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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

Jipsy
I select this resource because I learned it is an excellent way for students to learn while they play. Everything that this program offer have pictures. If you need to learn letters sounds, vocabulary, reading, math, and others it shows it to you with pictures. It reads to you, and provides colorful themes and songs that allows the student to learn while playing. The link is starfall.com, this site provides with reinforcement for all students those struggling with the Language Arts class or Math and those who are learning a second language.
meredith lahara
i like jennifer seravello reading strategies- broken down - easy to thumb through and locate teaching points for strugglers
meredith lahara
i like journeys leveled readers- broken down - teaching points for strugglers and a guided reading leveeld text to deepen comprehension at their level
Paul Carreiro
My go to literacy resource for my struggling learners is a facebook page called "Avid Educators". AVID is a program that my school begun this school year after a selection of teachers and administrators attended a training this past summer. I know not everyone may be able to get access to it, but it is a tremendous resource to use because AVID educators from all over the United States are constantly posting what is working for them and more importantly, the ways that they have adapted strategies that you may already be aware of to make them more effective in their classrooms. It is a wealth of knowledge and allows you the added benefit of contacting the person who wrote the post if you have any questions on how to make a strategy work in your school or classroom. Many of the AVID strategies are designed for students who struggle and find themselves forgotten about or on the periphery of instruction, especially with regards to reading skills. Due to its innate purpose to target these students who can often be overlooked, it offers a wide variety of quality strategies that can help these particular students master reading skills. https://www.facebook.com/groups/136575486926149/
Jeri Gosier
http://www.readingrockets.org/article/supporting-ells-mainstream-classroom-reading-instruction I chose this because it is easy to understand. It will help both parents and teachers with all of its resources. Engaging parents with children will maximize efficacy.
Paula L Marcoux
The resource I selected is ReadingIQ.com, which was launched late in 2018 by the creators of ABCMouse. It features both read-to-me (with green reading guides to reinforce left-to-right tracking) and "I can read" books, often with both versions within one text. There are multiple subjects, and ranges in grade level from preK- grade 6. Teachers may sign up for free, similar to ABCMouse, and families may join as well. There is a monthly reading challenge, which at the K and 1st grade level is 20 books in one month. It is good for struggling readers because it includes songs and poems to learn letter sounds, blends, digraphs, and sight words, in addition to having loads of choices that address many interests. Teachers may choose to enroll their class by grade level texts, guided reading levels, or lexile scores. It includes books in Spanish as well.
David Biserni
I like National Geographic Extreme. It is an online magazine that makes reading fun and interesting even for struggling readers. https://www.nationalgeographic.org
David Biserni
I like this resource because it is a fun and interesting way to spend time reading. Even students that are struggling readers enjoy reading this online magazine. https://www.nationalgeographic.org
David Biserni
This is a great resource for struggling readers! It is a fun and interesting way to spend time reading. Even students that are struggling readers enjoy reading this online magazine. https://www.nationalgeographic.org
Bee Dagher
I chose this website because its message is clear and concise. It provides five definitive ways to help struggling readers. I also agree with the methods used as I have effectively used them in the classroom. The methods stated are modeling, read- alouds, key vocabulary, readers theater and complimenting students. These methods help with student fluency because they are interactive and engaging.
Bee Dagher
I chose this website because it is simple and concise. It provide five effective methods that help struggling readers. I have used some of these methods for engaging students. https://www.literacyworldwide.org/blog/literacy-daily/2018/04/18/five-ways-to-help-struggling-readers-build-reading-fluency These methods work effectively because they are engaging and fun, as well as beneficial to reading fluency.
Paula L Marcoux
In my classroom, I enjoy using Quizizz.com. It allows you to create quizzes with pictures, which allows me to see how all learners are understanding the required content. I am able to structure mini lessons to assist students that are having difficulty with specific words that we need to use regularly as well.
Sara Thompson
I love readingiq.com! It allows me to read books on the smartboard, so my whole class can read along and see the illustrations. It is great to supplement my read alouds. The kids love it!
