Effective Literacy Website #5

ReadWriteThink

Readwritethink is a website that provides teachers and parents with free resources and literacy tools.  This website has free printables, activities, videos, and lesson that are easy to access with a click of a button.   Readwritethink is broken into four main sections: Classroom Resources, Professional Development, Videos and Parent & Afterschool Resources.

The classroom resources provide the teacher with lesson activities and online student interactives that they could use in the classroom.  They also have a list of mobile apps that could be downloaded on school tablets and ipads, so that students can easily access these activities.  One of my favorite things about this website is that it has calendar activities. 

The calendar activities list special events or people that are authors or who have made history and provide teachers with small lesson for these people on the calendar.  For example, Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15^th 1929.  On January you can pull up Martin Luther’s mini lesson for the class and whatever extra resources is provide from the readwritethink website and use it for that day.

Another great part of this website is the strategy guide from the professional development.  This provides the teacher with effective strategies and a list of resources to help the students to become stronger in reading, writing and comprehension.   Lastly, this website also provides parents and teacher afterschool resources for students to strengthen their skills with extra practice at home.  Overall, I highly recommend this website to every parent and teacher.  I am amazed at how much wonderful resources is given freely on this website.

Website Resource

 http://www.readwritethink.org/