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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

Samantha Knight
A great resource is Reading Rockets! It is filled with resources and help for young readers and their parents/teachers. It is broken down by sections: teaching reading, helping struggling readers, reading topics, and children's books & authors. It is helpful for struggling readers because there is a section of the website dedicated solely parents/teachers helping struggling readers, explaining why students struggle, how to help, and how to find help. https://www.readingrockets.org/
cChristie DeVito
I chose Reading A to Z. I have utilized this in my own classroom for the abundance of material that stretches from pictures books to leveled readers. https://www.readinga-z.com/ell/ This is important because it will grow with students as their ability increases. It also covers social topics that ELL students may need additional support with
Christie DeVito
* I already completed this assignment. When I hit post next screen said it was deleted. here is a quick summary AGAIN I have used the below website in my own classroom. It provides resources that grow with students ability from picture books to leveled readers. https://www.readinga-z.com/ell/
Kelli Pond
Quizlet is a great resource for learning. The teacher can tailor it to what their student's need, and provides multiple strategies to introduce and comprehend content. The students can also interact with each other by posting discussions, viewing poll data, or commenting on other's work. The platform is also familiar in appearance to social media layouts.
Amanda
A literacy resource that I think is great for struggling readers is Starfall. This is geared for the primary grades. What I like about starfall is that not only does it have learning games and activities, it also has where students can read from different stories. The words are highlighted when read. Students can also click on any word and it will sound out the word for them. There are also pictures to go with the sentence(s) for context clue help when comprehending. You can go to starfall.com and explore more.
Lisa Helseth
The Great Leaps Reading Program (Greatleaps.com) is a great resource for struggling readers. It helps boost the reading progress of primary grade students through four parts: Sound awareness, letter recognition and phonics, high frequency words and phrases, and stories. Each page is designed so that the average reader will complete the page in exactly one minute or less. Once a student masters a page, they move onto the next page. Students gain reading knowledge by moving through the program page by page. Students should do either two or four timings per day, one from each section. The goal is to master each section. This program can be used by a teacher, parent, or teacher aide. I like it because students show growth if the program is used with fidelity, can be rewarded with a small teacher prize, and become more confident in their reading of letters, words, and stories as they move through the program.
Rita
The best resource I use is Cpalms. Cpalms helps with lessons plans, standards, assessments, and anything else you need to make sure your lessons are standards aligned. cpalms.com
Danielle
I really enjoy using CommomLit because it provides numerous literary resources in which you can customize the search to a specific grade level, genre, standards etc. They also provide comprehension check questions with the standard it targets and discussion questions. LINK: https://www.commonlit.org/en/user/login I use this resource with many of my struggling readers and ELL students and they enjoy it so much more than the online intensive reading program. They get to help select the reading material so I know they are interested in the story/poem/play and they are invested into understanding the text. I check in with them through the reading process and they are able to tell me what it is about and what they believe the message of the text is.
Cherie
A great resource for struggling readers is i-Ready (https://login.i-ready.com/). The reason I chose this resource is its ability to fine-tune lessons to meet students' needs. The website offers a comprehensive diagnostic tool to determine the child's reading level. Then it gives a detailed description of where the child is at in various skills, such as onset and rime, comprehension. This website is perfect for all readers - whether struggling or not. For struggling readers, it gives teachers the ability to target skills that are not at-level to accelerate learning. For example, a second student might be reading at a 1st-grade level, and one of the primary reasons is that his vocabulary and comprehension skills are at the late-kindergarten level. The website will automatically assign vocabulary lessons. If it doesn't, as a teacher I can assign vocabulary lessons to boost his learning and accelerate growth. Also, this tool is great because students can work on this at home too.
Jennifer
I chose to blog about Iready, as it is an online resource provided by the District and currently utilize with my ELA instruction. My students can access it in class or at home, great for when they are out for more than a day! I am able to assign specific lessons to those students who may still be struggling with a concept. My students like how easy it is and that they can monitor their progress. Parents also are able to see how their student is doing at their individual level.
