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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

Katelynn S
Iready.com is a great resource that I recommend to my students that struggle with reading. Each day I allow them 10-15 minutes to work on assignments. It has a lot of tools and tips to help students discover were they go wrong in reading a simple text.
Jennifer Gonazalez
A good resource for struggling learners that I have used is iReady. This resource evaluates each students strengths and then puts them on a path for learning. I like that the program progresses with the child. It also alerts the teacher if the child has attempted a lesson twice and hasn't passed it. With this the teacher can then explicitly teach a lesson based on what each student needs.
Sheila Pawlak
Wilsons Fundations is a great resource for phonemic awareness and phonics that incorporates handwriting. It is straight forward, multi sensory and scientific based.
Trina Deboree
I choose a Makerspace Moment in Literature that I create for 1st and 2nd grade students. Each Makerspace moment is focused on an excellent example of literature such as What Do You Do With a Problem? or The Invisible Boy and so many more. Close reading activities take the students further into the understanding text. Students have the opportunity to share verbally, through pictures, or through words to specific text-based questions. At the conclusion of standards-based work, students are then asked to take a problem from the story and construct a solution. This ties literature into the engineering design model. Struggling students love this aspect as it offers a hands-on approach to looking at problems the characters face. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Makerspace-Activities-in-Literature-Engineering-and-Literature-Invisible-Boy-3428859
Karen
The resource that enjoy using in my Kindergarten classroom is "Next Step Forward in Guided Reading" By Jen Richardson. Is a guide that have assessment, instructional routines, interventions, guide the next step to move reader. https://pioneervalleybooks.com/products/the-next-step-forward-in-guided-reading The practices in these small group reading are level appropriate and well time for grade level. Is an easy way to assess students, place student in correct level, small groups, end of lesson reflections, on-going assessment, and other classroom activities. Lessons are a two parts, two day lessons. Lessons includes - Sight word review -Phonics -Phonemic Awareness -Vocabulary -Print Awareness - Writing Each with different target, objective and teaching points depending on the levels. Levels includes Pr-A, A, B, C, D
Katie Waters
One resource I like to use in the classroom is education.com. There are online games, lessons, worksheets and lesson plans. A lot of the lesson plans have suggestions for ELL students. I like that I can assign certain lessons or games to individual students. This allows me to target a specific skill that a students may be struggling with. There are a ton of phonics games and worksheets that benefit my ELL students.
Amanda
The resource that I chose is starfall.com. This website is created for Pre-K through 3rd grade. The main focus is for those primary grades. What I love about Starfall is that it focuses on letters and sounds, as well as vocabulary. It shows the word(s) and pictures. It uses different game to keep the kids engaged. It is an all around great resource in my opinion for any type of child, whether they are an ELL or not.
Julie
I like the site ABCya. It has reading and math games to help learners build confidence in the subjects. It is also fun for them to play the learning games. My son loves it and want to get on the site all the time. This recourse is geared for prek-6th grade. When we make learning fun struggling readers will want to participate more and be more engaged in the lesson.
Mary
Flocabulary is an amazing resource for vocabulary. It allows for students to watch fun rap vocabulary videos while introducing students to vocabulary words 10-15 words a week. Students can also play vocabulary games and do read responds about the words. It also includes many more skills than just vocabulary.
Mary
Flocabulary is an amazing resource for vocabulary. It allows for students to watch fun rap vocabulary videos while introducing students to vocabulary words 10-15 words a week. Students can also play vocabulary games and do read responds about the words. It also includes many more skills than just vocabulary.
Lauryn Duckworth
A great resource that I use is commonlit.org It is a free website that has many reading passages. They are very higher order questions with short responses. They are aligned with the standards and have a variety of topics for the articles. Students find them very interesting.
