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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

Ashley Quintero
This year our students have been exposed to the Reading Site myOn. This site has a plethora of books in English and Spanish. When the book is read to students, words and sentences are highlighted as they are read. The books can be searched and sorted by ATOS level, fiction/nonfiction, grade level, category, genre, lexile levels and more.
Tara
One literary source that I like to utilize in the classroom is CommonLit. It has great tools that help students annotate text and provides text support through a variety of online features.
Nancy klein
I really like CommonLit, which can use fla standards and student lexile levels To make the text complexity appropriate for each student
Allyssa
I love using LiteracyPro (storia) in my classroom. I work in a title one school where many of my students do not have access to books. This is an e-library right a their fingertips. It has hundreds of hundreds of books sorted at the students level. Many books have quzizes, audio versions, and different languages!
Amy Barnhard
I use Raz kids and starfall. I love raz kids for all the leveled books
Federico Antonio Vazquez
The website EPIC is wonderful. It has thousands of books students can listen to or read online.
Blaire
Our resources we use for struggling readers is iReady, IXL and leveled books. We base their groupings off of their results and place them appropriately for the leveled books. As far as iReady and IXL we are able to assign specific lessons based off of what they need in order to be successful in the classroom and years to come.
Erica Ashley
For me, it isn't necessarily a website or an app. I believe it's important to have high interest, low readability books- a list of books that struggling readers will WANT to read. Often, struggling readers complain that the books on their level are baby-ish. Providing students with books that are higher interest, but on a lower reading level will help a struggling reader. The best remedy for a struggling reader is to have them read books on their level, that they enjoy and are interested in. -Erica Ashley
Erica Ashley
For me, it isn't necessarily a website or an app. I believe it's important to have high interest, low readability books available for students to read. Often, struggling readers complain that the books on their level are too baby-ish. Providing students with books that are higher interest, but on a lower reading level will help a struggling reader. The best remedy for a struggling reader is to have them read books on their level, that they enjoy and are interested in. -Erica Ashley
Nancyklein
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Elizabeth Cartwright
I like to use Common Lit in my classes. It's not geared toward struggling readers specifically, but since I have all different levels in my class it's been very useful. Common Lit is a resource for reading comprehension and test prep passages. Each lesson includes guided reading questions, test prep questions, and discussion questions. It also includes paired texts so that articles on a similar subject but at a different difficulty level are available. This works really well in classes with a wide range of levels because we can all still talk about about the same subject while meeting individual student needs. I usually print the articles out and have students work together on an article in a small group of students at a similar level, and then we can have a whole class discussion where students share what they learned in small group and compare and contrast it with information learned by the other groups. There's also an option for students to work online as well. Resource https://www.commonlit.org/en
Bryan
Edublogs is a great way for teachers to create a web environment where they can make book recommendations for students.
Bryan
Edublogs is a great way for teachers to create a web environment where they can make book recommendations for students. Very good resource.
Jenna S
I great resource to use with struggling readers is FCRR. They have so many lessons and each lesson can be differentiated to fir all students needs.
Dawn Combs
I have found the site http://www.ascd.org/publications/newsletters/education-update/apr18/vol60/num04/ELLs-Count-on-Language-Support-in-Math.aspx to be helpful as it has links to additional resources for our ELL students. The ASCD site focuses on giving teachers information to be able to teach their students more effectively and resources for students to work with to help them better understand what they are learning. I have also found the iReady program to be helpful for my ELL students as after the student takes a diagnostic test, the program guides students along their path to assure that they are not missing necessary steps. The program continues to move students along as they are able to complete lessons.
Jennifer
I use the resource ixl.com. This is great for all levels-below, on and above. The kids enjoy it because it is something different and I give them options they can choose from each day.
Leigh
I really like to use tumblebooks.com for my pre and emergent readers. It offers a wide variety of animated stories read aloud to students online. It is a great resource available to help students who might not have anyone available to read to them at home. It is also an excellent tool for modeling fluency.
