Digital+Literacy+Resource+Library

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==== PrimaryGames has a large collection of games for primary school students to play and learn. Their games include reading games, online storybooks, writing games, and more. With games like “Word Grid” and “Word Out”, students are encouraged to spell meaningful words with scrambled letters. Some of the games even teach children typing skills. I incorporated this website into my digital resource library because of the... I would use this website in my field placement or classroom during reading centers or as a reward for good behavior throughout the week. ====

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==== ReadWriteThink provides professional development for educators with connections to new teaching strategies. The website includes classroom resources as well, such as lesson plans aligned to the common core standards. As well as interactive tools that help students accomplish a variety of goals from organizing their thoughts to learning about language, all while having fun. I incorporated this website into my digital resource library because of its great teacher resources. I would use this website in my classroom to inspire myself and to help me to grow as a teacher as I learn new educational strategies and incorporate them in my lesson plans. ====

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==== The Florida Center for Reading Research is teacher resource guide. This particular resource is geared towards fourth and fifth grade student center activities. The guide is designed to assist teacher in differentiating instruction by using independent student center activities that support skill building in four of the five components of reading (phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension). I found this resource to be very informative. I incorporated in my resource library because I believe it is very important to maintain student interest in reading during the last few years of elementary schools. For many students this is around the age when they lose interest in reading. As a student teacher interested in teaching the fourth grade, I would use this resource by implementing some of the ideas and strategies in fun interactive reading centers to help further engage my students in reading. ====

4. [|http://www.literacyshed.com]
==== The Literacy Shed contains hundreds of ideas to inspire students of all ages. With different “sheds” based on different genres, teachers can focus on one area at a time or have student based activities. This website is focused on inspiring students to write by encouraging them to go deeper. There are plenty of activities in each of the “sheds” and even a story starter shed that teachers can use as writing prompts for their students. I included this website into my resource for its vast collection of writing prompts and activities. I would use this website to engage my students in their writing, to encourage them to have fun writing and to also help improve their writing skills. This would be a great resource to use in 4th and 5th grade literacy centers or as writing projects. ====

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==== Readworks has a variety of lessons and units that are aligned to the common core and state standards. They include comprehension units, skill and strategy units and reading passages that can be incorporated in K-12 classrooms. I added this website to the digital resource library for its collection of easy to follow lesson plans. I would gladly incorporate these lessons into my classroom. They cover so many different topics that are all research-based. Not only will my students learn from the lessons, but my teaching will flourish as well. ====

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==== Starfall is a fun website for students in kindergarten through 2nd grade. It has games that teach students to read with phonics and phonemic awareness. I included this website because, of it’s fun educational atmosphere that children love. I have seen this website used in my field placement many times. Students who are in special education and English language learners, those who are learning to read and beginning readers benefit from the stress-free phonemic games. I would use this website in my own classroom as well to help reiterate phonics and phonemic awareness to students during literacy centers, or in the computer lab. ====

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==== Spelling city has various games that help students learn vocabulary, spelling words, and much more. The games include word-finds, spelling tests, flash cards, etc. There are even a few language arts lessons available to teachers grades k-12, informative articles and other educational information. I added this website to my resource library for its user friendly activities. I have incorporated this website in my field placement. The students in my first grade class would play the spelling games on Th. Smartboard during literacy centers to help them practice for the spelling test. They greatly enjoyed the games, especially hang mouse. Even though they did not always get the words correctly in the game, I saw a vast improvement in the grades of their spelling tests since incorporating this game in the centers. ====

8. [|http://r][|eadingandwritingproject.com]/
==== Reading and Writing Project is by Teachers College. This website contains a variety of articles and other resources for teaching reading and writing. It provides a source of professional development renewal and educational services, including workshops and summer institutes. This website was included into my digital resource library, because of the of the its teacher resources. I feel like these informative articles could greatly improve my teaching in my field placement and in my future classroom. I also found their workshops and summer institutes to be very interesting, I would love to attend one in the future (one can never learn too much). ====

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==== Tumble books is such a great website! Their online library can be accessed in the classroom or at home. They have a collection of read-along books, ebooks, graphic novels, audio books, and educational videos for grades k-12. While students read-along with the stories, they can pause the story, highlight areas in the book and add notes. Along with a large collection of books, the website also contains lesson plans and quizzes. I incorporated this website into my resource library, because of their collection of books which can help teach younger students the joys of reading in a format that they can easily follow along with. I would incorporate this website in my placement or classroom with younger grades or in special education. In place of a listening center students could watch and listen to the story independently or by the whole class. Another benefit of this website is that it can be easily used by students with visual and hearing impairments as well. ====

10. [|http://www.signedstories.com]
==== This website has an accompanying app. There are thousands of books signed in either BSL or ASL. Children can watch videos on a variety of subjects. Children of all ages will be able to find something that interests them. Unlike similar websites, signed stories incorporates the beautiful photos from the children's books in the videos. ====