Juliana Cruz - International Literacy Association (ILA) Newsletter # 6

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International Literacy Association (ILA) Newsletter Weekly Project: 

Effective Literacy Website #6

Reading Bear is a free online literacy program. It is a non-profit project by St. Charles Place Education Foundation. This program focuses on teaching beginning readers vocabulary and concepts. This is done by all the major phonetic patterns of English. On the home page, you will see all these  phonetic patterns displayed. The first section being the first letter sounds readers should learn which are the vowels. When you click into one of the lessons, the first step is to go through the interactive slide/lesson which includes voice clips, videos, and pictures to demonstrate the skill. The first lesson starts off with sounding it out slowly. The next step is to move to the lesson that sounds it out quickly. From there the lessons progress into being able to use or recognize the sound/letter in a sentence. Through these scaffolded lessons a child will learn the letter sounds full in different contexts.

Reading Bear includes a section on how to get started and includes introductory videos for the teacher and student. There is a downloadable guide provided for teachers. It has a guide on how to create sub-accounts under your account for students to use so you can track their progress. Students can do the modules at their own pace and can make learning to read easier. This program is best suited for beginning readers in the 4-7 age range. However, I believe that this would be a great resource for our ELL students who are in the beginning stages of learning English. Overall, Reading Bears really provides an in depth program that focuses on learning the phonetics in English.


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