Reading rockets

What is the tool and how can it be used?
Readingrockets.org is the tool I chose that I think can help me in my future teaching career. It is a web site that offers a wealth of reading strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help young children how to read and read better. The reading resources found in this web site can assist parents, teachers, and other educators in working with struggling readers who require additional help in reading fundamentals and comprehension skills development.
What are the advantages of this tool?

• It contains reading strategies, lessons and activities that can be used by parents and teachers.
• It has learning store where teachers and parents can buy various literacy materials.
• It has videos and podcasts.
• List of children's books and authors with free reading guides.
• It is very easy to navigate, and much more!

What is the disadvantage of this tool?

• There is no page for children to play different fun activities.

Who is the audience for this tool?

The audiences for this tool are the parents, teachers, librarians, and other professionals (school psychologists, speech pathologists, preschool and childcare).

Where can we learn more about this tool?

To learn more about this tool, visit the web site Readingrockets.org home page and from there you can navigate to different pages. If you are looking for quick answers of your questions, you can go to the FAQs page and click the topics you want to learn. There is also a short review about readingrockets.org on Parent's Choice web site.

What is your opinion on the usefulness of this tool?

I think this web site is very useful tool because it offers various reading strategies, lessons and activities to assist young children learn how to read. Learning how to read is important to young children in order them to succeed in schools.