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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

Liam Williams
We spend one day a week with I-ready. This is great for students who have gaps in their learning. The computer program works to fill in those gaps by providing a diagnostic and then concentrating on the students weakest points. It is engaging and self-paced, meaning the anxiety and stress is taken out of the learning process.
Linda
I would like to share the following: https://resources.fountasandpinnell.com The book is Phonic lessons, letters, words, and how they work. I have used this book for many years in kindergarten. The lesson are engaging and still very relevant.
Amanda Ray
I love the iREADY reading program. this is a great resource for all students. He diagnosis students at their reading level and provides lessons that meet the students at their individual needs. The program covers vocabulary, comprehension, phonics, fluency. I have used the teacher resources to help students that are struggling in an area. I can pull them one on one or small group and instruct at their level in area that needs guidance.
Marianne Vinette
I have used literature circles in the colorincolorado.org website. I like the literature circles because this way you can assign one chapter per student (easier to tackle) and then allow the students to discuss as they read and discover. This website has many other options as well.
Teresa Mauldin
I just recently came across a resource that can help struggling readers, as it was installed on the computers at one of the schools that I circulate through. It is called Snap&Read, and it is built into Google Chrome. This resource allows for text-to-talk, simplification of difficult words, and translation into different languages. It also has the ability for students to highlight key texts and help organize it into an outline. I can see this being incredibly beneficial for struggling readers, but also for auditory learners. My youngest is an auditory learner, and he also has weak reading skills, and I can see this assisting him, not only in gaining an understanding of the text, but also in organizing what he has read for additional review or assignments. According to their website, https://snapandread.com/, Snap&Read works with multiple online sources. This seems to be a wonderful tool, and I may by a personal subscription for my child.
Justin Gibbs
I enjoy using nearpod for many different reading activities. This way students are able to use technology while at the same time focusing on reading. They can do a student pace which allows students to read at their own level rather then rushing through at the pace we have to have things done in the classroom.
Justin Gibbs
I have worked with Nearpod for reading activities. This way students are able to use technology while at the same time focusing on literature. They can do a student level as well as their own pace so they wont rush through at the pace we have to have things done in the classroom.
Leanne Gillingham
A word wall is a great resource. A word wall is useful for students that need the visual representation. A teacher can use sight words, high interest words, and even student names on the word wall. Some teachers use student writing to find words that would be a good fit for the word wall. Teachers of older students might make an academic vocabulary word wall. A word wall is a useful resource in any classroom.
Flora Talada
I have experience using Waterford, Hatch, and Footsteps2Brilliance in my classroom. These programs give the students the lessons and practice to help them become successful beginning readers, building the foundation for success in reading.
Cindy Conner
I picked this resource because it has so much to offer for struggling readers and those working with them. The website is www.thisreadingmama.com. The "mama" operating the website is a blogger, author, and speaker who is passionate about everything literacy. She also has an account on Pinterest and offers lots of ideas and tips.
Tricia Campbell
http://www.readingplus.com provides students with an opportunity to choose from a variety of genres of text. The teacher sets the pace for how quickly students should be able to read each line of text (how many words per minute). At the end of the online story, students are asked about 10 comprehension questions and given a score based on their responses. Students can also be assigned vocabulary words to practice. These words appear quickly and students may be asked to find definitions, synonyms, or match words to their correct sentences. This is useful fluency, comprehension, and word recognition practice for all readers.
Jennifer Williams
I have much experience working with the Voyager program. This program is very helpful in that it reviews foundational skills daily while building on new skills to help students with literacy and reading. https://www.voyagersopris.com
Jevoy Reid
i-ready is great along with passages from readworks.
Christa Rogalla
I would like to share Nearpod. This program is used in my district, and there are many great lessons that can be assigned to individual students or used for whole group lessons. Our access us linked through Schoology. I often use them for lesson introductions or center rotations.
Charles Rogalla
My district used iReady, and this is a great way to provide differentiation for students. I especially like to use the close reading lessons when teaching in small groups. These lesson provide challenging text with a focus on specific skills.
