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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

Deserae Williams
I like the resource of Study Island. It is through Edmentum, a district program we use for our schools in Sumter Co. It starts the students off with a diagnostic test, and then it will give a detailed report to the teacher to specific standards and areas of concern for each student. This is a great tool to use when needing to group students in the class.
Caitlyn Ruegger
I chose IXL. It is a new tool that we have been using. I enjoy it because you can assign students the work that they need. This can help close deficiency gaps. IXL is a teacher tool that allows you to give students the extra boost that they need in certain areas. This will give them the needed remediation when the teacher can't always give them that one-on-one time that they need.
David Liu
The resource I am recommending is IXL. it is a web based tool and resource that is fantastic. I covers grades K-12 and has a very diverse set of concepts and varying levels of difficulty. I am aware that this is focused on struggling readers primarily, which this site does a great job of addressing, but it also covers mathematics, science and social studies for every grade level. The language arts section for grade 5 for instance has 177 different skills. Ex. sentence structure, nouns, pronouns, verbs, prefixes and suffixes, Greek and Latin roots, word relationship and usage, text structure, reading comprehension and analysis and much more. It is interactive and can be used by students in a group setting or individually. It does a great job of presenting the information in a fun and engaging way. I think it is a wonderful too.
Heather Kriner
I use NewsELA all the time in my classes. It has the ability to adjust for differentiated instruction to accommodate various reading levels within on e class of students. https://newsela.com/ This type of resources is great for any subject, any reading level from about third grade to twelfth grade. It covers a variety of subjects and exposes students to a lot of new vocabulary and perspectives. It's a great way to get students talking to each other in small groups, in online discussion forums, and sometimes even as a whole class.
Emily
I really like the resource of study hall for struggling readers in high school. Every other day we have study hall school wide, and this is great time for struggling readers to come back to their English teacher and have a read time together. It's extra time built in to each week where students can practice reading with me. High school isn't the best time in a child's life to want to show a need, so by calling student back to my room, I have extra time twice a week where we can practice reading.
dawn
I found an awesome article with a 10 part series on how to help struggling readers! https://thisreadingmama.com/12-incredible-resources-for-struggling-readers/ I was so engaged in the article I was busy sending myself links :) It is geared towards primary, but can help older grades that are missing the necessary skills to be proficient.
Jennifer
http://www.colorincolorado.org/article/using-informal-assessments-english-language-learners I like this website because it offers several different strategies for teachers to use for assessing ELL learners. One type of assessment will not tell us what ELL students know because they may have trouble understanding particular types of assessments and may perform better on others.
Lauren Galdys
Epic books is a great site for struggling readers. Teachers can assign each individual students books they want them to read. There are comprehension quizzes after each stories. Some stories can be read to the students. There are also videos that go along with the books.
Lauren Galdys
Did not post the web address. It is www.getepic.com
Carla Howe
I chose learning a-z because I have used this resource with my students for several years. It is easily used for a few students, to a full class of students. It is differentiated and scaffolding in how it is implemented from leveled reader aa-z. There are student led activities with rewards, and/or it can be teacher controlled with individual student activities. It can be used exclusively online or printed materials for offline use. www.learninga-z.com
Kristy Marvin
https://www.weareteachers.com/7-ways-to-get-your-struggling-readers-to-read/ The article I chose was "7 Ways to Get Your Struggling Readers To READ". This article gave ways to get the struggling reader motivated and engaged in reading through a variety of easy to implement ways. Incorporating even one of the seven ways in your classroom would be a step in the right direction to helping your struggling reader to like, or better yet love reading!
Kayla M
https://www.weareteachers.com/5-ways-to-help-struggling-readers-while-keeping-the-whole-student-in-mind/ This resource names some very relevant ways to help struggling readers, such as using audio technology so the students can follow along with the text as they hear the text being read to them, using computer resources and apps that engage them through vocabulary games and activities, and using multi-sensory strategies such as acting out definitions or drawing comics that help students understand the main idea of the text. These approaches work really well because they present the material to students in a format that is less intimidating than a plain text. Many students will freeze up when presented with something that seems so formidable, so by breaking it down into easy to comprehend chunks, students are able to effectively learn the material and build confidence in their abilities.
Marilyn Smith
I choose the source iReady (clever.com) because it accesses the students ability with an assessment. After the assessment the student begins with lessons at their level. The student has lessons and quizzes and emerges from each level after passing each level.
Sue
I use scholastic.com and readinga-z.com Both great resources that allow children on all different levels to navigate through fun lessons an activities.
Susan Gregorie
I use scholastic.com and readinga-z.com Both great resources that allow children on all different levels to navigate through fun lessons an activities.
shannon
I would say ReadingA-Z is an effective resource. I have found it useful that there are so many levels of texts and you can choose the right fit for each student. There are even books translated into other languages which is a good resource.
