Thursday, June 26, 2008
Evalutation #1
Website Title: BBC-Schools-Words and Pictures
Website URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/index.shtml
Grade/Age Level: starter learner
Language & Content:
This website includes several curriculum parts such as: Phonics, CVC Words, Consonant Clusters, Long Vowel Sounds, and High Frequency Words which also contain various interesting activities (on-line games and teaching materials/less plans) in each part. By the way, in the section of "Gallery" which students can post their creative sentences/poems on it and "Teachers and Parents" has many useful suggestionsand printable lesson plans. It is a great website not only for starter learnersgrasping a fundamental knowledge about word structures but also for teachersapplying these resources to their classroom.
For example, the “Poem Pack” at “Long Vowel Sounds” http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/longvow/poems/fpoem.shtml
contains a number of humorous poems, each of which contains many keywordswith long vowel patterns (ee, ai, ea, oa, ay, a-e, oo, y, igh, i-e). Each poem is read aloud for children and provides them with many exciting activities:
Hear it – Listening to the poem being read aloud;
Read it – Read the poem to oneself or with a partner;
Sound Search – Find all words with the same sound;
Find the Word – Find words appeared in the poem;
Print it – Print the script of poem and activity worksheet to practice.
Teachers can hold a workshop to let students learning with computers individuallyand then get together discussing their experiences, reciting poems in harmonyand sharing their own poems.
I think this website is designed in a well-organized and facts-based way and it really makes the tedious topics more fun. In addition, the rhyme poems will help stimulate learners’ sensorial ability of language. Besides, this website isbeneficial for classroom practice. Moreover, it also provides many materials forteachers to print them out which are really effort-saving.
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2 comments:
Jill,
I visited your recemmended website and found it's so useful for language learners especially for beginners to pre-intermediate. I like the phonics lessons and think it's totally helpful for learners who want to work on pronunciation and intonation. EFL students working on their pronunciation will benefit from this website since they can hear the right sounds. The layout of this website is great (and cute too!!!). It seems to be a user friendly website. After all, I'd like to rate this website 10.
Kwan
What a comprehensive, fun educational Web site! You presented a great overview of the site. Visitors to the site will know will know exactly who the Web site is for and which grammar structures, subjects and learning objectives are stressed. I particularly like the information for parents because it empowers them to get involved with their child's learning. Additionally, the collaboration with the BBC's educational television programs along with the learning content on this Web site provides a good balance and seems to enhance the learning experience, especially when the materials and interactive activities used in the classroom setting. I can see music (lyrics) being incorporated as well since it's typically poetry put into song. My favorite link was the "gallery" which features the creative writings of some talented young children. Some are actually quite whimsical, while other are very thoughtful! I could see visitors to the site checking this link frequently just to see the children’s musings. Thanks for sharing this site with us!
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