Tricia Eliou: IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website # 2

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Tricia Eliou

ED 638 Fall 2021

Dr. M Rivera

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website # 2

Into the Book (https://reading.ecb.org/) is a reading comprehension website that provides resources for elementary students and teachers. This site is free and provided and developed by Wisconsin Media Lab and Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

The features of this website help teachers with planning and teaching by using eight different learning strategies: using prior knowledge, making connections, questioning, visualizing, inferring, summarizing, evaluating and synthesizing. The features of this website interact reading comprehension activities for all the strategies. In other words, Into the Book provide some great student resources to practice these strategies. In addition to student activities, there is a teacher tool tab that features video clips, posters, teacher’s guide, short lesson plan activities, book lists and even a song. This website is an effective promoter of literacy because it provides different instructional materials and educational activities at no cost.

This site was originally made for 3rd graders and up. Students can choose to get the activities in English and it is good for some ELL students. Students can either login or even skip login to get all the activities they want to work on. Furthermore, students can choose from among the strategy to practice they will have to watch a video clip that explains the strategy and how to use it in the activity. For example, If a student choose the questioning activity there will be six different kinds of stories to choose from! There is also a feature where the text can be read aloud, so even students below level could still practice the strategy.

 

 

 


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