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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

Rebekah Strite
I love the Jan Richardson Guided Reading program. I saw amazing growth over several levels during this school year. Independent reading takes place at their comfortable reading level, while guided reading at my table is a step or 2 above their independent level which will help them grow further in comprehension and phonetic development. An aide to help with comprehension and improved reading is a Graphic Organizer. It incorporates writing and re-reading to fill out the organizer and helps the student realize what is a key detail and what is superfluous.
Katherine Rottman
This resource is great for reading practice. You can choose the level of complexity and the theme of the text you want for the students. The website will give you a list of articles that you can assign to your class and/or do together with the students. It then gives questions that you can have the students answer.
Katherine Rottman
This is a great resource to use in your classroom as it has current event topics that are more interesting to students but it also allows you to change the text complexity for your level of students. You can have several different versions of the same text for all the different reading levels of students in your classroom.
Jessica Spiller
I have worked extensively with LLI and have seen first hand the positive results of this program. http://www.fountasandpinnell.com/lli/ Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention or LLI uses fast paced, systematic lessons with engaging books to turn struggling readers into successful readers. It is a daily, short term, small group intervention added in addition to daily reading instruction. The practices are research-based and proven to be effective in moving struggling readers forward academically.
Corey Rodd
I use this link below to help me differentiate my Geometry curriculum. It serves as a great tool to give my students varied opportunities to respond and demonstrate their depth of understanding. https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1242&context=ehd_theses
Joshua Thompson
One of the biggest resources I use within my classroom is a resource called CommonLit. I choose to use this resource because it allows for many different levels of connections through themes, literary elements, and extended media. www.commonlit.org provides leveled and differentiated texts of every genre while also allowing for translations and audio readings if desired. It also comes with questions based on Common Core standards and discussion questions that often allow for countless connections to be made with the text. This website also has a parent guide for sending articles home and including parents in the reading process. This program has worked wonders for creating connections between non-fiction and fiction texts. It provides questions that allow for fruitful discussion, and I love the fact that it can be leveled, translated, or read to the students if necessary.
Danna Snodgrass
I chose to share CommonLit as my resource, as it is geared toward secondary education and is research-based, flexible, and aligned to common core standards. CommonLit provides free literature and instructional materials for grades 3-12. Text is differentiated by reading level and grouped in themes. There are guided reading and assessment questions, as well as related media. There are text-to-speech, highlighting, and annotation capabilities. This resource is effective because a student can read at his or her level, and text is broken up into digestible pieces by embedded guiding questions. Thematic units and related media can help students make connections. The link to the main page is: https://www.commonlit.org/en
Lori Dunlap
I use iReady https://login.i-ready.com/teacher.jsf) and Reading Rockets (http://www.readingrockets.org/). Both resources provide insight for helping students reach their literacy potential. IReady is dual-functioning, both used by students and teachers. Reading Rockets has numerous pages and references for teachers.
Kevin Boyle
I've used and like NewsELA (https://newsela.com/). It's great because it will differentiate readings on a variety of topics and because the content is focused on current events students find it engaging.
Nicole
One resource that I use in my classroom is Readtheory.org. This is a literacy resource that gives the students leveled passages and question sets based on the CCSS. It graphs the students growth over the year and the students earn points for answering the questions and get to unlock the tiers.
Melissa Tarpley
For ELL students, I highly recommend the following: https://www.imaginelearning.com/programs/language-and-literacy Imagine Learning provides adaptive instruction. It is personalized. My students love it. They think of it as play. They even use songs to help struggling readers. I am able to see progress. My students are definitely learning and showing growth. They also have good resources for what I can try in class to further support my students 1:1 or in small groups. As a new teacher, I appreciated the expert suggestions and tried several of them.
Elizabeth Harris
I like SRA Corrective Reading - https://www.mheducation.com/prek-12/program/corrective-reading-20082008/MKTSP-URA04M0.html I have found it to be very effective starting in 3rd grade for those gray-area students. They can firm up their reading skills and usually don't need it for very long. It also can help catch up our real strugglers with it's repetition, which is what they need. I know not everyone loves it but it works!
