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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

Courtney Mustafa
One resource I like to use for my struggling middle school learners is Actively learn. It's a free platform with tons of leveled reading materials. For ELL students, there is an option for translation right in the text. I can create questions as students are reading, give feedback for responses, and students can ask to revise/fix/and resubmit responses to improve growth mindset.
Cindy R
https://www.americanreading.com/ In the past I have used IRLA(independent reading level assessments) for struggling readers. Students are leveled using the formative assessment process. Students are place on a level that is one level easier than their actual level. During 20 minutes of sustained silent reading students read with ease books as the teacher circulates throughout the classroom making notes of whatever the focus is for the day or week. The resource provides tasks centered around phonemic awareness/ phonics/ vocabulary/ comprehension to periodically assess where students are. At the end of the 20 minutes students are encouraged to pair and share to retell their favorite reading. Other days we respond in a notebook about the text with a focused topic. Students are able to increase his/her self confidence as they read.
Paula Morris
I would recommend The Reading Strategies Book by Jennifer Serravallo. I love this book because the strategy lessons are easy to use and beneficial to students of all levels. The book provides specific strategies to teach readers in 13 different areas. The book is organized by skills, genres, and Founntas & Pinnell reading levels to give you strategies appropriate for students of all abilities and ages. It provides great visuals to help the student remember the steps in the strategy being taught. It is a great resource for mini-lessons, small group lessons, or conferring with individual students.
Doni Barnhill
I chose the resource 'International Literacy Association' because I had just researched 'literacy resources for struggling learners' and this site popped up. The link is: https://www.literacyworldwide.org/ This site has some good information and a great article called "Five Ways to Help Struggling Readers Build Reading Fluency" by Shannon Gilfeather, which goes along very nicely with our reading competency course. The article works effectively by defining reading fluency, and quoting the National Reading Panel, then giving five best practices for building reading fluency among struggling readers by: Modeling fluent reading; Conducting student read-alouds; Previewing key vocabulary;Hosting a Reader's Theater; Complimenting students when they read fluently (positive reinforcement). The article also passed on links to other sites (Reading Rockets, etc.) with more information on related topics.
Andrew
I am commenting on Achieve3000.com I chose this resource because of what it offers for students and teachers. This resource works effectively because it gives students an article that is aligned to their reading level. It also has a marking the text feature and asks them leveled questions about the text. It also gives teachers resources like lesson plans and graphic organizers to help the students learn critical reading strategies and answer questions. Achieve also provides students with an opportunity to apply what they learned in the text to a writing assignment called a "Thought Question" this allows students to show they learned in writing.
Melissa
I chose this resource because it's very helpful for the readers who are struggling. www.readingrockets.org is the website. This offers ways to address the problem and find help. It also discusses why some kids struggle with reading more than others and strategies and approaches to use with struggling readers.
Melissa
I chose the resource www.readingrockets.org because it is very helpful in assisting with struggling readers. This resource is very helpful in supporting struggling readers and addressing the problem and find help.
Melissa Davis
The iready curriculum is a perfect complement to literacy skills support. I-ready lessons can be catered to a class of skills and reduced to a particular training skill. In addition to our current curriculum, my students are currently using it. i-ready.com
Melissa
I chose the program iready which provides differentiated instruction and it was designed to get students excited about learning and provides support to teachers. This program provides assessments that are engaging instruction.
Melissa Davis
I chose the program iready which provides differentiated instruction and it was designed to get students excited about learning and provides support to teachers. This program provides assessments that are engaging instruction. This program motivates students with their own personalized path to grow.
Karen Yehl
I chose the program iReady. I currently use this program daily in school to help ALL readers work at their current learning level. However, this program also allows for me to differentiate and help my struggling students in a few different ways. First, if a student fails to pass a particular lesson two times it gives me an alert saying this student is struggling. I can then re-mediate with that student and then reassign the lesson for them to do again. The program also has an iReady toolbox available for me to use to help my struggling readers during my Flexible Grouping times. This is where I can pull up resources directed to one or more students and it provides me targeted lesson plans, lessons, worksheets, and so on in order for me to teach that particular lesson. I can do this in a small group or whole class depending upon my needs. The toolbox gives the teacher that extra component to take things a step further than most computer programs allow. The teacher is actively involved with this program. This is where the struggling reader will get that specific targeted instruction that they need.I love this additional help. i-ready.com
Charlotte Bishop
The word wizard app teaches students to create or sound out words. The best part is that you can edit the list of words the students are working with. The down side is that would need to be working on a tablet to access the app.
