WEB PORTAL 2001

 

Name: Dawn Sternhagen

Date: June 14, 2001

URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/arthur/

Web Site Title: Arthur

Sponsor: WGBH Boston and CINAR Corporation

Appropriate Grade/Content: This site is basically geared towards language arts in kindergarten through third grade, but it also contains links to provide information for teachers, parents and librarians.

FIRST GRADE READING STANDARDS

THE STUDENT WILL:

  1. read to confirm initial predictions about text.
  2. identify the problem or central idea in stories.
  3. identify patterns of rhyming words and repeated phrases in various texts.
  4. identify similarities and differences in stories written by the same author.

FIRST GRADE WRITING STANDARDS

THE STUDENT WILL:

  1. use the writing process to create short stories, paragraphs, and poems.
  2. use descriptive words and a variety of sentence types when writing about people, places, things, and events.

FIRST GRADE LISTENING AND VIEWING STANDARDS

THE STUDENT WILL:

  1. follow two and three step oral directions.

Primary Use: This site could be used to get students acquainted with the Internet and its basic functions, how to follow simple directions, and provides extra reading practice.

Educational Value:  This web site could be used for students to learn how the Internet and links work.  Each page on the site requires some type of reading and following directions.  The student has a variety of games and activities to choose from.  Some of the games include unscrambling a story so it makes sense, a trivia game which provides hints to the correct answer, coloring pages, and putting an animated puzzle together while listening to music.  Children would relate to this web site because of the characters that are included.

Comments:  I found this site to be very child-orientated and beneficial to the classroom.  Students would be able to sharpen their reading skills while having fun at the same time.  One thing that I also like about this site is that it has links for teachers, parents and librarians.  There is also a mass quantity of recommended books to read on this site.   Overall, I think that Arthur sets a good example for children.  They love to watch his shows and this site would provide them with opportunity to learn more about Arthur and his friends.