Lauryn Duckworth
A great resource that I use is commonlit.org It is a free website that has many reading passages. They are very higher order questions with short responses. They are aligned with the standards and have a variety of topics for the articles. Students find them very interesting.
chelsea
I chose to share with you all this new literacy resource for Literacy instruction called digital citizenship curriculum. This curriculum includes free K-12 lessons on news and media literacy. I chose this resource because I feel like their is a lot of news that is going on in the world today. Even though newspapers are not as common as they were, it is important for students to understand information about what is going on in our world, especially for high school students. I also liked this resource because it is free for teachers to use. Below is the link to use this resource: https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship/curriculum. I think this resource has the effectiveness to help struggling readers understand current events through pictures and common relatable words. I also believe this will be an engaging resource for struggling readers to help them keep up with stories around the world.
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Katie Surette
A resource that I use for almost every aspect of the classroom is the Arts Literacy Project at http://www.artslit.org/. This provides a TON of strategies for building community in the classroom, entering text, comprehending text, rehearsing/revising test, performing text, reflecting on text, and creating text. All of these activities are interactive and most use physical movement, a strategy I believe is instrumental in helping struggling readers.
April White
My school uses IReady, which is a great learning tool for all students but benefits strugglers. IReady allows you to retrieve student's data immediately, then pull lessons according to their struggles.
Kristine Aboujja
IReady is a great tool for monitoring student progress. As a teacher the results are immediately available. You can adjust lesson placement if it is too easy or too difficult. However, the majority are working at exactly their level based on a preassessment. You can also see exactly what a student is seeing from their end.
Marsha Valmyr
K12 Reader is a great resource with reading passages and other resources for students who may not necessarily be reading on grade level. https://www.k12reader.com/reading-activities-for-struggling-readers/
Marsha Valmyr
Scholastic Scope is a great resource for struggling readers that provides differentiated lessons, quizzes, and high interest material. The site may be accessed at scholasticscope.com
Bridget Bartus
I have chosen the Wilson Fundations program as a resource to use with my struggling students. It is a very systematic, hands on approach to sounds and words. The students enjoy the variety of activities that the lessons provide. It is structured and research based. It has proven itself to be a great interevntion.
Karen Washington
To help kindergartners of all levels learn to read, I use Next Steps Forward in Guided Reading by Jan Richardson. http://www.scholastic.com/NSFresources/ This program is highly effective for Emergent Readers to Fluent Readers. The program comes with a kit that contains a multitude of teacher resources. The resources are available online and include videos of Jan modeling various reading lessons. The program comes with sets leveled readers from Pre-A to P. Each reading lesson done with a group is approximately 20 minutes long. Students use several modalities to keep them interested and reinforce the lesson. Some of the materials and lessons include magnetic letters, markers and white boards, journals, etc. I have found it to be very successful for kindergartners.
Bethany Martin
I also enjoy the EPIC app. I have found it very useful for my students because they are able to choose a book that they would like to read. Some of the books can be read to them and some ask comprehension questions. It definitely makes reading more fun.
April White
I would like to share www.iready.com to anyone who has never used it. It is used in my district and we find it to be very beneficial for data and extra help for the students.
Myrna Rodriguez
One resource I use in my classroom that my students really enjoy is Teach Your Monster to Read https://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com/about-the-game/what-does-each-game-cover. I chose this resource because it supports the students letter sounds, early letter sound combinations and reading short sentences. It gives them the extra practice outside of the core content of Fundations, Heggerty's and I-Ready to work with phonics and reading. My students get excited to be able to interactive with the program and they are still learning vital skills for becoming better readers.
Phyllis Clemons
I chose this resource because it provides resources for a variety of learners. Parents and educators are able to go to this website and find effective resources for their struggling readers. https://www.readingrockets.org/reading-topics/struggling-readers
Phyllis Clemons
I chose this resource because it has a variety of information from games to assessments. https://www.pathstoliteracy.org/struggling-readers/resources
Kathy Warner
A program I was introduced to two years ago and used very effectively last year was the Read Naturally Program. This program uses leveled passages from Level 1 to Level 5 and used echo reading, choral reading and buddy reading over a 5 day period, with vocabulary for each passage and accompanying questions to monitor comprehension, and a written response built in to the weekly practice. On Monday the students take a "cold read" and graph their WPM and on Friday they take a "hot read" and see that their fluency has greatly increased. The students love it and look forward to graphing their fluency and seeing their own progress. They set goals for their fluency, and are experiencing great feelings of success at the end of each week.
