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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

Jean Faulk
My resource is: http://www.pathstoliteracy.org/resources/being-visual-raising-generation-visual-thinkers-bette-fetter The reason I chose this is because of the ease of the site and the amount of information it contained to help any struggling readers I have.
Heather Chandler
My resources are www.spellingcity.com and https://www.flocabulary.com/subjects/ Both of these sites are fun and intriguing for kids. At spelling city, children play with words in a fun and inviting manner. They learn phonics and vocabulary while playing games. Flocabulary is fun because of the catchy songs the kids love to sing along with.
Heather Chandler
To provide support for educators or parents to aid their struggling readers, I found the following source. This website www.readingrockets.org shows many wonderful techniques and videos to encourage educators in helping their struggling students. abcmouse and starfall are wonderful programs for the students. It helps them to get a good grasp on phonics.
Dayna Carroll
I would recommend Fountas and Pinnell's Leveled Literacy Intervention. http://www.heinemann.com/fountasandpinnell/lli_Overview.aspx This researched based resource is designed for a grade level's lowest readers. It is designed for small groups, no more than 3 students, and is in addition to the core work. This provides scaffolded, powerful daily instruction in reading and writing as well as it helps them expand their knowledge of sounds, letters and words and how they work. This program has proven successful in my intervention classroom and has moved most of my lowest readers up various reading levels, building their word knowledge and reading abilities gradually.
Laura Songer
I use http://www.sightwords.com. Some of my students struggle with sightwords and this site is full of ready-to-print resources and things for the students. They have both the Fry and Dolch lists and also games. I have sent this site home in a newsletter to my parents so the students can practice at home also.
Robyn Haney
I chose this resource because it allows students work on their specific level and at their own pace. It allows them to build on specific skills.
Ana Rodriguez
The website I have chosen is ixl.com I chose this website because it is a great practice resource for any reading, math, science, and social studies skills or concepts. It provides numerous practice problems and congratulates the students when correctly answered and also explains the mistake when wrong. It isn't timed therefore the students have the time necessary for them to process what is being asked and determine the correct answer. Students can be moved to a different grade level if needed while working on the same concept as well so they would be working at their personalized level.
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Sammantha
I chose a resource that has a list of tips to help struggling readers as well as some common misconceptions teachers have about teaching reading that can harm struggling readers. I chose this because as I read I found that the tips that it shared would be very helpful to teachers of all grade levels. http://smartblogs.com/education/2013/02/08/ccss-marisa-kaplan/ The list of tips for teachers are very easy to understand and can be applied to various ages and grade-levels. Teachers reading this list can find some new ways to reach those struggling readers that they may have not thought of before.
Danielle Jackson
I chose the resource http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies because I often find myself visiting this site. They have so many resources for Reading that include games, book recommendations, videos, and lesson plans. There are resources for phonics, writing, fluency, etc. This site also tells you when to do the lessons - before, during, or after reading, as well as if they should be done in small group or whole group.
Danielle
I would like to share: http://www.connectionsacademy.com/blog/posts/2013-06-10/7-Great-Online-Reading-Resources-for-Parents-and-Learning-Coaches.aspx This website offers websites for teachers and parents. Oftentimes, our parents do not know HOW to help their child at home. This website is helpful for both educators and parents. One website even allows you to submit questions that an educator will answer. The strategies are useful for ESE, ELL, or regular education students.
Rachel Wood
I utilize Kahoot in my classroom as a questioning technique. This allows my ELL students to answer simple questions, and generate higher order thinking questions. It is also interactive and has music to go with it, and you can attach youtube videos to play in the background, which can also help the struggling learners. It also promotes a healthy competition with the students, and definitely allows for ensuring students comprehension of the material. https://getkahoot.com/
Warren
I am choosing readability because it takes away the distractions of all the advertisements on the web page which allows the reader to focus on the text only. https://www.readability.com/
Kelly Hall
I chose http://www.coreknowledge.org/ckla because I believe in the comprehensive nature of the program. It incorporates age-appropriate topics with the learning of foundational skills. The topics are essential for students to become well-rounded citizens who share background knowledge so that comprehension can take place, and new learning can build on previous learning. For struggling readers, it fills many gaps in background knowledge.
