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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

Marjorie Rodriguez
In my classroom I have used Reading Smart. This is a website that helps the students acquire phonology skills, reading and writing skills. I have used this site to grade students in alternative learning.
Joanne Sollazzo
Raz-Kids is a program that my struggling students use. The students are assigned a reading comprehension level. Within the level,they are able to pick a book. The story is first read to them. Then they read the story and finally they get to take a test on the book.
Joanne Sollazzo
Starfall is a program the I used when I taught 1st grade. My students enjoyed the interactive portion of the program.
Joanne Sollazzo
Readworks is a great program where I am able to find texts on different levels but still on the same standard or content. https://www.readworks.org/
Christina Longenecker
NewsELA is a fantastic reasource that can be used to teach literacy skills as well as social studies. It is engaging and the reading level can be adjusted to meet the needs of struggling learners.
Ashley
One of my favorite resources for students that I just discovered since Distance Learning is getepic.com. I know most of us have already been using this for quite some time, but I'm a newbie, and found it to be an AMAZING resource for students with limited home libraries. Even at school sometimes it's limited, so this was just a fantastic site! The kids love it!
Jennifer Cunningham
I really like PBSKids.org. There are learning games, tv shows that teach kids, and so much more. The best part is that the students love everything on it, so they don't really know that they are learning!
Robin
Getepic is a great resource with books for every level and every interest. For pre-readers there are read to me books.
Lora
https://www.naturalreaders.com/online/ Natural Reader is a professional text to speech program that converts any written text into spoken words. Students who struggle with written text can copy and paste any text to have it read to them. This is helpful to ELLs as well as Dyslexic students as there is a feature just for that. There is a free limited version- a paid subscription offers more features.
Robin
Getepic.com is a great resource for struggling readers. This resource has books for all levels, in different languages, and there is a read to me option that allows readers to follow along. Brief comprehension quizzes are at the end of most books.
Margaret Powers
When I taught Kindergarten, the students enjoyed Starfall. They really enjoyed the songs and stories the program had.
Hunter Burney
Don Johnston's Snap&Read program is very beneficial! It allows students to highlight words in a text and have the program read it to them in English, or in their native language for our struggling ELLs. A lot of districts with larger ESE programs have access to the programs and do not inform their general education teachers. So, go to the website and request access and they can tell you if your district already has access to the program.
Barbara Register
Every reply that I have tried to leave on this blog has already been mentioned in some way and it's not allowing me to post. ABCMouse.com, starfall.com, and pbskids.org are all sights that provide students with reinforcement that they can use at school or at home.
Charlotte Bishop
Reading Rockets is an excellent resource for finding teaching strategies for struggling readers. It has a ton of information and links as well. It even has a book finder with A LOT of filters that would help you find the perfect books for your students.
Laura McKinney
Providing students with a pre-reading anticipation guide activity allows students to share knowledge they already have about a topic and gives them an idea of the topic the class is about to study. https://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/anticipation_guide
shelby whidden
commonlit.org is a great website for texts at the high school level. I like to use it for informational texts and it has a guided reading feature that requires students to answer questions to reveal the text as they read.
Heidemarie Bickford
CommonLit.org is a great resource for ELL students and struggling readers. Students can click on any word they do not understand to read the definition and also can be translated into their own native language.
Nicole Schmidt
I really like Read Works.ORG for several reasons. 1. The passages can be read aloud to your students who need it. 2. You can search by grade or lexile level to help with text complexity. 3. You can search by skill or standard you are teaching, so you can choose appropriate text and still have rigor with the standard. 4. You can choose passages for content and level of engagement.I will let the students "shop" for their own passage of interest within the perimeters I set up. 5. They are constantly adding passages. 6. Some of the passages actually have a vocab list and definitions on a seperate sheet to review prior to reading. 7. They have paired readings for integration of knowledge and for FSA writing practice
Melissa
1. myOn or Epic! 2. Both of these websites have books that have the option of being read to you. You can follow along while the audio book is read. The words light up as they are read, so you can easily follow along. 3. This works with struggling readers because it gives them the opportunity to read books they may not be able to read. It allows them to develop a passion for reading, because even though the book may not be on their level, they can read a book that they are interested in. It lets the students hear words that they may be struggling with.
Melissa Leviton
1. myOn and Epic 2. These are apps where books can be read online to you. 3. These apps allow books to be read to you. It has potential to work for struggling readers because it allows them to have access to books they may not normally have access to. It allows them to read things that may be slightly above their reading level. It also highlights the words that are being read, so it is easy for the students to follow along.
