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= Roy the Zebra (RTZ) =

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What can be found on the website? [|Link to Games] v Fun Interactive Reading Games Teaching Early Literacy Ø Capital letters Ø Full stops Ø Words that rhyme Ø High frequency words Ø Alphabetical order Ø Question marks Ø Singular or plural Ø Long vowel phonemes Ø Does it make sense? Ø Words within words Ø Double consonants

v A Nine Part Guided Reading Story [|Listen to Stories Here] § Roy the Zebra and his daring escape from the worst zoo in the world and his search for his herd

v <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Lesson Plans

v <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">A Literacy Store § <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Store contains a collection of books and other resources that will support the teaching of literacy powered by Amazon.com

v <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Reading Software Available for Download [|Download Software Here]

v <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">E-Newsletter Available to Registered Users [|Click Here to Register!]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Learner: Early Elementary School Reading Students

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Cost? v <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">FREE!!!!


 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt;">PROS ** ||  **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt;">CONS **  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">When your mouse cursor is over a link, it makes a clicking noise so you know that by clicking, it will take you to another part of the site. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">I feel that the Home Page is a little cluttered. It may be hard for young students to know exactly where to go when initially using the site. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The characters (Roy the Zebra, Lucy the Elephant, and Wellington the Turtle) are cute and appealing to children. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">If you don’t have broadband, the songs may take a while to load. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Interactive Reading games are divided into “word level games” and “sentence level games”. Then there are many different categories such as alphabetical order, high frequency words, etc. to allow the parent or teacher to choose what they want the children to work on. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Tim, the inventor of Roy the Zebra, is from the United Kingdom. So when you go to the Literacy Store, the books are European, therefore, the prices are in Euros, not U.S. dollars (although there is a US Store available through the Site Map) ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">There are many literacy worksheets available for parents/teachers to print. A preview is available before you download the worksheets. ||  ||

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Example of Literacy Worksheet for Classroom Use: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">[|Other Worksheets Available Here]