Literacy Solutions PD
Thanks, Kelly. Core Knowledge is a wonderful resource for struggling learners. Also good with new teachers, or for districts with high teacher turnover because it places everyone on the same page - common strategies, common assessments, consistent growth. Thank you for your contribution! Susan
Melanie Counts
I am choosing ABCmouse.com because it scaffolds all of my kindergartners at their level. It even offers English and Spanish for the ELL students in my class. The link is https://www.abcmouse.com/
Ama Burns
I chose the resource Read Works. www.readworks.org Readworks.org is a website that provides FREE reading comprehension resources, lessons and units at all grade levels. The passages can also be aligned to the specific standards that you are focusing on. I like to use it for my struggling readers. I can search and download passages and question sets based on Lexile level and the specific skill that we are focusing on.
Ama Burns
For my second resource, I chose ReadWriteThink. www.readwritethink.org I chose this website because it offers lots of different resources on all grade levels, standards, and topics, including ELL and differentiation. It can also be incredible helpful when looking for "different" or "structured" lessons to use to reteach those students who just need a little more help. There are materials for the students such as interactives online. Many of the printable resources are for hands-on manipulatives or graphic organizers. The site also provides professional development resources.
Penny Pruitt
I chose Earobics. It can be found at http://www.hmhco.com/shop/education-curriculum/intervention/reading/earobics Earobics is an adaptive, research-based reading intervention program built on the Common Core. Individualized, adaptive learning provides targeted instruction in Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Comprehension, Vocabulary, Fluency, and Writing. Powerful management tools enable teachers and administrators to monitor and chart student progress for differentiation. Students can engage with lively characters, multi-sensory features, and there is a built-in Assessment. Research-proven, Earobics can be used with any core reading program. This is a program not only great for ELL students but any student struggling with reading. It did wonders for my daughter who is in a HAART class but struggled with reading. She is doing great now and it only took a few months for her. However, every student is different of course.
Kirstie Denson
BrainPop is a fantastic resource that I implement in my classroom. This resource is completely interactive and allows the students to own their learning. There are over 1,000 short animated movies for students in grades K-12 with any department you could think of! https://www.brainpop.com/
Michelle Piasecki
The above site might not be the best, but it gives an overview of Project CRISS strategies. One of these strategies is Picture Notes, which is one that I would recommend. Picture Notes is a strategy that gets students to create a visual summary of what has been learned. Usually, the notes are around a central question that addresses the topic of study. Students work in a small group and are times. This method helps you see if the students, especially ELL, learned the concept you are teaching
Michelle Piasecki
I found this resource thanks to an ESOL class I took last summer. It was from Larry Ferlazzo's best of list. This particular site provides different online activities for EFL/ESL for learners of different levels. There are specifically preschool acitivities on this site, which was the topic from the previous reading.
Leslie Owens
https://www.getepic.com/educators I use this website regularly in my classroom and encourage my students to use it at home as well. With a variety of informational text as well as literature, all at various learning levels, students have access to a fount of colorful, engaging, texts. I use this website with read alouds, as well as in small groups. I have created a profile for each of my students and can assign or suggest texts for them to read based upon their learning level and subject preferences. This website is a wonderful resource for every elementary school teacher.
Jonathan Fletcher
I am choosing brain pop. https://www.brainpop.com/ Not only does this resource cover a bunch of different topics, but more importantly it allows students to visualize some of the more abstract concepts I teach in Science.
Casey Swift
I really like the iReady Instructional online portion. This is a membership only resource, usually funded by the district, but I really like how the questions are higher on the complexity level and get the kids really thinking not about what there answer is... But WHY that is their answer and what evidence they have to support it. It also includes a lot of tutorials and self checking assessments so the kids can monitor their growth.
April Strong
I really enjoy using Readworks and Better Lesson to find meaningful lesson ideas for my students. http://betterlesson.com/ http://www.readworks.org/ Both sites allow you to search by standard or skill. This allows me to find a good fit for a whole group or small group lesson. Because I work with gifted students I need to find text that will peak my students' interests while address the academic needs of my students. Of course, these lessons are "tweaked" by me to suit the specific needs of my students.
Mangayarcarassy Neelavannan
I like the Reading Rockets website because it provides strategies and examples that can utilized in the classroom in an effective way. Link: http://www.readingrockets.org/article/seven-strategies-teach-students-text-comprehension The seven strategies to teach students text comprehension include monitoring comprehension, metacognition, graphic and semantic organizers, answering questions, generating questions, recognizing story structure and summarizing. I have referred this website multiple times when I was teaching my own children at home while they were growing up.
M. Celeste Holden
The resource I chose is http://readinga-z.com This website is a great resource that I use almost daily in my classroom. I really like how I can easily differentiate reading for my students with this resource and it has such a great variety of book levels and topics. It is very multi-cultural and the different levels allow everyone to feel successful as a reader. There is a wide- range of different types of genres to also choose from which make it very helpful if planning a unit or theme. Great for struggling readers and fluent readers.
