WIGGLEWORKS
Online Reading and Writing Support
WiggleWorks allows each child to move at their own individual pace and provides them with tools to improve literacy. The programs collaboration of reading, writing, and story making, allows students to enhance their understanding and skills in all three areas. The tool lets the user to change text size, experiment with words and add illustrations. The best thing about this application is that it gives instructional versatility, meshes three overlapping ideas and it has customizable settings to support diverse learners.
WiggleWorks allows each child to move at their own individual pace and provides them with tools to improve literacy. The programs collaboration of reading, writing, and story making, allows students to enhance their understanding and skills in all three areas. The tool lets the user to change text size, experiment with words and add illustrations. The best thing about this application is that it gives instructional versatility, meshes three overlapping ideas and it has customizable settings to support diverse learners.
How To Use In The Classroom:
This tool can be utilized in the classroom in several different ways. It can be used to select a story for the child/children to go through independently. In the story the student is able to create a word list, add to a previously formed list and adjust the story with their own words. Students could be required to use a word list preselcted by the instructor and find the words in the story. Another tool useful tool for the classroom that is available in this program is "The Magnet Board". The Magnet Board is a tool that is set to build phonemic awareness. This could be used by asking students to take the learned sound from an earlier reading, compile new words with that same sound and use the recording tool to record them saying the word and play it back. In The Magnet Board there is a scramble tool which can be used by the student to unscramble the words on the story list and put them together by sounding out (replaying) their previously recorded sound for that letter. The tools provided in this program really allow the student to build their confidence about their reading fluency and phonics.
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This article has not only wiggle works listed as a resource as well as WYNN and classroom suite. It talks about most if not all the above applications.
Mistrett, S. (2004). A Review of Technology-Based Approaches for Reading Instruction: Tools for Researchers and Vendors . The National Center for Technology Innovatio, October. Retrieved December 8, 2011, from http://www.cited.org/library/site/docs/areviewtechnology-basedapproaches_final.pdf |