Kathryn C Warner
https://www.readnaturally.com/ I have used Read Naturally very successfully with struggling readers. The program has leveled passages from Level 1 to Level 5. The passages are all informational text passages, with a large variety of interesting subjects. The program uses echo reading, choral reading and buddy reading for 5 days. On Day 1 the students do a "cold read" and graph their WPM. On Day 5 they do a "hot read" and graph again, showing the tremendous progress and increase in fluency they have gained in 5 days. The program includes vocabulary, comprehension questions, short and extended written responses. The students are highly motivated and love the tracking of their fluency, as they see themselves increasing their fluency on a daily basis. They also love the information they are learning. The subject matter covers a wide variety of interesting subjects, such as Elizabeth Blackwell,first woman doctor in the U.S. or "spitting cobras" and so on. I highly recommend this program for struggling and/or reluctant readers.
Malinda Boyd
I chose Jan Richardson, The Next Step Forward. http://www.scholastic.com/NSFRESOURCES/ It's an instructional resource for guided reading. This resource meets the students where they are and takes them to the next step. It's easy to follow and students are highly engaged. It provides students with the foundation they need to successful read and understand the text.
Jeffrey White
A good online resource is Flashcard Stash. This website allows you to set up a free account and to create flashcards that are specific to your subject. My students work well will this method (flashcards). My room is a self-contained ESE room, so assistance of this nature works well. I believe that it can also work well for gen-ed rooms that are working on definitions or meanings of terms. The website address is: http://flashcardstash.com/
Andria Lyter
I use BrainPop a lot. I have students watch the video and then I play a game like 4 corners when using the quiz. It gives the students a chance to move around and see who was paying attention.
Andria Lyter
I use BrainPop a lot. I have students watch the video and then I play a game like 4 corners when using the quiz. It gives the students a chance to move around and see who was paying attention. www.brainpop.com
Lisa Juarez
Our schools uses i-Ready for reading and math instruction. This program allows students to fill in the gaps that they are missing in order to get the child moving forward with reading. If you have never used i-Ready, take a look at www.iready.com.
Lisa Juarez
My students use EPIC to read and listen to a skilled reader read text fluently. www.epic.com
Kimberly Rooney
I agree with iready.com. It is used in our district to monitor all students. It is very helpful for teaching struggling readers since it shows the skills that they need to work on.
Michele C Brown
BoomWriter is a great writing tool. https://boomwriter.com/ BoomWriter offers a few resources to get started. Teachers can take advantage of the pre-made lesson plans; there are ideas on how to turn BoomWriter into an entire teaching unit. For example, teachers can introduce various writing techniques (similes and metaphors, figurative language, dialogue, etc.) and encourage students to use them in their own writing. Or, teachers can use vocabulary lists from any subject to give students a chance to use newly learned words. Teachers can use writing prompts to support units on different subjects, as well. In social studies, students could write historical fiction to explore past events, or have students respond to a story start pulled from a well-known book that challenges students to rewrite the rest. In science classes, teachers could use the ProjectWriter tool to have students create study guides of key terms and concepts. Writing can happen individually or in pairs/small groups. Students can create books as a whole class, or teachers can break the class into two and have students compare the path each group took to develop the same story start. This could even happen between classrooms.
Sara Martin
A literacy resource I use in my classroom is i-Ready. This resource is wonderful in so many ways. It assesses the students throughout the year with 3 diagnostic tests. Then, the student is assigned lessons tailored to their individual needs. Teachers are able to monitor their progress throughout the year and meet with them to discuss successes and goals. Their are many different reports provided by this program that are helpful to me as the teacher. One of the reports that I use often is the weekly report letting me know the minutes they have completed, their accuracy on their quizzes and what lessons are coming up next. This program has been very beneficial for monitoring my students throughout the school year.