Heather Kriner
I use NewsELA all the time to differentiate reading levels from my struggling students to my advanced readers and writers. https://newsela.com/ The website is designed to invite certain students in, such as your class at that time, give them an article, and then students will have to answer critical thinking questions. Students can adjust the Lexile Scores of the article to suit their reading levels.
Laura
I chose www.getepic.com as an effective literacy resource because it is an easy to use website that offers both fiction and nonfiction books. It offers the option for books the teacher/student can read, or a "read-aloud" function. The books can also be sorted by reader age.
Laura
I like to use www.starfall.com for my struggling students. It is a free website that, for one, introduces the alphabet/letter sounds. It goes beyond that and offers more learning opportunities in ELA as well as math. My students love it!
Monica
I will use the brain pop in my classroom. I have used it for math, science, history, english and social skills. I also use ReadWorks because it is a good resource that gives not just a reading article at the lexile, but it has comprehension questions as well. And if you find a book that you want to use it gives you a whole lesson and units as well as the standards use for those units.
Samantha Hyney
I love using Raz Kids with the struggling readers I work with www.raz-kids.com It makes reading fun by allowing students to not only read, but also listen to fiction and non fiction stories. It is also leveled so readers know they are picking books on their level. High level books also come with comprehension quizzes given after reading a book and allow students to go back into the stories to find evidence of their answers.
Caitlyn Ruegger
As I stated with the last course I took, I chose IXL. It is a new tool that we have been using. I enjoy it because you can assign students the work that they need. This can help close deficiency gaps. IXL is a teacher tool that allows you to give students the extra boost that they need in certain areas. This will give them the needed remediation when the teacher can't always give them that one-on-one time that they need.
Amy Gaylord
I like to use BrainPop for ELL students. I like to have the student watch the video and then do the activities associated with the video. https://ell.brainpop.com/ I think the BrainPop videos are very engaging and their ELL videos do a great job of putting concrete examples with vocabulary words. The activities available are also nice to use in the classroom. I will print out the tests and use them as quick assessments to see where students are at. The activities are very focused on vocabulary which is important for the English language learners.
Emily Negri
A specific reading strategy that I utilize to help struggling readers at the adolescent level is PLANS. PLANS is an acronym that stands for Predict, locate, and and note. The strategy requires readers to predict what the passage will be based off of the title and graphics. Then, after reading, make a concept map to help the organize and locate information they know, and information that they don't know. Then, students read the passage again and add in more words and phrases specific to the passage. Finally, note their understanding on the concept web and makes changes to their information. This strategy works for my students by reinforcing the steps to breaking down large passages and extracting the main ideas and few sources of evidence. It also helps students to write about the passage afterwards.
Emily Negri
A resource that I would like to share is an article which addresses 22 ways to reinforce comprehension with students. The resource helps teachers to differentiate their student's ability to comprehend concept through reading. The article is available at https://www.teachthought.com/technology/20-simple-assessment-strategies-can-use-every-day/. It provides teachers quick ways to assess students reading comprehension on written, verbal, and physical ways. Some methods are through groups and some individual. I exceptionally like this resource because the same old practices get boring quickly. Students prefer simple activities that are short enough but just as informative for progress monitoring. It has helped me tyyo engage my students differently each day woke still being able to recognize progress for struggling readers.
Amy Gaylord
I like to use IXL for my struggling readers. I have found that it really motivates them to enjoy the learning process without them noticing how much work it is. I have found that it is a confidence booster for my students because they realize what they can do and are motivated. I also like that they can work on this outside of school hours. I will often suggest to parents that they utilize IXL at home. https://www.ixl.com/ela/grade-1
Jennifer T Mayerik
The resource I use for Math is DESMOS because this has student engagement and we can have students use this website to answer questions, pose questions, etc.
Alex Payne
I use http://www.noaa.gov/climate as a great resource regarding the effects of humans on the environment. It has in depth articles covering a wide variety of topics and the texts are varied in their complexity. Students are able to explore the website and graphics and choose an article to read.
Alex Payne
I use www.noaa.gov/climate as a great resource regarding the effects of humans on the environment. It has in depth articles covering a wide variety of topics and the texts are varied in their complexity. Students are able to explore the website and graphics and choose an article to read.
Doni Hodge
One website I use with struggling ELLs is duolingo. This provides a self-paced opportunity for my students to learn English using their home language as the transfer vehicle. I have had some success with this site.
Rebecca
I choose the resource Epic! This website has 1000's of books that are leveled for every type of readers. My students love to read and listen to the books. They look forward to reading time. There are also books in other languages that the students can read. Most of the books on Epic! are Accelerated Readers so they can test for comprehension.
Caitlyn
Starfall.com is a free website for elementary school students. It has 4 different levels of learning, starting at the very beginning with the phonetics of the alphabet. There are animated stories for the children to read of different cultures (Chinese fables, folk tales, Greek myths). I think this site would help struggling readers because they can monitor their own growth.
Jenniffer
One resource that I often use is Discovery Education. I like discovery education because it offers a lot of videos for a range of grade and they are all based on informational text.