Sarah Freeman
EdPuzzle is a great free resource I have used in my classroom religiously! EdPuzzle allows teacher to create videos for students. These videos can be taken off youtube, khan academy, or from many other resources. Once you pick or create a video, you can add questions to the video throughout. It stops the video and students have to answer the question in order to go on. This is great for a comprehension check, vocabulary question, or even activating prior background knowledge. It also gives teacher a data sheet to see which question most students struggled with and it gives students a grade for each video. The kids are engaged in the video and they love using it just as much as I do!
Kimberly DelRosario
I chose the resource, 7 Strategies to use with Struggling Readers by, Splash Resources. I found the article to be straight forward and contained easy to use, strategies even in the middle school classroom. The link to the resource is https://www.edutopia.org/discussion/7-strategies-use-struggling-readers. All 7 strategies are very good. I never fell in love with reading when I was a student. In fact, I found school to be very stressful. I put much effort into avoiding having to read out loud. Still to this day I don't read out loud and I'm not sure why? These 7 strategies would have been approved by me! They help the student feel confident and in charge of their learning. They suggest teachers scaffold their activities, are inclusive/sensitive to the struggling learners feels, allow preparation of oral reading, explore children's interest... It's about building these kids up in a way that they can find success, enjoy reading and feel like they belong in the classroom. I think this is imparitive in all ages especially in the middle and upper grades.
Rikki Richardson
Great Leaps Great leaps is for the emergent reader. To help with reading fluency, this program has 4 parts; phonological awareness, letter recognition and phonics, high frequency words and phrases, and stories for oral reading. Students gain knowledge in reading fluency by moving page by page to systematically and progressively achieve goals. http://www.greatleaps.com/
Brittany Pierce
I have used Sheppard Software in the past for a variety of different subjects and levels. There are so many different activities and topics for all learning levels. It is an awesome resource and free, which is always beneficial to everyone. This is especially important if you are using something in the classroom and students can get home and keep using it. Repetition is always a great tool.
Kelly Hagan
http://datanuggets.org/search-current-data-nuggets/ Students frequently struggle to read data and associated texts and being data literate is part of being science literate and I love this webiste. They have free activities that you can search for by keyword or by content level. Teachers can also make their own data nugget on this website. I can tier and find different data nugget activities based on the same keyword or content. It helps me to differentiate. I can also use the lower level content data nuggets at the beginning of the unit and move towards higher content area data nuggets.
Allison
Learning A-Z is a great resource and website to use.
Vicki L mcveigh
Working with middle schoolers it is often difficult to find one online site that “fits” their various needs. Yet Noodle is remarkable, https://www.noodle.com/articles/middle-schoolers-can-power-up-language-arts-skills-with-these-games with what it offers. Students with lower reading levels can be leveled down for literature, yet moved up for grammar work. Noodle offers word games like Apothecary Caller which test the students understanding of root words and then their ability to decode unknown words. Boggle Bash is just like the board game where students can play against each other not realizing they are honing language skills. Crash course Literature has students interacting with book on YouTube. Books can be read aloud or independently and assist students in understanding and analyzing texts as “Romeo and Juliet”, “Catcher in the Rye” and many more. Lesson are broken down into 8-12-minute segments so they are easily adapted to a “center” concept classroom. Finally, when you can’t find a way for students to motivate students to work on grammar and vocabulary there is “Free Rice”. As students accumulate correct answers a grain of rice is placed in a bowl, the more correct answers the more rice in the bowl. The most awesome part is its real rice that the organization “Free Rice” distributes to help those in needy around the world.
B Cagni
MobyMax is a great resource for my kids. I choose this resource because it allows for easy tracking of successes in multiple areas of Reading and Math, etc. It gives diagnostic/baseline tests to determine the starting level and then will either assign lessons based on that assessment or allow the teacher to do so. The kids love receiving Certificates of Achievement when they pass 4-6 lessons in a content area as well as being rewarded with time for the game mod. (game mod can also be controlled by the teacher ;) )
Lori Coley
Newsela is a great site. It has articles on all topics and at different levels. The students really enjoy it too.
Kelly Gore
I choose this resource because I have used it every year so far in my teaching career. The students love it! They feel like they are just playing games, but they are getting valuable practice along with it. The website is: http://www.abcya.com It seems to be becoming an pretty well known website throughout school districts. This website works effectively because their are games dictated for each grade. If you had a struggling student they could go down a grade level to practice. If you had a high achieving student you could move them up a grade level to practice. There is also great practice games with letter names and sounds which is important to master in order to read.