Evelyn Kirksey
I chose Mobymax because it is a program that pre-assesses students in a given area (math, language, reading, vocabulary, etc.) and creates assignments based on student’s need. Students can earn certificates, and badges as they learn by playing fun games. It is aligned with state common core standards, I can also track students progress and it is easy to use. www.mobymax.com
Penny Pruitt
https://www.readinga-z.com/ is a great resource. You can put it up on your smartboard and use it in small group or whole group depending on your students. It helps them learn to read more fluently.
Lydia Wilson
A couple of resources I would like to share are iReady.com and ImagineLearning.com. My ELL students are really challenged by these two resources this year, and love to see how many lessons they can pass or how far they can get. Both are user friendly and I love how iReady allows you to go in and monitor the students progress. You can also assign lessons or give follow-up on lessons they have not mastered.
Crystal Brandt
I really like reading a to z because it provides a large selection of shared reading selections - with comprehension questions which hits whatever your focus may be. It is all leveled and has themes. Another tool I have found and loved this year is ESGI - a tool for assessing. I love this because when assessing ELL students or students who may need more support you can add pictures to your the assessment and students can see them on the computer. It is a 1:1 assessment but it is very quick and it graphs the whole class what they know and what is the least known. Super easy and helpful. The kids also love it when I call them up to assess on it which is so different from the old way of assessing when they just hated it.
Nyajah Smith
www.readinga-z.com I chose this resource because it covers a wide range of content area. Each provides resources for each productive level and has a great pacing guide. It also includes vocabulary and writing, which are areas that I feel relate to helping a child understand content. It provides access to printables and and projectable resource. There's an area for both students and teachers to use with easy access.
Kathryn Waters
I like to use education.com. It is a resource that has worksheets, lesson plans and online games. The kids enjoy it because to them it feels like they are just playing games on the computer. With the paid membership, I am able to create student profiles and then assign levels and specific assignments to each student. If I notice a student struggling with a specific skill I can have them practice it by playing the games during their computer time. I also use it during whole group instruction when I am first introducing a new skill.
Adele Catapano
I chose Reading Rockets as a resource that is good for struggling readers and struggling parents. This is an easily accessible website that is free to teachers, students and parents. The link is www.readingrockets.org. "Reading Rockets is a national multimedia literacy initiative offering information and resources on how young kids learn to read, why so many struggle, and how caring adults can help." - taken directly from the website. In this resource you will find a wealth of multisensory approaches that parents and teachers can use. It gives you information about what a struggling reader looks like, and ways to provide supports. It also gives you leveled texts that come in print or in multimedia versions. It is engaging to students, user friendly for parents (even has blogs and videos to watch how to help or simply to get information), and provides reading strategies to help specific problems. All of this will help suppport a struggling reader effectively.
Kelly Stringer
One resource that I began using this year is Discovery Education. In science, we have access to the Discovery Education Techbook which offers two different levels of text as well as the option to have students hear the text being read to them. It can also be translated into another language for ELL students. Discovery Education also offers articles and many other resources that can be narrowed by level and content.
Shelby Varchmin
The resource I like to use for struggling readers is RaZ-Kids. This website is great with leveled readers, books of interest, and ease of access! https://www.raz-kids.com/ The award-winning website where K-5 students go to read — anytime, anywhere! Raz-Kids delivers hundreds of interactive, leveled eBooks spanning 29 levels 400+ eBooks and open-book eQuizzes, with new books added every month, even in Spanish! Corresponding eQuizzes test comprehension, providing teachers with skill reports for data-driven instruction Online running records let teachers digitally assess each student, saving valuable classroom time The motivational "Raz Rocket" gets students excited about reading and strengthens the school-to-home connection A winner of numerous awards, including CODiE and EDDIE Awards and a Teachers' Choice Award for the Classroom
Andrea Klein
I would like to suggest the resource https://www.readinga-z.com/. I use this with all of my readers. It allows me to assign them books on their level, tests their comprehension, and lets me assess them and utilize running records. It also lets me easily print out books to send home for some of the students who don't have literature in their home.
