Phonics
Phonics:
1.) http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/index.htm
This is a link to a website with a lot of fun activities that help students with phonics. This website uses Clifford the big red dog as the main character & all the Phonics games revolve around the story of Clifford.
2.) http://pbskids.org/superwhy/#/game/princessprestobingo
This is a link to a PBS kids bingo game. The game makes the children match the sounds of letter to the letter itself. This is a great online activity for children in the classroom.
3.) http://jollylearning.co.uk/overview-about-jolly-phonics/
This is a link to a website that has free phonics work sheets designed for Kindergarteners. This is just another great tool to have for that rainy day. These worksheets can be printed straight from the website which makes things easy for the teacher.
4.) http://www.education.com/activity/phonics/
The website above has many in activities that teachers can do with students to promote work on phonics. The activities listed are very creative ones that are to be done in class.
5.) http://www.kizclub.com/phonicsactivities.htm
The website above provides teachers with many different activities they can do with students who are working on phonics. Some specific skills that they have practice for are working with homophones, compound words, hard or soft pronunciation of letters, and much more.
6.) http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies
This is a video about teaching phonics strategies in the classroom. Along with the video is a short article about teaching phonics strategies in the classroom.
7.) http://www.kizclub.com/phonicsactivities.htm
This is a link to a website that has different phonics activities for the classroom. All of the activities can be adapted for different types of learners in the classroom. This is a very helpful tool to have!
Phonemic Awearness
Phonemic Awareness:
1.)http://www.flreads.org/Publications/quarterly/samples/phonological_awareness.htm
This is a link to the phonemic awareness continuum. The phonemic awareness continuum is a triangle that starts with basic phonemic concepts & works towards harder & more challenging concepts towards the top.
2.) http://www.earlychildhoodteacher.org/blog/5-quick-easy-and-fun-phonemic-awareness-activities/
This is a link to a website with different games for students to play to help them with phonemic awareness. This website also defines what phonemic awareness is.
3.) http://www.esl4kids.net/phonics.html
This is a link to a website that has a lot of phonemic awareness activities for ELL students. This is a great tool to help get me started for lesson plans with ELL students.
4.) http://www.colorincolorado.org/article/408/
This is a link to a website that focus on phonemic awareness in young children. This website also provides the reader with a lot of different activities that focus on phonemic awareness.
5.) http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/classrooms/patti/k-1/teacher/assessment/tools/tools.html
This is a website that has multiple tools for assessing students' phonemic awareness. They have rhyming activities as well as blending activities, and others.
6.) https://www.readinga-z.com/assessments/phonological-awareness-assessment/
This is another website that has lots of assessments for teachers to use to assess phonemic awareness. There are multiple worksheets for each category, and categories like initial sounds, final sounds, syllable awareness, etc.
7.) http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/classrooms/patti/k-1/teacher/assessment/tools/tools.html
This is a link to a website that talks about different ways to assess phonemic awareness. This is great because the website has all the layouts for different phonemic awareness assessments.
Vocabulary
Vocabulary:
1.) http://www.education.com/activity/vocabulary/
This is a link to a website that talks about vocabulary in the classroom and the different ways to teach kids vocabulary. This particular link directs you to a bunch of vocabulary games that can be played in the classroom.
2.) https://www.pinterest.com/textproject/core-vocabulary/
My friend found this resource on Pintrest. This resource has multiple ideas for core vocabulary, and gives creative ideas for implementation. Pintrest is a new teacher favorite for creative ideas in the classroom.
This article is related to English language learners. It talks about how to determine if a student's learning difficulties are solely a result of trying to learn a second language, or if it is due to an additional learning disability.
This article discusses strategies for teachers to help children with their vocabulary, particularly English Language Learners in an inclusive classroom. At the end of the article there is a video of an interview with Dr. Rebecca Silverman about what you can do to help children build their vocabulary skills.
5.) http://www.visualdictionaryonline.com/
This is a link to a virtual dictionary. This can be used to help develop vocabulary. This also may help visual learners as well as students who have trouble with abstract thinking.
6.) http://www.merriam-webster.com/game/index.htm
This is a website that has a lot of word games & quizzes for students to play on the computers or Ipads in the classroom. This is a great resource for teachers to have. These games can be used at center time because the game can give guided instruction to help the student If the teacher needs to focus on other students who may need more support.
7.) http://www.vocabulary.co.il/
This is a link to a website with a ton of Vocabulary games. These games are great for children of all ages because the games have difficulty settings, so if some students are doing better than others they can move on to more challenging words or phrases.
8.) http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies
This is a video about vocabulary strategies in the classroom. Following the video is a short article explaining some of the strategies that can be used in the classroom. The website also provides you with a lot of extra vocabulary resources.
9.) http://www.cobbk12.org/cheathamhill/lfs%20update/vocabulary%20and%20word%20walls.htm
This website provides a look into a teacher's views on teaching vocabulary and provides us with strategies for effectively teaching vocabulary and explains specifically how words are learned. There are also specific examples for graphic organizers/activities that are helpful in the classroom when it comes to teaching/learning vocabulary.
10.) http://www.education.com/activity/vocabulary/
This website gives a huge variety of possible projects and activities for teachers to do in the classroom. There are multiple activities for every grade level and each activity outlines specific guidelines that explain how the teacher can perform these activities in their classrooms.
11.) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1598/RT.60.6.10/abstract
The last article I found was titled A Vocabulary Flood: Making Words “Sticky” With Computer-Response Activities, written by Linda D. Labbo. This article talks about a computer program that helps children with a vocabulary problem. This program tracks the students progress and helps them improve their vocabulary while they are playing games.
