ILA Newsletter Weekly Project: Effective Literacy Website #7 Exploration

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O’lan Genevieve Rodillas
ED-638-40 Tinalo 2021
ILA Newsletter Weekly: Effective Literacy Website #7
Dr. M. Rivera

                My final effective literacy website that I will review will be Whooo’s Reading (https://www.whooosreading.org/.) This website is more of a tool that teachers can use to get their students to help them think critically about books that they have read. Students can share books that they are currently reading, answer open-ended questions, write reviews for the books and answer some comprehension questions. The website has an automatic grading system that looks at the student responses and looks at the length and how complex their answers are. As an incentive, students can earn coins from completed activities and then use those coins to upgrade their avatars.
                Whooo’s Reading offers both free and paid for subscription. The teachers can add their student roster onto Whooo’s Reading. Since it is a website, it is a recommendation that students must have internet access in order to partake on this type of activity. Teachers can monitor their student’s activities when it comes to the books they have read and the questions that they have answered. The recommended books is made easy for the teachers because they are organized in Lexile Levels. They can also put in book recommendations for students if it available in the Whooo’s Reading Library and they may also add book URL links.
                As a tool, this seems like a great one to encourage students to share books that they are currently reading with their peers. It is one way to get students to do pleasure reading through this kind of sharing so that they may share their interests.  Since it is website, this can be a great tool to add on to our Online Mode of Learning platform. This website also gives teachers preview of what books are popular that can be then recommended to their students. Overall, I think this website is worth giving a shot especially since we have Online as a model of learning. The website is a great way to share books and encourage students to think more critically.

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