IRA Newsletter Weekly Project: Effective Literacy Websites #5

Turtle Diary (www.turtlediary.com) is a website filled with so many activities specially designed for K-8 students.  Turtle Diary offers more than just playing games to learn to read.  It comes with printable materials, video lessons, games, and more that are developed to make learning fun.

Accessing the site is free and one is able to avail to most of the features online.  Turtle Diary is offering free access to teachers with school emails.  However, for a small fee you can register your students to have their own username and track their progress.  Additionally, parents can also have free access to the website. 

Turtle Diary activities looks very engaging and gives students a lot of options.  I am very impressed with what they have available for students.  They have activities for reading, math, science, and arts and crafts just to name a few.   I explored a little on Reading activities.  Before reading, students go through a vocabulary lesson and at the end they answer questions about the reading piece.  I particularly was amazed that it was not a regular multiple choice questions, but it included a part where students have to type in their answer.   Moreover, it gives immediate feedback on incorrect answers.  This is a wonderful site to look into and have it as a supplemental resource for implementing technology in the classroom.