ED638 Fall Intercession 2018

Dr. Rivera

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website #3

Flocabulary (https://www.flocabulary.com) is an online resource/learning program that helps students who have a difficult time memorizing information, by helping them to memorize through music in a fun and effective way.  This approach was proven by Dr. Roger Farr, a former president of the International Readers Association, who in 2018 conducted an independent study to test the efficacy of Flocabulary.  His study found that the program significantly increased vocabulary proficiency among students of diverse backgrounds. The students using the program scored higher on state reading, than their peers not using the program. With the use of educational hip-hop music in all subjects’ areas, it has proved to engage students and increase student achievement in K-12 grade levels.

Flocabulary is a great website to help students develop core literacy skills with its standard-based videos, instructional activities, and student creativity tools to supplement instruction. The learning program is helpful to teachers and school districts to meet the Common Core standards in ELA and math through songs, videos, and exercises that are both engaging and fun for students and everyone participating. This program also provides lessons and units aligned with state and national standards for social studies, science, health and physical education.  

  Flocabulary is a great tool to promote literacy since its material and resources are fun and engaging for all that participate. With this website teachers can customize the children’s experiences in the classroom by using the videos and resources to enhance a lesson by providing interesting introductions, differentiated instruction for all students, test prep, and to enrichment activities for students. Through the many years of research, Flocabulary has designed a program with a multi-sensory approach of using music, rhythm, and rhyme to help support student engagement and achievement.  With the use of music to facilitate lessons, students are able to memorize and recall academic material, though hip hop music to promote and increase student engagement. Flocabulary is an award-winning vocabulary program, which is called “The Word Up Project” for grades k-12 it has been proven to increase vocabulary proficiency and raise score on state tests.

Flocabulary is not completely free, you can try their 30-day free trial offer to test out to see if Flocabulary works with your students. If you are interested in signing up with Flocabulary to help enhance learning, they provide an affordable individual plan for teachers as well as discounted group plans for schools and districts.

Overall, Flocabulary looks to be a great online resource for teacher and school districts who wants to improve their student’s vocabulary & literacy skills.  The website is also very organized and easy to navigate. The user-friendly interface is very inviting and with further exploration of the website it can provide you with all the information needed to learn about what Flocabulary has to offer.