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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

Paula
ReadWorks.org is an online reading resource that has leveled texts, with audio support, vocabulary support. In addition, there are comprehension tests. Students are assigned articles that they independently read and I assign articles for specific reading groups as well. Since this site provides audio support, struggling readers are more willing to complete these assignments. Teachers can turn audio support off, to encourage student to apply their own reading skills. We even use these articles for close reading activities. Students can access the site at home too. Plus, it's FREE!
Paula
One of favorite online reading resource comes from ReadWorks.org. This site provides leveled texts, with audio support, vocabulary support. In addition, there are comprehension tests. Students are assigned articles that they independently read and I assign articles for specific reading groups as well. Since this site provides audio support, struggling readers are more willing to complete these assignments. Teachers can turn audio support off, to encourage student to apply their own reading skills. We even use these articles for close reading activities. Students can access the site at home too. Plus, it's FREE!
Denise
I am teaching science and this blog has a friendly overview for teaching vocabulary.
Jacqueline Hinds
Brainpop.com has lots of information that can be used as a resource for struggling readers. It not only covers Language Arts but all subject areas for all grades. This site includes multiple learning styles through videos, writing, quizzes, stop and think strategies, and several examples or uses for vocabulary; including content related vocabulary.
Kristen Arseneau
I like to use brainpop.com. It is a great site that talks about different topics in science, math, social studies and English. On the site you can watch a video and then they have different activities you can assign whole group, small groups or individually. The activities include vocabulary, graphic organizers, projects and additional reading passages. You can have the students log in and track there progress.
Karen
One awesome resource website for younger students that are struggling with literacy is www.starfall.com This is a great website with hands on activities that are fun and targets the early literacy skills. I used it with both of my daughters when they were young as well as with my students!
Karen Pagan
I tried leaving my comment earlier but I am not sure if it went thru! Sorry if there are two comments from me! One link that I love is www.starfall.com This is an awesome website with games, songs, and resources that targets early literacy skills. I used it with both of my daughters as well as with my students. The games and activities are really fun!
Kelli P
I like to use epic!. It is a great resource for struggling readers to use. They are able to choose a book that they are interested in with the option of it being read to them. It is simple to navigate and I can adjust settings for individual students in my class.
Laura Dickey
Reading Rockets (https://www.readingrockets.org/) is a great resource for parents and teachers who need to assist a struggling reader. "Reading Rockets creates and disseminates free, evidence-based information about reading through our three major services: PBS television programs, online services, and professional development opportunities" (WETA). This site provides classroom ideas, articles explaining the research behind reading difficulties, book suggestions, and concrete strategies on how to improve reading and writing fluency. WETA. n.d. 28 July 2020. .
Susan M Cope
ReadingA-Z.com is a source I use for struggling readers. I use their decodable text frequently. The students love the content and there are follow up comprehension activities.
Elizabeth
IXL.com is a resource I have used with struggling readers. IXL allows students to practice a skill at their own level (after a short diagnostic). If students struggle with a particular concept, they can easily drop down to a pre-requisite skill, as needed. IXL also allows students the ability to choose the skills or tasks they practice, allowing their interests to help engage and drive their learning.
Eliot
I used CommonLit all the time in my class. I really like the option given to teachers to have the program do a guided reading activity that forces students to slow down and only see part of the text at a time and answer a question before moving on. This means students will only be focused on a small part of the larger passage at a time. It also gives great feedback to teachers and lets the teacher know what type of questions students miss in their class.
Xilena Santos
These resources give great ideas in how to assist struggling readers and it can be implemented in any learning environment. https://www.readingrockets.org/reading-topics/struggling-readers Also, this article is another great resource 45 Ways to Support Struggling Readers https://www.edweb.net/.5a57b0b2
VE
My school uses Myon, an online digital library. I find this site useful for struggling readers, as many of the books are graphic novels. This structure is very engaging and relatable to students. The genres offered in this library are very student friendly and make it easy for a reader to find a book they would like. Another benefit is that the books have an option for audio, so students can read and listen. Myon is a wonderful tool to get all kids, but definitely struggling readers reading.
Eliot
Might I suggest a resource I have found but have not put to good use just yet. https://www.readingrockets.org/helping I found this along my training journey this summer and it has so many great resources within it, I have yet to scratch the surface. One great thing I saw was a parent section. I wish I had known about this resource in my first year of teaching 1st grade when I had parents asking me what they could do to help their student read.