HEATHER WILSON
Resourse link : Allaboutlearningpress.com Com Complete program that teaches phonics , decoding , vocabulary , fluency , and comprehension . Four levels , plus a pre-reading program . Multi sensory instruction , scripted lessons in an easy to follow format so you never a step , fun and engaging to help you become a fluent reader for life . I think it has potential to help struggling or early readers because it is designed for preschoolers and kindergartners ,and it seems to build a good foundation for learning to read . There for helping you to not struggle or back track and get back to the basics when struggling and may have good strategies. It also is more like play so its more engaging and doesn't seem like learning to the child .
Tina Hernandez
I like Nearpod to use with struggling readers or ELL's. This allows for differentiation as I can use a VR with the lesson to bring them into the vocabulary parts they need. They don't understand a crowded market until they see and experience one, or a rocket lift-off. Really cool teacher or student paced lessons on just about everything.
Rebecca McCorkle
I often use BrainPop to reinforce our lessons. The engaging videos and quick quizzes are great to check for comprehension. They have a huge variety of lessons available across all the content areas. But best of all, they have Spanish version available. esp.brainpop.com BrainPop Espanol offers all the same videos and quizzes available on the English site. For struggling readers, this provides a change of pace to regular instruction. Clear, systematic videos present lessons in an understandable way. This would also be great as an introduction to build knowledge, academic vocabulary, and confidence before your main lesson.
Rebecca McCorkle
The resource I would like to share is an idea I saw another teacher using but plan on tweaking to use in my own classroom. Most curriculum sets will come with weekly fluency assessments. I plan on printing these out for the kids. We will then choose a few of the most difficult words from the passage to focus on. We will break the word into syllables using predictable patterns. Syllable patterns can be named after animals to help students remember them more easily. I use these, but you could certainly name your own or find similar resources across the web. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Syllable-Division-Pattern-Posters-1348050 After we have broken the word into syllables, we will color code each syllable of the word according to the 6 syllable types (Open, Closed, CVe, R controlled, Final Stable, or vowel team). I love this activity because it has so much bang for the buck. You are reinforcing basic phonics sounds, teaching necessary skills for decoding multi-syllable words, increasing fluency, and promoting logical thinking skills.
Ashley Acevedo
I like to use the Reading Rockets website. It gives resources for teachers to use in the classroom. I have used the LRD (Listen-Read-Discuss) resource. They listen to information about the text we are going to read, then they read it, and we discuss it. When using this strategy with ELL's I use a graphic organizer to help them organize their thinking and help them be able to better understand what they read and they are able to discuss better.
Jevoy Reid
Aims web is a great resource to use in developing students reading and fluency ability.
Jevoy Reid
Aims web and i-Ready is a great resource to use in developing students reading and fluency ability.
Jevoy Reid
Aims web and i-Ready are resources.
Jevoy Reid
Scaffolding and partner reading are techniques in reading.
Shanda Haynes
https://www.collaborativeclassroom.org/programs/sipps/ In my grade 4 classroom, I currently use the researched-based resource, SIPPS (Systematic Instruction in Phonological Awareness, Phonics, and Sight Words). The resource supports developing readers and older students that experience problems with reading. SIPPS has three levels, Beginning and Extension (grades K-3), Challenge (grades 2-12), and Plus (grades 4-12). I use the Challenge and Plus levels with select students in my classroom. SIPPS meets the needs of struggling readers at various reading levels, based upon an easy and informative assessment. It is also fairly easy to use, with its scripted lessons and pre-printed task cards, word lists, and posters. SIPPS is an idea resource to use to regular adjust or enhance learning experiences and gather frequent data.
C. Geisler
A resource I like to use is Pinterest. The link is www.pinterest.com. It is filled with colorful hands-on ideas and activities for struggling learners. There are activities for struggling readers, phonics, word study activities, sight words, spelling activities, etc. This resource is excellent because it is organized and great for engaging the students.
