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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

K. Ryan
iReady is something that can truly help the students succeed. It puts the students on a path where they grow and has content that they are interested in. If a student is struggling, the teacher is able to change their path or give them different lessons to help.
Irma
My students really enjoy using the Waterford.org program. It is developmentally appropriate for kindergarten age students. The stories are appropriate and fun. There are also many reports that the teacher can use to facilitate small group instruction.
Tammy Rohring
I chose this resource "This Reading Mama" because it was written by a teacher. It contains several different resources ranging from choosing appropriate books, to fluency, spelling, and even a multi-sensory approach to reading. My favorite aspect of this resource is the one that discusses how to choose books that have appropriate and interesting content to a struggling reader who may be a bit older. (Such as the ELL's.) https://thisreadingmama.com/12-incredible-resources-for-struggling-readers/
Tiffany Watson
1. I have and continue to use Edgenuity at our school site. I chose this resources because it's a resources that helps to close the achievement gap for each individual student as well as keeps them progressing towards their current standards. 2. Edgenuity.com has mathematics and reading capabilities. The program designs a path for each student based on a pre-assessment. The path for each student is designed to only give them skills they need additional support in. Each teacher has the capabilities to assign paths based on the current standards are that are being addressed in the classroom. 3. The resource is ideal for all learners in the classroom. I really enjoy that the program is designing programs around each student and their current needs. The program provides multiple options for pulling reports and providing data to support pulling small groups for common misconceptions.
Doni Barnhill
I've used Reading Rockets for years in both elementary and middle school. I use it because it's chock full of resources to help with teaching reading; for helping struggling readers; and it has tons of topics and a great list of books and authors. Link: https://www.readingrockets.org I've used the articles when needing new classroom strategies, and have parents of my students use the resource for help at home.
Katie Waters
A resource that I have liked using in my classroom is Epic Books. I like this resource because there are lots of levels of books in lots of different genres. There are some books that are read to the student and others that the student has to read. I like to find books on different topics and have the students access it and do the reading themselves. I also like that there are lots of books on different cultures and countries.
Lisa Funez
I chose teachervision.com ; it is a great resource for teachers to find bridging lessons for those students that need some extra help beyond your normal lesson. Also my favorite part are the resources like an entire section dedicated to various graphic organizers you can use. It save me time making them, and also gives me ideas for helping my students.
Lisa F
I chose Teacher Vision ; a great resource for bridging lessons for those students that need some extra help beyond your normal lesson. Also my favorite part are the resources such as an enormous selection of various graphic organizers to use. It is time saving and generates additional ideas to help students.
Phyllis Clemons
The resource I would like to share is Month by Month Phonics, by Patricia Cunningham. This is a systematic phonics program that has been a staple in my classroom over the past 20 plus years. I use it whole class as my daily phonics piece to my reading program. https://www.amazon.com/Month-Month-Phonics-Upper-Grades/dp/0887244734/ref=sr_1_305?keywords=phonics&qid=1581461447&sr=8-305
Jewel Sharp
IReady.com This resource provides a wide range of reading skill practice from basic phonics and phonemic awareness skills to more complex comprehension skills and vocabulary development.This program is individualized so it focused on the skills struggling readers need to master regardless of grade level. It bridges some of the gaps in skills of struggling reader that continue to affect their ability to be successful readers.
Jewel Sharp
IReady.com This program is individualized and provides specific skill practice depending on the learner's needs. It provides instruction and practice in all areas of reading from phonemic awareness to more complex comprehension skills and vocabulary development.
Leann Malphurs
A resource that I use in my classroom is Readworks https://www.readworks.org/. It provides reading practice through many curriculum areas (Science, Social Studies) as well as high-interest topics (bullying, holidays). The level can be adjusted for the passages, and the passages are engaging. Passages can be assigned to the students to work independently in stations on the computer and include a read-aloud component which is beneficial for ELL or struggling readers. Passages printed out for homework practice or small group practice, and many include vocabulary and/or comprehension practice. There are also many paired texts which is valuable for upper elementary. The feature I like most is the "Article a Day" which supplies the students with short, related articles on various topics. Best of all....it's free!
