Jeremie De Leon - ILA Newsletter Weekly Project: Effective Literacy Website #5

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Jeremie De Leon

ILA Newsletter Weekly Project: Effective Literacy Website #5



Into the Book (https://reading.ecb.org/index.html) is a website that focuses on eight reading-comprehension strategies: prior knowledge, making connections, questioning, visualizing, inferring, summarizing, evaluating, and synthesizing. The activities and resources are geared more towards elementary students, but a teacher can adjust it for secondary students. There are two areas the website provides, which are the student and teacher areas. In the student area, the dashboard is interactive and easy to navigate through. It shows the eight reading-comprehension and when you click on one, it provides some activities that relate to the strategy. Each activity provides a video that explains the strategy and how it looks like in practice. The activities are easy to understand, and students will enjoy them. The progressive question and answer format allows students to go back and answer the questions based on further readings.

The teacher area provides additional resources like detailed guides on the activities the students will be working on. There is also the printable activity text provided just in case the students cannot access the online activity. Other than the activities that relate to the eight reading-comprehension strategies, the site also provides multiple mini-lessons that relate to the strategies. Other features on the website are the videos, posters, and songs that fully explain the eight strategies. Using the website, students can benefit greatly and improve their literacy skills at a young age.

The activities are also organized by Common Core State Standards. The website organizes it in a way where it will show what activities relate to what specific standard. The website also conveniently allows teachers to download and print pdf versions of all their online activities’ summaries, video summaries, video teacher guides, and song lyrics. Overall, the website provides everything needed for a reading-comprehension curriculum that can also include multiple literacy skills.

 

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