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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

Daphne
I chose a resource on second language acquisition because 1) it is relevant to my field; 2) its tenets can be applied to ELLS; and 3) it's a fun, research-driven resources for second language teachers. "Talkin' L2 with BVP" is a podcast on second language teaching. Its website also includes some print resources, links to research & resources, and also a link to VanPatten's reading resources (fictional pieces designed to engage early learners in language learning through content). http://www.talkinl2withbvp.com/
Marcia Doss
For my classroom we use Duolingo.com for additional vocabulary and grammar. They also have Duolingo Stories that I will assign to my students to help them get comfortable reading in the target language (Spanish) prior to jumping into an actual book. Students can read at their own pace short stories. Within the short stories are questions that check for comprehension. Should the students run into a word they do not recognize, they just point the arrow over the word and the English word is given. This is a great tool to get students comfortable reading and a great way to expand their vocabulary.
ANDY BREWER
I use Google Classroom to have students read articles, text mark, and compose essays. I use this resource because it's very easy to grade papers and construct quizzes and tests. It's www.googleclassroom.com. It has a component that allows me to vary time limits, students can respond to each other's writing and they get instant feedback from the teacher.
Christine Mesorana
I like to use Reading a to z with students as it gives multisensory strategies to help students with their reading. www.readinga-z.com. There are printable books in many levels, comprehension activities, interactive smartboard activities and more.
Shawna Stephan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8wE1k3DjoE endless word play I have it playing in the morning - it relates, phonics & phoneme segmenting to sentences and then it makes a little story - all enjoy
Lauren Galdys
Epic- Student can read lots of books based on their interest level
Amber
The resource I chose was www.biblionasium.com. I chose it because it's like goodreads for kids. Kids can go on there, add books that are on their reading level to their bookshelf, look at reviews that other students wrote about specific books, write their own reviews and blog about their books. It's a great way to get a student and a class engaged in reading while using a digital platform.
Jen
A resource I use with my entire class, that could also be used in small group is the phonemic awareness flipbook from Heggerty. It is something we use everyday throughout the entire year. The lessons are only about 10-15 minutes and they scaffold. Students love when it "tries to trick" them. At the primary level, if students are unable to segment, blend, or differentiate between letters and words, they are going to continue to struggle in reading and writing.
Robinson
The literacy resource that I am currently using with my struggling learners is Achieve 3000. This program can be differniated to each individual student's lexile and as students progress through the program their lexile is adjusted accordingly. The topics are of high interest which help to engage the students in classroom discussions.
Lee Anne Lariscy
The following website I have used to help teach all four of my children to read. https://www.starfall.com/h/index-kindergarten.php It is user friendly. There is audio with written words and options to change the story lines. Starts with the alphabet, phonics, and ebooks. All of my children learned to read with this as a starting point.
Beverly Robinson
Bookster is a great program for helping students to become more fluent readers. Bookster reads to children and allows then to record their own reading for later playback. It’s designed to teach vocabulary to readers of every age and level using interactive pictures and words.
Kerriann
A literacy resource I use is the Reading Strategies Book by Jennifer Serravallo. This book helps me differentiate instruction by giving very specific lessons for targeted areas. I need to listen to the students read to determine what areas they need help with, then I use that book to help guide my instruction.
Beverly Robinson
I tried several times to post about a different resource and I continue to get a message that I'm duplicating my response. So this is my response.
Jennifer Weekman
Second grade has just begun using the Fundations(Wilson) program this year. Students who are consistently not mastering the phonics are retaught and there are connection lessons. Also, there are inventories provided to help evaluate student placements. There are activities for intervention groups based on placement. www.wilsonlanguage.com
Laura RYan
The resource I would choose is nearpod. The link can be found at nearpod.com. Nearpod has many different features that allows teachers to adjust and add to fit the needs of their students. For example, you can choose to do a live lesson and quickly get results from an exit ticket instantly, so then you can figure out who still needs assistance on a certain skill. The students can also see the results and you can hide the names so they can see overall how the class is performing. It is a great resource that I am using this year and I enjoy adapting it to meet the needs of my students.
Federico Antonio Vazquez
www.iready.com is a great site that our district uses. It personalizes instruction for the specific learner and breaks down domains.
Raynell
The tool I chose is iready. We use this tool in our classroom. It is a great resources to assess students and group them according to what skills they need to work on. This tool also allows you to assign task or lesson for students to practice independently.
Raynell
The tool I chose is iready. We use this tool in our classroom. It is a great resources to assess students and group them according to what skills they need to work on. This tool also allows you to assign task or lesson for students to practice independently. Mine is also saying duplicate comment.