Samantha Hall
Currently, my favorite literary resource is CommonLit. The website hosts short stories, myths, speeches, novel excerpts, and more with coordinating text-dependent and discussion questions. CommonLit suggests similar texts for pairing and supplemental materials like videos. With a few clicks, I can find grade-level appropriate material for my class organized by subject, theme, or genre. CommonLit also provides real-time grading and opportunities for teacher feedback.
Samantha Hall
Currently, my favorite literary resource is CommonLit (https://www.commonlit.org/). The website hosts short stories, myths, speeches, novel excerpts, and more with coordinating text-dependent and discussion questions. CommonLit suggests similar texts for pairing and supplemental materials like videos. I can find grade-level-appropriate articles for my class organized by subject, theme, or genre with a few clicks. CommonLit also provides real-time grading and teacher feedback opportunities, so struggling readers can independently monitor their progress. CommonLit connects to Google Classroom, so it is an excellent resource for distance learning.
Denise
I enjoy the format of this. The conferencing, grouping, and text selections are purposeful and have helped me with my reading block. https://www.fountasandpinnell.com/whenreadersstruggle/
Amy
Epic is great for readers to be able to follow along while reading. It allows students to read stories that may interest them but would not be able to read otherwise.
Amy
Trueflix is a good option-great for readers to be able to follow along while reading. It allows students to read stories that may interest them but would not be able to read otherwise.
Jennifer Minor
The resource I like to use with my struggling readers in kindergarten is starfall.com. The website offers fun and engaging activities that review letters, sounds, and high frequency words. The reading passages are especially helpful as the student can click on a word and have it read for them.
Darin Jones
I really like to use Achieve 3000 with struggling readers. The passages are leveled for readers and continue to build confidence in readers while the assignments become harder.
Hantak
To be honest, I have not used a lot of these. So, I started reading the other posts and experimenting with some that they suggested. After looking at several, I have to say that I really love Flocabulary. I like being able to get them to go through the process on here and then using it as an introduction to Shakespeare. www.flocabulary.com
Hantak
To be honest, I have not used a lot of these. So, I started reading the other posts and experimenting with some that they suggested. After looking at several, I have to say that I really love Flocabulary. I like being able to get them to go through the process on here and then using it as an introduction to Shakespeare. www.flocabulary.com I did find a lot of these to be ones that I want to try with my students.
Jessica Singewald
I love using Epic. It has a huge library of digital books that can read to the students. You can search leveled books and assign them to each student specifically.
CH
Quizlet! It can be done independently, and also as a competition. Kids love it!
Suheil
I like epic.com. Students can access books that align with their interests and reading levels. For the little ones that are not reading yet, there are "Read to me" books. These have audio that reads the story as the students follow along. My students enjoy Epic! They love the big variety of books and videos in it. It also allows students to have access to books from home. This came in handy during the school's closures.
Denise
All About Learning– All About Learning includes both All About Reading and All About Spelling. This curricula was created with struggling readers in mind, even dyslexic learners. The curriculum is flexible, solid, and easy to follow, with TONS of helps for parents/teachers {even if you’ve never taught a child to read/spell.
Paula
https://www.flocabulary.com/ I have used this site when teaching math, science and language arts. The students always enjoy the catchy rhythms and lyrics in the videos. It is creative and interesting - a wonderful, fresh resource for the classroom!
Jessica Singewald
I love using Epic! It is an online library resource for students. It is great for beginning readers too! There are audio books that students can follow along with. Teachers can assign books for students to use!
Carie Skube
A great resource is NewsELA.com. This resource is amazing because it has articles that are both fiction and non-fiction. You can assign or print an article about How airplanes are made and then another that is a story about a boy building his first paper airplane. Each of these can be found at different lexile levels, depending on your students. You can also decide who needs multiple choice questions vs. extended response or have them all do a mixture. Whatever is best for you particular group.
Melanie
I really like having my younger students use Starfall (www.starfall.com). It is very a very engaging website for younger students and provides fun games and activities that they can play while learning simultaneously. They can learn letter sounds, sight words, word families, as well as much more!
Will
I really like using flocabulary. It is very engaging for students. They really enjoy using it!
Kevin
I'm a big fan of Nearpod.com and use it regularly in my classroom. It has a variety of instructional games that help with student focus and engagement. Partnered with Kahoot, these make for two wonderful technological resources to add to your repertoire.
Sarah Tomaselli
Flocabulary is one of the best resources because it engages multiple means of the senses to teach students. Plus they love to get up and move. https://www.flocabulary.com/ This works effectively with struggling readers because this helps explain concepts through video and song, not by text. It can help provide context for text or vocabulary for students.
