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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

Junior Smith
We are an AVID school, 2nd year. AVID, which stands for Advancement Via Individual Determination, is a college readiness program designed to help students develop the skills they need to be successful in college. The program places special emphasis on growing writing, critical thinking, teamwork, organization and reading skills. Since the class is an elective, they may miss out on taking a band or yearbook class, but the goal is they will develop a variety of interests and learn important study and time management skills. They can then practice those skills in the challenging courses, such as honors and Advanced Placement classes, that they are typically required to take.
Junior Smith
We are an AVID school, 2nd year. AVID, which stands for Advancement Via Individual Determination, is a college readiness program designed to help students develop the skills they need to be successful in college. I have been attending the 3 day conference and have learned many new critical thinking strategies as well as leteracy ones. The program places special emphasis on growing writing, critical thinking, teamwork, organization and reading skills. Since the class is an elective, they may miss out on taking a band or yearbook class, but the goal is they will develop a variety of interests and learn important study and time management skills. They can then practice those skills in the challenging courses, such as honors and Advanced Placement classes, that they are typically required to take. This website porvide hundreds of resources and strategies to help students improve in school and to be college/career ready.
Trey H.
I found an article online, located at https://www.literacyworldwide.org/blog/literacy-daily/2018/04/18/five-ways-to-help-struggling-readers-build-reading-fluency. In this article the author has come up a quick list of five fundamental ways to help struggling learners increase their literacy in a language. The premise is very simple. Model, have them attempt, correct and then have them reattempt, and celebrate their success.
Emmie Eimann
Read Theory is a great resource -- "Read Theory is a powerful educational tool that offers online reading activities for all ages and ability levels. Our custom web application adapts to students' individual ability levels and presents them with thousands of skill building exercises that suit their needs."
Laurie
With summer being here, before school ended, to encourage reading, I let students and parents know about Epic reading. Thousands of children's books are on this site. There are content collections for students to choose reading material based on interests at all levels.
Laurie
Before school ended, I let students and parent know about the Epic reading site to encourage reading over the summer. There are thousands of books available. Content collections are created for students to choose based on interests. Reading material at all levels is included on this site.
robin romagnolo
I love to use Get Epic. If it free for teachers and it can be used for individual students and whole group. It has a plethora of texts to read and ones that can be read to you. It is effective because it differentiates, is based on the level indicated, and provides a comprehension check for assessment.
Allan Cerully
Starfall is a wonderful site to use with students new to the country or struggling readers. It is highly engaging and the students love it. It teaches beginning decoding skills, letter recognition, sounds, rhymes, etc. https://www.starfall.com/h/
Kari McIntyre
The website that I find most useful is pebblego.com. The website provides students to choose their area of interest, which includes information about wild animals, plants, and even dinosaurs! There is a variety of information. The program provides videos, read-alouds, and text for the students to engage in the learning.
Tiffany Reed
The literacy resource I chose was commonlit.org. It was introduced to me by my first year teacher program mentor. She thought it'd be a great tool to use, being that I teach different grade levels at a juvenile detention center, and students are constantly coming and going. Commonlit is free for teachers, and has all kinds of poems, short stories, etc. Teachers can choose readings based on grade level, genre, or literary device. There is a read aloud function for students who find it difficult to read to themselves, as well as discussion questions, and multiple choice questions related to the article. Definitions of vocabulary words are also provided as a quick reference for students who may need it. While most teachers may pair the readings from commonlit with novels, the material alone worked well for me due to my teaching environment. Common core standards were being met, and I was able to select interesting material to keep my students engaged.
Scott Morris
The literary resource I recommend for struggling readers is Discovery Education. It's a valuable resource because it can be used for cross curricular purposes in any classroom. I've utilized in my English and Reading classrooms to create high engagement lessons that incorporate literary concepts to keep students interested and encourage buy-in to my lessons.
