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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

Travis
The resource I use for my reading group is www.readingrockets.org. It has a lot of helpful teaching strategies, reading topics, and a list of children's books for you (the teacher) to build your lesson around. It's an effective resource for struggling readers not only because it has a whole section devoted to "how to help struggling readers" ; but because it provides proven methods that have worked with our teachers.
Joy Griffon
Eddie is always the first student in group and has a great attitude. He volunteers to read. His reading is improving. When it was his turn to read he did a great job. He took his time, projected his voice and worked through unknown words. When the story was over he understood most of the vocab word's meanings. He was able to summarize the story. When asked about the point of view he explained most people were happy and thought it was cool. He talked about how new technology made him feel excited and happy. He was able to go back in the story and point out sentences that showed evidence of his answer. Edward got the joke at the end of the story.
Patrick Hodges
ABC Mouse is a great resource. I had a student join us about half way though the year that had moved here from China. He spoke no English. I put him on ABC Mouse and his English skills progressed rather quickly. He was in 5th grade and by the time we broke for the COVID shutdown, he was reading at a k1st grade level.
Kelly Kincannon
I love the site readworks.org. This site provides countless resources for students to engage in high-interest text. It has a vocabulary guide that can be provided for students, an option that the text can be read aloud to them, and a comprehension piece, providing both multiple choice options and long response which require students to refer to the text for evidence.
Louella Murphy
A literacy resource that I have used in the past, successfully, is Achieve 3000. Achieve 3000 is an article based site, with comprehension questions, organizers, and tasks related to the article. The articles are current events, interesting for kids, and allow students to scroll between tabs to access content while working on tasks.
Katie Brownfield
Thank you for sharing. I like the use if I-Ready and the Brainpop programs. They are bright, and hook the students.
Katie Brownfield
Thank you for sharing your program ideas especially for phonics.
Angela Hadley
I chose this resource because it is a webinar that breaks down how to effectively support struggling students. This resource can be applied to any subject. I felt that this resource did not just have me read but allowed me to hear the presenter go further into explaining the points being addressed. She added examples and scenarios to illustrate her points. Here the link to this webinar: http://www.ascd.org/professional-development/webinars/how-to-support-struggling-students-webinar.aspx. Robyn Jackson presents what the webinar will teach the viewer and proceeds to break down the points of how to determine and create effective interventions for struggling students. She gives details for each point and explains the “why” behind them. By going into such detail of establishing red flags the viewer learns the value of these in determining which students will or will not need intervention. She also goes into how these flags will be tagged to already created interventions which alleviates the demand of the teacher to create effective interventions on the spot for that struggling student. Teachers have such little time to plan and having these set up beforehand will allow the teacher to lesson the workload on themselves.
Daisha Shannon
CommonLit is a great resource to use in the classroom. The texts are leveled by lexile, and I am able to challenge my Advanced learners with a higher lexile text, and my struggling readers with a lower lexile. Most Texts are by genre, so students are able to read multiple texts with the same purpose. CommonLit also allows teachers to assign work in Google classroom, and you can grade and give feedback using this resource.
Daisha Shannon
CommonLit is a great resource to use in the classroom. The texts are leveled by lexile, and I am able to challenge my Advanced learners, and support my struggling readers. Most Texts are by genre, so students are able to read multiple texts with the same purpose. CommonLit also allows teachers to assign work in Google classroom, and you can grade and give feedback using this resource.
Jake Schwartz
Brain pop and Brain Pop Jr. are resources that I have enjoyed with my students. The videos are entertaining, yet informative, and cover a variety of topics. There's a quiz (easy or hard) at the end to show understanding, a joke that is related to the topic, and even a graphic organizer that can be used.
Cristina Perez
One of the resources I use for reading is www.getepic.com . It is a digital library with over 40,000 books for elementary aged children. The wide variety and levels of books is really helpful when you have class full of different level readers.
Lynn Bullock
Abcmouse is our go-to in the ESE prek. It is engaging, easy for most to navigate with minimal assistance, and it teaches them while they play. It incorporates play with reading, letter, colors,animals, etc
Rosa
Starfall is a good literary source, it provides lessons for all grade levels. It is very helpful to ELL students, they can hear/recognize letters and sounds as well as words.
Rebecca McCorkle
www.teachyourmonstertoread.com is great for phonics practice. It trains students to quickly recognize letter/sound correspondence in a fun gamified way. My kids love it!
Jennifer Roberts
I use Scholastic Storyworks because students can have the articles read to them or choose to read them at a lower lexile level. Assessments and activities are also on different levels.
lynn
this reading mama is a go to I use for ideas with my prek babies. Since they have varying abilities and disabilities it is important to find activities that make learning seem more fun than work. thisreadingmama.com has a wealth of research, suggestions, and printables to use with varying abilities and age groups. If I can't find something here, there are additional liknks provided as well. I love than here ideas are both colorful, simple, and yet accomplish the learning target.
