Blogger Resources

I immediately was impressed by the amount of tech resources that Richard Byrne shares on his blog, freetechforteachers.com. A resource that I found to be beneficial for students AND teachers is Readlee. I have not heard of this website before, but I am glad to have access to it now. Being a first grade teacher, a huge piece of assessing student reading skills is listening to them read to you. Readlee provides a place for teachers to assign reading passages to students, who then can log on and read aloud to their device, at home or school, and then AI detects the strengths and weaknesses of their reading. I am already thinking of ways to practice with this tool in my classroom this coming school year. Even if it is only used for practice! 

I could create a blog post for students to access with an example video, showing how to log on and how to record themselves reading in their account and turn it in. Using step by step instructions that they can access at home with parents or at school. 

I think it may take some time to implement this routine, and I may want to send home instructions for parents to practice with their child too, but I think the end results would provide students and parents with more insights into their reading and give them some independence, while providing teachers more time to teach in the classroom, and less time taken out to test every student. One on one reading assessments shouldn't be eliminated but Readlee could lessen the load on teachers' plates every once and a while. Follow the links to see for yourself. 

https://www.readlee.com/?r=freetech4teachers

https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2022/07/best-of-2022-so-far-readlee.html