Pam Dampier
The literacy resource that I would use for struggling readers is i-Ready. It provides me with a snapshot of what my students know and do not know with specific strategies to use to meet their needs. The toolbox provides me with specific lessons to remediate my students during small group instruction. I-ready.com
Pamela
A literacy resource that I used is Sonday in a small group intervention for my students. This resource covers the five components of reading and can be used to differentiate for struggling readers. (winsorlearning.com) I used this in conjunction with the I-ready toolbox for my students.
Laurie Obrien
I like to use squigglepark.com for struggling learners. This interactive, video game like style allows students to actively engage in the learning process. They absolutely love it. It allows students to retain information and provides enrichment type learning activities for vocabulary, comprehension and grammar skills.
Jodi Lemaster
A resource I like to use with struggling readers is the Epic Books app. This resource is great because it allows teachers to assign books, choose collections, and students can use it at home. It is nice for struggling readers because it does have a good number of books featuring a text reader.
Tara Hessberger
I am writing about Reading A-Z (learninga-z.com). This program offers a variety of leveled books that are of interest to every reader. Resources for tiered intervention are available as well as a variety of assessment and quiz options to track struggling readers' comprehension and reading behaviors.
Tara Hessberger
Reading A-Z (learninga-z.com) is a great resource to use with struggling readers. It offers a huge variety of leveled books of varying interests, genres, and topics. Each book has a corresponding lesson that can be used in any tier of instruction. Assessments and quizzes are also available to track the progress of a readers' comprehension and reading behaviors.
Jewel Machelle Sharp
EPIC is an online program with a variety of books on all grade levels. The books can be selected based on Lexile levels, AR levels and grade levels. Not only do they have books that can be read, it also has a large number of books that are presented orally. I use this with my relunctant and/or struggling readers. One thing that I see repeatedly is that student's comprehension skills and vocabulary development can be restricted because of their reading level. I use this to expose my struggling readers to grade level vocabulary, text structures and language usage. They listen to the text while they follow along in the text. They are held accountable by AR test or book reports.
Beinda McClintock
I use the I-Ready daily as a classroom rotation. The diagnostic has already been gives therefore it has homed in on where the student is at currently. In reading and math as well, the I-ready will give the students skills to work on, finding main idea, could be phonics, comprehension, just depends on where the student is at and what they need to work on, this program will help the student show growth each time the diagnostic is given.
Belinda McClintock
My school use the I-Ready diagnostic. This is how our students are identified as Tier 2 and Tier 3. I then pull small groups to work on the skill that is needed. My ELL students use the Imagine Learning that helps them to decode, phonics and comprehension. All literary skills. Both systems give the students literacy skills to work on depending on where they are placed. This is done as a daily rotation in my classroom.
Christine Gilbert
The Barton Reading System uses direct, explicit instruction. It is a well structured system that can be used by anyone who has been trained appropriately. The Barton reading program is multi-sensory and was originally developed for people dyslexia. But this one to one program has proved to be effective in anyone struggling to get the basic phonics mastered.
Christine Gilbert
The Barton Reading System has been proven effective for students struggling with phonics and spelling methods. This explicit and direct instruction was developed for students with dyslexia, but has proven to be effective for all struggling learners. This multi-sensory intensive instruction builds in a sequential order, allowing no foundational skills to be missed.
Jillian
I would like to suggest kidsa-z.com as a resource. It has lots of leveled books and allows you to set each student's reading level. The students can listen to, read, and answer questions about each book. The "test" portion of each book is also read to them. They can earn coins to build their robot. I like this resource, and the kids like it as well. It is good because it is leveled appropriately for all readers. The only negative is that you must have a subscription to use it.
Kayla S
iReady is a great tool for struggling learners because it is tailored to that student's level and works in the ZPD to help progress that student further.
Kayla Silva
iReady is a great tool for struggling learners because it is tailored to that student's level and works in the ZPD to help progress that student further.
K
iReady is a great tool for struggling learners because it is tailored to that student's level and works in the ZPD to help progress that student further.
