Friday, January 3, 2020

Effective Literacy Website PBS Learning Media


The website https://guam.pbslearningmedia.org/ is a multimedia resource page and is a great tool for promoting literacy to children in all grade levels. It can be used for grades Pre-K-12. PBSLearning Media provides free standards aligned videos, interactives, and lesson plans for teachers which makes it an effective literacy website. The website has various interactive lessons for the different disciplines including Social Studies, Arts, Science, Mathematics, English Language Arts, Reading, etc. The disciplines are then separated to different sub topics. For example, Social Studies is separated into six different topics. The topics are Civics and Government, Economics, Geography, Elementary Social Studies, U.S. History, and World History.
The website is easy to navigate and is user friendly. The user can browse by grade level or by subject. The different resources are then presented. For example, there is a lesson on “Building the Pyramids of Ancient Egypt”. This lesson can be found by either clicking on the “World History” tab or by clicking on the “Middle School” tab. Once clicked on, the website leads you to an abundance of different topics and resources. The page is then divided into three tabs that include about, support materials, and standards. I was amazed at how detailed the website was making it easy for any teacher or student to use.
The lesson plans provided on the website are very detailed and easy to follow. The lesson plans include objectives, standards, screen summaries for the interactive videos, vocabulary, assessments, lesson aids, and extensions. The best part is that it includes rubrics and support materials that align with the common core and career readiness standards for adult education. It makes learning fun and relevant for students to enjoy and apply in real life situations.
I highly recommend this site for teachers and students who want to promote and enhance literacy both in the classrooms and in their lives. It is a free website where students and teachers can create an account. Once the free account is created, the resources and learning materials are in abundance. The lessons are engaging and meant to captivate learning. The website can be used for both struggling readers and advanced readers. It provides endless reading resources, assignments, rubrics, videos, and vocabulary activities for teachers to use. The website is well designed and pleasing to the eye. I am glad this website was created for students and teachers to use freely. 
 

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