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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

Karen Strand
I love newsela.com for my struggling readers. I can teach a concept and have students all learning the same thing at multiple reading levels. Reading levels can be adjusted from approximately 2nd grade level to 7th grade level, depending on the article. There are comprehension quizzes to go along with each article. Multiple choice, four questions.
Amy Jackson
I am choosing Epic because it is a free literacy website where students can listen to books at their level, or read their own book. It has lots of choices and levels available and is high interest.
Amy Jackson
I am choosing Epic because it is a free literacy website where students can listen to books at their level, or read their own book. It has lots of choices and levels available and is high interest.
Cari Berwick
A resource i like to use is FCRR. http://www.fcrr.org/curriculum/SCAindex.shtm I contains may resources including graphic organizers and center activities. It is arranged by standard and grade level. They have so many you will never be able to use them all. You can scaffold by using lower grade levels for your struggling readers.
Morris
A resource I like to use is Freckle. I like Freckle because it helps students understand the skills they need to answer questions. Freckle is a website that helps students with reading and skills based off of common core standards. The articles can either be on a grade level or with their level. www.freckle.com It works effectively with struglling readers because it scaffolds and builds them up.
Jessica Crites
I use starfall.com because this helps my students in the classroom be able to gain vocabulary fluency and learn how to read. My students are all struggling to read and during our intervention starfall is a great source to use to help them gain that knowledge with extra push and modeling from myself.
Barbra Galloway
I like the resource DOGO News because it is an interactive way to have students read the news they want to know www.dogonews.com The site hyperlinks much of the important information within the text, such as vocabulary and geography. Additionally the site provides games related to the article.
MEGAN MARINO
I would use fcrr.org because it has plentiful resources. This sight provides resources for research based reading skill activities at; www.fcrr.org This is great for struggling readers because it has skill work for k-5 readers including all 5 pillars of reading.
Jakob
I really enjoy using flow charts in science. I give them one partially filled in, and then they must read, interact with neighbors, and interpret information that will fit inside the flowchart. It is a great way for interpersonal connections as well as reading and writing academic information down. https://creately.com/diagram/example/hftszlly1/Physical%20Science%20Flow%20Chart This link allows you to edit different physical science flow charts that will fit into your class.
Amy
https://www.getepic.com/sign-in/educator I love having my students work with Epic books. This program allows my struggling readers to access grade level books on the computer that they would not be able to follow by having the books read to them. Students are able to acquire enriching vocabulary and they are so engaged! Some of the books have quizzes that help with comprehending the text.
R. Goosey
I really enjoy using Flocabulary with my students. They have interesting and catchy music videos to teach, review, and enrich students on a variety of subjects and topics. I have used several of their reading skill videos to help meet the different modalities in my classroom. Some of the reading skill lessons can be a bit difficult for students to grab onto right away. It is funny to see them jamming/ desk dancing along with the song in their head as they complete the independent work for a reading skill we've been working on throughout an unit.
Irene
The district I work for has recently introduced MyOn. This is a reading program with a PLETHORA of reading materials for struggling readers. This program allows students to make interest choices, then pushes out audio books to students to listen to. The program will read to the student. It allows the students to listen to each paragraph, sentence, and word and all or each individual part can be repeated as many times as desired. The options are endless on this program. If you ever have a chance to implement MyOn, I'm sure you'll love it.
Jennifer Corona
I love using iReady for reading, F&P resources online, www.starfall.com, and imagine learning for ELL students. These are all very helpful resources for students that are struggling with reading. www.spellingcity.com is also great for kids learning to read, write and spell!
Deidre Bradley
I like Starfall for my struggling students. It is interactive, full of color and animations and is user friendly. Once the students have mastered letters and sounds, they can go to reading and comprehension passages. https://www.starfall.com/h/
megan
I enjoy using Epic with my students. Many of my students have trouble reading independently and through Epic they are able to follow along to all types of texts and gain information to retell.
