Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Improving Attitudes

Tracy teaches the year 3 and 4 class at North East Valley Normal School. She wants to improve some of her students attitudes towards reading and reading time in her class. Tracy teaches the lower stream of readers in the senior syndicate. She has a few struggling readers who do not use their time well in class or have a good attitude to reading for a lot of reasons. Tracy has lots of techie skills she can transfer to building a Reading wiki and is confident if she plays with the wiki we set up she will be able to build her wiki. Here is a link to a few wiki basics.

Tracy hopes that by doing this all of the children will enjoy reading time more than they already do but for the few who do she thought the computer factor may be able to draw them in.
Tracy plans to use sites online games, videos and embedded games to create an activity for reading time which will enhance learning and provide a task which children must read to engage in.
Tracy said she can see that although this will be her Action Research project she will get carried away with the wiki and can see a lot of uses for it outside of reading time.

Reading and Writing game sites to link to from your wiki. Tracy will find many more but these are some I've collected that other teachers have found. No point Tracy searching for what the Cluster has already found.

http://www.mrsp.com/

http://www.biguniverse.com/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/websites/4_11/site/literacy.shtml

http://www.meddybemps.com/7.33.html

http://www.readwritethink.org/

http://pbskids.org/readingrainbow/games/

http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/teacher.cfm

http://www.starfall.com/

http://roythezebra.com/reading-games-sentence-level.html also word and text level games.

http://www.funbrain.com/brain/ReadingBrain/ReadingBrain.html


http://www.rif.org/readingplanet/gamestation/storymaker/default.aspx

http://pbskids.org/stopandgo/index.html

http://www.roalddahl.com/

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