Dianne Tillery
The resource I chose is ABCya.com. I chose this because it it easy for students, teachers, and parents to navigate. It is fa site with educational games for Pre-K through 5th grade. These games use common core standards. There are games with Spanish Word Bingo and Spanish vocabulary. This is a site that I have recently become aware of and plan to explore more. I think it would be very beneficial to all students. It works on the alphabet, reading, numbers, and more.
Teresa Collins
The resource I chose is i-ready. I chose this because it has a diagnostic component that I can set for my students to complete at will to see if there is improvement. It also will show me what assignments the students are struggling with and has resources that I can choose from to work with the student in small group or teacher time. My students are making gains using the program in both reading and math. login.i-ready.com
Elan Caruso
I chose Brainpop because it is a short video that gives students a brief overview on a topic. It also has cute characters and animations that they love! https://www.brainpop.com/ With the Brainpop videos, students can either watch them on the Chromebooks or we can view them as a class. Students can listen, but also use the closed caption to read what the characters are saying. Each video has several activities and a quiz to go along with them. Brainpop videos keep my students engaged, and they learn from them.
Elan Caruso
Brainpop videos are a great resource because they have short videos that give a brief overview of a topic, using characters and animations. https://www.brainpop.com/ This site is great for struggling readers because the videos can be watched individually on Chrome books or projected on a smart board. The videos can be viewed using the closed caption option, so students can see the dialogue. Each video contains activities and a quiz. My students love watching Brainpop videos and they learn from them too!
Diana Folkner
Read Words is a great program that offers different leveled text and questions that focus on different skills. The passages are interesting to the students and keep them engaged. http://www.readworks.org/books/passages?gclid=Cj0KEQiAlO20BRCcieCSncPlqqMBEiQAOZGMnCiZ8qeZYFmsdFGWqxhheSKLBiIDntfu7ApqU8CwxH4aAkrZ8P8HAQ
Joyce De La Torre
I use Raz-Kids an online reading website that reads to the students then ask them comprehension questions it has many levels, I use the reading A to Z to get short stories when I do stories from textbooks to compliment the stories. I have ESE IND students which most of them can not read. https://www.raz-kids.com/main/Search/?searchTerms=login
Heather
The resource I chose is Intervention Central. Intervention Central is the leading resource for Response to Intervention tools and resources and has a plethora of resources specifically geared for Reading Interventions. I chose this resource because I feel that we struggle to find lessons for small groups or intervention strategies for students and this offers many options. The website it http://www.interventioncentral.org/ and has the potential to work effectively with struggling readers. The academic interventions for reading that are listed are easy to implement in the classroom, and many of the resources have embedded links for extra resources and ways to progress monitor.
Crystal Steward
My school district uses the program iReady to instruct and assess student learning. This company has many online resources that help support all students, including struggling readers. This is our first year with the additional resource of the Teacher-Toolbox. This resource is AMAZING!! It has resources outlined for every standard, including interactive lessons, assessments, small group lessons, reading passages, student led activities, and teacher led activities. This resource works effectively because it allows me to differentiate my instruction for all students, especially struggling readers.
Kaneisha Hamilton
I chose the following website, due to its use of modern technology and this generation's interest. The like to the website is https://www.abcmouse.com The age group that this program starts with is two, leaving so much room for any student having trouble, to pick up where they need to. It teaches them each letter first, then goes into learning the sounds for each letter. Once they get past that stage, they then start to teach important sight words that are important to beginners, or any reader. It goes into word families and rhyming. They teach through fables, stories, songs, etc. It will keep any child's interest, but they will be learning little by little. Elementary teachers around the country have started using it in their classrooms, and statistics show that the test scores have gotten better. I will actually be starting my 2 year old on it next month.
Kaneisha Hamilton
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Mangayarcarassy Neelavannan
I chose this resource because it provides 18 teacher tested strategies that can help with differentiated instruction. Some of them include using inquiry to encourage student ownership, stimulate students' senses, share our own struggles/strengths, and consider a time limit for homework. The one I liked is explain fairness to avoid competition and ostracizing to help promote student growth mindset. I also like the tip on grouping students based on goals, not labels. Often times, we do not challenge our high achieving students and soon we lose them to boredom. http://www.edutopia.org/discussion/18-teacher-tested-strategies-differentiated-instruction
Dianne Tillery
I chose i-ready.com because our school is currently using this program for all of our students. This program assesses the students at the beginning of the school year and then builds lessons according the needs of the student. Teachers can constantly monitor student progress and change or add lessons as needed. Scheduled assessments throughout the year help determine the progress of the student.We use this program for language arts and math.