Raynell Wetherald
The tool I chose is iready. We use this tool in our classroom. It is a great resources to assess students and group them according to what skills they need to work on. This tool also allows you to assign task or lesson for students to practice independently.
LaDonna Perry
I have chosen the resource of IXL. (https://www.ixl.com/) I have not used this resource with my own students but I have watched it in use with my own son. It is interactive and gives great practice in not only language arts (not his favorite), but also math and science instruction.
Michele Harris
I like to use Nearpod with my students because it is easy to differentiate it to meet the needs of each student, and there are several things it can do. With it, I am able to upload a text and have it read to the student. The words will be highlighted as they are read. Hearing the text read to them will help the student with language acquistion. I would also be able to add additional activities for the student in the nearpod to practice more with vocabulary. For example, I could make a matching game with pictures and vocabulary words. Other students could be matching up definitions with vocabulary words.
Jessica Crites
This website provides many resourceful tools to help with practices and strategies to help ELL students.
Wylanda Williams
A resource I found helpful was called 5 Common Techniques for helping struggling students. This website https://www.understood.org/en/school-learning/partnering-with-childs-school/instructional-strategies/5-common-techniques-for-helping-struggling-students provided videos and information to not only help the students academically, but also built effective teacher and students relationships. It provided techniques and strategies that teachers can implement in the classroom such as differentiated instruction, scaffolding, and graphic organizers and to empower students as learners.
Shannon E
I like Achieve 3000 because it is standards based and provides differentiation for students.
Madison Royer
https://www.readworks.org/ Readworks is a literacy resource that I like to use. It is a site where you can pull articles, look at relevant vocabulary and even questions. I use this website for work in Schoology and even informational articles for homework. Each week my students work on informational text with comprehension and vocabulary questions. The articles are due Friday and I find they have interesting articles that we can discuss. I highly recommend you check it out!
Shelby Whidden
I enjoy commonlit.org because it offers a wide variety of texts on several levels about different topics. I use it to supplement our textbook texts for reinforcement of standards, more cultural context, and extra practice/homework. It offers audio for most texts and even some texts in Spanish.
Jennifer Gonzalez
I like to use starfall with my students. This website is great because it covers all different content areas. You can learn about different letter sounds, read books, count to 100, listen to songs and read poetry. www.starfall.com
Holly Smith
I read as much as I can to my students. It seems so simple, but it can easily be forgotten during a busy school day. I have to foster a love of reading before I can make them "want" to read. I like to read anchor texts that we can use later in instruction and good, funny picture books. I'm surprised at how much my kids LOVE Frog and Toad, anything by Kevin Henkes, and the illustrations of Eric Carle.
Crystal Aguilera
Nearpod and Kahoot are great resources. Nearpod is a fun way to go through a lesson and kahoot provides entertainment and competition when reviewing.
Tanisha Sommerville-Knight
I like to use Vocabulary Spelling City. I is a program that effortlessly reinforce vocabulary and spelling instruction to help students keep up, catch up, or stay ahead! It targets vocabulary instruction with actionable data, Create an effective vocabulary retention cycle,Differentiate vocabulary, phonics & spelling instruction.
Tara
I chose the resource Iready because it is a district mandate that all students that are tiered be on it for 30 minutes a day. The program has differentiated lessons based on the students initial diagnostic assessment. This is a great resource for ELL students because of the this. I often use this with all students because it challenges the higher students too.
Erin
I would use Tumblebooks: https://www.tumblebooklibrary.com/Default.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2f. This is a great site that has quality books that are read out-loud to students. Students can follow along as the books are read to them. It gives them great models of proficient, fluent reading and at the same time, enables them to enjoy great literature at a readability level that may be above them.
erin
I would choose Tumblebooks: https://www.tumblebooklibrary.com/Default.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2f. This is a great website that reads quality books out-loud to students. This is beneficial for those struggling readers because it gives them models of proficient, fluent reading. It also allows them to enjoy good literature at a readability level above their own.
Michelle C Peragine
For my new ELL students with 0 to little English I like Rosetta Stone and Starfall. For everything else I like i-Ready. It assesses students where they are at and creates a learning path toward grade-level content/mastery. I can view reports and add or change their learning paths as well. Students receive remediation and enrichment lesson as needed individually.