meredith lahara
i love jennifer seravellos reading strategies book. it is a perfect "cookbook" of resources for strugglers including charts you can share to deepen understanding
meredith lahara
i love jennifer seravellos independent reading assessment kit. it is a perfect resource for strugglers including comprehension questions every few pages where kids can share thoughts to deepen understanding
meredith lahara
i love readworkds where it is leveled by lexile it is a perfect resource for strugglers including comprehension questions every few pages where kids can share thoughts to deepen understanding
Lisa Schrader
I love this site for my special needs kids. Whole group instruction on the Smart Board is a fun and engaging way for them to learn.www.scholastic.com
Lisa Schrader
I love this site for my non-verbal special needs kids. They love whole group instruction on the Smart Board. It is a fun and engaging way for them to learn. They have very short attention spans and smart board activities keeps them more focused.
Lisa Schrader
I love this site for my non-verbal special needs kids. They love whole group instruction on the Smart Board. It is a fun and engaging way for them to learn. They have very short attention spans and smart board activities keeps them more focused.
Joshua Holbrook
I chose https://www.matchfishtank.org/ as my helpful site. I've used it this year frequently as it helps with lessons plans for many subjects. I use it for Reading and many of the novels I've read this year (more modern titles) have lesson plans. There is a free and paid version of the site. I have used the free version and it has been more than successful.
Joshua Holbrook
I chose the website: https://www.matchfishtank.org/ The resource provides free k-12 curriculm for all grades. I use it for Reading and it had lesson plans for many of the novels (I use more modern novels) I had my students read.
Lisa Coder
This website is something that looks very useful. I looked at quite a few and many of them were "clunky" in terms off too much 'stuff' which was not organized for an efficient search by topic, problem you are trying to solve, or user (parent, teacher, para educator, or student). There is an app that was very intriguing (sight word flip) that is child-centered in a game format, that I really think students would love. It would mesh perfectly with the phonemic and phonological awareness piece of reading for ELL's and struggling readers in general.
Melissa
https://edpuzzle.com/ Edpuzzle is online software that allows a teacher to easily flip their classroom; however, this can be used as a tool for much more than that. I have found that it is an effective way to help students build background knowledge and pre-teach vocabulary. Due to the sort of resource it is, it tends to be welcomed by older students. As a bonus, the resoource can be made available to students outside of the classroom. The abaility to embed questions allows the teacher to structure the instruction to help bring about the desired outcome.
Andrea Klein
www.naesp.org was the website I found the resource to Cultivate Peer Coaching in Reading. I chose this because it would be adaptable for the small elementary student I am at. 4th and 5th grade students are coached with expectations, guidelines, and strategies to use to work with younger students in K, 1st, and 2nd. I plan to do this with my 5th grade students to help the kindergarten and first grade students become fluent readers. I feel it will help my students revisit some of the early strategies that made them successful readers when they were younger and allow them to take on a leadership/coach position for the younger student they are mentoring. I also plan to use the idea to have my student do a reflection after their coaching session to see if there were any problems and see the students' thoughts.
Andrea Klein
www.naesp.org was the website I found the resource to Cultivate Peer Coaching in Reading. I chose this because it would be adaptable for the small elementary student I am at. 4th and 5th grade students are coached with expectations, guidelines, and strategies to use to work with younger students in K, 1st, and 2nd.
Andrea Klein
The website https://www.naesp.org/communicator-december-2013/cultivate-peer-coaching-reading is a resource to Cultivate Peer Coaching in Reading. I chose this because it would be adaptable for the small elementary student I am at. 4th and 5th grade students are coached with expectations, guidelines, and strategies to use to work with younger students in K, 1st, and 2nd. I plan to do this with my 5th grade students to help the kindergarten and first grade students become fluent readers. I feel it will help my students revisit some of the early strategies that made them successful readers when they were younger and allow them to take on a leadership/coach position for the younger student they are mentoring. I also plan to use the idea to have my student do a reflection after their coaching session to see if there were any problems and see the students' thoughts.
