Tuesday 7 October 2014

Raz-kids.com is AWESOME!

In mid September I sent home a letter introducing myself and also explaining an AWESOME reading site: raz-kids.com



This site provides levelled books, meaning books that can be tailored to your child's instructional reading level ('just right books'--not too hard, not too easy!)

We determine their instructional reading level here at the school.

Then I can assign a selection of corresponding raz-kids books.

Each student has a password or 'symbol', which has been sent home. The login information has been sent home as well.

This site can be access from any computer! It is used at school, can be used at home, and also has a mobile app--so it can be used on the go!

This sight provides three levels of instruction: first, it reads the book to the child (highlighting words as it goes). Then the student can practise reading it themselves. There is also a short quiz tied to the book to assess comprehension.



For each completed task, students gain stars which they can then 'spend' on site to obtain robot parts for their robot or cool accessories for their rocket (like aliens, furniture and plants).

You can access this site by clicking on my page tabs above, on the first image above, clicking here...or simply type in raz-kids.com

If you are interested in the free app, here is it for iTunes and also for android. More information can be found out about those here. You login to the app the same way you log into the website, with the login information and the student name/password.




Please let me know if you have any questions about this site!

Regards,
Julie Johnson
SERT

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