Teaching Methods

www.bookpop.com

The book-pop website is a great source for children to learn how to read, learn letters, animals, sounds, exploring, etc. The book pop website can be used in the classroom and in the home environment. This website is great for children to learn literacy. The children will have fun while learning to read. This website has different sections like music pop, art pop, story pop, mail pop, and book pop. The children can click on each section that will help them with their listening and reading skills. The sections will help them with their literacy skills. In the music pop section, they can listen to music while reading along to the words. In the art pop section, they can color a coloring sheet and explain what is happening in the picture. In the mail pop section, the children can write an email to the author and creator of this website. This action encourages children to write, print, and read. In the book pop, they can explore and read the story that interests them. In the story pop, children can listen to a narrator read to them while they read along. The book-pop website offers a game site that children can learn letters, animals, sounds that help them with their literacy while having fun. In classrooms, children will have an area with a computer for literacy games. They can go online and explore this book-pop website to learn about literacy and be able to read. For example, an individual child on Friday?s can go to the computer to explore the area of the music pop area. Each Friday a child can do a different section within this website. The teacher can help the child if they have questions or concerns. Each child can write an email to the author or creator of the website. This can promote writing and reading skills. In home, parents can help children explore the website if they have access to a computer. Parents can tell the children to go on the website and read a story each night before bed. Overall, the book-pop website is a great source for children to learn literacy. It is useful because they can have fun while learning to read, write, listen, comprehend, and explore.

By: Lysandra Garcia

http://www.readinglesson.com/article1.htm

The reading lesson website is a fantastic resource for teachers and parents to teach their children to read. The site is easy to navigate and offers many different methods and activities to promote strong literacy development. The site offers tips to help parents and teachers to teach their children to read. Some tips included are simple ideas such as not worrying yourself with their grammar initially or teaching lower case letters first. The site also offers a Q & A section to answer any questions that may concern the parent or teacher. The website also offers a message board hosted by Dr. Michael Levin where you can post your ideas or ask questions concerning language development. Another fantastic option the site offers are the games and activities you and your children can do. They have online movies, downloadable reading lessons, and simple online stories early readers can utilize to enhance their reading abilities. The site even offers articles about reading disabilities just in case your children are having a difficult time learning how to read. And last, but not least, there is a link that is geared for teachers and one that is geared for parents so the adult supervising the reading lesson can best teach their children to learn to read. Overall, this site offers everything a teacher or parent could ever want to use when teaching young people to read. The site offers tips, answers to your questions, games, lessons, and movies to promote a better educational environment for young children to acquire strong reading skills.

By: James W. Jarvis