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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

Anna Bowie
I chose the website Pebble Go. It is an excellent resource for teaching non-fiction text features. The information is organized by tabs with headings. It can also be printed out for a close reading lesson.
DeAnna Smith
I have used Epic Books in the classroom. I can assign books to students on their reading and interest level. Many of the books are read to me. This would be great for ELLs would require modeled reading. This allows for practice before guided reading groups. https://www.getepic.com/app/sign-in
Christy France
I use Epic Books for kids. I have created subject area groupings and I assign the collections to the students. Quizzes are used to provide assessment data. Students also use this site across content areas and for research projects. https://www.getepic.com
Marilyn Morales
An excellent literacy resource that works effectively with struggling readers is Reading Horizons. https://www.readinghorizons.com/ It helps students by teaching reading strategies. It is web based and student driven. Students work at their own pace. Our school has a subscription per ELL child. The students are engaged and love working on it.
Marilyn Morales
An excellent literacy resource that works effectively with struggling readers is Reading Horizons. https://www.readinghorizons.com/ It helps students by teaching reading strategies. It is web based and student driven. Students work at their own pace. Our school has a subscription per ELL child. The students are engaged and love working on it.
Brittany Hines
The website that I use is called AVIDweekly.com On this website, they give articles for the students based on the different reading levels. They can all read the same article but it produced different levels.
Brittany Hines
The website that I use is called AVIDweekly.org. On this website, they give articles for the students based on the different reading levels. They can all read the same article but it produced different levels.
Brittany Queen
Snap and Read is a great resource for not only struggling learners but also for ELLs. It covers a diverse wealth of reading needs. This tool reads aloud and translates text in multiple languages. In addition, it can level text and vocabulary for all levels of readers and can be individualized to student needs. My students enjoyed using this tool throughout the year! Students and teachers in the Martin County School District all have access to it. https://learningtools.donjohnston.com/product/snap-read/
Sherri Henley
I chose the online program called Starfall (https://www.starfall.com). It provides numerous reading and math activities. These activities are researched based and are aligned with Common Core standards. On the reading side there is emphasis on phonemic awareness, phonics and high frequency words through exploration, play and positive reinforcement. From my experience, this resource is high effective because it presents academic information in an easy, kid friendly mannner. It is interactive and highly engaging for all. The student is having fun while learning!
Tonya Bordner
Flowcabulary is an online site that covers all content areas by incorporating vocabulary from content areas, topics, and standards into fun, bright, musical videos. Students love to sing along and even have an opportunity to write their own lyrics. It also has a lesson component that can be assigned by teachers that require students to write sentences, match words and definitions, fill in a close passage, ect. The site is flowcabulary.com
Tammie Meder
I like the Leveled Literacy Intervention resource. It is a program that allows me to have small group, differentiated instructions within the self-contained classroom on a daily basis. This program enables me to provide each student with 2 leveled texts daily, several reading characteristics to look for and goals for reading behaviors to teach. In addition, it gives us an opportunity to have discussion about the text and personal connections we have with the text. This helps build our personal connection within our learning community. However, I think the best plus of the program, is each student gets a new book to add to his/her independent reading basket DAILY!!!!!
Carol Barna-Emposimato
I chose this resource because it is something that everyone can use. It is not something that only students with an IEP can have access to. I encourage my struggling readers to utilize audio text. I encourage them to listen to the text while following along in the book. This allows them to read richer text that may be more challenging for them to read, increasing their exposure to grade level vocabulary and give them access to the books that their peers are reading. The link is provided through most public libraries, students just need a library card and access to a computer with wi-fi, i-pad, smart phone,etc. overdrive.com or hoopladigital.com Many of my students don't have access to get to the library over the summer or during the school year. This allows them to take books out and they automatically return once they are due. There are audio books, and digital books that are available to students to keep them engaged and reading at home. Many of my students have come back and shared that they used this on a car trip or that it was a great way to listen to books that were too difficult for them to read without support. Using the strategies that they had learned they were able to figure out what the challenging vocabulary text meant by using context clues and listening on. I encourage all children to used digital text to become more familiar with this. When reading a book on Overdrive, you can change the font, background color for students who visually see text better with a black background and white font. For some kids this is a great tool.