Therese Prather
I chose newsela. This is a great resource for students who are struggling readers. I also have suggested this to students who want to improve writing an evidenced based paper. This is a news paper which consists of articles about different parts of the world. An acitvity sheet is also included which not only gives practice for writing an evidence based paper but also gives practice for writing sentences based on a specific article. The majority of comprehension questions are text-dependent questions. There is also a glossary section to find the meaning of more difficult/unusual words. Although this is a long distance learning computer site, a teacher or corporation can get hard copies. This allowed to give the paper tutors when working with a student on reading and/or writing.
Michelle
I would like to share the resource that I just became familiar with and actually love it. The program Freckles.com is great for my ELL students. It aligns the students lessons on students diagnostic assessments. It has all subjects - Math, ELA, Science, and Social Studies - that the students really love. There are tutors that are available also for extra support.
Ashlyne Walton
It’s a book but here is the website: https://www.heinemann.com/products/e07433.aspx#fulldesc I chose The Reading Strategies Book by Jennifer Serravallo. It has been a great resource for a huge collection of strategies to adjust instruction to meet individual needs. Here is an example of a goal: Goal 1: Supporting Pre-Emergent and Emergent Readers Strategy On every page, try to sound like a storyteller. You can look carefully at the picture to say what the character is doing and what the character is saying. Teaching Tip You can teach this to readers who are reading a familiar story as a way to prime them to try to remember what characters say and do. This also works well in a book that is unfamiliar. In the example that follows, I’m imagining (or inferring) what a character is saying. In the actual story, the character doesn’t say anything on the first page.
Ashlyne Walton
Teaching Tip You can teach this to readers who are reading a familiar story as a way to prime them to try to remember what characters say and do. This also works well in a book that is unfamiliar. In the example that follows, I’m imagining (or inferring) what a character is saying. In the actual story, the character doesn’t say anything on the first page. It’s a book but here is the website: https://www.heinemann.com/products/e07433.aspx#fulldesc I chose The Reading Strategies Book by Jennifer Serravallo. It has been a great resource for a huge collection of strategies to adjust instruction to meet individual needs. Here is an example of a goal: Goal 1: Supporting Pre-Emergent and Emergent Readers Strategy On every page, try to sound like a storyteller. You can look carefully at the picture to say what the character is doing and what the character is saying.
Jevoy Reid
Kegan Cooperative Strategies are great for the classroom, they help to foster students learning development and cater to the needs of all learning styles.
Caitlyn Bartello
The resource I have chosen is iReady. I like iReady because it can be used as a supplement to give students instruction on their level. If students are below level, iReady will give them instruction that is at their level so that it helps fill in the gaps that they are missing. If students are above grade level, iReady will give them instruction above grade level to challenge them.
Kirstie
First, tell us why you chose the resource. I choose NoRedInk.com because it has practice lessons for students on the basics of reading and writing. Not only can the students practice the skills necessary to be successful but they can also take assessments and submit their own writing. Next, provide us with a link to the resource and a brief description of it. www.noredink.com Explain how the resource works effectively, or has the potential to work effectively, with struggling readers. Student's get to choose their interests and then all of the curriculum is set to match their likes. This has proven very successful with my students.
Jaclyn Rickenbrode
I chose this website as my resource for several reasons, one being the fact that we forget as teachers how much vocabulary plays an important role in students learning. Not just knowing text vocabulary words for that week,but also academic vocabulary as well. This website shows teacher how to implement the strategy by only using 10 minutes of the direct instruction a day. This strategy would help struggling readers again the background knowledge of knowing what the words mean, how figure out the meaning of the word on their own and understanding the importance of vocabulary.
Michelle Gardner
The online resource I like to use in my kindergarten classroom is getepic.com. This website has lots of wonderful kids books that you can either read to the students or have the story read to them. You can also assign stories as homework to the students. The students can listen to or read the story as many times as they want and at the end of the story there is a short quiz they can take for comprehension purposes. The books have great pictures and the words can be highlighted as they are read so the students can follow along with the reader. There is a very large selection of books.