Tammy Pendergast
I really like the iREady toolbox. Nothing really new, however I don't see teachers use it to its fullest potential. It provides you with reteaching strategies as well as enrichment strategies. The resources it provides directly impact struggling readers as you have access to different levels to reach their needs.
Mary L
I would like to share a resource that we just started using at my school called reading a-z or raz kids. This is such a cool resource for kids because it does so much for your students in such a fun and easy way. The resources offers students passages based on their reading level and has them read it out loud while recording what they read so that you as the teacher can listen later on and complete a reading record for it. They can answer questions and earn points. The kids really enjoy it and it becomes a fun challenge to try and get past certain passages. Explain how the resource works effectively, or has the potential to work effectively, with struggling readers.
Mark Lunt
Resource: Snap&Read First, tell us why you chose the resource. - I have seen this resource in use in classrooms I support. It is awesome. It opens up more difficult text to struggling readers and provides teachers with a slew of resources that they normally wouldn't be able to use. Next, provide us with a link to the resource and a brief description of it. https://snapandread.com Text reader (TTS) that simplifies vocabulary, translates text, reads inaccessible text (OCR), and captures and cites sources. Snap&Read is the Next-Generation reading tool that can cover the most diverse reading needs. Features: Read Aloud - Listen to text as it's read aloud across websites, PDFs, and Google Drive. Explain how the resource works effectively, or has the potential to work effectively, with struggling readers. - Struggling readers are limited by their lack of reading ability. To compensate they withdraw and try to get out of doing assignments involving reading. With Snap&Read articles are read to them. It works with most articles found on most websites. Now students research topics without their reading ability getting in the way. Also, as the article is being read to them they can follow along and hopefully this will improve word recognition and word meaning.
Jennifer DeMeo
I am writing to share Fundations by Wilson. I am using it to teach phonics to my 3rd grade ELL students and well as using it for phonics intervention. It is a great resource for phonic because it includes a variety of ways to expose children to new sounds. Activies vary from day to day and fun activities keep things fresh. Some activities include drills, intro of new concepts, sky writing, dictation, fluency drills, coding of words, word of the day, trick words, and story time. http://www.wilsonlanguage.com
Jennifer DeMeo
I am sharing the resource Fundations by Wilson. I am using it to teach phonics to my 3rd grade ELL students and well as using it for phonics intervention. It is a great resource for phonics because it includes a variety of ways to expose children to new sounds. Activities vary from day to day and fun activities keep things fresh. Some activities include drills, intro of new concepts, sky writing, dictation, fluency drills, coding of words, word of the day, trick words, and story time. http://www.wilsonlanguage.com
Sherri Himrod
I feel that the literacy resource, Teach Your Monster to Read is an excellent supplement to teaching phonics and early reading. I chose this resource because it is in a game format, animated, colorful, and highly engaging. It keeps the students motivated to learn. It has 3 reading games to play and covers 2 years of a reading journey. This resource works effectively because it starts with letters and sounds (Game #1), moves to confidence with with early letter - sound combinations and are starting to read (Game #3), and Champion Reader: Confidently reading short sentences and knows all basic letter-sound combinations. This resource covers letters and sounds to reading full sentences.
Mary Bond
The resource I like to use for struggling readers is I-Ready.com. I-Ready gives a diagnostic for each child and places them in assignments based on their individual needs, so students don't struggle with lessons they haven't mastered yet. Teachers can also tweak the lessons to add more content, or take some away. The only thing I don't like about I-Ready is that the students who may be at higher level definitely have a lot more reading to do and often the passages are not interesting to them. It's almost like a punishment for them. However, the lower level or ESE students can get a lot of individualized content which is helpful to the teacher who may need time for these extra skills needed.
Eric Bodenmiller
I'm very fond of the Quizlet learning website. It allows the user to create quick study guides for multiple subjects and concepts that can be practiced at any time on a computer or tablet. It also provides "ready-made" flashcards on most subjects. It's convenient, low-priced (around $30 a year), and easy to use.
Tom Gannon
a few things we use at our school that are successful are LLI(www.heinemann.com) instruction, where you work with 2-3 students, reading books at their Independent and Instructional level. like guided reading, except you do a Running Record (F & P) with each student every other day or two. Fundations (www.wilsonlanguage.com) is another resource we use daily, which is basic Oral and Written Phonics and Phonemic Awareness whole group instruction.i have also had a lot of success with my students using Heggerty's Phonemic Awareness resources (www.heggerty.org), which is daily whole class instruction (15 minutes)35 week curriculum.