Kelly Gore
I choose this resource because I have used it every year that I've been teaching. The students love it and think they are playing a game! The website is: http://www.abcya.com This is becoming a very common website in school districts. This resource is effective because it has the choice of grade levels. Students that a lower can be moved down a grade level to play games. Students that are higher can be moved up a grade level as a challenge. It also has a lot of letter names and sounds games. This is an important skill that has to be mastered in order to read.
Maritza Tuohy
EdPuzzle really helps me in the classroom. I find many videos, and can do many comprhension check questions throughout the video. It also allows me to see stduent performance via the data.
Maritza Tuohy
Newsela has fun an interesting topics that are current. The help engage students, and you can easily adapt the readings to create interdisciplinary lesson that are tiered.
Anthony Narehood
I chose this resource because it was written from a classroom teacher's perspective, someone that worked with multiple struggling readers. https://thisreadingmama.com/new-series-on-struggling-readers/ This resource has the potential to work effectively with struggling readers; it covers book selection, reader's time, and supporting student readers.
Kristy Marvin
Blog The article I chose was “Five Ways to Help Struggling Readers Build Reading Fluency”. This article outlines five best practices for building reading fluency for struggling readers. Modeling fluent reading is essential to reading success. Children need to hear what reading sounds like so they know what they are to mimic and to develop natural prosody. https://www.literacyworldwide.org/blog/literacy-daily/2018/04/18/five-ways-to-help-struggling-readers-build-reading-fluency
Kelly Gore
I chose this resource because I found it extremely helpful at my previous school. I used it as a way to differentiate reading. In my classroom I had around 5 ELL students each year. A membership to this program allowed me to choose books based off of interests, level, and to grow knowledge. The website is: https://www.readinga-z.com With ELL students they don't always have life experiences that others might have. Having the ability to choose a book to read with them to build that experience is vital. This program also has comprehension questions, flashcards, focus vocabulary, and tests.
Alexis
1. The resource I chose lists specific steps in order to help struggling readers and gives explanation as to how to implement those steps to effectively assist those students. 2. The link to the resource I chose can be found here: https://www.weareteachers.com/5-ways-to-help-struggling-readers-while-keeping-the-whole-student-in-mind/ Once you visit this resource you will find a list of five things that you can implement or use to support struggling readers. It gives an in depth description to each of the steps as to why it is necessary or helpful to implement this with the child and how to go about it if you are unsure. 3. This resource has the potential to work effectively if all the steps are followed and implemented over a period of time. Growth of reading should occur with the student throughout this time. It would be helpful to have a standard reading test to administer before and after to be able to measure the growth of the child.
Christina Buehler
I choose this resource because they very first paragraph caught my attention.It's exactly how I feel when trying to help my struggling students. It absolutely feels like there's a missing piece to the puzzle. What am I not trying? This website has lots a good suggestion for activities to try with struggling students. https://thisreadingmama.com/12-incredible-resources-for-struggling-readers/
Lori
I love https://www.readinga-z.com, I use this in my classroom on a regular basis. The printable readers are another resource for your students to use to feel successful and meet the objective that you are teaching. I also you the fluency reads to assess my students every two weeks. I would highly recommend this site.
Kip Hendrix
I like Achieve3000 AKA KidBiz. http://www.achieve3000.com/ This site have students read articles and respond to them. It meets student on what every reading level they are at. It has key words listed with definitions. I find that my students have interest in the articles it has. It gets my students talking about different things. It works great to have a Socratic Circle. I could see it helping ELLs to learn new vocabulary.
Yohanny Caraballo
I chose the websites http://www.colorincolorado.org/. I chose it because it is a great resource for both educators and families of bilingual students. The website offers various materials for students, teachers and families. The material available from the site is great for grades K-12, and is especially geared toward native Spanish-speaking ELLs.
