International Reading Association Newsletter Weekly Project: Effective Literacy Websites #2 Exploration

Into the Book is an online reading comprehension tool for elementary students and teachers. This website provides early readers with interactive reading activities using eight research-based strategies. These strategies include prior knowledge, making connections, questioning, visualizing, inferring, summarizing, evaluating and synthesizing.
Into the Book was developed by PBS Wisconsin Education along with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction and a team of experienced educators. Easy to navigate tabs include a student website with interactive reading comprehension activities, a teacher website with videos, teacher guides, lesson plans, as well as a matrix that links all activities to (CCSS), and a professional learning tab with a collection of resources behind each lesson.
Students can easily start the activities by clicking on the students tab. Logging in allows for the student to save their activity. Students can also skip the login and go straight into the interactive activities. Once they login, the student can choose an activity on any of the reading strategies mentioned above.
The teaching tools tab welcomes educators to resources on the various strategies and standards in literacy. The professional learning tab provides online resources for self-paced professional development, educator effectiveness, webinars, and educator standards.