This week, I had the opportunity to take a look at www.ReadWriteThink.org. This website has a lot to offer to teachers and students. I noticed that there were some fun activities for younger children, so I recruited my 5 year old daughter to help me out with my evaluation of the site. She played three interactive games on the site and enjoyed two of them. She is just learning to read, so I think that the third game was probably too advanced for her at this point in time. However, the matching game (ABC Match) that she played kept her occupied for a good half hour. It gave positive feedback when she got an answer correct and she really liked that. Another game called Construct-A-Word was fun for her too - but she needed a lot of help from me to play. The game that she was not fond of was called Word Family Sort and some of the words were long - she didn't have the patience to sound them out and she is not familiar with blended sounds yet so it was just too hard. I bet she will enjoy that game in the future.
I also looked at the Lesson Plan section and saw some really neat lessons. But, there were not many lessons that were geared towards high school biology, so I am not sure that this site is going to be a great resource for me in the future. I will definitely keep it bookmarked for my daughter though. There were some great things on there, like a Letter Generator (for business and personal letters) and a cool looking activity to conclude reading Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. Fun stuff.
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