000

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Professional Development Increases Teacher
Confidence
Teachers who complete more than 8 hours of
professional development are more likely to
report that the activity improved their
performance.
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We help teachers become better reading teachers.
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Using Online Resources to Improve Literacy
Connected Newsletter September 2003, Volume 10,
No. 1, pages 4-6
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What is Literacy?

• the ability to write
• the ability to read

What do you think?

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Reading First, NCLB

• Reading is a complex system of deriving meaning
  from print that requires all of the following
• The skills and knowledge to understand how
  phonemes, or speech sounds, are connected to
  print
• The ability to decode unfamiliar words
• The ability to read fluently
• Sufficient background information and vocabulary
  to foster reading comprehension
• The development of appropriate active strategies
  to construct meaning from print and
• The development and maintenance of a motivation
  to read.

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Strategies and Considerations

• Your students
• Classroom environment
• Areas of need
• Access to resources in school and away from
  school

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2000 National Reading Panel

• Phonemic Awareness
• Fluency
• Comprehension
• Phonics
• Vocabulary Development

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Phonemic Awareness
The ability to notice, think about, and work with
the individual sounds in spoken
words. Partnership for Reading
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Teaching Phonemic Awareness

• Working with students to
• hear,
• identify, and
• manipulate the sounds and their letters

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Web Sites

• 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
• PBSs Between the Lines
• http//pbskids.org/lions
• Fuzzy Ears and Pounce

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More 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

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Phonics
Phonics includes the relationships between the
letters (graphemes) of written language and the
individual sounds (phonemes) of spoken language.
National Institute for Literacy
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Phonics Online

• Abundance of online printable worksheets
• The BEST allow teachers to select sounds or
  letters for the students
• Avoid activities with extreme graphics

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Reading A-Z (http//www.readinga-z.com/)

• 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

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Starfall (www.starfall.com)

• Interactive, well designed books
• Lots of support for beginning readers
• Sound enables student to hear the word sounded
  out phoneme by phoneme
• Fun!

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Additional Phonics Resources

• Cliffords Sound Match
• http//teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/flash/phon
  ics/index.htm
• Get it right and Clifford woofs for you!
• BBCs Digby Mole
• http//www.bbc.co.uk/schools/4_11/literacy.shtml
• Lots of fun choices for parents, teachers, and
  kids
• Marvin Morrisons Word Puzzles
• http//www.soundpuzzle.com/index.html
• This is not for young learners.

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Fluency
The ability to read accurately and quickly,
recognize words, and comprehend what is read,
all simultaneously.
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Fluency Resources Online

• Reading material online
• Free copies of books, worksheets, student
  certificates
• Lyric sites
• Student news sites
• Online audio books and stories

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Reading Materials Online

• C.J. Hecks Poetry for Children
• http//www.barkingspiderspoetry.com
• Sports Illustrated for Kids
• http//www.sikids.com
• A Girls World
• http//www.agirlsworld.com

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More Reading Sites

• MysteryNets Kids Mysteries
• http//kids.mysterynet.com
• The Electronic Classrooms Reading Theatre
• http//www.readingonline.org/electronic/elec_index
  .asp?HREFcarrick/index.html
• Aaron Shepards Readers Theatre
• http//aaronshep.com/rt/index.html

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Lyric Sites

• KIDiddles Classic Childrens 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

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Student News 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

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Online Audio Books and Stories

• 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/

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Vocabulary Development
Both oral vocabulary and reading vocabulary are
important in reading whether it is by reading
aloud to students or by having students read
extensively.
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Vocabulary Development Resources

• 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

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More Vocabulary Development Resources

• Scholastic Annies Rhyme Time
• http//teacher.scholastic.com/annie/index.asp
• Merriam Websters Word Central
• http//www.wordcentral.com
• Vocabulary University
• http//www.vocabulary.com

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Comprehension

Comprehension is the real reason for reading
without it, we have decoded a message that is
meaningless.
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Windows to the Universe Mythology

• Offers beginner, intermediate, and advanced
  levels
• http//www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link/mythology/m
  ythology.htmleduelem

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Comprehension Resources

• Graphic Organizers
• Printable PDF Graphic Organizers
• Electronic Graphic Organizer Makers
• WebQuests

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Graphic Organizers

• 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

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Printable PDF Graphic Organizers

• Education Place (English and Spanish)
• http//www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/
• Curry School of Ed. _at_ the Univ. of VA
• http//curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/edis771/note
  s/graphicorganizers/graphic/
• TeacherVision
• http//www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-6
  293.html?s2detoured1

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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/gra
  phic_organizers.htm

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Electronic Graphic Organizer Makers

• Teachnology
• http//teachers.teach-nology.com/web_tools/graphic
  _org/
• Software
• Inspiration Free Trial Download
• http//www.Inspiration.com

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WebQuests (http//webquest.sdsu.edu)

• Inquiry-oriented activities
• Designed to get students to the analysis,
  synthesis, and evaluation levels of thinking
  about what they read
• Multiple examples

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Consideration
An at-risk student is any student who leaves
school before or after graduation with little
possibility of continuing learning.
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Use Online Resources to Teach Literacy

• 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.

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We help teachers become better reading teachers.
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Classroom Connect

Ray Rodriguez National Education
Consultant Rrodriguez_at_classroom.com