Melissa Leviton
1. myOn or Epic! 2. These apps have a wide variety of books that can be read to students. 3. Students can pick any book of their choosing- even books that may not be on their level. This encourages struggling readers, because it allows them to read a book that they may be interested in, but is above their level. As the story is read to them, it highlights the word that it is on, allowing students to easily follow along.
Melissa
1. myOn or Epic! 2. These apps have a wide variety of books that can be read to students. 3. Students can pick any book of their choosing- even books that may not be on their level. This encourages struggling readers, because it allows them to read a book that they may be interested in, but is above their level. As the story is read to them, it highlights the word that it is on, allowing students to easily follow along.
Melissa
1. myOn or Epic! 2. These apps have a wide variety of books that can be read to students. 3. Students can pick any book of their choosing- even books that may not be on their level. This encourages struggling readers, because it allows them to read a book that they may be interested in, but is above their level. As the story is read to them, it highlights the word that it is on, allowing students to easily follow along.
Rebecca McCorkle
I chose Brain Pop Jr to use with my second graders. This platform offers a ton of lessons across the subject areas and especially in reading and language. It has a short video to teach the content. Students can take an easy quiz or a hard quiz, which is great for differentiation. There are also opportunities to work with graphic organizers.
Rebecca Gonzales
Starfall is a great resource for younger learners as well as ELL learners. It teaches and allows students to explore and have fun while learning to read. It provides different learning areas such as learning letters and sounds, fun songs, books and math activities. The nice thing is some of the content is free!!
Rebecca Gonzales
Starfall.com is a great tool for struggling readers, beginning readers and dual-language learners. It teaches through phonics (letters/sounds, songs, stories) in a fun and engaging way.
Julia Hagen
I use Starfall with my struggling first graders. My struggling first graders are working on letter sounds and decoding CVC words. This website is free and offers differentiated literacy activities for students who are beginning level readers. Students can work on beginning level letters and sounds all the way up to beginning level readers.
Renea Finney
I have chosen to talk about two resources that I find very helpful in my science class to help me with teaching science vocabulary and science concepts. I use ANCHOR CHARTS and PICTURE VOCABULARY WORD CARDS. I anchor charts I draw as well as the students draw in the interactive science notebooks. The anchor charts help to put pictures to concrete concepts. Helps the students to "see" what the words mean. I also love the Vocabulary Picture cards and other materials from Lone Star Learning. Again I think when putting a visual picture together with the words helps ELL, ESE as well as regular ed students make connections to the material at a higher learning rate. My two favorite materials from Lone Star Learning are the SCIENCE VOCABULARY PICTURES and the CORE 3 BUNDLES Link : https://store.lonestarlearning.com/
Renea Finney
I am introducing the resource SCIENCE VOCABULARY CARDS from Lone Star Learning. I love how they show a picture to help cement the vocabulary word. I have found the cards good for all students (ESE - ELL - Regular Ed). The cards take a vocabulary word such as ROTATE and then write that word in such a way with a picture to help kids with remembering the term.
Christina Longenecker
Homer is an early learning program that personalizes a learning path for children after a brief assessment. It focuses on prereading and math skills.
Alari Foutch
I teach kindergarten and I use starfall and also a website called pinkcatgames.com this is an awesome resource! I created a list with all of my sight words and then it gives me 100 different game formats for the students to choose from! This means they are getting in that practice, but they don't feel like they are doing the same thing over and over.
L. Patrice Ayala
education.com is a great resource that provides great supplementary activities and lesson plans for ELL and struggling learners.
Jennifer Roberts
I like readworks.com because it will read the articles/stories outloud to students. There are articles a day that increase background knowledge and vocabulary
Osmara
I love to use flocabulary.com because it is a learning program for all grades that uses educational hip-hop music to engage students and increase achievement across the curriculum. Teachers at 20,000 schools use Flocabulary’s standards-based videos, instructional activities and student creativity tools to supplement instruction and develop core literacy skills.
Erin Hoppe
I love readworks.org. There are thousands of fiction and non-fiction passages to choose from with varying levels. This is a great resource to use with your guided reading group lessons. If you have a classroom that has all of their own devices, you can have students login and read on their own. There are graphic organizers and questions that go with the reading passages. The organizers are very helpful for struggling readers.