Scott Morris
The literary resource I recommend for struggling readers is Discovery Education. It's a valuable resource because it can be used for cross curricular purposes in any classroom. I've utilized in my English and Reading classrooms to create high engagement lessons that incorporate literary concepts to keep students interested and encourage buy-in to my lessons. https://www.discoveryeducation.com/
Jennifer Scheid
I like to use the Scholastic Storyworks magazines and website. Although you need to order the magazines to utilize the site, the resources are terrific. Videos to preview information for students prior to reading, activities that support the standards.
Maria Fernandez
I chose the resource I-Ready online instruction for reading and math instruction; I like this resource because it assesses the student and starts them off at their level of instruction.
Travis White
The resource I use a lot is abcteach.com https://www.abcteach.com/ It's a free resource that covers a lot of categories and grades. It has free printable worksheets, picture sentences, and phonics. It can help struggling readers by helping breakdown a word or sentence with pictures, tracing lines, phonic spelling.
Nancy Miller
I like using phonograms to help with my struggling readers. It helps them breakdown the parts of a word and understand that certain letter combinations can have many different sounds. Here is a link to a video I use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFswXxtqkuY
Nancy Miller
I like to use words their way to help struggling readers. It helps them understand word families and begins to help them chunk up words to help reader longer words.
DARRIUS DEMPS
I chose to utilize information about 18 classroom inclusion strategies. http://www.teachhub.com/18-inclusion-strategies-student-success The purpose for me using these resources is because if you are a teacher of students within an inclusion classroom, then you are probably a creative, caring, patient, innovative, resourceful, structured, and flexible person.
Leah
I use the Systematic Sequential Phonics book and program to reach all learners. Each lesson is differentiated for students to all be engaged and successful with building words with letter tiles. It can be used in whole or small group settings and the students love celebrating their success in building new words. I find it most effective with struggling students because they can all succeed with these activities.
Leah Jaroszynski
I use the Systematic Sequential Phonics book and program to reach all learners. Each lesson is differentiated for students to all be engaged and successful with building words with letter tiles. It can be used in whole or small group settings and the students love celebrating their success in building new words. I find it most effective with struggling students because they can all succeed with these activities!
Rudy Mora
I find that Reading Rockets is an excellent resource for all sorts of literacy instruction but especially for ELLs. https://www.readingrockets.org/article/teaching-literacy-english-k-5-english-learners Reading Rockets provides extensive information and resources on 5 recommended practices for teaching ELLs: (1) Screen and monitor progress, (2) Provide reading interventions, (3) Teach vocabulary, (4) Develop academic English, and (5) Schedule peer learning.
Nathalia
I have used https://www.readinga-z.com/ with my struggling readers. I used it to access texts on my students levels as I did not have enough books on their independent level. I had them partner up and share a computer as they read on a-z.
Nathalia
I have used https://www.readinga-z.com/ with my struggling readers. I used it to access texts on my students levels as I did not have enough books on their independent level. I had them partner up and share a computer as they read on a-z. The I-Ready website has also been beneficial as students work on their level.
Sandra Benham
https://www.mobymax.com/signin MobyMax is a website that is for extra practice. It is a website based on the Florida State Standards and it uses DOK2 and 3 questions. It is a great site.
Janice Aldridge
I really like abc mouse. I had a student one time that was really struggling with sight words and in turn, reading. His mom got him set up on abcmouse and within a couple weeks this kid was reading! The songs are very fun to for kindergarten.
Eva Winters
I chose Jan Richardson's Next Step to Guided Reading because in 19 years of teaching I have never seen such great results in reading... and it worked for EVERYONE. https://www.literacyfootprints.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI0Lf3-JqX4wIVBaSzCh08AALbEAAYASAAEgJK8PD_BwE The guided reading program comes with books and a lesson plan. There are many videos to make sure the teacher is executing the lessons properly. It really is a step by step program that helps readers with the mechanics of reading as well as comprehension and self monitoring skills.
