Collaboration+Tool

Here we can compile a list of educational websites our students enjoy using at home. Please link the website by clicking the link button at the top and include a brief paragraph on how the site is educational/how your student uses it.

[|Literactive]: Literactive. com is a great website for phonics and phonological awareness. You have to sign up for it but it is completely free. You student can practice matching letters and sounds, blending and segmenting words, in addition to blends and digraphs. There is also a sequencing the story section.

This reminds of a more modern Modern School Movement where two teachers in different parts of France "produced books and newsletters of student writing to share both locally with students, family, and friends, and with their distant partner class as well" (Cummins, 2007). Instead of exchanging the work through the mail, everyone can post their contribution right here on the wiki page. Instead of parents having a couple of educational websites they allow their child to use, now they can have access to all the websites all students in the class use. Many parents do not have a lot of time to search the web looking for ideas or games their student can play. Together, the students in my class can come up with different websites focusing on different reading skills.

Cummins, J., Brown, K., Sayers, D. (2007). //Literacy, technology, and diversity: Teaching for success in changing times.// Boston: Pearson.