Margaret Watral
Newsela (https://newsela.com/) is a valuable resource for locating informative text articles that are posted in five different Lexile levels. This has been particularly helpful resource to use with mixed grade level high school ESOL students who benefit from reading common text but need to do so at levels appropriate to their particular English language proficiency levels. (Text can also be accessed in Spanish which sometimes needs to be used with our Newcomer students.)
Laura
ixl.com is a site that provides free interactive lessons for all grades. If a child is just learning about the alphabet they could be guided to pre-k or Kindergarten skills and after some practice they could try the activities on their own.
Tammy Reinhart
Dreamscape at https://www.squigglepark.com/dreamscape/ is a fantastic program that builds strong reading through game playing for 2nd-8th grades. The website says, "It combines strategy, engagement, and imaginative reading passages to create a fun, curriculum-aligned literacy game!" and I couldn't agree more. My students love the platform that seems a bit like Minecraft. After earning so many points for answering comprehension questions students are able to add things to their virtual city. My reluctant readers are asking to play whenever they are finished with an assignment. If you have 1:1 devices, it is definite "must try!"
Tammy Reinhart
Dreamscape at https://www.squigglepark.com/dreamscape/ is a fantastic program that a combines strategy, engagement, and imaginative reading passages. It is curriculum aligned and super fun according to my students. They get to build their own virtual city using points they earn by answering comprehension questions from read passages. My reluctant readers love using this program and it gets them reading.
Amber
A resource that is effective to use as a resource in the classroom is Iready. This app will allow the students to work on their own level and move them forward as they gain in their skills. It has the option for me to assign specific lessons based on what I am teaching in the classroom. There is also a teacher component that allows me to print specific need-based lessons per student.
Amber D
A classroom resource that is effective for remediation or enrichment is the use of Iready. This website allows for reteaching of reading lessons and Math lessons. This program will work at the student's current instructional level and will move them up as they progress through their skills. THere is also a teacher componenet that alows me to pull lessons based on the students independent instructional level that I can use in small group.
Jewell Bednarz
ReadWorks is wonderful; loaded with many resources. It is content-rich, high quality texts and lessons and resources to differentiate group work. Also includes audio narration for students to listen to texts within a classroom listening center. This is helpful in supporting ELLs and struggling readers. Article-A-Day as a 10-15 minute daily reading routine increases student background knowledge and improve vocabulary skills.
Linda
TumbleBooks is a great resource for younger kids. It will read a book of their choice to them. It will also quiz them. Kids can also work on vocabulary that was listed in the book.
Jennifer
I chose ReadWorks as my resource. It provides the same content articles at different reading levels and can also be used with the Snap and Read program for the ELL and ESE student who needs the content or skill but is unable to read at the provided levels such as >2 levels behind.
Robin
One resource I think is beneficial for young students that are second language learners is Starfall.com. Starfall focuses on phonemic awareness and systematic sequential phonics. It also includes math practices for grades k-3rd.
Robin
One resource I think is beneficial for young students that are second language learners is Starfall.com. Starfall focuses on phonemic awareness and systematic sequential phonics. It also includes math practices for grades k-3rd.
Robin
One resource I think is beneficial for young students that are second language learners is Starfall.com. Starfall focuses on phonemic awareness and systematic sequential phonics. It also includes math practices for grades k-3rd.
Robin
One resource I think is beneficial for young students that are second language learners is Starfall.com. Starfall focuses on phonemic awareness and systematic sequential phonics. It also includes math practices for grades k-3rd.
Nora Walker
A resource that I think is beneficial for struggling readers is newsela. Newsela has great articles about different content and they are available at multiple reading levels. You can differentiate the reading level of the same article within your class. There are also reading comprehension questions that go along with the article. These can help students work on their reading skills and help them master reading level.s https://newsela.com/
Ashlee Frazier
A resource I like to use is "readers Theatre" its a great tool for strugglers and a more creative way for students to involved as a class. My students this year are very much group heavy learners.