Jessica
A wonderful resource I would recommend to help teachers with struggling readers is www.interventioncentral.org. This site is free and full of interventions and progress monitoring probes. These probes specifically target behavior, math fluency, early reading and reading comprehension.
Melissa C
A resource that I use for my students is brainpopjr.com. This website provides a wealth of information for my ESE students. I use it to complement group work, or have my students work independently as needed. I love this site because it provides opportunities for my students to improve on their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills.
Kathleen Matt
I like to use google read and write to help my struggling readers. In science we often have different levels of text we must use. This helps to have students work though it.
Kathleen Matt
I chose google read and write as a great way to help struggling readers in my classroom. The science content can be very difficult to have students access, and this can help to use the text we need to in class.
Charles Santos
An essential resource that I would like to share is kagan structures. In these engaging structures, various learners are encourage to participate, share and demonstrate understanding. With Rally Robin, where pairs of students share out ideas in a "take a turn" rotation, students comment and share about a prescribed topic. in this strategy students, no matter their level of English mastery, can and do contribute to the conversation. the secret that I have uncovered is pairing students with proper partners from the beginning. these partnerships ensure the correct supports and feedback to the ELL student.
Jenny
The resource that I like to use for struggling students is found at www.abcya.com The particlular one that I use a lot is https://www.abcya.com/games/kindergarten_alphabet_bingo because my kindergarteners like games plus it has them hear the sound then they need to find the letter. It is effective with struggling learners because it is a fun way for them to learn the letter sound relationship in a nonstressful way. I also like this website because I can choose different activities and different grade levels.
Melissa Pierce
I chose the website Learning Ally. Although this website is only for students with IEP's, it has been beneficial for my students who are willing to try it. Books are placed on a virtual bookshelf and the books are read to them as they follow along.
TARA ZILLY
I often use resources from FCRR - Florida Center for Reading Research. I can find specific skills, lesson plans are provided, and student manipulatives are ready to be printed out. And it's free! https://fcrr.org/resources/resources_sca.html
Mary Oliva
Read conmigo is a website that was shared with me by our school's ESOL specialist. We were collaborating on a Parent University session to support learning at home. This website encourages parents to read to their children in English and Spanish. "The program provides free bilingual children’s books, educational apps, and literacy resources for children in preschool through fifth grade. Read Conmigo was created by Infinity Insurance to provide parents and teachers free tools and resources to help them foster a love of reading among their children and students" (ReadConmigo.org, 2019).
Kristy Post
I choose the following resource, Sheppard Software, to help my students practice their ELA skills. The resources website is as follows, http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games_vocab.htm The resource has interactive games which allows my students to practice vocab, spelling, phonics and grammar. I like this resource because it allows students to feel like they are playing games while learning and increasing their retention of materials covered.
Kristy Post
The resource that I chose was Sheppard Software at, http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games_vocab.htm. I chose this resource because it allows my students to practice their vocabulary, grammer, and phonics skills. The students seem to like utilizing this resource because they feel as if they are playing games while actually learning and retaining material covered in class.
Tammie Meder
SPIRE is a program required by District for ESE students. It is an intense program to aid the strugfling reader.
Tammie Meder
SPIRE is a program required by District for ESE students. It is an intense program to aid the strugfling reader.
Lisa
The resource I chose for struggling readers is Great Leaps, Inc. The link is attached. https://greatleaps.com/ Description: Great Leaps help to build reading fluency in struggling readers. Students actually look forward to using this program with their tutor. This program can be done with an instructor book and a student book or digitally via a computer or tablet. It gives students essential one on one instruction. It focuses on phonological awareness, sight phrases, vowel reversals etc. It also contains stories that children relate to. I have seen great growth using this product.