Pam Fielder
Jan Richardson's Next Step in Guided Reading is wonderful. It help all levels of early readers, not just struggling readers.
Pam Fielder
Reading a-z is a wonderful resource. It help all levels of early readers, not just struggling readers.
Leslie Reddinger
I love the resource reading a-z because it offers high interest leveled books that can be printed and sent home or students can read online. This is especially useful when my class has many struggling readers because I want them to read as many books as they can to practice their reading skills. Unfortunately, I exhaust our reading level library long before the end of the year so I use reading a-z to supplement my need for leveled books.
Leslie Reddinger
The first literacy resource I use is our school library because I love checking out multiple books from the same author and doing author studies with my students. We learn from the stories, the illustrations, and the vocabulary the author chooses. It allows us to explore both reading and writing techniques.
Kasey Cadieux
I have chosen the resource Flocabulary. This really gets the kids engaged in the vocabulary lesson. Another strategy I use with Flocabulary is having reading partners come up with their own rap that they are able to perform in front of our class.
judy
As a Para I work with a lot of different teachers, they all have various ways in which they chose what they feel will be best for their classes depending on the age and grade' I see a lot of Cornell notes and graphic organizers. In the lower grades I have seen star fall and the students love it.
Susan Rao
I love www.getepic.com as a resource in my classroom. Epic books has thousands of books in all genres online. The site is free for teachers to use in the classroom and includes books, read to me books, and videos on all topics. I have used this resource to motivate reluctant readers, provide background knowledge through videos and books, provide a read to me resource for struggling readers, and to expand my classroom library when I am teaching myths and historical fiction. Students love Epic Books too!
Kyle Knox
One of the best resources is the audio book in our Florida collections texts. This lets students hear vocabulary words in context and allows an instructor to stop and discuss the text without interrupting a student reader. It helps scaffold reading for students, providing a clear voice and expectations for student readers, and is helpful to struggling readers. Its easy to chunk lessons with the audio book.
Machelle Sharp
I like the resource Quizlet. You can use it for all kinds of activities but specifically vocabulary. Students absolutely love the game mode and are very motivated! They learn so much faster and retain the information!! https://quizlet.com/ practice.
Michele Lewis
I have been using learningally.org for struggling readers for grade level text and for recrearational reading. This has really given my struggling readers a boost of confidence and a love for reading. They can read books that they wanted to read but couldn't and it is very statisfying.
Trisha
I like to use starfall. It is an easy and engaging site for NES kid when they come to school.
MEGAN M.
www.fcrr.org because is a useful resource for struggling readers. It is effective because it is specific and research based.
Eric Bodenmiller
The literacy resource that I would like to suggest is the website "Teach Your Monster To Read". The students that I work with are primarily in kindergarten and first grade and all have been diagnosed with learning disabilities. Reading, especially sounding out and blending individual phonemes to form words, has always been a struggle for them. Teacher Your Monster To Read provides students with a really fun, inactive way to practice basic letter sounds, consonant digraphs and blends, vowel digraphs, sight words, and lower-level reading comprehension.
Irene Cerna
Thinking maps, https://www.thinkingmaps.com, are extremely beneficial for all students, but especially helpful for struggling readers. These maps give students an easy way to organize information in order to use and learn new information.
Michelle Reinking
A website I like to help struggling readers is Spelling City. https://www.spellingcity.com Spelling city is a site where the teacher or parent can input a spelling list and then the student can play games and other activities to try and decode the word, have clues to a meaning of the word, it will use the word in a sentence, and at times gives pictures of a word. The repeated practice of seeing the word spelled and hearing it in a sentence and by itself helps the struggling readers recognize and figure out the meanings of words.