L.B.
www.thisreadingmama.com this reading mama is a go to I use for ideas with my prek babies. Since they have varying abilities and disabilities it is important to find activities that make learning seem more fun than work. thisreadingmama.com has a wealth of research, suggestions, and printables to use with varying abilities and age groups. If I can't find something here, there are additional liknks provided as well. I love than here ideas are both colorful, simple, and yet accomplish the learning target.
Lisa Brooks
I like using RAZ kids. This is an online resource that allows students access to leveled readers. It has ELL options (including Spanish translations) as well as interactive tools (highlighting, note taking, etc). Students can read, listen to books, and take quizzes to check comprehension. There are also games and incentives and scores and activity can be teacher monitored.
Loida S
A computerbased program that I use with my high school students intensive reading students is Reading Plus. Reading Plus is great because it effectively helps students read at the current reading level and help with growth and comprehension development. They get to work on vocabulary assignments and select articles of their liking with help with higher comprehension scores. The goal for the school year is to help my student gain several reading levels so that they can be reading near, at, or beyond their grade level.
Shelley Potter
Newsela works great with middle school struggling readers. It offers different levels of reading the same text, allowing the same article to be read by all ranges in the classroom.
Katherine Palazzo
Brainpopjr.com is a great resource for educational videos and lesson ideas. You can also assign lessons and assignments for online learning.
Katherine Palazzo
PBSLearningMedia.org is a great resource for teachers and for students. It has a lot of resources for all grade levels with videos and different media that can be utilized.
Shannon
1. I choose this resource because it is broken down by age group and has categories for non English/reading classes. 2. https://www.colorincolorado.org/literacy-instruction-ells -> it has additional resources based on level and class type 3. It is essentially a database of resources and strategies.
Melissa Leviton
Brain Pop and Brain Pop Jr I chose this resource because it is a way to actively involve students in their learning. It has a ton of resources and videos teaching strategies and skills. It models for you how to do it, and then there are a variety of quizzes, games and graphic organizers to practice the skill. It works for struggling readers because it gives them an opportunity to hear about the skill or strategy in another way. It gives them tools to practice that skill or strategy in a fun way.
Trudy Stoner
www.readingrockets.org is a great website for students, teachers, and parents too. It has many strategies for teachers that have full directions on how to use them to reach struggling readers. It has access to audio books which are very helpful in creating a listening station for struggling readers. It's a wealth of resources.
Jennifer Cunningham
My students really enjoy reading on Epic books. They have such an amazing variety of books, from National Geographic Kids to Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Some of them are for students to read on their own, some are audio books, but the most beneficial are the "Read to Me" books. They will help our struggling students hear words as they see them and listen to fluent readers, not computers. For even better results, have students work with a partner and discuss the text afterwards. They could even write about it. getepic.com
Rhonda Garner
flocabulary.com is a great resource to give kids a brain break while they still get to learn, I also use it a lot to introduce a new concept. You can use it for all content areas. It is like rhyming songs that specifically talk about academic vocababulary.
Deborah Yachabach
Epic reading website has over 40,000 books available for students. Teachers can also assign quizzes for students to take after reading is completed. I used this free resource during our remote learning. I received numerous positive reviews from my parents and students about how much they enjoyed using Epic at home.
Deborah Yachabach
I discovered Epic reading website during our remote learning. I liked this website because it has over 40,000 books for students of all levels to access. The books can be read aloud for struggling students. Teachers can attach quizzes to books for students to take after reading to monitor comprehension. Books are leveled by lexile or grade. I received many positive responses from parents and students who utilized this website.
Jodi Lemaster
I love newsela.com because you can differentiate the level of the text and there are a lot of interesting science topics available.
Lillian Matazinski
I really like readworks.org It is a site that has leveled passages on a variety of topics, and skills. This is a great way to differentiate reading practice for students.
Nick Rekatas
I have had great success with Newsela. I love that Newsela allows you to post assignments using different levels/lexiles. It's a wonderful thing to see students gradually move from one reading level to the next. Newsela allows you to track progress and gives feedback. It provides educational articles with different perspectives and also has current event articles that keeps students interested. https://newsela.com/. Struggling learners can use Newsela to monitor their reading levels and progress achieving goals.
Teri Cusack
I use a variety of resources depending what topic I am teaching. I use Edutopia.org, Studyjams, and Brain pop. They help with initial vocabulary and help students understand using fun story characters. There's also quizzes to check understanding along with graphic organizers. In Edutopia for example you can teach vocabulary using micro field trips. What kid doesn't love a field trip!