Comprehension
Comprehension:
1.) http://www.readingresource.net/teachingreadingcomprehension.html
This site has a lot of resources for teachers on how to help comprehension in readers in the general education classroom, and also in readers with dyslexia. This site also provides a lot of extra information for beginning teachers.
2.) https://www.pinterest.com/pin/287597126180797506/
This is a link to a poster one of my colleges found on Pinterest that would be great to hang in every classroom! It lays out various comprehension strategies that students should use while reading a text.
3.) http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/reading-elementary.php
This is a link to a website, that is a great tool for ESL students because it deals with comprehension of all aspects including grammar, listening, reading and pronunciation. This website also provides the reader with a lot of ways to look at comprehension.
4.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5Xw9yoYCRY
Here is a video that shows students explaining a self-questioning strategy to support better reading comprehension. Students may be more engaged in activities like this. This is also an idea for teachers who have their own classrooms to get their students to do the same as the students in the video.
5.) http://www.education.com/activity/comprehension/
This is a link to a website that focuses on children’s comprehension in the classroom. This website also gives multiple ways to promote comprehension in the classroom.
6.) https://www.teachervision.com/skill-builder/reading-comprehension/48617.html
This is a link to a website that focuses on reading comprehension. This website gives examples of asking questions Before, During & After the reading to promote comprehension.
This website focuses on different activities you can do in the classroom to promote comprehension. This is a great resource for up and coming teacher to have some extra ways to make sure their students actually understand the material.
8.) http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies
This is a link to a video about reading comprehension. This is just another great resource to have as a teacher. All the extra knowledge about reading comprehension never hurts. This video gives great example activities for reading comprehension.
9.) http://www.carlisleschools.org/webpages/pluta/teacher.cfm?subpage=1265199
This is another website that has huge amount of interactive games that help with reading comprehension skills. They are again broken down into different categories and each game helps improve upon the skill area that they state in the title. Each game is different and fun and kids can play them directly off the website.
This website is full of interactive games that help to improve reading comprehension in students grades 3-6. The website breaks down reading comprehension into specific skill areas and then leads to different interactive activities and games that students can play directly.
11.) http://edhelper.com/language/Reading_Skills.htm
This website breaks down reading comprehension into specific skill areas that you can click on, for example cause and effect, point of view, summarizing, etc. For each specific skill area there are multiple reading passages that teachers can use to help students improve these specific skill areas.
Motivation
Motivation:
1.) http://www.cssu.org/cms/lib5/VT01000775/Centricity/Domain/34/ThoughtfulLiteracy.pdf
This resource talks about teaching thoughtful reading to students in order to foster engagement and motivation in literacy for students. The expectancy-value theory emphasizes that students need to value their success in an activity as well as assess the value or overall appeal there is in a task. It is important for teachers to be influential in their classroom in order to motivate students and continue the growth of literacy in the classroom. A teacher in the classroom can use this to engage their students and assess the motivational factors for both males and females and what the differences are. This can help teachers to think of some methods that will engage their students based on research that has been done.
2.) http://fitmarkbags.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Motivation.jpg
This is a link to a poster that was hanging up in one of my old teachers rooms. I believe that motivational posters are awesome. One of the most important role of a teacher is to motivate his or her students to learn & read & write. One way to do this is by hanging up motivational posters throughout the classroom.
3.) http://www.education.com/magazine/article/Motivating_Beginning_Reader/
This article talks about how to beat frustrations emergent readers are facing. When you give them other types of opportunities to read words, with math, movement, or games, they are more likely to stay motivated.
The link above leads to a chapter from a book specifically about student motivation, engagement, and achievement. It explains why these concepts are important in the classroom and gives specific strategies that teachers can use in the classroom to implement these concepts.
5.) http://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/motivating-students/
The link above leads you to a page from Vanderbilt's Center for Teaching on motivating students. It discusses different types of motivation, such as intrinsic and extrinsic, and also gives specific models and strategies for motivating students in the classroom.
6.) http://www.achievementfirst.org/resources/login/
This website explains different ways to help teachers motivate their students. It also has a lot of great downloadable content to use in the classroom.
7.) http://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/motivating-students/
This website defines different ways to motivate your students in the classroom. It also talks about how to motivate different types of students.
Fluency
Fluency:
1.) http://www.readingrockets.org/reading-topics/fluency
Reading Rockets is a great website for many topics of literacy. It can be especially helpful with fluency. There are multiple videos on how to provide students with fluency instruction in the classroom and different types of reading programs in the classroom. There are additional resources for parents and teachers in how to guide their students. This can help teachers by finding out different methods to use in their classroom with a different variety of students.
2.) https://www.pinterest.com/pin/140878294565474286/
A lot of current teachers use pintrest for ideas in their classroom. This sign can also be put in the classroom to help engage students and allow them to do some self-reflection.
3.) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1598/RT.59.7.3/abstract
This is a link to a website that talks about reading fluency. This website specifically talks about different ways to asses a students reading fluency. This is a great website for teachers who may need another way to asses their students.
4.) http://www.busyteacherscafe.com/literacy/fluency.html
The above is a website/blog that gives an introduction to what fluency is, the specific components of fluency, and why it is important. It also gives a number of links to different other fluency resources, which is very helpful.
5.) http://teacher.scholastic.com/reading/bestpractices/fluency/pdfs/building_fluency_fit.pdf
This link leads to a pdf that explains how teachers can specifically fit fluency instruction into their schedule. It gives suggested ways to do this, as well as a sample calendar for a month that outlines what fluency activities to do on that day. I think this will be really helpful to future teachers who are trying to plan out their instruction.
6.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wJgt2kurMs
YouTube is a great place to find informational videos from teachers all across the world. Some videos may be better than others but there are a lot of videos on YouTube. Above is a video on teaching fluency.