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Blog About and Share a Literacy Resource for Struggling Readers

  • Posted by Susan Ruckdeschel
  • On 28 June, 2015
  • 3112 Comments

Let’s take all this knowledge from our course Literacy Strategies for Struggling Readers and put it to productive good. Whether a new literacy resource, a differentiated resource, a resource for inclusive classrooms, or one focused specifically on struggling readers, let’s share a resource and talk about it in this blog.

  1. First, tell us why you chose the resource.
  2. Next, provide us with a link to the resource and a brief description of it.
  3. Explain how the resource works effectively, or has the potential to work effectively, with struggling readers.

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3112 Comments

Joanne
One of my favorite resources is newsela.com . What I really like about it is that every article is available in a various lexiles to accommodate a variety of levels. This makes it simple to make content accessible to all students in the class.
Carrie Taylor
One of my favorite resources for my First Grade Class is a program called "Teach Your Monster to Read". My students love this "game" because they get to progress through a magical land and work on phonics at the same time. When kids are having fun learning, they don't see it as a chore and are willing to work at it a little harder. As students progress, they will get harder phonics lessons.
Jessica Thibou
1. I chose VocabAhead because it is a great tool for secondary students and teachers. It provides short videos and incorporates a study Lounge, features leveled word lists (grades 6-12) and SAT word lists. 2. vocabahead.com 3.Videos include word pronunciations, practice quizzes, games, and tracks performance.
Teresa
I like to use duolingo.com for beginner Spanish and French. Duolingo will help students with pronunciation, voice recording, phonemes, sounding letters and forming words, forming phrases by ordering words and matching images to words.
Melissa Combs
The chose a resource from Reading Rockets called "Best Practices in Planning Interventions For Students with Reading Problems" found here: https://www.readingrockets.org/article/best-practices-planning-interventions-students-reading-problems I chose this because because it gives information on how to identify a student with a reading problem and then describes how many different ways reading problems can look. Not every child has the same problem with text. This resource also shares ways to use interventions based on a student's specific need. I believe this resource would be helpful because it gives a teacher or a parent the tools to meet a need and to improve a child's reading abilities.
Elizabeth P
I use BrainPOP as it has many simple to understand concepts at least for technology. It allows them to make connections visually as an article of text only may be overwhelming. I am trying to implement a blogging website for my critical thinking students as well to well them.
Deidra
One resource I used last year was a program called MyOn through Renaissance. It has a variety of books, non-fiction and fiction, that are on various reading levels. This program has a feature that will read to the book to the student if you choose to allow that. Teaching first grade, this is a great feature as it allows the students to get extra practice with someone reading to them until they become stronger readers. I can differentiate these books and assign books to students at their own reading levels. The students always really enjoy using this program.
Madison
A resource that is beneficial for all of your students, including your struggling readers, is ReadWorks.org. If gives you the level of the article and options for vocabulary help and comprehension questions. You can print the articles or even assign them to your students. The amazing thing about this resource is it is free!
Kaitlyn Randall
I work in a self-contained VE classroom. One resource that I have used in the past is BOOM Task Cards. BOOM is an iPad application designed for students with learning disabilities and it helps to teach various concepts through visualization and 1:3 correspondence. One way we use BOOM in the classroom is to help teach reading skills to our students by using pictures, voice over apps, and simple words. BOOM can be used with struggling readers, regardless if they have a disability or not because it is rich in terms of visuals. Here is the link: https://wow.boomlearning.com/
April White
I think ReadWorks.org would be a great tool for struggling readers. ReadWorks introduces articles which correlates with the standards. It introduces students to new words to be used in their comprehension.
Lisa Diez
The Readworks website contains a great database of leveled reading passages and question sets for your students to practice their reading comprehension skills. The differentiated passages supports students' development of vocabulary skills and background knowledge. Students can access the audio version of the passage. I also sign each student up for EPIC. This website give students the opportunity to listen to the text, which may or may not be at their independent level, while following along in a chapter book.
Amanda