Shannon
I like Readworks.org. I use it in my classroom, but I also recommend it to parents as a resource. You can choose articles based on grade level or subjects. It has paired texts and question sets as well.
Shannon D
I like Readworks.org. I use it in my classroom, but I also recommend it to parents as a resource. You can choose articles based on grade level or subjects. It has paired texts and question sets as well.
Jennifer Minor
I use the resource starfall.com in my classroom. It is great reinforcement for students struggling to read or for my ELL students. It focuses on letters and sounds. It has interactive games and activities. The students do not even realize they are learning.
Krystal O.
I chose NEWSELA, a website with news articles in both English and Spanish, because I have successfully used it many times in my classroom. NEWSELA allows you to change the level of reading on each article. I love that I can change the level of the text to meet the students’ reading levels and that said, it also provides an opportunity for differentiated instruction. As a Spanish teacher, I can find articles on the topics that we are studying in class to see the unit vocabulary in context. Being able to change the reading-level, I never have to worry about the article being too advanced or too simple. https://newsela.com/
Krystal O.
I chose NEWSELA, a website with news articles in both English and Spanish, because I have successfully used it many times in my classroom. NEWSELA allows you to change the level of reading on each article. I love that I can change the level of the text to meet the students’ reading levels and that said, is also an opportunity for differentiated instruction. As a Spanish teacher, I can find articles on the topics that we are studying in class to see the unit vocabulary in context. Being able to change the reading-level, I never have to worry about the article being too advanced or too simple. https://newsela.com/
Rita
I like to use Starfall in my classroom. It has activities for early readers and I feel it helps along my struggling readers a great deal. It has helped them with phonics and reading through educational games, movies, books, and song. The students seem to enjoy Starfall while they are learning.
Rita
I like to use Starfall in my kindergarten classroom. My early readers love the activities and I feel it helps my struggling readers a great deal. It has helped them with phonics and reading through educational games, movies, books, and song.
Dawn
I enjoy using Epic Books with my students. This is an online resource that provides access to thousands of books, videos, and quizzes from leading publishers. I use this website often with my students because it offers wide variety of texts. This is free for students to use in the classroom. Parents can also purchase a subscription for their child.
Lauren Biesinger
I love the website IXL. It is a great website that provides standard based practice for ELA, math, science, and social studies. It's a great resource because it can be used in the classroom or at home. It provides the students with immediate feedback. If they miss a question, it will walk the student through the question and explain why it is wrong. That's very valuable compared to other websites I've used that just say incorrect and move on to another question. You can have them work on and practice standards that you are currently teaching in the classroom. Since you have the freedom to choose the standards they work on, you can easily differentiate homework, classwork, or small group work.
Joanne Sollazzo
Brainpop is a great way for students to learn about certain topics. https://www.brainpop.com/
Alison GIlmore
PBSKids.org is a great resource for struggling readers. The site has a variety of interactive word games, in different levels, to encourage language acquisition and word recognition. It also has an online listening library, so that students can make connections between the written text and the audio.
Constant
One of the resources I use in my classroom to support my struggling readers is Florida center for reading research. I use it for center activities and for interventions. https://fcrr.org/resources/resources_sca.html
Constant
Florida Center for Reading Research is a great resource to use for intervention, enrichment and center activities. https://fcrr.org/resources/resources_sca.html
Lisa Juarez
Flocabulary.com has been a very useful resource for my struggling learners with academic vocabulary. They use cool music and lyrics to make the vocabulary words stick. The kids love it and will listen to it over and over again to keep the learning fresh and add movements to make it stick. Love it!
Keeli Murdock
I chose newsela.com because the site has alot of great articles for all different subject areas. It also has some nice features. It has activities that you can use with the articles, such as writing exercises, short assessments, and vocabulary practice. It also has certain words that students can click on and it will provide a definition and they can click on a button to listen to the word being pronounced. The site also has other neat features, such as virtual field trips. I believe my school pays for a membership so I am not sure what all can be accessed without a membership, but its a great resource if you have access to it. https://newsela.com/about/solutions/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=paid-search&utm_campaign=DMG-OA-2020-DEG-search&gclid=CjwKCAjw2uf2BRBpEiwA31VZj-Rw-wy-2IL_59FduzuNqXXCMSlF8bu-oYNUKFxdCPgWaOV-2yy6qRoCGLEQAvD_BwE
Keeli Murdock
I chose newsela.com because it has a lot of great articles available in all content areas. It also has a lot of great features that make the content more exciting and can help struggling readers. There are activities that go along with the articles, such as short assessments, vocabulary practice, and writing exercises. There are also words in the articles that students can click on and the definition will be provided and they can click on a button to hear how the word is pronounced. I think my school pays for a membership to this site so I'm not sure how much content is available without the membership, but it's a great resource if you can make it available to you.
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