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Instruction Module 4

Module 4: Selecting Electronic Sources for Instruction (Website Evaluation)

Please search for two websites and/or software programs. You may surf the internet. Please submit a one-page review for each of 2 web sites or software programs that are designed to foster positive literacy development of young children. Discuss the ways you might use the site or program in your work with preschool children.

References

should be included. Please follow the APA style the latest edition. The total length of the assignment is at minimum two double-spaced pages in Times New Roman of 12 font. More will be accepted.

 (Outcomes: 1,2,4,7,8,10,13,14 ).

Please write on my behalf “I would apply this version, as it is very convenient…”like this.

Resources :

https://touro.instructure.com/courses/91697/files/6854472/download?download_frd=1

https://touro.instructure.com/courses/91697/files/6854297/download?wrap=1

https://touro.instructure.com/courses/91697/files/6854297/download?wrap=1

 Select a children’s book (or printed source)  that represents a rhythm, chant, song, or musical support. It could be a poem or finger play rather than a book. Be prepared to  use it in your assignment when discussing how it supports MUSIC as a means for learning language.

Read chapter 4 in Beaty & Pratt: “Music as a Natural Language”. 

 Select a children’s book (or printed source)  that represents a rhythm, chant, song, or musical support. It could be a poem or finger play rather than a book. Be prepared to  use it in your assignment when discussing how it supports MUSIC as a means for learning language.

1. Book: Chapter 4 in 
Early Literacy in Preschool and Kindergarten (4th ed). (meets outcomes 1-3)

2. Article: “Music and the Baby’s Brain”  (meets outcomes 1-3)

3. Article:  “This Is Your Brain (meets outcome 1-3)

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0.2 pts

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Example:

The first website that fosters positive literacy development of young children that I caught my eye is called “Starfall.” This website also has math, seasonal, language arts, and music activities. I observed the language arts and music activities. The “Starfall” offers many activities where a child can learn the alphabet, increase vocabulary, read, and/or listen to the book, sing, and etc. The activities were designed in a very colorful way and would engage the students. The activities are intended with auditory and visual learning styles. This website can be very helpful for students from a variety of learning backgrounds. The youngest group of children would explore the videos and games that introduce each letter and the sounds, while more advanced students will explore the “I am Reading” section where they would find a short book on subjects they like.

I liked an activity where the children can create themselves as a cartoon by selecting the gender, age, hair, eyes, skin color, and clothing. While doing this exercise, a child using the imagination and developing a self-concept. Every time a child ads something, it generates a text. For example, it would say, “I am a girl, and I am six years old.” The website is using multicultural cartoons, which are extremely great for using in the classroom.

I would take many ideas and exercises from the “Starfall” website that I can use in my classroom. It has great read-aloud stories and vocabulary development activities. This site can be a very interactive tool to develop reading skills for students with different reading levels.

The second website that fosters positive literacy development of young children that I found is called PBSKids Island. This website has varied games for children to explore reading, math, science, music, etc. I observed the reading activities that this site is offering. The first game offered to me for play calls “Clifford the Bid Red Dog Adventure Stories.” By playing in this game, the child will create the stories himself with Clifford and his friends (it’s the characters from the original book). The child will be asked to choose the book that he/she would like to read out of three presented books. Once the book is selected, the child begins to choose the items for the story and paint one of the main objects. The game provides a child an opportunity to listen to a story and add to it things of a child’s choice, which opens the imagination. Playfully, the child learns new vocabulary and listens to different stories. The website offers many other games that involve reading aloud, storytelling, fiction, and nonfiction stories. The games are very interactive and require a child to participate in many activities to paint, choose, take photos, create albums, listen to stories, and much more. The most important is that many games are designed the way that child can choose the topic that he/she likes the most.

I will defiantly like to use this website in my work. I would choose the games of storytelling and read-aloud stories. They are very illustrated and interesting. I can pause the story and discuss and question the students. Later I can create some activities that are based on the story we read. Moreover, I can suggest this website for parents to use it for home activities and playtime. This way, a child is engaged in the game and, at the same time, is learning to develop literacy.

References

Clifford . Adventure Stories | PBS KIDS. (n.d.). Pbskids.Org. Retrieved October 2, 2020, from

https://pbskids.org/clifford/games/adventure-stories

Starfall: Learn to Read with Phonics, Learn Mathematics. (2019). Starfall.Com.

https://www.starfall.com/h/index-kindergarten.php

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