Ginger Stuckey
One of the resources that I have found to be most valuable in teaching struggling readers is Phonics Lessons: Letters, Words and How They Work by Gay Su Pinnell & Irene C. Fountas. I first bought the kindergarten set 16 years ago when I was looking for effective resources to be used with my VE kindergarten students. I have since purchased the first and second grade set as well. I have turned to these resources over and over again through the years. I have used these while teaching self-contained VE and also for small group resource lessons. These products are easy to implement and very effective. Most of the lessons use manipulatives such as magnet letters and/or games. They also use visual aides to support early learners and are very hands-on. The set comes with a paperback book with lessons and a binder of resources that can be copies. It also gives suggestions about how to implement routines so that students become very independent in the use of the materials. These lessons can eventually be transitioned into center work. These materials can be found on amazon.com and Heinemann.com
Heather Diaz
I chose this site because it covered the multi-sensory approach to reading which is great for my first graders and ELL's. All students can benefit, not just the ESE or ELL students. I agree with her statement that the more senses we use, the more we will remember. Struggling students that are exposed to all of the senses will end up finding one that makes sense to them and helps them learn.
Leigh Gaylard
A site that I refer to frequently for information, teaching strategies, and activities is readingrockets.org. I love this site because it provides detailed information about the stages of reading development and helpful activities for intervention in a particular skill.
Sharon
After reading the different blogs, I found that the IXL websites to be very interesting. I will be trying the site out.
Lynne McDonough
TumbleBooks is an online collection of animated books, read-along ebooks and reading comprehension for elementary levels. A great collection of both fiction and non-fiction. I use this site when my classes do an author study, text feature lessons and many more https://www.tumblebooklibrary.com/about_tumblebooks.aspx
Mary
The resource I would like to share is Kahoot. This is such a fun and great way for students to review and practice almost any subject that they can think of. With Kahoot, teachers can create their own quizzes or they can use a premade quiz. One of the best things is that it is free! I recommend this all the to teachers who are looking for fun educational resources.
Mary
The resource I would like to share is Kahoot. This is such a fun and great way for students to review and practice almost any subject that they can think of. With Kahoot, teachers can create their own quizzes or they can use a premade quiz. One of the best things is that it is free! I recommend this all the to teachers who are looking for fun educational resources. If you download Kahoot it is great for any grade level.
tina
I use Scholastic ACTION! and Choices magazines in my classroom. They are geared towards the middle ages (I teach 7th grade) with relevant information to get the students engaged. With the magazines Scholastic sends a packet with the break down of each article and what standard it applies to. I utilize these when there is a need for a specific standard with a student. They are a great "break" from the daily routine that the students look forward to reading and completing the corresponding activities.
Sydney Hitt
I, personally, really like the American English website for English Language Learners. This has a number of resources within it. One piece that I found super helpful, being a fifth grade teacher, was the PDF's that you are able to download and view to help ELL's with writing. I think sometimes writing is one of the last things we think about in terms of English Language Learners, but there are strategies that we can use to get them writing as they learn.
Sara Dwyer
The resource that I highly recommend is CommonLit at: https://www.commonlit.org/ This resource is amazing and I use it all the time with struggling readers. It has a wonderful lesson planned out, including media presentation, and a rigorous assessment with each reading to test for comprehension.
Phyllis Clemons
I would like to share the resource, The Next Step Forward in Guided Reading. This resources is great to use with struggling students because it has many resources for all areas of reading. Along with the resources, there are videos that teachers can watch to help them implement strategies introduced in the book provided. I use it for small group and MTSS/RtI.
Melissa Villafuerte
I like to use IXL to help my students with skills they are struggling on. ixl.com
Susana Kettler
In our school we use program Waterford.org I use it every day for reading and Math (I am a K teacher). The stories are read to the students, when they work individually; I can also bring the story up on the smart board and we listen to it as a whole group. I can repeat the story as many times as I need, and I can pause it to ask questions.
Jevoy
I like to use both nearpod an i-Ready for my classroom, due to the fact that they are both user friendly and assist students to work independently where they can track their learning of each lesson. AR is a great tool as well, where I encourage my students to ready daily and take a quiz on that particular book and have a reward system in place to encourage students to read more.Reading is fun and I use it as a motto for my class and all of my students develop that love for reading which is very beneficial. I will also be looking a some interesting resource to utilize as well .
Jevoy
I posted a comment earlier and I'm not seeing it.
Lisa Mangieri
The resource I would like to share is IReady. There are many instructional ideas within this resources that assist with struggling readers. There are available lessons that can be printed in Spanish for a better understanding for native Spanish speakers. There are also lessons that can assigned based on the student's individual level and diagnostics in between to allow teachers to track their progress.
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