Elizabeth Sommer
Currently as a pre-k itinerant teacher, I am unable to use the resources I found and used successfully in my classroom as a pre-k inclusion teacher in previous years. However, I was able to recently collaborate with a kindergarten teacher and obtain information on one of the resources she finds and uses successfully in her classroom, pbskids.org, which is one of the resources I found and used successfully in my classroom as well. It is a fantastic resource and effectively works to engage all students to an exciting place where words come alive and the journey into reading becomes an adventure.
Natalia
I love Bookflix.com. The great thing about this is that it reads the books to the students. This is an excellent resource for our students who are ELLS.
Heather Rogers
I chose the site "Teach Your Monster..." because I used this in my class this year and it worked wonders with my ELL students as well as my struggling students. www.teachyourmonstertoread.com TYMTR is a "game" where the students get to create their monster at the beginning. Throughout the game they are completing challenges for their monster, and as they get the done "Their Monster" is learning how to read. There are three major levels they can pass. It took some students about 2 months to beat the game...others are still working on it.
Tersa
I love reading A-z because it gives me a variety of books to print as well as comprehencion skills, word work, etc. It is well worth the subscription proce.
Jennifer
I like to use Flocabulary. The website creates shirt videos on literary concepts. Most of them are catchy hip hop themed songs that my students love! The song helps students remember important ideas with repetition and catchy tunes. They have mastered the parts of a story, points of view in literature and even types of conflict all through catchy songs in short video clips. Perfect to play in any lesson.
Kelly
I chose readworks for my resource. You can find it at www.readworks.org. It is a resource with an abundant number of reading passages for all grade levels. You can even find paired texts. The comprehension questions for each passage are excellent and provide the students with a variety of ways to answer questions including multiple choice, true false, short answer, fill in the blank, etc. It is a free resource and can be used for all subjects depending on the topics you are studying.
Michelle Reinking
I chose this website to help students learn vocabulary. I Like the website freerice.com you can hear new vocabulary words and find other words that mean the same thing, while earning rice to be donated. It is fun to learn while helping others out. It can help low level learners with increasing their vocabulary.
Nicole Swanson
The resource I have chosen is https://jr.brainpop.com/. I picked this resource because my students have thoroughly have enjoyed using this site in order to learn more about different topics, displaying understanding, and to complete a variety of activities. This resource offers a variety of short videos, various activities for students to complete on their own or with a partner, and offers activities to print off and complete.
Dehlia V Garrity
http://www.interventioncentral.org/ This website is your one stop shopping site for interventions! I have used it so many times since RTi has begun. I am responsible for not only determining why the student is struggling but also determining the strategy to use and the assessment to use to show results. There is usually always the need to change a strategy if the one before does not show improvement...then the process repeats. This site is a valuable resource for all 3 tiers.
Amie
I use readwritethink.org as well as biolfix and freedomflix. They all offer multi level grade and subject strategies to assist with everything from pre-writing to research.
Allison LoGiudice
As a kindergarten teacher, I use Starfall.com to help my students learn their letters and sounds.
Valerie
http://www.interventioncentral.org/ I agree that this is a website that is good for intervention for struggling students. The more strategies that struggling readers can learn, the better their chances are at overcoming whatever obstacles they may be experiencing with reading.
sarah
https://scope.scholastic.com I use this resource all the time in my reading class. It is highly engaging and has many resources and activities that focus on mood, tone, main ideas, and summarizing. I subscribe to the magazine's hard copy and it comes with online support as well. The magazine has supports struggling readers as the teacher can choose high or lower levels with printable frames and scaffolds.
sarah goudelock
https://scope.scholastic.com I use this resource all the time in my reading class. It is highly engaging and has many resources and activities that focus on mood, tone, main ideas, and summarizing. I subscribe to the magazine's hard copy and it comes with online support as well. The magazine has supports struggling readers as the teacher can choose high or lower levels with printable frames and scaffolds.
Samantha McFee
There are many resources that convert text to speech. Since our students use their Chromebooks the majority of the time, as well as, work independently, these types of conversion tools could be used in class to allow the ELL student to hear their text, the instructions, and even their own responses.
Allison
I use starfall.com and abcya with my ELL students. These websites offer interactive ways for beginning readers to develop phonics skills, sight word recognition and learn vocabulary words.
Leigh Sirota
12b. 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. First, tell us why you chose the resource. I chose the Question Formulation Technique. I want all readers to learn how to formulate questions that arise during their reading of a text. I would provide the question focus and let the students prepare their questions. I want to know what my students understood from reading the text and what they still want and need to know. Next, provide us with a link to the resource and a brief description of it. http://rightquestion.org/qft-formative-assessment This website provides a video showing how it was introduced and utilized in an inner city classroom. Explain how the resource works effectively, or has the potential to work effectively, with struggling readers. This resource works effectively because it allows struggling readers to take control of their learning. They are able to drive their instruction and buy in to learning by being in control of what they want to and need to learn.
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