Read Write Think-A Teacher's Best Friend

This post describes a website that is an excellent resource for all teachers when it comes to teaching literacy skills to students.  The site is called Read, Write, Think.  It is jammed pack with teacher and parent resources that describe various instructional lessons that can expand a child’s literacy skills at school, as well as, at home.  The site provides complete lessons that can be used in any classroom and at various grade levels.  The lessons include objectives, standards, instructional plans, extensions, and assessments.  Also, the website offers student interactive for various skills that students may need to strengthen or need assistance with.  They are fun and engaging and students in regular education, and also, special education can benefit from the activities. 

Alphabet Organizer is one interactive activity where students can create their own alphabet book for every letter of the alphabet by using words and pictures to help students remember the letters.  There is another activity that assists students with the skill of Organizing and Summarizing text of a book in order to complete a writing assignment.  There are many more activities that students can use to address the different areas of literacy.

Read, Write, and Think includes videos that assist educators with creating lessons concerning different areas of literacy such as, write around the room and a phonics lesson using the story Chrysanthemum.  This is a wonderful educational resource and tool.  It also, provides videos about how to use Read, Write, and Think and presentation videos. 

This website is free; it is very user friendly, and intuitive.  The software can be used to help students who have difficulty with reading and writing and their learning can be assessed easily.  I personally have never heard of this site before and I highly recommend that you take the time to view this site for yourself.  The following is the link http://www.readwritethink.org/. 

 My next post will describe another website that may be useful, and I will let you know if I recommend it or not.