Benskin Bergen: ILA Newsletter Project #1: Effective Literacy “Reading Bear”

 

Benskin Bergen ED 638 Fall 2021Dr. M. RiveraILA Newsletter Project #1: Effective Literacy “Reading Bear” Reading Bear is one of the effective sites to help young learners learn how to read and write. Reading Bear (www.readingbear.org) is a free website that provides educational resources for teachers and students. The focus for learning is mainly on watching, knowing, and learning. The Reading Bear is effective for beginning readers especially in the pre-school and primary grades. It is free and accessible for teachers and students to utilize such many resources that are available. The Reading Bear presentations cover all the phonic principles step-by-step. Watching, knowing, and learning are the key factors for students using Reading Bear. With these, there are variety of teaching styles presented that will help learners learn how to read. There are matched text and audio with pictures that will help learners know the sounds and what words mean available on the site. With students hearing the precise sounds and watching pictures along, its helps the young learners to say the correct sounds and start reading letters and words. One great initiative of Reading Bear is the wide range of vocabulary words exposure.Research proves that preschoolers with larger vocabularies have much success later on than those with few and limited vocabularies.  Children who learn more vocabularies are expected to be fluent readers at their early stages in school. The collection of vocabulary words plays a big role too in impacting learners I-Q scores. As early as three years old, Reading Bear introduces and explains basic vocabulary words thus helping them to learn sounds and words. When students have mastered sounds their reading strengths are being built up. When students are learning vocabulary words, their understanding of how to read and comprehend are enhanced. Video presentations are great ways of teaching young learners how to read. The Reading Bear includes videos that young learners can watch to hear and see the precise pronunciations of letters and words. Watching, knowing and learning the foundation of Reading Bear. Having young learners to watch is vast as they are just beginning to learn. From watching, young learners know or understand how certain skills work. From both watching and knowing certain sounds or words, learning takes.