Lenora Holland
I chose Mindplay as a resource for struggling readers. A group of students that I currently work with are using Mindplay. The Mindplay program helps students according to their individual levels. The phonics curriculum for Mindplay builds the foundation that the students are missing in order to read. When used with fidelity the students’ progress and confidence have improved to new levels. https://mindplay.com/ https://mindplay.com/student-programs/virtual-reading-coach/
Rachel Jones
I love the website www.flocabulary.com It is so much fun for the kids as well as educational. It has games and songs (in a cool rap)for a variety of skills. I have noticed that when they are reading, the students remember some of the words that we have learned through Flocabulary. If I do a lesson without it, they are disappointed.
A Richards
A website that I would share with struggling or avid readers would be epic! This resource is a great way to help get more books in front of kids. Students are able to read, watch video, play games and even take comprehension test all while learning. Epic also works with all subject areas. epic.com
Jodi Lemaster
A resource I like for struggling readers is Epic.com. I love that it has such a variety of high quality texts and many of them have online reading features. This can help struggling readers listen to a text and choose texts at an appropriate level for them.
Terri W
One activity I use with struggling Kindergarteners is called "Alphabet Soup". I use this activity because it is a fun way for students to work on learning letter names and sounds. You need one small sauce pan, a set of plastic letters, and enough plastic spoons and bowls for each student. They take turns scooping out a letter, say the name and sound. If they do not know it, I remind them and it goes back in the pan. We made a rule that the next person cannot take that letter. This activity is effective because it provides them with practice that is fun.
Kim Rustay
A differentiated resource that I use is www.getepic.com beause it allows my students to read books at their level. Students can select which books they would like to read. There is a "Read To" function for most books. Even struggling readers can enjoy great books.
Kim Rustay
I chose this resource because it allows all students to read great books. www.getepic.com allows students to choose the books they want to read at their level. It also has a "Read To" function for most books which can help differentiate for struggling readers.
Kim
I have many great resources that I use in my class. The following are some resources that are really great that I use and really like: Iready, Starfall, Epic! books, and IXL. Those are just a few that I use that are very user friendly and give me a lot of data that I can use to drive my instruction.
Sarah Tillery
A great resource it Teacher Your Monster To Read. Instruction starts with letter to sounds to reading full sentences and further. The students love to go on adventures and play games with their monster. It’s very engaging for the students and they in fact ask to go on the website when they have earned their free time.
leslie
I love to use reading rockets or vooks. both help struggling readers build the confidence that is needed. Reading rockets have articles for parents and teachers to help them.
Mindy Magden
My students love using vooks! They are able to choose their own titles with their readability levels and they are so interactive! They are also able to hear stories that may be beyond their readability, but are of interest to them!
Amy
Two resources I use for struggling readers as well as all readers are: Epic Books and iReady. https://www.getepic.com https://login.i-ready.com I use Epic books because they have audio books so kids can listen to books of all genre and all levels...this is important because kids need/want to be interested in the books they read. Struggling readers love this because they can have books read to them as they wouldn't be able to comprehend otherwise. iReady is a great tool because kids lessons are based on where they are with the understanding of phonics/vocabulary/high frequency words/literature and non-fiction. As they pass lessons they going to grow and move upwards. Those that are really struggling, teachers can add lessons and also host small group instruction.
Ashlyne Walton
I chose Newsela because it seems like it’s a go to for me. It usually has standards based ideas that help me with lessons that student’s need extra support in. Since we have changed to a virtual classroom Nation wide, I feel like my digital resources have become even more important to me. https://newsela.com They have a link at top of homepage that says “View Remote Teaching Toolkit”
Courtney G
I like using SIM Content Enhancement routines. These routines provide struggling learners with a routine and method to organize and process information.
Katelin Elgan
I like ABCmouse because it has a variety of sources for young students. the letter songs are very helpful for students to remember letter sounds. This source is affective in helping struggling readers by providing students with a variety of resources that span over several early reading concepts. The student would work on skills that they need to grasp.
Joey DeSimone
I like to use www.getepic.com for my students. It is essentially an online library that gives students the chose to read certain books, or be read to. It offers a variety of books and topics. The students can then take an AR test on several of the books.
Stacy Stevens
I really like using https://www.readingrockets.org/helping. There is many resources for teachers and students as well as great ways to help your struggling readers.
