http://www.primarygames.com/
Some would say I've saved the best for last! When I came upon this website I figured this this would be one that most kids would click on at home, or if allowed to, choose it as a favorite in the classroom. First of all, the bright colors and animation blow you away immediately! Then when you see the 16 categories on page 1 and then 16 more on page 2 -- my goodness! A gamer's picnic! However, these are very appealing educational games that help build basic skills and take the student on to higher levels once he has mastered the current one. The variety is absolutely amazing! A child or student could spend hours exploring what this web page has to offer. A techno-buff's dream! There are also links to other gaming websites listed down the side of the webpage--which could be seen as a distraction or it could be viewed as another enhancement. Each of the 32 categories I clicked on took me deeper into even greater learning activities. It was the bomb diggity! In a classroom setting, access to this website would be a great supplemental aid for those needing more practice; at home, these educational games would be a welcomed substitute without losing any of its entertainment appeal.
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Website #19
http://www.bbc.co.uk/
This UK website is a very good resource that implements the use of pictures with words to support the National Literacy Strategy Framework for Teachers. Categories begin with Phonics Year 2, CVC Words, Consonant Clusters, Long Vowel Sounds, Frequency Words, Gallery, and Teachers and Parents. This last section includes some helpful printable resources for both teachers and parents. Moreover, the part that kids will like about clicking on the learning icons is that once they do they are in for a technological ride! Each learning icon is filled with activities and learning reinforcements that work by shockwave flash and realvideo technology. This makes for a more fun, adventurous, and spontaneous classroom session or even an anticipated supplememental exercise to work through at home. When placing this website on the computerized projector where all students can observe what's happening on the screen, it becomes a most helpful resource for teachers as an additional part of their completed lesson plans.
This UK website is a very good resource that implements the use of pictures with words to support the National Literacy Strategy Framework for Teachers. Categories begin with Phonics Year 2, CVC Words, Consonant Clusters, Long Vowel Sounds, Frequency Words, Gallery, and Teachers and Parents. This last section includes some helpful printable resources for both teachers and parents. Moreover, the part that kids will like about clicking on the learning icons is that once they do they are in for a technological ride! Each learning icon is filled with activities and learning reinforcements that work by shockwave flash and realvideo technology. This makes for a more fun, adventurous, and spontaneous classroom session or even an anticipated supplememental exercise to work through at home. When placing this website on the computerized projector where all students can observe what's happening on the screen, it becomes a most helpful resource for teachers as an additional part of their completed lesson plans.
Website #18
www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr
The colorful, animated moving graphics in front of me resemble a school hallway. I feel like I've just entered that school's main hallway while class changes are going on. However, I'm really just sitting here at my computer desk at home! Okay, the notes on the school lockers say I need to choose which grade level I want to begin with. I can tell I'm at Houghton Mifflin Reading which gives me three more options to my left. I can either click on Authors and Illustrators, Weekly Reader Articles, or I can choose Book Adventure. I choose Grade 1 and a Book comes up that is highly recommended, and I also get the option of clicking on eWord Game, eGlossary, or Web Field Trip. Very fun and educational activities beckon to me as I click on each one. This particular website works off of educational themes and is geared for elementary age students grade 1-6. Each Theme will give you a recommended book carried by Houghton Mifflin that reinforces the lesson plan. This web page is a great resource for teachers who want to teach their students how to critically think and make inferences in each story presented.
The colorful, animated moving graphics in front of me resemble a school hallway. I feel like I've just entered that school's main hallway while class changes are going on. However, I'm really just sitting here at my computer desk at home! Okay, the notes on the school lockers say I need to choose which grade level I want to begin with. I can tell I'm at Houghton Mifflin Reading which gives me three more options to my left. I can either click on Authors and Illustrators, Weekly Reader Articles, or I can choose Book Adventure. I choose Grade 1 and a Book comes up that is highly recommended, and I also get the option of clicking on eWord Game, eGlossary, or Web Field Trip. Very fun and educational activities beckon to me as I click on each one. This particular website works off of educational themes and is geared for elementary age students grade 1-6. Each Theme will give you a recommended book carried by Houghton Mifflin that reinforces the lesson plan. This web page is a great resource for teachers who want to teach their students how to critically think and make inferences in each story presented.
Website #17
http://www.pbskids.org/
This colorful, graphic website is filled with many exciting options to choose from with about ten different icons to click on starting with the very first page. It is a helpful tool for grownups-- parents or caregivers-- to use in preparing young children for their upcoming years in school. They will love the engaging games and activities, streaming videos, and animated characters such as Rosa, Hooper, Dash -- and many more-- to help with each lesson being clicked on. There's Storybook Village, PBS Island, and many other places to go to learn additional reading and language arts skills. Included are teacher resources as well as a Child Progress Tracker that would be beneficial to both parents and teachers alike. This website would be a great online learning tool for children to access during classroom group learning time, and especially at home with a parent or caregiver working close beside them.
