Avoiding what I should be doing, I was looking through my reader and
Larry Ferlazzo's post about phonics caught my eye. He happens to mention a site called
Reading Bear. I went to view the
Reading Bear site and was quite impressed. This is a great resource for teaching phonics. Their site says they have over "1200 vocabulary items and 50 presentations". If you read the
About Us section of
Reading Bear you will find that this site is completely free and funds are provided by a Memphis area donor who wishes to remain anonymous. I am amazed and truly grateful as a teacher that something like this is out there for teachers and free. You do not have to create an account to use the site. If you choose to do so, you will be able to save scores and progress. Teachers can also make accounts for their students. Excellent site. Do, do, do take a look!
And to top it off.....as I scrolled to the bottom of the page to find out more I saw that it comes from
WatchKnowLearn.org. Another WOW for my day!
WatchKnowLearn is free educational videos in a very nicely organized way. Music alone has 889 videos. Over 7,000 in the History category. You may have found many of the videos they have listed but to have everything organized all in one place is pretty cool. The videos come from all different sources but are considered kid safe for ages 1 - 18.
Again, this site is done by some very generous people. Generous with time and money and the belief that everyone should have the opportunity to learn. Thank you to these folks and others like them that have made educating others their mission in life. And thank you
Larry Ferlazzo who leads me to so many wonderful sites.
