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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

Dehlia V Garrity
https://www.weareteachers.com/infographic-why-audiobooks-work/ ...Books on Tape or CD! My students, struggling or not, enjoy and go back for more! Each day they are required as part of our ELA block to listen to reading. It helps with fluency and comprehension as well as builds confidence and is a safe environment to gain new word knowledge. My ELL students benefit greatly and will retell using character voice and inflection! If your Principal poo-poo's it, rattle off some of the benefits from the link! (You can find a lot of books on tape/CD on Amazon,too!)
Travis Thomas
newsela.com is a great site with current events that I used to supplement the curriculum. It also makes reading more relevant.
Rebecca
I love using Newsela in my classroom. This website is free for teachers, and it allows you to pair text based off complexity and issues. You can assign the text digitaly, or print them for your students. They are wonderful for paired text, and even tie in the writing component which is important for 4th and 5th grade students. https://newsela.com/
Travis Thomas
Another great site that I use is brainpop. Brainpop has several videos to supplement the reading curriculum. This works well for historical topics that I review such as the Revolutionary War. It also has quizzes and other material that I can use with my inclusion and ELL students.
Susan Rao
A favorite resource of mine is Epic books, which can be found at www.getepic.com. This is a digital library of books that has expanded my classroom library by thousands of books. A simple search returns several books and videos related to topics or genres. It is helpful for struggling readers and ELLs because of the huge variety of books, as well as videos and read to me options.
jana donelson
I will use the website starfall.com. It is an interactive site that allows for exploration play and positive reinforcement. It teaches primary grades reading skills in a fun way. It is also very useful for my ESE students. It is colorful nd has music and is easy to navigate.
jana donelson
I will use the website starfall.com/h. It is an interactive site that allows for exploration play and positive reinforcement. It teaches primary grades reading skills in a fun way. It is also very useful for my ESE students. It is colorful nd has music and is easy to navigate.
Stacey McLain
I choose an article about signs of a struggling reader. It is helpful because it clearly states signs to look for in a struggling reader and steps you can do to help that child. The resource is: www.readingrockets.org Recognizing Reading Problems. This site clearly outlines things to look for and steps that can be taken by parents to help a child who is struggling with reading.
Crystal Brandt
I really love technology and try to incorporate so much of it because the kids gets excited. I do really love A to Z reading because I can project the books up on the board as well as the website already offers comprehension questions and the students love to answer those. I also use Brainpopjr. for learning videos that correspond to our learning topics. I use ABCmouse. com and show the students how the books can read to them on there and they have access to it on their computers in the classroom. My last resource I will share is Scholastic magazine - that subscription is amazing. It has an online version that has videos, reads to the kids and other things as well. Each student will also get their copy to take home and keep of what they just learned.
Lydia Wilson
www.brainpopjr. I really like this site because it is easy to differentiate, particularly for Science and Social Studies. Another site is www.theteachingchannel.org. In my experience, it can be so helpful for students to hear and see content presented in a different way than what I might be doing. Especially for those times when some students just aren't getting a particular skill or concept.
Alexis
I use Listenwise in my 7th grade ELA class to help build listening comprehension skills about current events and topics relevant to the real world. https://listenwise.com/teach/lessons Listenwise offers podcasts and public radio collections for English, Social Studies, Science and ESL classrooms. Questions are included in the transcript to help facilitate a focused class discussion before and after listening to the presentation.
Crystal Brandt
Easy CBM is something we use in our school for students that struggle. In kindergarten we use the letters and sounds assessments, however there are many more assessments that are offered such as fluency and comprehension through the program. I use this also by printing an old copy that we have already done and work with students to become more confident in the process.
Kim
I love to use brainpopjr.com in my classroom. The kids love Moby and it is a good way to introduce a science lesson. We don't have a science curriculum we use in 1st grade so brainpopjr is a fun way to get the students engaged on the topic. We watch the quick 6-7 min video 1 time through and just listen to the video. On the second time through the students are required to take notes on the things they find important. This is a great tool and I highly recommend checking it out.
Kristy Ryan
A resource I really like for all my students is CommonLit (commonlit.org). It is a great resource for ELL students and struggling readers because students are able to click on any word for the definition, or to put it in their native language. This helps with their comprehension tremendously.
Kelley Taksier
Collinsdictionary.com is an online version of the Collins Dictionary. I chose this resource because it has helped me generate student-friendly definitions for tier 2 words that first graders, especially those with a limited vocabulary, can understand. Its features, detailed below, have been invaluable in planning my vocabulary instruction, specifically text talks for tier 2 words. It is bookmarked on my browser and I use it literally every day. As we learned in Module 10 of RL-ED-123, “To really know a word, a student must (1) be able to define it, (2) recognize when to use it, (3) know its multiple meanings, (4) be able to use it correctly (and recognize when it’s inappropriately used), and (5) be able to decode and spell it.” The Collins Dictionary does all of this, not only defining a word but explaining the contexts in which it is commonly found, providing various forms/conjugations along with their pronunciations, using it in sentences, and more. For older students, the website can be used independently (even on a smartphone or tablet) when an unknown word is encountered during independent reading. A hard copy of the dictionary is also available if a school has the funds to purchase these.