Amanda M.
The resource that I choose is called Epic Reading. I chose the online resource because it provides a variety of books that students can read online. It is geared for all graded levels. They students can either read a book on their silently, or it will read the stories to them. The link is http://www.getepic.com I feel like this resource has the potential to work effectively with struggling readers because if the stories were being read to them, those students can following along with the words as they are being read to them.
Jessica Singewald
I love using Epic! It is an online library where students can be read to or read independently. This is a great resource for ELL students.
Michelle Reinking
I chose flocabulary because it is a fun engaging site for students. The link is https://www.flocabulary.com/ When you go to the homepage you can click on lessons and a subject and then find different lessons. The lessons are quick fun little songs that the students enjoy listening to. These are good for struggling readers that have a hard time keeping their attention. The little songs seem to keep struggling readers attention a little better.
Lisa Diez
In my classroom, I use ReadWorks.org. The articles are highly engaging and I can differentiate the text for each reading group and provide accommodations such as having the text read to students. The articles often provide vocabulary support when needed and comprehension questions. The questions are both multiple choice and short response which requires students to back up or prove their answers with evidence from the text. This resource helps struggling readers because it provides text at their reading level with appropriate accommodations.
Sarah Tomaselli
I love using readworks passages in small group instruction. I can choose texts based on reading level and many times I am able to find similar texts at different reading levels. https://www.readworks.org/ This resource is great because it also provides vocabulary and questions. Many times I end up adding my own questions that may align with standards I am currently teaching.
Laura
Part of this course had us look at various resources that could teach cross cultural awareness, and during my exploration of one of those websites, I stumbled across some resources that I think would be great vocabulary strategies to use in the classroom. You can find some of those teaching strategies here: https://www.tolerance.org/classroom-resources/teaching-strategies. I like that it's broken down into sections for grades k-2 and 3-12. I think the 3-12 could be broken up even more, but most of the strategies were still great to use in my 3rd grade classroom. I'm particularly interested in the potential effectiveness of using the Word Work strategies with my struggling readers. It listed several games, simple word sorts, and activities using pocket charts and foldables to introduce new vocabulary words which I know can be a tricky part of reading new texts for struggling readers if they do not already have background knowledge on a particular vocabulary word. I'm hoping using some of these activities to introduce or even reinforce/practice vocabulary words for the week would help struggling readers understand the meaning and how to use the word in context.
Bonnie
My class uses RAZ kids. It is a differentiated reading level with the children progressing at their own. pace. I can assign various texts and it is bi-lingual also. I enjoy this program and the children can access at home.
Caroline
As a high school CTE teacher it is difficult to find text in varying levels. I like the website K12reader.com because it offers printable resources that can guide you in planning for struggle readers.
jd
vocabulary.com is a fun and interactive way to help build vocabulary skills. It becomes a challenge for the students to earn more points than one another and gain necessary skills.
Kelsey
The resources I frequently use are MobyMax and Quizlet. Students love using Quizlet Live and trying to beat the other teams in my room on their knowledge of vocabulary. In MobyMax, students are exposed to excellent vocabulary and are able to boost their scores on state tests using this program.
Hannah E.
I also like using Readworks.org. I chose this because I have used it with great success with my ESE students on various reading levels. This is a website that's free and contains a lot of material for differentiating learning.
Melissa Lopes
I like brainpop because it helps teacher's introduce a new topic. It is a fun way for student's to learn in depth knowledge of a topic. The student's can watch videos and take quizzes. It has assessments that allow student's to explain their reasoning while they are playing games. It covers many different areas and for all ages. They even have one in Spanish to help ELL student's. My son used it in 2nd grade for social studies and science. He loved it because he was learning but having fun at the same time. ttps://educators.brainpop.com/explore-brainpop/
Sarah Tomaselli
https://www.readworks.org/ I chose this resource because readworks is leveled by lexile levels and has questions and vocabulary words for the students. This is great for close reading or small reading groups.
Sindie Maxwell
A resource that I love for my VPK ELL students is GetEpic.com. This site is free to teachers who can give each student an account or use in class for whole class reading. This resource reads books to the student and highlights the words in the book as it reads. This can help struggling readers as they are learning new words. I like to use this resource in class circle-time as the words show up big on the promethean board for the students to see.
Sindie Maxwell
A resource that I like to use for struggling readers is an ipod application called "I like books". In this program students can read books to self, have the book read to them or autoplay the book. As the book reads the words to the student it highlights the words for the students so that they can read the words as well.
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