This colorful, graphic website is filled with many exciting options to choose from with about ten different icons to click on starting with the very first page. It is a helpful tool for grownups-- parents or caregivers-- to use in preparing young children for their upcoming years in school. They will love the engaging games and activities, streaming videos, and animated characters such as Rosa, Hooper, Dash -- and many more-- to help with each lesson being clicked on. There's Storybook Village, PBS Island, and many other places to go to learn additional reading and language arts skills. Included are teacher resources as well as a Child Progress Tracker that would be beneficial to both parents and teachers alike. This website would be a great online learning tool for children to access during classroom group learning time, and especially at home with a parent or caregiver working close beside them.
Website #16
http://www.quickstartreading.com/
This website has been creatively put together by a teacher after a 30-year career teaching phonics. She then put all her ideas from her many years of experience and came up with a website that parents of homeschooled children and early learners can access to get a jumpstart on basic reading skills. With the use of online games and activities, homeschool products that are easy, fun, and exciting--kids stay interested and it probably feels more like entertainment than an actual educational session to them. Also offered is free online reading help for those who may need it. Animal characters were created to tell stories that teach practical lessons and to take them on different adventures. Afterwards, there are downloadable printed worksheets, games and puzzles to help reinforce each learning concept. Quick Start Reading makes available fun and interactive kits that can be purchased in order to work primarily offline or to complement particular lesson plans online. Parents should check out this site as a very resourceful tool to get their children who are under school age interested in learning the basics in an enjoyable way and also to help them build confidence as they persist in a home reading environment.
This website has been creatively put together by a teacher after a 30-year career teaching phonics. She then put all her ideas from her many years of experience and came up with a website that parents of homeschooled children and early learners can access to get a jumpstart on basic reading skills. With the use of online games and activities, homeschool products that are easy, fun, and exciting--kids stay interested and it probably feels more like entertainment than an actual educational session to them. Also offered is free online reading help for those who may need it. Animal characters were created to tell stories that teach practical lessons and to take them on different adventures. Afterwards, there are downloadable printed worksheets, games and puzzles to help reinforce each learning concept. Quick Start Reading makes available fun and interactive kits that can be purchased in order to work primarily offline or to complement particular lesson plans online. Parents should check out this site as a very resourceful tool to get their children who are under school age interested in learning the basics in an enjoyable way and also to help them build confidence as they persist in a home reading environment.
Friday, April 22, 2011
Website #15
http://www.childrenslibrary.org/
Internation Childrens Digital Library or ICDL, is a non-profit corporation that is providing a way to collect childrens literature from around the world by their creation of a website that includes and advocates literature of diverse cultures. One of the goals or mission of the organization is to make books available in various native tongues and have them readily available online for others who would like to access them. Some children and families would like to see more books on their own culture as well as the majority one. These families may have had to move around from country to country for many reasons, therefore, they've left behind books that were part of their family's heritage. Putting together this website was a way for the ICDL organization to create a priceless resource free of charge for them and many others like them. ICDL has founded seven different programs within their organization with all being tax deductible if you want to give or help in some way. I feel that anyone who reads for pleasure as well as teachers and librarians who promote reading in other ways, can pull up these digital books, place them on a computerized projector, and share them with other children and adults for their ultimate enjoyment and to also have them gain exposure to new languages.
Internation Childrens Digital Library or ICDL, is a non-profit corporation that is providing a way to collect childrens literature from around the world by their creation of a website that includes and advocates literature of diverse cultures. One of the goals or mission of the organization is to make books available in various native tongues and have them readily available online for others who would like to access them. Some children and families would like to see more books on their own culture as well as the majority one. These families may have had to move around from country to country for many reasons, therefore, they've left behind books that were part of their family's heritage. Putting together this website was a way for the ICDL organization to create a priceless resource free of charge for them and many others like them. ICDL has founded seven different programs within their organization with all being tax deductible if you want to give or help in some way. I feel that anyone who reads for pleasure as well as teachers and librarians who promote reading in other ways, can pull up these digital books, place them on a computerized projector, and share them with other children and adults for their ultimate enjoyment and to also have them gain exposure to new languages.
Website #14
http://www.childrensbooksonline.org/
This website is part of the Rosetta Project which can be donated to in order to collect, publish, and place online vintage illustrated childrens storybooks that are being translated in other languages by volunteers of this organization. The collection of books are antique and some of the finest stories published and printed with beautiful engravings and colorful illustrations throughout. The organization is turning these books into multimedia e-books which can be purchased as downloadables to your computer hard drive at Rosetta's Museum Store. If you're one to appreciate old, beautifully- illustrated childrens literature, then this website would interest you. Perfect for pulling up on a computerized projector in a classroom setting! Children seem to love beautifully illustrated storybooks.
This website is part of the Rosetta Project which can be donated to in order to collect, publish, and place online vintage illustrated childrens storybooks that are being translated in other languages by volunteers of this organization. The collection of books are antique and some of the finest stories published and printed with beautiful engravings and colorful illustrations throughout. The organization is turning these books into multimedia e-books which can be purchased as downloadables to your computer hard drive at Rosetta's Museum Store. If you're one to appreciate old, beautifully- illustrated childrens literature, then this website would interest you. Perfect for pulling up on a computerized projector in a classroom setting! Children seem to love beautifully illustrated storybooks.
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