Effective Literacy Website #3 Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets (http://www.readingrockets.org) is an online resource that helps teachers, other educational professionals and parents trying to help a young child or student learn how to read. This website is a great resource to answer your reading questions and needs. Teachers and anyone who works with students can benefit from the information and resources provided on this website. One of the great things about this website is that the information is continually updated with the latest strategies and research to help the users of the site. Teachers can use the site to find classroom strategies that work, interventions for struggling readers, age and reading level appropriate books, and how to include books and stories into their curriculum. Reading Rockets does not only provide useful resources and strategies for the typical classroom teacher it also provides resources and strategies to help a school principal, librarian, counselor, speech therapist or anyone interested in keeping a child reading. Parents also have the opportunity to watch or read tips for raising strong readers.

On the website, you can find research-based articles, reading adventure packs, parent letters, videos and other resources to help students with literacy difficulties and needs. Reading Rockets is a very user-friendly website with a nicely colored theme and easy to read fonts. While exploring through the website I notice that the website provides great resources and tools for just about anyone trying to help students read or learn how to read. This website is a great and easy online tool for teachers and everyone searching for fast and easy to find research-based strategies and tools to help students with reading.

Overall, Reading Rockets is a phenomenal resource and strategy website that helps teachers and all users promote student literacy. I use this website to find research-based interventions for my struggling reader or for any level reader and have found the resources and strategies included in the website to be very beneficial.