I chose the resource, Epic books, or getepic.com, because it has various reading passages that is on grade level but provides the stories to be read to the students or the students can read it independently. This also provides the students with independent level books that they can enjoy and read on their own. Having the books on the computer also diminishes a student being noticed for being a lower level reader compared to another student in the classroom.
Jeremy Williams
A resource that I use for grammar literacy is noredink.com. It allows me to track progress, help on the spot, and reset scores for retakes. Another resource that is helpful for my students, including my struggling readers, is ReadWorks.org. If gives you the level of the article and options for vocabulary help and comprehension questions. You can print the articles or even assign them to your students.
Jeremy Williams
A resource that I use for grammar literacy is noredink.com. It allows me to track progress, help on the spot, and reset scores for retakes. Another resource that is helpful for my students, including the struggling readers is ReadWorks.org. Both resources are free and easy to use.
Donna
Myon has been an amazing resource for Mum students. It allows so many opportunities for my students to read different contents . My ELL students have the chance to hear a book being read to and follow along.
Donna
Epic has been an amazing resource for My students. It allows so many opportunities for my students to read different contents . My ELL students have the chance to hear a book being read to and follow along.
Donna Wentz
Epic has been an amazing tool for my students . Books being available in different levels and varied contents to keep the reader interested. The read aloud has been wonderful for my ELL readers .
Donna Wentz
Epic has been an amazing tool for my students . Books being available in different levels and varied contents to keep the reader interested. The read aloud has been wonderful for my ELL readers .
Donna Wentz
Epic has been an amazing tool for my students . You may recognize it by getapick.com Books being available in different levels and varied contents to keep the reader interested. The read aloud has been wonderful for my ELL readers .
Donna
Myon has been very sucky for my students . Many different opportunities for them using this Books are read aloud helping keep poor reader interest .
Donna Wentz
Myon has been amazing for me . Allows students to read and listen to many different books on varied interests.
Claire
I like epic.com because it has SO many different genres of books for students to choose from. They also have them separated by their lexile levels. Some books can also be read to you!
Jacque
I like NafME. It’s a great resource for music teachers to share lesson plan ideas with updated news and professional development webinars. Students can also use this website if this want to be more involved in the music education community.
Cassia
One resource I have used in the past and have always found helpful for engaging students is Flocabulary. Having a large ELL population, exposure to vocabulary is always a priority.
Rita Graham
Khan Academy Kids Khan Academy is widely known for its free math programs and assistance, but they also have reading for kids as low as first grade. Free, Grades 1-12
Sydney Graham
There are two websites that I like to use for my readers in my classroom. These websites that I chose to share make it easy to differentiate your instruction as well. The two resources are Read Works and Reading A-Z. Read works is a free resource that you have to make an account but have access to so many different genres of books at different levels that include the passage and even questions for the students to answer as well. Reading A-Z is very similar, however you do have to pay for the website. They provide a free trial if you want to check it out.
Elaine Philpot
I really like Khan Academy. I have seen how it helps the students build the skills they need to pass the test. I have had several students tell me that if they had not used Khan they don't think they would have been able to score as well as they did on the test. Khan gives them the best examples of actual testings and helps the student know what to expect. Khanacademy.com
Adriana
When working with resources, I prefer to stay focused in my area of Family & Consumer Sciences (FACS) Therefore my source I'm sharing is: https://www.icevonline.com/curriculum/family-consumer-sciences This website provides me with many interactive lessons pland and ideas for all of my struggling students. It covers all FACS topics as well as lesson struggling studentscan easily participate in with their own school-given Chromebook.
Kendall
One of my favorite resources to use is either Commonlit or NewsELA. With both of these websites, I can easily assign a differentiated assignment to all of my classes. It also provides structured questions and gives definitions throughout the texts.
Elaine Philpot
https://www.readingrockets.org/helping This site gives specific activities to help a child master their reading skills.
Linda Boogaart
I am using A-Z and RAZ-Kids https://www.raz-plus.com/login.html?error=userpass&username= I really like this program because you can have the students level up and also I really like that my Kindergarten can not only listen to the book read to them but also they can record themselves and send back to teacher for them to listen to how they are reading the story outloud. Plus the students like their little character.
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