Reinventing Literacy Night at Your School

 

Are you looking for new ideas for Literacy Night? Are you looking for an innovative way to integrate Literacy and 21st Century Learning? Then planning a Digital Literacy Night is right for you!

This year for Literacy Night, I wanted to find a creative way to incorporate ELA and Technology. Our students are living and learning in the digital age and it seemed like a great idea to run Digital Literacy workshops for our parents and students on the following topics.

• Internet Safety
• Phonics
• Fluency
• Blogs
• Wiki’s
• Interactive Storytelling
• Interactive Writing
• Webinars
• Podcasts
• Informational Text/Literature
• Digital Storytelling with Lego’s
• Research

Our teachers chose a Digital Literacy topic and ran four 30 minute workshops. Our parents and students rotated through each grade level workshop.  Once students completed four workshops they entered their stamped passport to win a new Nook. Our community partners including University of Hartford, Cigna and the Hartford Public Library, volunteered their time and ran interactive workshops for our families. Overall, it was a very successful evening and a great learning experience for our parents and students.I highly recommend planning a Digital Literacy night for your school. If you have any questions or want to learn more, please feel free to contact me!

Here is a list of interactive and educational websites for kids to use at home.

http://www.starfall.com/

http://www.brainpopjr.com/

http://pbskids.org/

http://www.readingrockets.org/

http://www.storylineonline.net/

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/

http://www.andersenfairytales.com/en/main

http://www.scholastic.com/kids/stacks/

http://www.bookadventure.com/Home.aspx

http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/

https://www.edmodo.com/

http://www.dreambox.com/

http://timeforkids.com

 "Get Your Learn On" - Erin