Jennifer Goodman
I use SPIRE daily with my Intensive Reading classes in middle school. Our district's ESE department purchased the program to use with our ESE students. It uses an Orton Gillingham-based multi-sensory structured language approach to literacy, and it incorporates phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, spelling, and fluency (and I might have even left out some things). https://eps.schoolspecialty.com/spire
Nikki Swaine
Reading Horizons Structured literacy is essential when teaching struggling readers. This resource will guide a teacher through the process of implementing a structured literacy program. It has a strong focus on phonics, phonemic awareness, and decoding skills as students learn to read, spell, and pronounce words. Multi-sensory techniques are used as students make connections and understand concepts.
Maureen Mannion
I am writing about Fountas and Pinnell Literacy Continuum found at heinemann.com. I chose this resource because I have used it with great success with struggling readers. It tells the specific behaviors and understandings required at each level for students to demonstrate comprehension within, beyond, and about the text. It helps a teacher to see what will be in books of a specific level as well as behaviors students must have to gain proficiency at each level. It is a must to use when planning for guided reading of students grouped by instructional levels.
Jill Birnholz
I think graphic organizers are key to helping struggling readers learn to to comprehend. Scholastic offers some of the best organizers I have used. From their KWL, main idea, to their comprehension quilt organizers, each offers the opportunity for students to organize their thoughts and record their thinking and understanding about what they have read. Graphic organizers allow struggling readers whose difficulty is comprehension to clearly map out their thinking and learn new strategies to truly understand what they read. I use graphic organizer for both narrative and expository text. They allow students to understand text structure, how to use context clues, and take their thinking further. The added benefit of linking writing to reading solidifies gains.
Jill Birnholz
Scholastic offers graphic organizers to aid struggling readers comprehend. From their KWL, main idea, to their comprehension quilt organizers, each offers the opportunity for students to organize their thoughts and record their thinking and understanding about what they have read. Graphic organizers allow struggling readers whose difficulty is comprehension to clearly map out their thinking and learn new strategies to truly understand what they read. I use graphic organizer for both narrative and expository text. They allow students to understand text structure, how to use context clues, and take their thinking further. The added benefit of linking writing to reading solidifies gains.
Jill Birnholz
Scholastic offers graphic organizers to aid struggling readers comprehend. From their compare and contrast, main idea, to their comprehension quilt organizers, each graphic organizer offers the opportunity for students to organize their thoughts and record their thinking and understanding about what they have read. Graphic organizers allow struggling readers whose difficulty is comprehension to clearly map out their thinking and learn new strategies to truly understand what they read. I use graphic organizer for both narrative and expository text. They allow students to understand text structure, how to use context clues, and take their thinking further. The added benefit of linking writing to reading solidifies gains.
Jill Birnholz
Scholastic offers reading organizers to aid struggling readers comprehend. From their compare and contrast, main idea, to their comprehension quilt organizers, each reading organizer offers the opportunity for students to organize their thoughts and record their thinking and understanding about what they have read. Reading organizers allow struggling readers whose difficulty is comprehension to clearly map out their thinking and learn new strategies to truly understand what they read. I use graphic organizer for both narrative and expository text. They allow students to understand text structure, how to use context clues, and take their thinking further. The added benefit of linking writing to reading solidifies gains.
Alyssa
A resource I use for struggling readers is Tumble Books. I chose this resource because it is an online resource that allows students to choose books they are interested in. They can first listen to the book, and then try to read it on their own. Often times, struggling readers are also the students who do not like reading in general. This resource allows students to choose what they are interested in, and books at their individual reading levels. ELL students can also choose books in their native language. The following is a link to the resource https://www.tumblebooklibrary.com.
Rosalina Navarro
I choose Literacy Strategies for grades 4-12 Reinforcing the Thread of Reading by Karen Tankersley because it help me to understand and engage my students in Reading.www.ascd.org/publications/books/.../The-Struggling-Reader.aspx Also I choose making meaning for the struggler readers video as an example for my class. https://youtu.be/2omyZb_SIbI It will help my middle school students to understand the strategy,level of independence and make connection with the reading through prompt.