Jadah Hodge
For the past two years I have used Footsteps 2 Brillance (Myf2b.com) with my VPK students. This resource covers foundational skills, phonics, and literate through games. Students can use the resource at home with their families. It's in English or Spanish for our ELL students.
Chelsea
Classcraft! It's a great classroom management tool, in general, but you can also use it as a rewards system for reading. For example, when my students earn a "combo" in Reading Plus (two consecutive stories with comprehension scores of 80%+), I award them x amount of coins in Classcraft. game.classcraft.com
Amy Jackson
The resource that I use to find great ELA lessons is CPalms. http://www.cpalms.org/Public/ CPalms is organized by standard. You can search the standard and find lessons, assessments, and also general information. Great resource, check it out!
Amy Jackson
The resource that I use to find great ELA lessons is CPalms. http://www.cpalms.org/Public/ CPalms is organized by standard. You can search the standard and find lessons, assessments, and also general information. Great resource, check it out! I also use Epic https://www.getepic.com/app/sign-in which is great for ELL's.
Lori
I like the Indianapolis public library site for free video read aloud‘s. Many of them are connected to storyline online and other resources. This site is great for giving struggling readers an opportunity to see/hear the words as they follow along.
Melissa
I use several different resources for my ELL and ESL students. My favorite site for reading comprehension and literature is www.readworks.org. I can put the reading passage on the Smart Board and have students listen in. I re-read the selected passage and then I have students read and answer the question that follows with a partner. This is a great resource to differentiate instruction for students. It is engaging and motivating for my students that struggle to read on their own.
Marsha Valmyr
1. I selected this resource because this is one that I have personally used in my reading courses for struggling readers. It is a helpful resources because it provides educators with numerous free reading comprehension passages to have students practice their reading skills. It allows teachers to track student progress and it is very easy to use. I even use it at home with my child during summer and holiday breaks. 2. https://readtheory.org According to educatorstechnology.com, Read Theory is “a journey through our vast library of reading comprehension content. ReadTheory's adaptive approach fosters improvement by automatically meeting learners at their own, individual ability levels. Signup takes seconds and no time is spent vetting assignments. Progress is shown on an intuitive report, replete with actionable, meaningful insights.” 3. This resource works effectively because it allows students to see their growth via charts and graphs. It provides students with explanations when they answer questions incorrectly and provides strategies for answering similar questions correctly. In the past, I have challenged students to compete against themselves and to beat their own high score. With this method, I have seen students increase their reading levels over time.
Marsha Valmyr
https://readtheory.org I selected this resource because this is one that I have personally used in my reading courses for struggling readers. It is a helpful resources because it provides educators with numerous free reading comprehension passages to have students practice their reading skills. It allows teachers to track student progress and it is very easy to use. I even use it at home with my child during summer and holiday breaks. This resource works effectively because it allows students to see their growth via charts and graphs. It provides students with explanations when they answer questions incorrectly and provides strategies for answering similar questions correctly. In the past, I have challenged students to compete against themselves and to beat their own high score. With this method, I have seen students increase their reading levels over time.
Kyle Knox
My resource is Kahoot, which I learned all about during professional development about learning games and engagement strategies hosted by my school. https://kahoot.com/ I have used Kahoot many times for a variety of activities, especially vocabulary and reading comprehension. It is a fun and quick game that is easy to set up in any classroom. It fosters a competitive spirit in the classroom, which my students usually love, and is great for quick review at the start or end of a lesson. The best part is that you can make your own; you can create your own review quizzes for any specific unit or practice.