Elizabeth Cartwright
One resource I like to use when supplemental texts are an option is commonlit.org. This site contains a large data base of common core aligned lessons, complete with video supplements, graphic organizers, discussion questions, and test prep assignments. The lessons can be paper based or online depending on the preference of the teacher. They are also sorted by genre, grade and lexile level. Many of the texts are linked to texts on a similar topic at a different lexile, so differentiation is simplified as well. It's a great option to pull for reteaching, enrichment, holidays, sub plans, filler activities, or even as a part of your main curriculum.
Elizabeth Cartwright
Khan academy can be a useful resource for test prep, and even supplemental materials in content areas. Khan academy has a variety of subjects and lessons. I use it for SAT practice for students who have already completed their computer based individualized lessons. It would also be a good source of enrichment activities for students who are somewhat more advanced than some of their classmates, would like a little extra test prep support, or are just inclined to finish assignment early.
Dawn
In my classroom I use websites such as Flocabulary, BrainPopJr., and Readworks. Each of these websites allow the students to read or watch a short video and then answer questions based on the lessons or articles that I have assigned them.
Dawn Burt
In my classroom I use a variety of websites across all of the subject areas such as Flocabulary, BrainPopJr., and Readworks. Each of these websites allow the students to read or watch a short video and then answer questions based on the lessons or articles that I have assigned them.
kathy
A great resource that I have used over the years since response to intervention has started has been FCRR. There are many targeted interventions with activities to chose from whatever the area of weakness may be.
Belinda McClintock
I like to use www.readingrockets.org. It offers research based reading strategies, lessons and activities to help younger children.
Belinda Hurst McClintock
A wealth of activities to help struggling readers.
Lora
https://www.naesp.org/communicator-december-2013/cultivate-peer-coaching-reading An excerpt that is meant to be provided for the students to use as a guide: Reading Coaches, Thank you for agreeing to help the younger students in your school. Your help and encouragement could make a difference in their reading success. The following guidelines should help make your time more successful. (Readers are the younger students. Older students are coaches.) * Sit side-by-side so both partners can see the book. * The reader holds the book. * Stay in one spot during the time you have together. * Use quiet voices. * Help your partner problem-solve tricky words. * Use only the books your partner has. If you finish early, you can: * Reread the books. * Do word work. * Do letter work. * Write a story. * List rhyming words. * Practice hard words. How to problem-solve tricky words: If the reader gets “stuck” on a word, you can use some of the following strategies to help: * Wait. Sometimes readers need time to think about the hard word. * Suggest your partner look at the pictures for clues about the word. * Ask what word would make sense. * Have your partner look for sounds or letters they know in the word. When they get the word, have them reread the sentence and ask if it makes sense. If they don’t get the word after a few tries, tell them the word. (We don’t want our readers to get frustrated!) Give your partner lots of praise if they are doing well. You might say: * “I like the way you read that.” * “Good job for getting the first sound.” * “Wow! You figured that out yourself.” If your partner gets distracted, you might try: * Talking about the story. * Ask your reader to make a prediction. * Ask if the story reminds them of something they did. * Write a story together about something your reader knows I like that there is a guide to provide to students. There is also a helpful scoring checklist students can use to assess each other. I like that this resource shows the difference between peer collaboration and feedback as opposed to assessment. Students need a guide to follow to be ultimately be independent with this strategy. This also helps me because I know student have an aide to utilize as I circulate.
Belinda Hurst McClintock
Scholastic offers a wealth of activities for reading on all levels.
Dawnelle
One online resource I recently came across and have found very helpful is Edpuzzle. With Edpuzzle I am able to take a YouTube video and embed questions throughout it. The students then watch the video, which pauses periodically and asks them a question. They cannot move on until they answer the question.
Dawnelle B
One online resource I have found recently and it seems to be very useful is Edpuzzle. With Edpuzzle I can take a video I found on YouTube and embed questions throughout it. Students then watch the video (after reading a similar piece) and are periodically stopped and asked questions. They must answer the question before they can move on in the video.
Wendy
abcya.com This site has fun and educational games that align with the standards for K level.
Barbara Register
I have found readingrockets.org helpful for teaching PA and phonics skills to kindergarten.
Jennifer Cunningham
Nearpod is a great resource for struggling learners. They have lessons specifically for ELL students and vocabulary, but you can find lessons on any topic. The best part is that students use all aspects of literacy when you guide the lesson: they read, listen, write, and speak. Lessons can be edited to fit your exact needs, and students enjoy them - especially the games and the virtual field trips.
Valerie Armstrong
CommonLit is the resource I would like to share. It is one of my favorite choices for students because it requires the students to give responses to questions that make them think.
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