Toby Hunter
I use CommonLit in my classroom. (commonlit.org) Since the selections are leveled by both grade and lexile, I am able to differentiate for each student. Because the students work individually on their laptops, the other students do not have to know what level they are reading on. I can monitor their work on my computer so that I do not have to distract the students. Results are reviewed and then I conference with the students individually. Based on the data generated by the program, I am able to select additional articles to read, and determine if I should go up or down a level. I also get a feel for what the individual students like to read. This helps me to suggest library books or journal articles they might enjoy. Students enjoy the relative privacy and can take as long as they want with each selection, as they are not timed. This helps build confidence in their reading abilities.
Christy Thomas
I love using Making Big Words and Making Bigger words with students who are struggling with phonics and phonemic awareness. It helps students interact with words and sounds by giving practice with a spelling pattern in a fun and sequential way. https://www.amazon.com/Making-Big-Words-Multilevel-Hands/dp/0866538070 Teachers lead students to make words with a specific phoneme starting with 2-3 letters and building up to 6-7 letter words. It is effective with struggling readers because it helps them see patterns in words and focuses on learning phonemes, segmenting, and blending.
Sharon
We use iReady in our district. This allows the students to work at their own level.
Crystal
https://www.interventioncentral.org/ This link has been very helpful when looking for new interventions for struggling readers. You can generate lists for progress monitoring, such as letter/word fluency. I have found this as great resource when implementing new interventions.
Adriana
I've used teachyourmonstertoread.com for stuggling readers. It is a leveled site to help improve the students reading. It is fun for them because it is like a game but they are learning. I used this site for my very low low students. It starts off with kindergarten skills and then goes up.
Julie Haire
We have a few programs that I feel help our students, one is the i-ready program but we also use the reading assist plus and imagine reading for our ELLs. These programs seem to help our students acquire a new language and also allows us to progress monitor them. They also build skills students need for classroom success.
Temple Bunyak
I have found that iReady is a wonderful resource to use. The students are motivated to pass reading and math lessons that have been individualized for their academic levels based on the diagnostic that they completed. The program also includes many teacher resources and additional learning games.
Tiffany Watson
In my classroom, I enjoy using Edgenuity as a resource. The program really targets each student's individual learning gaps and creates a path for them that address their specific needs. The program provides videos with read alouds as well as videos demonstrating each process.
Christie Jeffries
I chose Starfall.com for the website. I have used it in the past when I was teaching kindergarten. I like it because it teaches each letter and its sound. It teaches words and shows pictures for that letter. When the student has mastered all the letters, they can move on to reading short sentences. Its very interactive, meaning the student can change some words in the story to a different number or color or sometimes item. It has extended learning up to grade 3. Struggling readers in the 2nd and 3rd grade can feel like they are accomplishing reading skills when they read and interact with the starfall program.
Andrea G
As part of my graduate studies I found this website Reading Rockets. It helps provide wonderful reading strategies for students who are struggling with reading. It gives specific strategies before during and after reading. I have used recently with my students and it has help them become better readers.
Amanda Barkley
A resource that I love to utilize for not only my struggling learners but also for my learners that need enrichment is NewsELA. It works great for all learners because the website allows you to chose a desired lexile for the article. NewsELA is a website that create comprehension passages and corresponding quizzes based upon current news topics. I especially love this resource because I can find an article on just about anything. I have a "I want to read about..." box in my classroom. Students write me a note explaining what topic they hope to read about. At the end of the week, I read through each idea and locate articles from NewsELA regarding their desired topics and put that article in their weekly reading folders. For students that already struggle to read, reading about something they are not interested in makes reading even more difficult. If I am able to recruit interest in any way when it comes to reading, I am willing to do anything for those strugglers!
william stradley
I like teachyourmonstertoread.com. It is the best for teaching phonics.
Todd W. Coleman
I studied TESOL.org in a previous ESOL course. This resource is useful for connecting educators with lessons and professional learning communities. Lesson plans designed for classrooms involving ESOL students can assist teachers in more effectively addressing student needs. They have tips on teaching and activities, as well as information about standards related to ELLs. Through resources like this, teachers can take ideas from lesson plans and adapt them to suit their students. That the website also offers connection with other educators seems to be a boon for teachers who need to address specific needs of their students.