amanda
Lingro is a cool tool for both the “wow” factor and for its usefulness. Simply type in a website address on the Lingro website and it instantly turns the website into a clickable dictionary that translates text in 12 languages. Lingro hides in the background until students need it. To use, students simply click on any word and several definitions of the word are instantly displayed. I could see this as very useful tool for just-in-time support forEnglish language learners.
amanda
Lingro is a great tool for both the “wow” factor and for its usefulness. Simply type in a website address on the Lingro website and it instantly turns the website into a clickable dictionary that translates text in 12 languages. Lingro hides in the background until students need it. To use, students simply click on any word and several definitions of the word are instantly displayed.
Jennifer Stephens
I chose "What is an Essential Question?" located @ http://sumtercounty.literacysolutions.net/mod/url/view.php?id=491 as my literary resource for working with struggling readers because this resource is very helpful in any stage of the struggle that a student may be in. Hook question, guiding questions and essential questions all can help to engage the reluctant learner to the disengaged or shut down learner. I, as a newer teacher found this article to be very helpful in trying to increase the rigor of the lesson but at the same time help to assist the student to become more engaged and dialed in to their learning process.
meredith lahara
spellingcity.com gives the kids a chance to interact with words in a game and orally- lots do here
meredith lahara
spellingcity.com gives the kids a chance to interact with words in a game and orally- lots do here words their way is also a good program that does the same thing
Cherese Wiggins
www.readinga-z.com is a resource we use as a team. We all enjoy this resource for many reasons, but one of my main reasons is the ability to print books at the students reading level. I like to use a Shared Reading in small group strategy with my struggling readers. This builds their confidence and gets them to read more fluently. It is a strategy we learned from TC with our staff developer.
Shawn Beecher
I like to use the Five Day Plan that was developed by Justina Henry and Leslie Post from the Warren City Schools, Office of Special Programs. This routine is designed to be repeated every day, faster and faster to help students gain fluency right from the beginning as they learn to read. This program focuses on a few sight words and uses a F & P level A book. It is great for struggling readers and ELL's.
Crystal Crosby
I like to use the resources that the district has purchased for us, such as the Social Studies Weekly website. My students use this website and love it for many reasons. They love that it is read aloud to them, they love the videos for additional learning, and a chance to quiz themselves with the questions under each article. Great resource!
Joe Bukowski
https://www.readinga-z.com/ is what I used when teaching primary. This was helpful for differentiating reading groups. I now only teach math and science. If I had to share one now I would say I use https://newsela.com/. Differentiated on topic articles.
Ashley Quintero
Teach Your monster to read is a resource for teachers (and parents) of young beginning readers. This "game" allows for young students to strengthen their phonmic awareness and phonics skills leading them into blending sounds, sights words, and reading. It is fun for the student who is playing and beneficial at the same time. I have this app and game for my classroom and at home for my own children.
Jordan Miller
I like using Commonlit.org. It has varying leveled texts with and option to add guided reading and audio for the students. After reading the students take an assessment that includes both multiple choice and short answer prompts. This allows the teacher to not just rely on an automated system that a student could just guess on but to see how student respond to the text.
Jerry Pippins
The website I chose was recommended to me by another staff member and I have found it to be invaluable. https://www.commonlit.org/en It has a variety of short to longer readings and is very well organized by lexile level and other searchable traits. I use the resource because it has interesting topics that are rooted in strong academic formats for my higher students, but it also has tools incorporated into the document to help struggling readers like pictures, key vocab info, and subsections within the reading.
Heather Hoffman
I chose this resource due to the fact that it offers my students many levels of reading materials so they can feel successful as a reader. The resource is //http:atozreading.com. There are books of all levels which students can choose to have read to them or read independently. It also gives the option of being able to print books if you would like to have a hard copy for your students to practice with or take home.
Heather Hoffman
I chose this resource due to the fact that it is scaffolded so any reader can feel successful. The resource is //http:atozreading.com. There are books of all levels which students can choose to have read to them or read independently. It also gives the option of being able to print books if you would like to have a hard copy for your students to practice with or take home.
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