Hanna Padgett
In kindergarten, we use ABCMouse.com. It's effective because it creates a personalized learning path for students, and helps them work on reading skills they need work on.
William Clark
https://thisreadingmama.com/beginning-spelling-app-word-study/ This spelling app is made from Words Their Way. It allows spellers to work on an area of need based on the spelling inventory. The app provides sorts and games to enhance that area of need. It helps students with their spelling stage. It gives them sorts to work with and then activities to go with each sort. For instance, the students engage in timed and blind sorts.
Leigh Gaylard
I like to use starfall.com or abcmouse.com to support readers on all levels. The computer based leaning programs are engaging and students love to use them.
kendall
A resource that I love to use is NewsELA. Here I can assign a text to students online, and I can change the lexile levels to match individual needs. It works great with struggling readers because teachers can choose texts to pair it with (since it breaks it down into text topics as well) in oder to aide understanding.
Beth Tomblin
An excellent resource to improve reading fluency and comprehension that was introduced to me recently is readtheory.org. This resource levels the student at their appropriate reading level and allows them to move up as their comprehension improves.
Susan Cowell
ABC mouse is a great resource for beginning readers. Right now they are offering a free membership.
Susan Cowell
Starfall.com This is a great resource because students do not need to read to use it. It focuses on individual letters and is interactive.
Karen Ammons
Starfall is a great resource to use with struggling readers. As we all know, many times a reader struggles because of vocabulary. In Starfall, the student works with many words at their level. The teacher identifies what level the child will be seeing when they go into the site.
Mary Pete Martin
A-Z Reading is a great resource for students to see a variety of texts on many subjects at many different reading levels. Often the passages have follow up activities that can enhance comprehension. The website is easy to navigate. learninga-z.com
Dismey Gonzalez
I would like to share the website www.getepic.com where children can digitally read hundreds of books. What I like about this website, as a Kindergarten teacher, is that there are many books that can be "read to" the child, providing a lot of opportunities to improve reading skills by looking at the words and hearing how they are pronounced. If a child is ready to read on his/her own, the website also provides a dictionary option where they can be told what the word means or simply how to pronounce it.
Tanner Thomas
A great resource for all students is "Snap&Read." It functions as a Chrome extension and has been great for our students who all have a Chromebook. Snap&Read allows students to modify texts through increasing or decreasing the lexile level. It can read the text to the students at a pace that is desirable to them. They may take notes on a passage that they are reading and annotate it. My favorite function, that is beneficial to my ELL students, is the translator. It allows most web pages and pdfs to be translated into Spanish. https://snapandread.com/
Monica Amsberry
Colorin Colorado! is a great resource for ELL strategies. There is an incredible wealth of information for parents and teachers as well as links to other sites. https://www.colorincolorado.org/
Christie Morreale
The website I enjoy is PBS.org Between the Lions. It is great for struggling and beginning readers. In a fun format children are read to, taught spelling patterns, and blending activities all in a show format- cartoons, puppets and music. I encourage my students to visit these shows thru youtube, and pbs.org, from home as practice and enrichment.
Christie Morreale
Shared Literacy resource- PBS.org Between the Lions I encourage my students to watch this program. It is all about beginning literacy skills blending, digraphs, and story time. The material is presented in various media format i.e. cartoon, puppets, songs, etc. The students love it and don't even realize they are learning.
Samantha Knight
A resource that I found is the page in Edutopia, "Equity vs. Equality: 6 Steps Toward Equity". I chose this because it breaks down why equity is important over equality to create an inclusive classroom. I found this at the link https://www.edutopia.org/blog/equity-vs-equality-shane-safir I believe this has the potential to work with struggling readers because it makes learning a safe environment for the child, and gives them the space to learn and be comfortable, and although it places demands upon the child, it does so in a kind and patient way. This approach may give children the confidence they need to succeed.
Amber
Education.com is a fun resource I use for not only worksheets and guided lessons, but they have online games that the kids love because they are interactive! They have a lot of resources in both reading and math! For struggling readers they have the option for passages to be read to them and their is also guided questions that follow. My students love Education.com.
