Paula Saine - Remote Learning: Engaging in K-12 Literacy Instruction

Paula Saine, PhD, is the John Heckert Endowed Professor of Literacy in teacher education at Miami University in Ohio, where she teaches courses in and is an internationally recognized leader and expert on literacy and technology. Her research centers primarily on three important and interrelated principles: literacy, cultural competence, and the use of digital technologies in grades K12. Together, these principles shape her research on fostering interactive literacy learning through innovative approaches that equip practicing and current teachers for an ever-changing society.

I would like to thank my family for their love and support, especially my granddaughter, Mya Boxie. I wish to express profound appreciation to my editors, Tom Koerner, Carlie Wall, and Nicole Carty, for their insightful suggestions and their entire production team. I dedicate this book to current and future teachers as they rethink and explore new ways of engaging diverse K12 students in literacy instruction through innovative approaches using digital technology.

http://games.pppst.com/languagearts.html

This website provides links to games devoted to the different parts of reading; games are organized by theme.

http://www.pixton.com

This site allows the user to make a few different styles of comics. It requires that the user sign up, but it is free.

http://en.childrenslibrary.org

This link leads to the International Childrens Digital Library. This site contains a database of books from around the world that can be read online.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/grimmtmp

This site contains 209 fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm.

https://reading.ecb.org/index.html

This free website designed by PBS Wisconsin Education contains many interactive reading comprehension activities, including eight research-based learning strategies (i.e., prior knowledge, making connections, questioning, visualizing, inferring, summarizing, evaluating, and synthesizing).

https://roguelibrarian.wordpress.com

This link takes the user to Rogue Librarians Reading List. It gives some brief reviews of childrens literature.

http://www.globalclassroom.org/2005/inservice/reading.html

This website is a database of links to different interactive reading and language arts websites. There are links for students and teachers in addition to a list of resources.

http://www.diigo.com

This is a multitool that helps people manage online information. With Diigo the user can annotate PDFs, build a personal library in the cloud, and highlight useful information. Users must sign up in order to use Diigo and choose either the free plan or one of the premium ones.

https://www.pearsonhighered.com/pdtoolkit/index.html

This is an online subscription-based resource that provides the tools that educators need to effectively plan and implement instruction. Together with a Pearson textbook, the PDToolkit introduces technology integration by providing resources that directly link to the text.

https://my.hrw.com/nsmedia/intgos/html/igo.htm

This website has links to graphic organizers that students can fill in while online with their mentor and that can be saved as proof of student work.

http://www.magickeys.com/books

This website is a database of online books that can be read for free. Books are arranged by age group: young children, older children, and young adults. A few books have audio and some have quizzes. In addition, the stories are illustrated.

https://www.getepic.com

This digital reading site Epic contains thousands of online books, videos, and quizzes.

http://www.literacycenter.net

This site contains shapes, colors, numbers, upper- and lowercase letter matching, and spelling games for kids. The activities may be better for early English language learners. The site also features Spanish, French, and German.

http://www.literactive.com/Home/index.asp

This site contains reading material for very early readers. Users must register to download stories. Adjacent activities are paper based.

http://childrensbooksonline.org/library.htm

This site contains a selection of old fiction books (early 1900s) with vocabulary that may not be familiar to the student. There is a different section of all audiobooks. Mentors should review books to ensure ability level matches that of the reader (some prereader books are actually intermediate). Some books are translated into multiple languages. This site also has good informational texts.

http://www.starfall.com

This site has phonics lessons for early readers and both fiction and non-fiction book options. The student can click on words he or she does not know to have them read by the program.

https://tweentribune.com

This site provides daily news for kids, tweens, teens, and teachers. The students can actively engage in posting comments to the readings, which are moderated by their teachers.