Nancy Miller
I use Khan academy with son and several of my students in class for re-teach of certain topics. I like how the videos help the students stop or slow down the process and take notes if needed. https://www.khanacademy.org/
Eva Winters
http://www.janrichardsonguidedreading.com/video-clips Jan Richardson's Next Steps To Guided Reading is an amazing resource to have in your classroom. It helps struggling readers as well as ELLs and allows advanced readers to continue advancing at their level. It has a wonderful writing element that really makes a difference for the students.
Emmie Eimann
NoRedInk is a resource I plan to utilize more in the classroom this year -- 'NoRedInk is an online web-based language-learning platform designed to help students in grades 4-12 improve their writing skills and ACT/SAT scores. The lessons are aligned to meet the Common Core State Standards Initiative and the curriculum students see is personalized according to their interests.'
Elizabeth Thompson
I recommend the Reading Rockets website, specifically their help for struggling readers pages, because for non-reading teachers like myself I feel this is an area of instruction that I need a lot of guidance. I need to learn more strategies to help me differentiate my instruction to help this subset of students in my classes, particularly with regard to reading non-fiction text. https://www.readingrockets.org/helping This is an excellent resource because it has links to many other useful pages (including videos) that explain why some students struggle, and different avenues and approaches to help them, from how to assess them and engaging their parents. There is also a “Research Briefs” section that contains links to up to date research on helping struggling readers.
Lori Bederman
A resource I have used for my struggling readers is https://www.flocabulary.com/ . It has many components of reading with movement , catchy songs, and visuals to remember and represent the content.
louella a murphy
https://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com/ Teach Your Monster to Read is a web based learning site, focusing on phonics. I have used it for several years with my struggling readers, they love it and work hard to increase levels. Information on the site - The following comments are directly from the site, regarding the research base and site itself (https://blog.tcea.org/teach-your-monster-to-read/): "It’s rare these days to find a quality educational website, resource, or app that does what it needs to following sound pedagogy and research and is free. But I’m very happy to report that Teach Your Monster to Read is one of these rare breeds. The website is designed to make learning to read fun and covers everything from letters and sounds to reading full sentences."
Susan
For my ELL students, I use Starfall.com. It is fun, colorful and engaging. It helps students with phonics, reading, math and much more. For my small group instruction, I love Readworks. You choose the skill and then reading reading passage. I also like that I can incorporate science for cross curricular instruction. There are comprehension questions if you so desire to use them.
Ashley Quintero
An assessment resource for ELL students can be Accelerated reader. A.R. is an online system that our school uses to assess students on comprehension of a story. The students read the story, log in, and take quizzes to earn points for each book. The books in our library are sorted by AR level so all students can test on their own level, including Kindergarten. This is adaptable for ELL students as many of the books have a Spanish version of the test as well as a vocabulary quiz for words heard in the book. This can help ELL students read books on their own level and take quizzes without the pressure of reading aloud in front of their peers.
Monica Amsberry
Epic books is a great resource to find texts that are age and level appropriate. You can create and assign libraries with texts that fit a students learning needs and interests. It is easy to navigate. You can create quizzes to go with the books. Students can also search for books and topics that match their own interests. The texts are captured on screen like a book and students click on the text to turn the pages. Many of the books have hyperlinks for vocabulary. There are also a great deal of books that can be read aloud to the student. There are great selections of fiction as well as nonfiction texts. This is a great resource for teachers who may have a limited classroom library. https://www.getepic.com/
Suzanne Stout
Since I teach science K-5, the resource I choose is sciencea-z.com, which is affiliated with the Learning a-z brand (raz kids, readinga-z, etc.). https://www.sciencea-z.com/ According to their website,Science A-Z ensures that teachers have the resources they need to develop students' science knowledge and practices while also supporting key literacy skills. It has thousands of resources to teach core science ideas and practices, multilevel books to differentiate reading instruction, and hands-on experiments and projects to apply science concepts learned. This resource works effectively with struggling readers because it has options for reading level with same content presentation across texts, text to speech, and lots of pictures for ELL's.
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