Thursday, January 26, 2012

Recommendations from Reading Rockets

Thanks Laura for passing this along!


This is a wonderful website for teachers that would like some resources and information about reading. I even put one of their widgets on my blog site...it was super easy!


Here are a few Spelling Apps that the Reading Rockets group has shared: Click Here


I was told that I needed to also share the Electric Company Wordball app (Free)  from the Reading Rocket list. This is a newly released app and here are some of the features:

  1. The use of videos with music relating to the phonics, example "silent e" "soft c".
  2. Students get to see how fast they can be to when grabbing word balls during music videos.
  3. Player uses the word balls to create words with that sound.
  4. Videos are locked until they pass the previous lessons.
  5. I can see teachers use this app for an introductory into the letter sounds.

Since we are on the topic of Reading, wanted to pass this fun video along of a great book!!! I could see students having the actual book in hand and turning the pages along with the video, this is the actual author and James Dean. Enjoy!





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