Lisa F
Using our vocabulary program, Vocabulary.com, I can assign and view assessments of units and monitor progress. Each student can receive supplements and modifications as needed. They are presented the words in different manners that the student chooses. It allows me to work with unknown vocabulary as well as review words. I can also group words by specific phonologic and phonetic skill. The program keeps a record for both the student and myself. We can monitor and discuss the progress related to their goal. I also connect the vocabulary skill to the standards we are covering. Students overall have increased standard proficiency by 12%. Some students who still struggle have only seen approximately 5% gains, but these gains are still occurring.
Katie Davis
One resource that I am currently using in my class is getepic.com! Students can choose from thousands of books and videos to read/ watch online. Students can read the books on their own or have them read to them.
Carol Johnson
I like to use Starfall in my first grade classroom. It has activities for prereaders and early readers that is excellent to use at this grade level. There is a section about the letters of the alphabet which help students learn what the letter looks like and the sounds they make, rhyming activities, specific vowel sets, and holiday activities just to name a few. It also has a section for ELL learners. The sight is very user friendly and it keeps the students engaged and they love working in Starfall.
Carol Johnson
I like to use Starfall in my first grade classroom. It has activities for prereaders and early readers that is excellent to use at the primary level. There is a section about the letters of the alphabet which help students learn what the letter looks like and the sounds they make, rhyming activities, specific vowel sets, and holiday activities just to name a few. It also has a section for ELL learners. The sight is very user friendly and it keeps the students engaged and they love working in Starfall.
Karen Figueroa
I have great resources that I use in my class and I like to share. I-Ready/ Starfall/ Epic. I-Ready and Epic they are tool you can use to track how your students are reading. You can assign lesson according their level. EPIC have read aloud to help student to read correctly. Also EPIC include a dictionary. If the student don't know the meaning of the word he/she can click on the word and the definition will be appear. Starfall is a good tool tom use in their extra-time inclusive in their choice time. My Kindergartners love it. It is very helpfull and it is fun.
John Braaksma
I like to use edpuzzle.com for visual learners. It allows you to embed questions into a video. It will stop the video at a specified time and ask a question based on what the student just watched. You can input multiple choice or open-ended. Students can complete it independently or it can be done as a whole class with the teacher stopping and elaborating.
Ian Norris
First, tell us why you chose the resource. Next, provide us with a link to the resource and a brief description of it. Explain how the resource works effectively, or has the potential to work effectively, with struggling readers. I chose Reading Plus, a reading program used extensively and successfully at my school. The adaptive program assesses and continues to assess reading level through questions at the end of passages. Tasks like See Reader are very effective at improving reading speed. The program's main page is https://www.readingplus.com/
Leslee
Breaking News English has news articles that are leveled so that students can choose one on their level to read. It allows them to all read the same topic on different levels.
Pamela Lieske
I like getepic.com. It is a website that offers children books to be read aloud or independently. They are leveled for students to easily access their reading level. They may also take quizzes based on their completed readings.
Rachel Troutman
One of my favorite teaching resources is havefunteaching.com. There are thousands of resources for grades preschool to 6th for areas such as phonics, English, and writing. There are activities in the downloadable formats of worksheets, activities, graphic organizers, flash cards, and songs. Great for all modalities of learners. It will notify you when there are new resources available. It has a downloadable library as well. You can find songs for sight words, science, letters/sounds on youtube that are by havefunteaching and are free. It's a quick and easy to use resource.
Erica
The resource that I use often is iReady. It is researched based and is proven to increase and improve student achievement. I have students get on each day for 30 minutes during my Tier 2 instruction time.
Teresa Hanusch
A resource I think is great is USA TestPrep.
Mary McMillan
I have used www.Starfall.com in my classroom with my struggling readers. It has helped them with phonics and reading through educational games, movies, books, and song. The students had fun while they were learning.
Mary McMillan
I have used www.Starfall.com in my classroom with my struggling readers. It has helped them with phonics and reading. The students had fun while they were learning.
Mary McMillan
I have used i-ready Reading. The student takes a baseline test. If they are gaps in the reading, it places them on the level they need to be on. It is an individualized program for each child. My kids have made great growth in reading on this program.
John Braaksma
I like to use Quizlet.com to help students practice vocabulary. You can tie images to words in addition to the definition which is helpful for students. There is also a live feature where students work in teams to define words and compete against other teams of students. This allows peers to teach each other.
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