Patricia Huffman
I chose iReady because it is a program that takes each child from where he or she is currently performing and then provides instruction and assessment on skills from that point. Students can also work on iReady if they have computer access in the home. My students are highly motivated by tracking the number of lessons passed each week and having their punchcards for prizes marked as they pass lessons. https://login.i-ready.com/educator/dashboard/reading https://login.i-ready.com/educator/dashboard/math
Margaret Watral
I learned about newsela.com while participating in the "Foundations of Reading" course modules. This free online resource provides content reading materials on a wide variety of topics that can be read at five different lexile levels. This is a fantastic resource for the high school ELL students I teach since they demonstrate a wide range of reading abilities in English. On one occasion we read about William Shakespeare prior to starting our literacy study on "Romeo and Juliet," and students were able to access biographical information about Shakespeare at their respective reading levels.
Mary Campbell
A resource that I frequently use to get my students more interested in reading is Story Line On Line (https://www.storylineonline.net/). It is presented by the Screen Actors Guild and is really fabulous. Check it out!
Tiffany
So we use MobyMax in my classroom which works with differentiated learning in K-8 and can work on fixing the gaps amongst the students in your classroom. I like this because they can log in at home as well and continue to work and we can also tests them to move them up once they are ready to the next level.
David Peters
IReady.com is the resource that I would recommend. It directly correlates with our curriculum and is self paced. I can see diagnostics, comprehension, and vocabulary results, lessons passed, and even turn off areas as need be.
David Peters
I use ReadWorks.com as another means to reinforce comprehension and vocabulary skills. I'll find interesting passages for students to be more engaged in. I also use the assessments as guides of what types of questions and responses we can be looking to answer.
David Peters
I use ReadWorks.com as another means to reinforce comprehension and vocabulary skills. I'll find interesting passages for students to be more engaged in. I also use the assessments as guides of what types of questions and responses we can be looking to answer. *It keeps saying duplicate response every time I try to post my comment*
Stephanie
FlipGrid is a great resource to use and it allows the students to practice the five pillars of reading.
Andrea Shannon
https://www.readingrockets.org/ I chose reading rockets because reading rockets covers many areas of literacy and helps struggling readers.Reading Rockets offers a wealth of research-based reading strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help young children learn how to read and read better. Our reading resources assist parents, teachers, and other educators in helping struggling readers build fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills. The site contains reading topics from a-z, parent tips, classroom strategies, and writing samples.
Michelle Pritchard
I really like the I REady program that we use at our school. It gives me daily feedback and recently has changed up its lessons and we have seen almost 1/2 of our students increase their reading level by 1/2 of a year within the first 4 months. This was very exciting.
Sydney
I really enjoy Readworks.com. Not only does it provide multiple types of readings styles for various literary devices, but it focuses on comprehension of text and vocabulary. Being a fifth grade teacher, I work a lot with comprehension and finding text evidence.
Kelsey O'Bee
I am required by my district to use a program called I-Ready, however I really do find it useful. The students are leveled at the beginning of the year by taking a diagnostic in reading on I-Ready, which provides me with data that identifies their strengths and weaknesses as readers across domains such as Informational Text, Literature, Vocabulary, Phonics, Phonemic Awareness, etc. I use this data to create groups and provide interventions. The program prescribes the students with their own individual learning path that builds up their weaknesses and increases their strengths. Additionally, if I identify an area that a student is struggling in that is not a focus on their learning path, I can assign additional lessons to target that gap. This is a great resource to build up the successes of each student within your classroom.
Joy Bauknight
A resource that I found for struggling readers is Word Wizard App. It has text to speech capabilities, has fun visuals, and gives learners rewards as they work. It costs $2.99 to download the app. I'm going to download it and try it with my grandson.
Jeffrey White
An online resource that I use with my kids is PBS Kids reading. It is a great source of interactive material that can be easily accessed either in the classroom or at home. https://pbskids.org/games/story/ It allows readers from different levels to read effectively. It can be done with a gaming format or as a serious reader. All in all a great resource.