Melissa Howes
This website is helpful in expanding a child's reading vocabulary and comprehension while exploring a variety of topics and genres.
Melissa Howes
Early childhood education is a team effort. It is most successful when parents, teachers, and children work together and communicate. The Literacy Center Education Network provides an integrated learning system that allows parents to teach home language skills before sending their children to school. Teachers can use the same method to teach English Language Learners in Kindergarten. This site is free and user friendly.
Glenda Weidrick
While completing my summer school reading internship at Ashland University in Ohio, we worked with a wonderful website for our reading students. I continue today using my reading textbooks from college for ideas and other things in my own classroom www.rhlschool.com/reading.htm This resource has every grade level for reading, since most of my students in Intensive Reading classes at the high school have an 8th grade reading level, this website is wonderful to get worksheets and activities to help with literacy, fluency and comprehension. There are also English basic worksheets. Though the website hasn't been updated since 2011, it is still very useful.
Mangayarcarassy Neelavannan
The online Center for Applied Linguistics provides resources to help understand the fundamentals of sheltered instruction. One of the resources which I liked is the SIOP in action. It features instructional videos and illustrates three SIOP lessons at three grade levels: second, eighth and high school. The resource is designed to deepen understanding of SIOP model implementation at the classroom level and to support professional development intiatives. Link: http://www.cal.org/areas-of-impact/english-learners
Kristen A
I choose the paired passages link on the ReadWorks website because it supports reading comprehension practice and provides multiple choice an,d short answer questions to accompany each piece. http://www.readworks.org/books/passages/paired-passages The resources on this site provide practice for students who are struggling readers because the texts vary in lexile level and difficulty. The questions are research based and he'll improve comprehension. The below information regarding the question sets is from the ReadWorks website : "Models questioning. These are questions that good readers should be asking and answering themselves while they read. Note that the questions focus on the important information of the text, modeling for students to identify and focus on that important information, not on the less important details. Supports students to identify explicit information in the text to enable them to make more complex inferences and conclusions based on that evidence in the text. Explicitly supports understanding of non-fiction and literary text structures. The research is clear. One of the key reasons students struggle with comprehension is that they can’t recognize and understand the way paragraphs and texts are structured. Models how to make inferences and draw conclusions based on evidence in the text. Provides scaffolding to enhance the ability of students to understand the main idea or theme of a text. Highlights the use of context to understand vocabulary words and the author’s use of language to communicate meaning to the reader. Explicitly supports recognition of key signal words at the syntax/sentence-level that can impact the meaning of a sentence, paragraph, and the text as a whole. Provides thoughtful opportunities to write open response answers, based on close reading of evidence in the text."
Jennifer
http://www.readwritethink.org is my new go-to for lesson plans. I like how everything is provided with a click of a button and it seems to be grade-level appropriate. It also provides extensions for struggling readers as well as advanced readers.
Jennifer Baker
The resource I selected was an online article from Reading Rockets titled, Developing Fluent Readers by Jan Hasbrouck. One reason why I chose this article is because it is an excellent read for new teachers as it provides an overview of what fluency instruction should look like in the classroom. Additionally, the article includes practical interventions, strategies, and assessments teachers can use with struggling readers.
Jennifer Baker
The resource I selected was an online article from Reading Rockets titled, Developing Fluent Readers by Jan Hasbrouck. One reason why I chose this article is because it is an excellent read for new teachers as it provides an overview of what fluency instruction should look like in the classroom. Additionally, the article includes practical interventions, strategies, and assessments teachers can use with struggling readers. The article can be found using the following link: http://www.readingrockets.org/article/developing-fluent-readers
Susan
There are a variety of resources available to help parents and teachers of struggling readers. One of the resources I like is: http://www.k12reader.com/reading-activities-for-struggling-readers/. K12 Reader is a site with informative information for both parent and teacher. I like this article because the steps to help a struggling reader are easy to follow so they can be utilized at home or at school. There are a variety of different grade level reading activities that can be used immediately for students. Often times, teachers know how to help at school, but parents struggle. I like the information that is provided for parents to help educate them on good practices they can encourage at home with their child to improve their reading success. I think parental involvement is good and can only benefit the student all the way around when parents and teachers are working collectively together. This resource can be found at: http://www.k12reader.com/reading-activities-for-struggling-readers/
ANDRIA BARRERA
http://www.readingrockets.org/reading-topics/english-language-learners has many different resources to help a teacher and the ell students. This has wonderful resources for parents and teachers. It can be used as an extension resource, so that the parents know how to help at home.
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