Class 7: Reading Remediation

Class began with a video "life on the iPad", this video shows diverse ways that the Ipad is incorporated in everyday life and gives us a glimpse of some ways we can use it ourselves on a daily basis.

 http://www.apple.com/ca/ipad/life-on-ipad/

We also had another PollEv activity where we shared different ways teachers can represent information to students to reach all learners, this brought out a lot of activities that can be used such as story telling, dramatizations, art just to name a few.

Reading remediation software and weblinks

We went on a treasure hunt for software and websites that can be used to aid students with reading remediation, the following are some links that will aid in this process

http://www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/educationupclose.phtml/29

This site offers information on how to identify the different reading problems that students have and tips on how to help them overcome these problems, the site offers information for teachers or parents to aid their students in reading

http://www.funenglishgames.com/readinggames.html

Fun English games is a site that offers different activities to suite learners of various ages starting from pre kindergarten up to grade eight and in different subject areas as well, the activities are really interesting and educational, the downloads on this site are free.

http://www.jumpstart.com/parents/games/reading-games

Jump start is another site that offers fun activities, i also found that it is similar to the fun english games site except that you have to register for this site to get on, The activities are for students from grade 1 to 8

http://www.readingrockets.org/
Reading rockets is a site that seems geared toward helping adults in aiding young readers
http://www.tumblebooks.com/library/asp/customer_login.asp
Tumble books was presented, it has really colorful books that will grab the visual side of a student's interest first which is good because that way the interest grows

http://www.shakespeareatplay.com/
http://reading.ecb.org/
http://earobics.com/gamegoo/gooey.html

Game Goo is an interactive learning site that is suitable for children from beginning stage reading to advanced readers, the best part is that it is free it is quite colorful and enticing for the young eyes, it helps to develop vocabulary, word and letter identification

We were then sent on The iTunes store to search for reading remediation apps,
Dinosaur Train A-Z picked my interest because it has the feature for  kids to build words with their dinosaur letters, the app is designed for both iPhones and iPads and costs only $1.99

There were several apps there for Literacy such as Phonics words and spelling, Reading and telling stories and with these comes several smaller apps that range in price starting from free upwards.
These tools will be really useful to aid teachers and students in the teaching and learning process.