Christopher Seekings
I choose the resource Nearpod because I recently took a professional development class on this resource and saw how effective it can be if used properly. This resource is basically PowerPoint on steroids. It can be utilized in several different methods of learning. Link: http://www.nearpod.com/ Description: Nearpod is an instructional platform that merges formative assessment and dynamic media for collaborative learning experiences. This resource works effectively because of how many ways you can approach this in a positive manner in student learning. I love this resource because the teacher can control the pace of the activity and can get immediate feedback from the students in a variety of different manners. My favorite part is the virtual field trip. This engages students and allows them to feel like they are at places that they may not ever get to visit. Literacy can easily be added ass one of the features while using a virtual field trip.
Michelle Gabriel
I work in an ESE classroom and we use New2You and Unique Learning Systems. These are both great resources for struggling learners. If subscribed to the website you are able to access lessons with specific vocabulary tied to the lessons, many activities to practice comprehension and more, and it also has options for text to speech. www.n2y.com
crystal aguilera
I like to use Nearpod.com for a variety of resources. It has subject related content given with hands on activities, visuals, as well as a variety of collaboration opportunities. It is a great tool to differentiate learning on a wide array of topics.
crystal aguilera
I like to use Nearpod.com for a variety of resources. This site has subject specific topics given with hands on activities, varying medias, as well as collaboration opportunities. It is a great way to differentiate learning on a wide array of content.
Brittany Hines
The resource that I chose was Scholastics because they do have a variety of reading material that you can use in your classroom that can assist what you are teaching. It does provide resources for you to print as well to help struggling readers.
Jennifer Towell
1.I chose Fundations as my resource. It is a multisensory based and is used to identify the individual student’s needs and then implement the correct teaching strategy. It has proven to be successful with my struggling readers and my ELL students. 2. https://www.wilsonlanguage.com/programs/ 3. Based on the info on the website- Wilson Fundations makes learning to read fun while laying the groundwork for life-long literacy. Students in grades K-3 receive a systematic program in critical foundational skills, emphasizing: Phonemic awareness,Phonics/ word study, High frequency word study,Reading fluency, Vocabulary,comprehension strategies, handwriting and spellling. This is why I feel like it is so successful--
Jennifer Towell
1.I chose Fundations as my resource. It is a multisensory based and is used to identify the individual student’s needs and then implement the correct teaching strategy. It has proven to be successful with my struggling readers and my ELL students. 2. https://www.wilsonlanguage.com/programs/ 3. Based on the info on the website-"Wilson Fundations makes learning to read fun while laying the groundwork for life-long literacy. Students in grades K-3 receive a systematic program in critical foundational skills, emphasizing: Phonemic awareness,Phonics/ word study, High frequency word study,Reading fluency, Vocabulary,comprehension strategies, handwriting and spelling." This is why I feel like it is so successful--
Sherri Saxton
A good resource that has prevention and intervention is the Wilson Language Fundations. This program is a"multisensory, structured language program". It gives systematic and explicit instruction to help struggling readers. The Fundation link is https://www.wilsonlanguage.com/programs/ and has a lot of great instructional tools. These tools help with phonemic awareness, phonics, handwriting, segmenting and deletion of sounds.
Katherine
One resource I love to use (and the kids do too) is www.Jackhartmann.com. The songs are catchy and there are a ton of different topics that are covered in his videos. We often use them to reinforce a concept or to help build language skills, such as sight words. The students often like to get up and move to his music which helps those students who struggle to remain seated while learning.
Bradley Gordon
I chose readingrockets.org because my area is science and it has a whole section with resources for STEM learning in regards to literacy in Science. The website is https://www.readingrockets.org/extras/stem_series. It can be useful because it has tip sheets in multiple languages, videos, strategies, and tons of links of useful skills students can learn to assist them with reading comprehension in the Sciences
Suheil Vega
There are so many resources! One that I use regularly is readingAtoZ.com It allows me to provide my students with books that are on their level and relevant to our topics and their interest. The best part is that they get to keep the books to grow their own libraries.
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