Wednesday, 15 January 2020

Effective Literacy Website #2

 is an online reading comprehension tool for elementary students and teachers. This website provides early readers with interactive reading activities using eight research-based strategies. These strategies include prior knowledge, making connections, questioning, visualizing, inferring, summarizing, evaluating and synthesizing.
Into the Book was developed by PBS Wisconsin Education along with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction and a team of experienced educators. Easy to navigate tabs include a student website with interactive reading comprehension activities, a teacher website with videos, teacher guides, lesson plans, as well as a matrix that links all activities to (CCSS), and a professional learning tab with a collection of resources behind each lesson.
Students can easily start the activities by clicking on the students tab. Logging in allows for the student to save their activity. Students can also skip the login and go straight into the interactive activities. Once they login, the student can choose an activity on any of the reading strategies mentioned above.

The teaching tools tab welcomes educators to resources on the various strategies to include prior knowledge, making connections, questioning, visualizing, inferring, summarizing, evaluating, synthesizing, as well as using the strategies together when teaching literacy. It is understood that combining strategies is needed to help students gain a fuller understanding of text. The professional learning tab provides online resources for self-paced professional development, educator effectiveness, webinars, and educator standards. When using the Behind the Lesson resource, educators are provided with a brief description of each learning strategy as well as examples of educators effectively teaching their students to be strategic readers. 

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