Sunday, December 30, 2018

IRA Newsletter Literacy Website #1


Lolita S. Torres
ED 638-40 Fall Intersession
Dr. M. Rivera
IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Websites #1
December 30, 2018


Good Sites For Kids (http://www.goodsitesforkids.org/literacy) is “public.” It is free and friendly user for parents, kids at home, including homeschoolers. Since this site is basically a list of links, however, they are not responsible for the content of other sites. It posted/advertised subscription sites that are pretty good but it doesn’t encourage the “public” to subscribe. It has shortcut icons for young learners to click such as these:





With ever more websites for children appearing, Good Sites For Kids (http://www.goodsitesforkids.org/literacy has chosen the best educational entertainment. It includes educational games, literacy, reading, grammar, animals, animal cams, ancient history, archaeology, ESL, early childhood, pre-K, geology, geography, history, American History, Vikings, BBC, Dolch’s Words, Indus Valley, Egypt, dogs, Pinterest, cats, horses, birds, dinosaurs, paleontology, weather, earth science, life science, astronomy, social studies, printables, downloads, coding, maker, technology, physics, maps, early childhood, children’s literature, lesson plans, educational, education, math, secondary math, myths, mythology, mathematics, coloring, art, science, elementary, school, biology, language arts, reading, read aloud, ESL, TEFL, TAG, Black Hills, nature, music, health, money math, finance, downloads, homeschool, unschool, animal cams, K-12, endangered species, multiplication, adding, addition, subtraction, division, parts of speech, biomes, habitats, chemistry, language arts, speech, speaking, early learning, life skills, holidays, activities, writing, YA, YA literature, books, telling time, what’s new,  and Women’s History.
Good Sites For Kids (http://www.goodsitesforkids.org/literacy) is very beneficial for teachers to access good quality, useful internet sites for literacy curriculum use. It is designed to help a busy teacher or the same teacher with a computer station as part of classroom learning station rotation, a parent who needs to reinforce their kids’ learning, a homeschooling parent/teacher, or some other interested party who is looking for good sites to help a child’s education. Overall, Good Sites For Kids (http://www.goodsitesforkids.org/literacyengaged students and designed to deliver an optimal literacy experience to the users. Finally, it offers good potentials including increased engagement and motivation, greater learning, are too compelling to ignore.

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