Elizabeth Woody
I have found a website that has 12 resources for struggling readers. As I looked through this site https://thisreadingmama.com/ I found many great ideas to use to help me come up with ideas to use. There are also articles and resources to encourage teachers and parents of struggling readers. There are tips for dyslexic readers, book lists for struggling readers, spelling instruction, and lots of hands on activities and suggested resources!An example of how this is benificial for struggling readers is that there is a bookiist of high interest, low readability books to choose from. It also mentions to look on pintrest (even if you dont have an account, you can still check out ideas) to look for awesome ideas for games and resources.
Cheryl McKinney
A site that is useful for supporting ELL students in reading would be BrainPop.com. There are interesting videos that students can watch in all subject areas. The students can watch and listen to the video as many times as they desire. An easy quiz and a hard quiz is provided for use at the end. The student can take the quiz online and get an immediate response or the quizzes can be printed to take for an assessment.
Jenny
One resource I like to use is Epic books. It is a digital library for kids 12 and under. It includes books, audio books, learning videos and quizzes. https://www.getepic.com/
Jenny
One resource I like to use Raz-Kids. It is an interactive site that has leveled readers which include quizzes at the end. It is good for struggling readers because the book can be read to them and then they read the book independently. https://www.raz-kids.com/
Jadah Hodge
I have used Tumblebooks- Tumblebooklibrary.com. This website is great for struggle students and ELLs. The computer reads the text to them, the text are highlighted so that students can hear and see the words. They can follow along. Allows ELLs to hear the pronunciation of the words.
Terri Dewey
I have chosen Reading A-Z ELL Assessments as a resource because it focuses on vocabulary and specifically the vocabulary students are most likely to see on ELL exams. I use several other sites and activities to build vocabulary in my class too.
Barbara Cagni
I chose Moby Max to help my students because it first assesses the student, so whatever part of the site the student uses, it's at their level. It has higher content areas for my readers needing to be challenged beyond the grade level, on level and those needing help all the way down to the phoneme. www.mobymax.com
Meghan Wolf
The resource I chose is EPIC! It is free to all educators! This reading resource is filled with vibrant, engaging texts for students of all levels and ability levels. The website is www.getepic.com. Many of the text come with a ‘read to me’ option, which is wonderful option for struggling readers. The texts range greatly in both text complexity and topics, so students are bound to find books that they are interested in and able to read. I feel that this website is a wonderful way to get struggling students to love and look forward to reading!
Michele
A resource that I’ve used is https://www.flocabulary.com/ It provides hip-hop songs to a variety of educational topics including current events, vocabulary, and math and science. This resource works effectively with struggling readers because it is another way to provide background knowledge on a topic and it does it in an engaging way and musically for students that are high in musical intelligence and the auditory modality. It also works effectively as a way of explicitly teaching vocabulary when paired with other instructional methods because teachers can use it to introduce vocabulary and review vocabulary.
Kerry
I use Secret Stories for readers to learn their sounds. They area a great way to recall the sound independently because they are tied to a story that prompts student response. SecretStories.com
Kerry
I use Seeing Stars. It teaches students to decode words and apply decoding skills for multisyllabic words. SeeingStars.com
Melissa C
I use a variety of sources to differentiate learning for my students. One site that has proven to be useful is www.readingrockets.org because I can always find supplemental material for classroom instruction. Since I am teaching in an ESE classroom my instructional methods have to cover material to address the needs of my ELL, ESL, struggling learners, on grade level and struggling students.
Dorothy D. Hyland
I have used Raz kids in my classroom for 5 years now. I really like the program. It costs about $100.00, but, I usually use my adopt a class money. The students really like the fiction and nonfiction books that are read to them to. Students also read the books, then take a 5 question quiz. I can navigate the program and usually put students on it on a lower reading level, this builds success and confidence before the students move to the next level. Students use this activity at home and in school, it also lasts for a year. So I love when the students return in the Fall and tell me about the rocket ship they built on the program with all their tokens they earned.
Jenel Katzenberger
I choose tumble books as my resource because it has a variety of levels, topics, and genres. Every student can find topics of interest. https://www.tumblebooks.com/ Books that are animated and read aloud come alive and help students stay focused. Struggling readers can use this resource independently to help improve their focus and overall comprehension of text.