Sandra
I like i-Ready as a resource because the students are given diagnostic tests 3 times a year. So you can monitor growth and they are placed at their reading level. There are lots of resources for teachers to use as well.
Sandra
I like reading a-z as a resource because this can be used in intervention groups. The passages are short and there are about 5 questions about the text that they must answer. There are various stories for the different levels.
Lisa
Reading Rockets is a valuable website because it offers a variety of ideas, lessons, and assessments that can be used at many levels. I find it useful when trying to differentiate lessons and assessments. https://www.readingrockets.org/ This resource works effectively with struggling readers because there are reliable methods to level up or down lesson concepts. These ideas and strategies are research based and/or teacher vetted. This source is a quick way to make on the go adjustments to a lesson as the need arises.
Jensina Barnes
In my travels, one of the biggest hurdles students face with comprehension is lack of age appropriate vocabulary. This is why I am choosing Flocabulary (https://www.flocabulary.com/) as the tool that I am sharing. Students participate in a variety of vocabulary activities, including songs, that help them master their words. One of the things I like about this program is they can also look back to prior lessons.
Sheila Pawlak
https://www.fountasandpinnell.com/ Is a great resource for next steps with struggling readers. It explains many of the items in their benchmark and LLI kits. Also it has the reading gradient for books that are in my class library/school book room. It also has quick pd's that are helpful.
Katherine Palazzo
One resource I would like to share is Brain Pop and Brain Pop Jr. Both of these resources are very user friendly and contain fun videos that cover a variety of topics. The videos are shot and have follow up activities that can be assigned to students or can be done whole class. My students love using this resource as either an activating strategy to introduce a concept that we will be learning about or as a follow up resource to help support what we have been learning.
Dave Peters
We use i-ready for extra support to assist in literacy skills. I-ready lessons can be catered to a skill category or narrowed down into a specific skill to practice. My students currently use it in addition to our current curriculum. i-ready.com
David Peters
I use the i-ready program as a great additional support to assist in literacy skills. I-ready lessons can be catered to a skill category or narrowed down into a specific skill to practice. My students currently use it in addition to our current curriculum. www.iready.com
Amber Cunningham
I chose the resource biblionasium.com because it's one of my favorite resources for struggling readers. It's like good reads but for kids. Students create their own personal bookshelf, and then write reviews about the books they read. They can share these reviews with their peers and their teacher. This will help struggling readers not only get into reading, but start to find books, series and authors based on their peers and students reading on their same level. They will also be able to share the books they do love with their peers.
Jevoy Reid
I agree with a previous comment but was not able to reply under it. i-Ready is a very good supplement for struggling readers. It's very interactive and students love being on i-Ready. Teacher's I recommend i-ready for every student, not just reading but it has math as well.
Courtney
I chose the ReadingBear.org web resource. Reading Bear is a project of the Watch, Know, Learn.org group. Students are introduced to all the main phonetic patterns of written English. There are interactive videos where students are able to practice stretching out words starting with basic CVC words using word families and working all the way toward complex vowel patterns that would be read in three and four syllable words. The site could be used whole group to start a school year as it does take a little extra clicking to open either the videos or slideshow and students could eventually use this free tool at a computer center. https://www.readingbear.org/
Courtney
I chose the ReadingBear.org web resource. Reading Bear is a project of the Watch, Know, Learn.org group. Students are introduced to all the major phonetic patterns of written English. There are interactive videos where students are able to practice stretching out words starting with basic CVC words using word families and working all the way toward complex vowel patterns that would be read in three and four syllable words. The site could be used whole group to start a school year as it does take a little extra clicking to open either the videos or slideshow and students could eventually use this free tool at a computer center. https://www.readingbear.org/
Melissa Villafuerte
IXL I use this to practice skills already taught.
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