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| Reading for the Record October 2010 |
These websites are for teachers, parents, volunteers, anyone interested in developing and enhancing literacy skills.
Literacy Connections provides information on reading, teaching and tutoring techniques, ESL literacy, and child/adult literacy. The resources recommended include the language experience approach, phonics, word study, word families, and children's literature.
Starfall Starfall.com
Starfall began as a free public service using phonics to teach reading. The program uses a systematic phonics approach, in conjunction with phonemic awareness practice. The target audience is pre-k through second grade. It is also a good resource for students with special needs, who are home schooled or for whom English is a second language.
Handwriting Without Tears http://www.hwtears.com/
HWTears provides lessons that help students with penmanship, and writing skills. The website includes lesson plans and other resources that including videos. Though there are many materials for which there is a charge, the website is not limited to those resources only. The research based program improves writing skills, fine motor skills and creative writing in students.
Starfall began as a free public service using phonics to teach reading. The program uses a systematic phonics approach, in conjunction with phonemic awareness practice. The target audience is pre-k through second grade. It is also a good resource for students with special needs, who are home schooled or for whom English is a second language.
Handwriting Without Tears http://www.hwtears.com/
HWTears provides lessons that help students with penmanship, and writing skills. The website includes lesson plans and other resources that including videos. Though there are many materials for which there is a charge, the website is not limited to those resources only. The research based program improves writing skills, fine motor skills and creative writing in students.
Studenttreassures-Studenttreasures.com
Studenttreasures publishing program motivates students to want to write – building self-esteem and pride using a five step writing process. Teachers align the publishing process with the curriculum by incorporating language arts writing standards, various teaching units, subjects, theme topics and genres. Project ends with full-color, hardbound, professionally published books.
Studenttreasures publishing program motivates students to want to write – building self-esteem and pride using a five step writing process. Teachers align the publishing process with the curriculum by incorporating language arts writing standards, various teaching units, subjects, theme topics and genres. Project ends with full-color, hardbound, professionally published books.
Reach Out and Read www.reachoutandread.org
Reach Out and Read providers distribute early literacy and school readiness materials to families and provides auxiliary resources to educators to increase literacy skills and school readiness in children by first grade.
Thank you for these websites, I am looking forward to using them both as a mom and as a teacher. As a student/child/adult who has horrible handwriting and remember many nights in tears practicing, I am especially looking forward to handwriting without tears for both me and my daughter (her writing is as bad as mine was/still is. Thanks again for these
ReplyDeleteJust today I was reading an article in the Wall Street Journal that reported that the act of writing improves reasoning skills. Also, one commentator noted that he was deslexic and though he had problems with reading manuscript he did not have problems with reading cursive. He said it was important for cursive to be taught especially because students with difficulties like his felt less strange and were more successful in their academics.
ReplyDeleteHandwriting Without Tears was definately on to something.