Lynne Pollino
The resource I chose is learningally.org because it offers a variety of resources to help struggling readers. It not only offers resources for teachers, but also for parents. I love the reading games that can help make reading more fun for these students.
Daria Paolillo
All About Adolescent Literacy focusing on students in grades 4-12 believes five building blocks of literacy should be updated to include: word study, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and motivation when assessing students to tailor instruction. In terms of word study, adolescents reading at a very low level, phonics is not needed, but decoding multi-syllabic and unusual words, recognizing common words that have irregular spelling, and identifying families of words that share common roots. This resource gives instruction on how to accomplish this and gives additional websites for classroom activities and reference materials.
Alicia Carter
The resource I choose is Secret Stories https://www.thesecretstories.com/ This program is so easy implement into the classroom and the kids love the stories and the how the sounds become characters they can relate to. The posters can me posted up in the classroom all year round for a great reference to be used.
Alicia Carter
The resource I choose is Secret Stories https://www.thesecretstories.com/ This program is so easy implement into the classroom and the kids love the stories and the how the sounds become characters they can relate to. The posters can me posted up in the classroom all year round for a great reference to be used.
Christa Rogalla
The resource I love to use with struggling readers is Flowcabulary. It can be found at https://www.flocabulary.com/. You can get a free one month trial, but there is a fee after that. I t may soon be linked to Schoology for free. This site introduces vocabulary with songs.
Kayla DeSimone
I think iready is a great resource for all students and I love using it in my classroom as an extension activity, or for remediation. It meets students in their individual learning and helps to build the skills each student needs to succeed.
Charles Rogalla
The resource I have found valuable when working with struggling students in The Reading Strategies Book by Jennifer Serravallo. This book is an excellent resource of use will all students, but I especially love it for my struggling readers. It is filled will strategies, anchor charts, and graphic organizers that focus on specific standards. I often use the suggestions in this book during small group instruction.
Amanda Bolam
I choose the online tool called Epic Books. It is available for free at www.getepic.com. It is an online platform that has content area and high interest texts available at all levels. Teachers can assign specific texts to specific students through Google classroom or the site itself. There are also versions of the text that are read aloud by the program for low level reader to be better able to process high level texts. It also has comprehension test for each text that can be assigned. I have seen this site work well through all content areas. Our students love to read on their Chromebooks as early finisher work. The kids gain points to be able to change their avatar. Believe it or not, middle school kids love this site!
Jennifer Ventriglia
One of my favorite resources is Storyworks. The content is usually high interest for students and their website provides the same text at various levels as well as leveled worksheets to practice the skill as well. https://www.google.com/search?q=storyworks&oq=storyworks&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.2050j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Jennifer Ventriglia
My favorite resource is Storyworks. The content usually has high student interest and the texts are leveled for various reading levels. The worksheets are also leveled to match student ability. https://www.google.com/search?q=storyworks&oq=storyworks&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.2050j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Lisa Wickers
https://www.readinga-z.com/ This resource has a ton of awesome leveled books to share with your students. This helps with differentiated instruction, fluency and comprehension. Your students can also use this during independent reading, small group, or partner reading.
Deserae'
One of the literacy resources I use is Teach Your Monster to Read. It starts with phonics and works towards fluently reading. I love this resource and so does my students.
Deserae' Williams
I love Teach Your Monster to Read. This is a great resource for phonics and fluency. It keeps students engaged at all times through games and read alongs.
Melissa
I like Newsela.com for a few reasons. It offers articles on 5 different reading levels; it is great for almost all levels in the class! It offers articles in different subject areas as well as current events. AND it teaches vocabulary in context of the article.
cheryl campbell
I have found a really good resource to help new teachers learn how to help struggling readers. It talks about how to identify those students, how to figure out which area the student is struggling in, decoding, fluency, vocabulary, etc. Depending on the area it gives you ways you can help. www.weareteachers.com/supporting-struggling-readers/
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