Debi
I chose IReady since it is a tool we use to assess students and help to form groups according to areas they need extra work in. lessons can also be assigned so that students get independent practice on a skill in IReady after a small group explicit instruction with the teacher
Maureen Adams
I am going to share about 2 resources I love using in my classroom. Fundations and Heggerty. I have seen such an improvement in my students learning. Fundations is a phonics program introducing letters and sounds and building on them throughout the program. My Non-English speaker is able to catch on with the letters and sounds. Heggerty is a a phonemic awareness program covering many different areas with fun activities for the kids to do while learning.
Cheryl Denenholtz
We use i-ready, SRA and LLI as needed to assist students in the areas of comprehension, accuracy, fluency and vocabulary. Students are exposed to LLI in classrooms based on their level of reading ability. I-ready assessments 3 times a year along with the upper grade FSA scores come hand and hand into helping to develop a well balanced reading program created for all learners.
Sarahi Monjaras
My students really love Snap and Read. An issue I have with my struggling readers is that when they see a big chunk of text they are already discouraged and don't want to begin reading. With snap and read the program will read for them and they follow along.
Keith
I think Khan Academy can be very useful in Math for student who struggle with Math fluency. They have videos covering a range of Math topics, allow students to pause and rewind and use Closed Captions, so they can digest the language without missing out on the Math.
Jessica Addorisio
iReady is a great resource, not only for struggling readers, but for all students. The great thing about iReady is that it is at the correct level for each student and giving them individualized lessons based on their needs and deficits.
Cheryl
We use i-ready to assess reading and math skills and concepts 3 times a year. Those assessments are called the diagnostics. We use i-ready and FSA to formulate SRA groups. SRA is primarily a decoding and fluency program. Students are placed in differentiated reading groups based on their reading level and ability. We use LLI-Fountas and Pinnell as well to guide student's reading instruction. This program delves in on comprehension and higher order thinking strategies as decoding and reading fluency improves.
Cynthia Washam
I love Reading Rockets and believe firmly in teaching students phonics, so I found this page on phoneme-awareness activities from Reading Rockets especially helpful: https://www.readingrockets.org/article/how-now-brown-cow-phoneme-awareness-activities. It provides thorough instruction on how to teach phonics and includes a reading list of rhyming books that entertain while reinforcing students' learning of specific sounds.
Heather Moffatt
I chose the Junior Great Books program, because I used it before and I love the format. My students in 5th grade loved the stories; they were very engaging. The philosophy of the program is to promote inquiry. The process is as follows: Read, Discuss, Reread with every story that is read. The students are encouraged to state their opinions and use the text to justify or provide evidence for what they say. It enables the students to dig deeper into the literature and most of the stories can be applied to life lessons. The website is www.greatbooks.org.
Kasey Cadieux
I would like to showcase a textbook that was given to me, Reading Strategies Book by Jennifer Serravallo. This book has so many strategies for specific skill sets that cater to different reading levels.
Michelle C Peragine
I would use i-Ready as a differentiated resource. Each student begins with a diagnostic assessment and then the student is set on a learning path based on 5 areas. In third grade for example, the 5 areas are; Phonics, Phonemic Awareness, High Frequency Words, Comprehension of Literature, and Comprehension of Informational Text. Based on the initial diagnostic test each student is put on an individualized learning path. Students are expected to use the differentiated program for at least 45 minutes a week. Each student has an expected growth model and is given lessons to either support, enrich or remediate within the 5 ares of reading. Data can be gathered and goals can be established for each learner based on their needs. Additional lessons can be added by the teacher and growth checks are given along the way to give data on the expected growth of each student. i-Ready.com
Lauren
I am sharing about Nessy, which can be found at https://www.nessy.com/us/. Nessy is an excellent online structured language program for students with Dyslexia to learn phonemes and rules in an explicit, sequential way.
NORA CAIL
I am blogging about Reading Bear. This is a free website for struggling readers. I like how it sounds out a word, then puts the word in a sentence, and then shows you a picture of the word. The link to the site is http://www.readingbear.org/. It helps them review sounds, blend sounds into words, use the words in sentences, and vocabulary. This takes reading step by step and teaches the child to read.
Alice
I would use iReady because I have to use it anyway and it is individualized.
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