Tammy Merrell
My 1st grade students love starfall.com. There are wonderful audio books, activities, and reading fun. They work hard every week to get their mandatory iReady minutes complete so they can spend time on starfall.
Anna Menzie
The literacy center is an interactive website that offers young students the opportunity to pick the language they wish to play and learn. It then helps students to recognize the words in English as well. http://www.literacycenter.net/
Jill
I chose this resource because my Kindergarten students LOVE this site and it is a great source for practicing letter sounds and beginning reading. Go to: www.starfall.com Students get actively involved with letters and sounds. They hear the sound, the letter name and play short games to practice the letter/sound relationship.
Alayna Woolley
I like to use I-Ready teacher resources for the classroom. We will sometimes do the group lessons on the smartboard. Each student will have a response board and answer the questions on their and I can choose one student to come up and click their answer. It is a fast way for me to monitor who is understanding the standard and who needs more help.
Monica Peroldo
I use Socrative to assess students abilities quickly. It provides who got which question incorrect. That way I can form groups based on their results. You create exit tickets as well to use as formatives. https://b.socrative.com/teacher/#launch
Monica Peroldo
I use Socrative to assess students abilities quickly. It provides who got which question incorrect. That way I can form groups based on their results. You can create exit tickets as well to use as formatives. https://b.socrative.com/teacher/#launch
Jamie Neal
i love love love using KAHOOT in my classroom for English and Journalism. The resource is great and the kids love it!! www.kahoot.com
Jamie Neal
i love love love using KAHOOT in my classroom for English and Journalism. The resource is great and the kids love it!! www.kahoot.com I a have also used Google Forms a lot with my yearbook class as well as the whole school to collect surveys you can do a lot with it.
Carissa Berkely
There was a lot of hype about abcmouse.com and I tried it for my 3 year old daughter because she was eager to learn more words, but I found the site navigationally challenging for a 3 year old. I recently found starfall.com and it is basic enough for a young child to navigate through. I love that she is keeping track of the lessons she is completing and loves to use the site to build new words and read stories to me using the words she is learning!
Carissa Berkely
There was a lot of hype about www.abcmouse.com and I tried it for my 3 year old daughter because she was eager to learn more words, but I found the site navigationally challenging for a 3 year old. I recently found www.starfall.com and it is basic enough for a young child to navigate through. I love that she is keeping track of the lessons she is completing and loves to use the site to build new words and read stories to me using the words she is learning!
Eden
I like to use Reading Rockets. This websites help explain different types of struggling readers and classroom strategies. There is also different books students can read listed on the site as well.
Cassie McCammon
I chose the resource https://www.readinga-z.com/. Reading A to Z provides printable texts at a variety of levels that introduce students to phonics skills and a broad variety of topics. I really like that many of the texts on the same topic are available in a wide range of differentiated levels to allow for all readers to access the same information at their level. The printable books also have great pictures and captions to aid in the understanding of the text.
Jonathan Colon
The students that I interact with range from K-5th grade so there are many resources available for those levels. The i-Ready program has many resources to pull from to help struggling readers and I most commonly have to help the younger grades with our classroom vocabulary. With my K-1st students www.starfall.com is a great resource for them to play games that feature linguistic help like letter sounds and functions to help the students with pronunciation. This site also has helpful tips for teachers to think about and analyze, http://www.readingrockets.org/article/best-practices-planning-interventions-students-reading-problems. Giving the students the most variety of supports can be the best way to find out what helps them. Trying new resources will be the only way to know how to become a more complete and accomplished instructor.
Rebekah
I chose newsela because it has so many resources! https://newsela.com/ Newsela has an overabundance of articles to read on any subject you can think of. For each article, there is typically guided questions, there are writing prompts, etc. There are also texts that are in Spanish for students who need that extra support for higher-lexile articles!
Joey Valero
I have come across www.commonlit.com and www.newsela.com to help struggling readers understand new and old topics. These websites offer students the opportunity to read at different lexile levels and learn new topics.
Debi
I just found the app endless abc's It great if you have ipads or tablets to use in your classroom. It shows a picture and makes the sound and shows the letter. This is great for emergent readers that are struggling to learn their sounds and recognize the letter name. Kids love it
Kristin Avery
One of my favorite resources that I use to differentiate lessons is Flocabulary.com. This website appeals to different cultures and makes learning memorable for students. For struggle readers, Flocabulary videos are a terrific way to introduce new reading materials with background knowledge on the topic. It is also a good hook for standards based lessons in reading, writing, language, science, and math. It provides visuals and lyrics to accompany the education songs.
Yolanda Presley
I think Reading Rockets is a good resource that helps struggling readers. There are videos, activities, resources for teachers to use in the classroom and resources for the parents. http://www.readingrockets.org/helping I believe the resource helps with struggling readers by providing activities that pull on phonemic and phonological awareness. They provide reading resources/activities across content areas.