Emma George
I found this resource to have really good examples. There are options for how to begin teaching about diversity, and give many other great ideas for topics to discuss in class. This is great for my class, as we tend to be more discussion-based. https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/articles/teaching-content/teaching-diversity-place-begin-0/
Amy Demmy
I utilize www.iReady.com with my students. It is a required resource for our district, but the toolbox pieces supplement my lessons and benefit my small group differentiated instruction. The passages and comprehension pieces directly relate to the standards, are differentiated and are easily implemented in small group.
Summer Reed
A resource that I think is a great tool for struggling readers is starfall. It has lots of learning games that make reading fun for students. It is also a very easy to use website. Students can use this website at school and home.
Summer Reed
A resource that I think is a great tool for struggling readers is Iready. Iready has lessons that are tailored around students skills and at their individual levels. Students can use Iready both at school and at home. Iready also provides lessons so that teachers can help to fill in missing gaps for students.
Denler
Iready provides a great resource that can be use for struggling readers. After the 1st diagnostic iready will use the data to map instruction. The teacher can adjust the level of instruction anytime. The teacher can also send lesson to the student (for example math or phonics to reinforce a skill or preview math skill)
Summer Reed
A resource that I think is a great tool for struggling readers is reading bear. It has many great interactive tools that helps struggling readers. Students can use the resources to learn letter sounds, use flashcards, audio sentences, etc.
Nancy klein
I like to use QUIZ'ZZ.com Students get to do something different by challenging each other while learning, making it fun.
Kathryn Woodall
iReady is a differentiated resource that my school district uses for math and reading. It begins with a diagnostic that places students at their appropriate level. It continues with lessons, tests, and support materials designed to work with Common Core. It is adaptive to students successes and struggles. It also provides games throughout for student brain breaks. More information can be found at Curriculum Associates website: http://www.curriculumassociates.com
Kathryn Woodall
iReady is a differentiated resource that my school district uses for math and reading. It begins with a diagnostic that places students at their appropriate level. It continues with lessons, tests, and support materials designed to work with Common Core. It is adaptive to students successes and struggles. It also provides games throughout for student brain breaks. More information can be found at Curriculum Associates website: http://www.curriculumassociates.com
Kathryn Woodall
iReady is a differentiated program used by my district for reading and math. It begins with a diagnostic that places the students according to ability. It continues with lessons, tests, support materials, and games. This a great resource for data collection as well. More information can be found at Curriculum Associates website: http://www.curriculumassociates.com
Kathryn Woodall
iReady is a differentiated program used by my district for reading and math. It begins with a diagnostic that places the students according to ability. It continues with lessons, tests, support materials, and games. This a great resource for data collection as well. More information can be found at Curriculum Associates website: http://www.curriculumassociates.com
Jevoy Reid
Questioning strategies are very great for the classroom, it allows teacher to assess students knowledge of the concept and see where they would need to correct any misconception.
Cassie McCammon
Rubistar is a great resource for creating fair grading rubrics. This is a beneficial resources for all learners to know the expectations of a graded assignment, but rubics are also very helpful for teachers to use when collecting formative assessment data. http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php
Samantha Knight
I chose Reading Rockets. This is a great resource, as it is free to access, easy to navigate, and filled with a plethora of information but still maintaining a kid-friendly platform. https://www.readingrockets.org/ <--This is where this website can be reached. It is separated into 4 topics at the top: Teaching Reading, Helping Struggling Readers, Reading Topics A-Z, and Children's Books and Authors. This is a resource for struggling readers because there is an entire section dedicated to explaining why students struggle, how to combat this issue, and where help can be found. Although this website is more targeted toward parents and teachers, these parents and teachers can then help their struggling students with more comfort and ease.
Samantha Knight
I chose Reading Rockets. This resource is easy to use and filled with reading help and information. https://www.readingrockets.org/ <--This is where this website can be reached. It is separated into 4 topics at the top: Teaching Reading, Helping Struggling Readers, Reading Topics A-Z, and Children's Books and Authors. This is a resource for struggling readers because there is an entire section dedicated to explaining why students struggle, how to combat this issue, and where help can be found. Although this website is more targeted toward parents and teachers, these parents and teachers can then help their struggling students with more comfort and ease.
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