Cynthia Washam
The web site Educational Technology and Material (https://www.educatorstechnology.com/)Learning is an asset to teachers, parents and students at all levels. It's packed with links to just about anything related to students' reading. For example, "Five Tools to Improve Reading Comprehension" includes the popular kids' web site Reading Bear. Educational Technology also offers reviews of books for teachers and helpful articles, charts and videos for them, too. Older students can dig up resources to help themselves. A critical-reading checklist on the site, for example, helps students evaluate the validity of non-fiction text. There are few facets of reading education a parent or teacher couldn't find information on from this site.
Cindy Marshall
My recommendation for an excellent reading support resource for middle school is Achieve 3000, also known as KidBiz. This is a subscription based service that can be purchased by schools. I don't know much about the lower grade level program, but I know that this program does go all the way down to Kindergarten. I think that for under 2nd grade it's called Smarty Ants. The reading assignments are also available in languages other than English. Achieve 3000 level tests students at the beginning, middle and end of the school year, assessing Lexile levels. Reading assignments are then adjusted to the particular student's Lexile level. The levels on individual articles are constantly/frequently adjusted up or down as the student progresses. For my current 7th grade classes, my students' Lexile levels range from the mid-600s to the mid-1500s. Each week, I choose an article that pairs well with my book-based literature assignment. The students read and respond to articles presented to them at their personal reading level. My students know that their goal is at least a 75% on the first try for the activities. The activities are actually graded for you! I do require them to do the "Thought Questions" and grade those myself, looking for both content and conventions. In addition to the weekly paired assignment, I require the students to complete one activity of their choice each week. Most of the Achieve articles are non-fiction, but fiction is being added to the program. I find the content of Achieve 3000 to be of high interest to my students. In fact, I periodically assign an article one of them has recommended as the weekly assignment even if it doesn't coordinate with our other work -- the kids love hearing their names when I announce "_______ chose this article for us!"
Kassidy
The site NoRedInk is a resource used at my school by one of my ELA team members. It has text that is engaging to what students like to read and also has grammar questions with instant feedback for the students as well. It can be used as homework or extra credit work for kids to get them to read and the questions help with comprehension and grammar.
Brittany
The resource I would use for struggling readers is getepic.com The reason I like this resource is if you have newer readers it can read the text to you as you follow along. I also like it because they can highlight in the actual story. I also like if you hover over a word it will repeat that word, so for students who are struggling with vocab they can hear it as many times as they need. The last thing I like is the ability to give quizzes with the stories.
Brittanu
The resource I would use for struggling readers is getepic.com The reason I like this resource is if you have newer readers it can read the text to you as you follow along. I also like it because they can highlight in the actual story. I also like if you hover over a word it will repeat that word, so for students who are struggling with vocab they can hear it as many times as they need. The last thing I like is the ability to give quizzes with the stories.
Allison
I found some resources for struggling learners on Scholastic's website. This link is geared toward younger learners, who I have in my classroom. I like this site because it has several ideas and links to assist with young readers in their early stages of learning. This is a free source for teachers to use in the classroom, and as a bonus, parents can access it at home for additional practice. https://www.scholastic.com/parents/school-success/school-help/learning-challenges/ideas-resources-struggling-learners-ages-6-7.html
Nancy Klein
I choose www.readingrockets.org I like this because of the reading instruction and self-paced models The strategies Target the problem area directed reading and activities, and fun reading experiences Plenty at teaching resources and videos
Christy
A resource that I like to use with for reading is Achieve3000 https://www.achieve3000.com/ It assesses students regularly and adjusts the student's reading lexile as it rises. All students are given the same topic article each week, but the program differentiates the reading level for students based on the regular assessments. The questions after each article include multiple choice and short responses. The articles can be printed out and used in whole group or small groups. You can choose an article based on the standard you are working on.
Leslie Owens
Reading Rockets is a great resource for teachers and parent to access theory, strategies and resources to help students with phonics acquisition and comprehension.
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