Brandon Bristow
I chose tarheelreader, because it has all types of books but it is for struggling or lower level readers. https://tarheelreader.org/ This resource could be good for low level readers to still get to read things like Shakespeare just simplified.
Margery Bristow
Starfall is a great resource for younger students because it focuses heavily on phonics and uses games to keep students engaged. https://www.starfall.com/h/learn-to-read/
Brandon Bristow
I chose tarheelreader because it is a free source for struggling and low readers. https://tarheelreader.org/ This makes it easier to obtain higher level books but more simplified. (Shakespeare)
Brandon Bristow
I chose tarheelreader because it is a good free resource for lower readers. https://tarheelreader.org/ This is a good resource for early and low readers to still be able to attain simplified grade level books.
Brandon Bristow
I chose tarheelreader because it is for early and lower level readers. https://tarheelreader.org/ It is a great resource for students to still get on grade books but at a lower reading level.
Joshua Holbrook
One of the resources I use to help my students review concepts or pass the time after a test is https://www.brainpop.com/ The site covers a large assortment of subjects.
Andrew Underhill
The resource that I think is a great thing to reach struggling readers is iReady teacher toolbox. This resource provides paper lessons to provide specific instruction for learning standards that have not yet been mastered for teachers to use to meet the needs of specific students. It also provides interactive whiteboard lessons that show full class lesson that can be used for classes that have struggled to master certain reading standard. https://teacher-toolbox.com/
Kylie Ondriezek
I chose the resource AVID Weekly. This website provides relevant and engaging articles each month that student can use for deep thinking activities such as a Socratic Seminar or a Philosophical Chairs discussion. Students can also use Close Reading strategies to mark the text to fully dissect and understand the textual elements.
Kylie Ondriezek
iReady is a great tool to use for struggling readers. It provides diagnostic data to the teacher and then the teacher may utilize the Teacher Toolbox to reteach and provide scaffolding for those areas that students may need additional support in.
Andrew Underhill
I resource I would choose to help struggling readers would be Commonlit.org. This resource provides students with not only leveled texts, but also paired texts based on theme, and multimedia resources that can help support learning. (i.e.: videos, sounds clips, etc.) This resource also provides lesson plans for teachers to use for students to help guide them in reading instruction. Lovely resource.
Lisa
iReady is the resource most often used in my ESE/VE ELA classroom and initially, I did not like it because it was so 'immature' for middle school and the lags between modules - provided enough time for many of my students to lose interest. I stuck with it and approached it with my students with enthusiasm and I was astonished with the learning gains achieved from Aug - Dec!!! The students were very impressed with their progress, also, and now do not complain when it is iReady time. For general need to refresh and get new ideas, I love to peruse TeachHUB.com .. it also has very cool video writing prompts!
Lisa
iReady is the resource most often used in my ESE/VE ELA classroom and initially, I did not like it because it was so 'immature' for middle school and the lags between modules - provided enough time for many of my students to lose interest. I stuck with it and approached it with my students with enthusiasm and I was astonished with the learning gains achieved from Aug - Dec!!! The students were very impressed with their progress, also, and now do not complain when it is iReady time. Most helpful are the diagnostics provided with iReady - very eye-opening and relevant data to provide spot-on data to complement scaffolding. For general need to refresh and get new ideas, I love to peruse TeachHUB.com .. it also has very cool video writing prompts!
Kathleen Icabalceta
readinga-z.com is a great resource for all students. With the different levels, there is activities and books for all students. This allows them to feel some success with their reading and gives them books to read. The printing and organizing can be difficult but the students love the books so much that it makes it worth it.
Jodi Turley
One of my new favorite resources introduced in our district this year is CommonLit. If offers so many resources at varying grade level expectancy of success/lexile levels. The best part may be that it's free. It acts as a springboard for me in terms of finding a primary text to work with for each cluster I'm working on. There is related media and related texts to branch off with. Questions are easily tied to the standards I am working with. The link is https://www.commonlit.org/en Additional capabilities with the resource include read aloud, translation, and highligter tools. There is also a guided reading mode to pace students and do checks for understanding before they get to the formal assessment piece. There is also the print version available for those times you find yourself like us, and the technology crashes. Could easily build my entire curriculum from resources on CommonLit.
Lydia Wilson
I like pebblego.com. It covers a wide variety of topics, includes audio, is broken down into subheadings, includes fun facts, and videos. The students all love this website.
Marissa
I chose this resource because it provides many classroom strategies to help strengthen reading skills.The site offers videos and instrucational planning maps for readers at any level. The site also includes various articles and links for struggling readers. It provides research briefs and identifying what strategies work for inclusion classroom. site-readingrockets.org
Marissa
I chose this resource because it provides many classroom strategies to help strengthen reading skills.The site offers videos and instrucational planning maps for readers at any level. The site also includes various articles and links for struggling readers. It provides research briefs and identifying what strategies work for inclusion classroom. site-readingrockets.org
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