Skip to main content

International Literacy Association Newsletter Weekly Project: Effective Literacy Website #6

 


The International children’s Digital Library Foundation (ICDL) website was created to support the world’s children in becoming effective members of their local and global community while respecting and tolerating the diverse cultures, languages, and ideas throughout our world.  ICDL drives to make the best in children's literature available online free of charge.  One key factor that makes a website very useful to teachers is if they were free.  Most public schools do not have the extra money to pay for interactive materials so free materials is very important to teachers.  Another thing to note about this site is that it is a government funded website so any content in the site has been reviewed and filtered. 

Even though the primary audiences for the ICDL are children from three to thirteen years old, children’s caregivers and educators as well as academics working in the field of children’s literature are also targeted since it is these people that also effect the literacy of a child.
This website is great for both students and educator because it has a large collection of interactive books and their all free.  I chose this website because of its goals in helping a diverse audience accepting all cultures.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Internet Tool#1: Wix

  Wix is a platform which is commonly used by many to create websites.   Currently, Wix has over 200 million users across 190 countries worldwide.   This internet tool is very popular due to how extremely easy it makes for a beginner to create a professional looking website.   In the past, you have to hire a professional with coding skills to create a top-of-the-line website that would cost a lot of money.   Nowadays, any person with no skills in website-building can use this platform to create a webpage. Another great reason to use this web-building tool is because it has training videos which you can skim through to learn how to use the web-building platform.   There are also many templates pre-made installed on the website so you can go through the many build-in templates in the website to quickly create your websites. One catch about the platform is you have to pay for it.   It has different monthly payments depending on what you want access to in ...
Post a Comment
Read more

International Literacy Association Newsletter Weekly Project: Effective Literacy Website #1: FUNBRAIN

             Funbrain (https://www.funbrain.com/) is a website created for kids in grades Pre-K through 8. This website was created to give access to any use free access to all its contents.  Funbrain offers hundreds of games, books, comics, and videos that develop skills in math, reading, problem-solving and literacy.              The design of the site is very bright and colorful so with one first look most young learners will be hooked just by its design.  The website is very simple with clickable features that are easily accessed by learners.  The site has options to browse by grade level or by type while the front page has all its categories also in place.  Each of the contents, whether it is a video, book, or game has already been given levels so parents and students can know which video will be just right for the learner’s level.  The front page also has the top picks in each category a...
Post a Comment
Read more

International Literacy Association Newsletter Weekly Project: Effective Literacy Website #4

  The fourth website I have picked for effective literacy is Read to Me International ( http://www.readtomeintl.org ).   Read To Me International is a non-profit organization which promote reading aloud through a couple ways.   This Organization has programs which coach parents in the schools in Hawai‘i to read aloud to learners of all ages.   You will also find Presentations and workshops for parents, educators and other interested groups.   This website’s main mission is to share the love and joy of reading aloud.   According to the website, the main goals for this non-profit organization is to ensure that every child is read to every day for at least 10 minutes.   The website provides videos and lessons on reading aloud techniques so anyone browsing through the website can learn the simple steps of reading aloud and how fun it is when it is being done to young learners.               One ...
Post a Comment
Read more