Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Early Literacy Skills

Attending #NECC09 Early Literacy Skills by Kathleen H. McClaskey, EdTech Associates

The website is at http://earlyliteracyskills.wikispaces.com 

Great list of websites that are listed for supporting early literacy.  Several to start  Phonemic Awareness.

Creating Practice Guides.  This was interesting.  Setting up a set of websites and providing links for a specific skill.

Phonemic Awareness
WebsiteActivity Link
Star Fall - Ahttp://www.starfall.com/n/short-a/sa/load.htm?f
More Sites

You can then carry on with placing the table on a websites

Also looks at Vocabulary Building
(A great one that I didn't bookmark is WordWeb that looks at synonyms but is a free PC download)

News to me - You need to be exposed to vocabulary at least 11 times before you know it.  From Grade 4 to 12 students need to acquire 3000 words per year to stay at grade level.  Wow.  It highlights the value of reading and exposure to literacy in many forms.

Check out her website.

It was impressive to see the collection.  Kathleen has more resources here as well.
http://www.edtech-associates.com/education-and-technology.htm

Kevin


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