Rosalina Navarro
I choose Literacy Strategies for grades 4-12 Reinforcing the Thread of Reading by Karen Tankersley because it help me to understand and engage my students in Reading.www.ascd.org/publications/books/.../The-Struggling-Reader.aspx Also I choose making meaning for the struggler readers video as an example for my class. https://youtu.be/2omyZb_SIbI It will help my middle school students to understand the strategy,level of independence and make connection with the reading through prompt.
Rosalina Navarro
I choose Literacy Strategies for grades 4-12 Reinforcing the Thread of Reading by Karen Tankersley because it help me to understand and engage my students in reading. www.ascd.org/publications/books/.../The-Struggling-Reader.aspx Making meaning video: https://youtu.be/2omyZb_SIbI is a strategy to apply in my classroom for level of independence in reading.
Valerie Armstrong
The resource I would love to share is actually a school program I found quite helpful last year for struggling readers. Read 180 is the in school resource that I used last year. It provided a mixture of instruction, what was called 'blended learning'. This program requires the students to test at the beginning of the year to obtain a lexile score and then it places the student in reading materials adequate for their personal level. What I liked about the program, if done properly, the students rotate every day gaining instructed help from each station at 20-25 minute intervals. The hardest part is trying to get the students trained for the procedures in class. I am not sure where you could buy the program from as there is no particular website I can share, however, if you google Read 180, it will populate many different types of resources.
Ashley
I liked= to use FCRR for literacy activities. I use them for differentiation for all levels. The games are really fun and easy to make. fcrr.org
christina bryan
It Raining Cats and Dogs: And Autism Spectrum Disorder Guide to the confusing world of idioms. I chose this resource because idioms can be extremely confusing and frustrating to students who have difficulty with figurative language and idioms because they are often so literal. Teaching of idioms, explicitly and implicitly can help a great deal
Mary Bond
I'm choosing Capstone eBooks as my literacy resource because it's a great tool for having students hear text read to them. The website is www.mycapstonelibrary.com There are hundreds of books for children to choose from in almost any genre and grade level. For struggling students they can hear stories read repeatedly, as often as they'd like. It's a great vocabulary builder and models what good fluency sounds like.
Maya
I would like to share a resource that I just found within the previous assignment. https://socialjusticebooks.org/booklists/ There are over 60 book lists for multiculturalism and social justice. There is even a book list for students with incarcerated parents. These lists cover the topics that so many of our students are experiencing. Struggling readers may enjoy these books because it gives them something they can relate to.
KB
https://www.edutopia.org/article/2-evidence-based-learning-strategies This resource has a variety of articles and videos that discuss reading comprehension.
Amy Corlew
A resource that I have come to enjoy in my classroom is Flocabulary. I chose to share this with you because of its unique ability to explicitly teach vocabulary in an engaging way. It combines catchy songs, reading passages, vocabulary, and exercises into a multisensory learning environment. It is not a free site, though you may access certain features without a membership. You log in and choose your grade level. I choose to print the student resources and project straight from the site. You play the song for the passage accordingly as students follow along. A second play is almost always necessary for students to understand the beat. They sing along, and you're likely to get these stuck in your head too. Each vocabulary word has a definition in the packet. It is displayed in the form of a flashcard with a visual image and an example. It was designed to align with best practice as identified by educational experts and academic research!
Deidre Bradley
I use F and P found at heineman.com. I can target specific skills and have all my information in one place, as our district publishes the leveled readers into a bound book.
Scott Crelin
I really like NewsELA as an additional resource to support literacy because it incorporates digital resources into the learning environment in an intuitive way that doesn't take extra steps and confusion to understand. https://newsela.com/ Basically it's a website that takes articles from around the web and puts it in a format that allows for instant questions, annotation, and notes. Struggling readers can interact with the text through a digital medium and this helps them understand through their own notes.
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