Susan
Although it is not a free program, I really like the IReady. It is a computer based program that is differentiated to meet the needs of individual students, It provides specific information to show where students may be struggling, as well as, grouping students with the same needs. It allows me to reassign skills where a student may have shown difficulty and it provides resources that I can utilize during a one on conference or small group instruction. I also have students retain a data folder to bring more responsibility and ownership to the students. https.//login.i-ready.com
Susan
Although it is not a free program, I really like the IReady. It is a computer based program that is differentiated to meet the needs of individual students, It provides specific information to show where students may be struggling, as well as, grouping students with the same needs. It allows me to reassign skills where a student may have shown difficulty and it provides resources that I can utilize during a one on conference or small group instruction. I also have students retain a data folder to bring more responsibility and ownership to the students. https.//login.i-ready.com
Susan Meiler
I really like Readworks and use it often. It allows you to choose a specific grade level and you can use just the text or you can use the text and questions. Although I have not used it, there is also an online version you could use for rotations. The bonus is that it is all free. I not only use this site for reading skills, I use paired text for my students to use for writing prompts. Readworks.com
erica kindred
I am pone who uses Starfall. I have found that Starfall has a great selection of books and visuals that grab the attention of my ELL students and my native English speakers, who are struggling readers.During the week, when we get in our I-Ready minutes, if I have some kids who have finished but we are waiting on others to get in their minutes,I will put those students on Starfall. My school is an I-Ready school, so we use this resource as well. It does bridge the gap for students, because it focuses specifically on the skills and standards that they struggle with. I also use englishworksheetsland.com, but be careful with that one. There are some misspellings so double check the paper before making copies.
Ashley Quintero
I love GetEpic.com It is a free site to teachers that has books on varying levels, interests, and genres. The teacher can create their classroom and have student profiles. The students can read books that are on their level and interest. The resource is effective and useful because teachers can track how many books the students are reading, which books they are reading, as well as assign or suggest books for the students to read.
Ashley Quintero
Our school uses Core Connection for writing. I like the resources and templates because it allows students to break down their writing into areas and better understand what they are writing and the full content of it.
Kip Hendrix
I like to use Achieve 3000, AKA Kid Biz. It does a good job at differentiating kids learning. It also does a nice job at having articles that my students are interested in. I have also use some of the article for general discussion and circles. I think it works well with struggling readers, because it determines their level and adjusts the articles to their needs.
Rob
The resource I like is www.theartofed.com. This site is geared towards art teachers but anyone can find resources to help stimulate their students. Everything from organization to methods and apporaches is covered and they offer a lot of printables, lesson plans, videos and even podcasts.
Lori C
A literacy resource for struggling learners that I have found successful is : https://www.readinga-z.com/ It has many different reading levels where the students can feel successful. It also has many printable text that I use in my classroom. I also use it for weekly fluency reads. I would highly recommend this website.
Lori C
A literacy resource for struggling learners that I have found successful https:readingrockets.org It has many different reading levels where the students can feel successful. It also focuses on skills- beg., middle, end, story maps, timelines etc. The students enjoy it too. I would highly recommend this website.
donna waite
I recommend the site: www.ereadingworksheets.com It has dozens of worksheets at every level and every aspect of reading. (main idea, figurative language, text structures etc.) There is also a game section, common core lessons etc.
donna waite
Continued - www.ereadingworksheets.com is great for struggling readers because they have every level of worksheet available.
Marsha Marchant
I chose the following two resources about "Project-Based" learning because that concept resonates with me. I implement a number of projects throughout the school year and find that project-based learning is meaningful to my students.... students create and research as they learn. They have something tangible to take away from the lesson. www.weareteachers.com www.schoolleadersnow.com Information from these two websites provides ideas and strategies for student investigation, collaboration, subject rigor, differentiation. I'm excited to utilize/implement more project-based learning activities in the upcoming school year.
Tina Thomas
I use https://www.istation.com/Reading, this is a great resource for all ages. Because I have young student just learning their letters and sounds this program helps them from the beginning and moves on as you learn.
Tina Thomas
The website I use is https://www.istation.com/Reading, this is a great resource for all ages. Because I have young student just learning their letters and sounds this program helps them from the beginning and moves on as you learn.
Shannon Jackson
If there are any other Pre-K ESE teachers in this course I highly recommend you to join the Facebook group “PreK Special Education Teachers”. It was through this group that I found Special Needs Book Review. http://www.specialneedsbookreview.com/ This site has lists and reviews on hundreds of books addressing all aspects of special education. It is a great tool to use when looking for a book for professional development purposes or a children’s book to read to your class. This resource is great because if I have a struggling reader I am able to find methods and strategies that work with the needs of students with varying exceptionalities.
Katherine Rottman
This is a great resource.
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