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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

Matthew Teague
In my specific position, I deal mainly in small groups, iReady is a resource that use most often. It allows the student enhance their skills and/or comprehension. At the same time, I can observe and differentiate instruction based on scores from the individual lessons. This allows me to focus on the areas where the student is struggling most and move past those which they have already mastered. I also will pair this with other sources, such as Readworks.org.
Michelle
http://www.funenglishgames.com/ I like this website because they have fun games, activities, worksheets, quizzes and videos. It is a fun interactive way students can learn English. Kids can play a variety of games and activities to help boost their confidence and they can just have fun!
Michelle Hepp
http://www.funenglishgames.com/ I like this website because they have fun games, activities, worksheets, quizzes and videos. It is a fun interactive way students can learn English. Kids can play a variety of games and activities to help boost their confidence and they can just have fun!
Michelle Hepp
I chose ABC Mouse website as my resource. There are a lot of options as far as activities and lessons and the students enjoy using it. www.abcmouse.com There are over 850 lessons and 8000+ activities. It was is designed for guided learning or can be used to let the students explore on their own. They can read stories, practice letters, learn vocab or watch videos. They offer step by step curriculum and differentiated instruction. This website was designed by teachers and is constantly being updated with new lessons and activities. AND, it's free for teachers! There are so many different ways you can use this website, it is almost impossible to not have this work effectively with struggling readers. The only down side is it goes up to about a third grade level.
Kristy Ryan
I chose Starfall.com as my resource. I chose Starfall because I feel it is a great resource for beginning and intermediate English learners. It teaches ABC's and sight words. Children feel like it is a game with the way the program is set up. The short games help keep the children's attention better than some other resources where the lessons are longer.
Jenny Rayburn
ABCMouse.com is a great website and resource to use for struggling readers. Everyday in my classroom ABCmouse.com is put on and we really dig in for letter sounds, recognition, and songs that give the child plenty of words beginning with that letter. I found that my kindergarten students love these songs and activities. They are more likely to be engaged with this website than others.
Dotty
We have weekly spelling assignments and use Spelling City website to help the students learn their words though games.
Jenny Rayburn
This website is readinga-z.com. It is a great resources for assessments for students. ESOL students have modifications to their testing when possible. This website gives the teacher a good look at how to assess, what you can use, and how!
Dawn
Star fall and brain pop are great resources
Kristy Ryan
I chose starfall as my resource. Starfall.com is a great resource for any struggling reader. Not only does it help with phonics, it also helps with sight words, and offers students a challenging, yet fun way to learn. Students are given short lessons that keep their attention and make it seem fun.
Danielle Collin
https://www.raz-kids.com The resource I choose is one I have used for the past five years, Raz-Kids. The leveled books are available in Spanish, French and British English (?). There is also an ELL upgrade if that is something you need in your classroom. What I love is that as the books become more difficult, the skills build and the vocabulary is very supported.
Ashley
I like to use abcya.com. It has many different "games" that the children like to play, but they also learn as they are playing. There is games focused on fundamentals in reading such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, spelling, sight words, grammar, and much more. This resource has become a fun one in my classroom that allows my students to learn new things.
Danielle Collin
http://www.imaginelearning.com Our school district use Imagine learning for struggling readers and ELL students. It requires ELL students to be on the program for 30 minutes each day. The program instructs students on their level by giving them a pretest to set their individual level and establish goals. They are able to record themselves and learn from their mistakes in a nonthreatening way.
Corien
I chose to share the reading resource Epic! - Books for Kids. I like this resource because it meets the kids where they are. The students are asked questions so the program can suggest books that are on their level and go along with their interests. I can also go on and make a collection of books and assign them to the students. This has been helpful for our new reading curriculum Core Knowledge. There are also videos and audio books available. https://www.getepic.com
Desmond Albritton
Reading Rockets.org Reading Rockets is a national multimedia literacy initiative offering information and resources on how young kids learn to read, why so many struggle, and how caring adults can help. The Library of Congress Literacy Awards honor organizations working to promote literacy and reading in the USA and world-wide. www.readingrockets.org The website contains the following subtopics: Teaching Reading—pinpoints classroom strategies which are research- based. Reading Basics-print awareness to comprehension; Reading 101 course- professional development course; looking at writing—writing samples from real kids; Helping Struggling Readers—articles on why some kids struggle, target the problem, finding help, and FAQs. Reading Topics A-Z—pinpoints various aspects of reading and comprehension taking into account the dyslexic reader, Children’s Books and Authors—themed booklists including non-fiction for kids. It enables the teacher to understand why some kids struggle, pinpoint the problem that a struggling reading is having, and offers help when the child needs additional teaching, tutoring, or special educational services. It also allows for questions about assessment, comprehension, dyslexia, and more. This website is available to parents and students as well.
Livia Forrest
http://www.readworks.org I chose this resource because the website allows you to choose texts that are on different levels. Teachers are able to differentiate based on student levels. The text also come with questions to check the understanding of students.
Diana Folkner
http://www.carlscorner.us.com/WordWay.htm is an excellent resource for word family activities, books, and games. This will help struggling and beginning readers build up their fluency and reading skills.
Michelle Esposito
A resource I use often with my 9th grade English classes is NoRedInk.com. I like this website because it is free and allows students to choose their interests (everything from celebrities to sports to TV shows and movies) and then crafts questions that incorporate these chosen interests. Questions range from grammar to spelling to punctuation. The teacher chooses the topic(s) and then the program creates the questions sets/quizzes so it is very quick and easy to use. The website includes a color-coded gradebook so the teacher can track each student's progress towards concept mastery. I also like this program because if students get a question incorrect the program explains WHY so the student gets immediate feedback and can more readily master the concept at hand. Students also enjoy NoRedInk.com because feels like a game via how it is geared towards their interests and is interactive. These two elements hold the attention of all students, even those who are struggling, and enables them to work at the questions longer and gain more from the experience. This differentiation website also benefits struggling readers by directly reinforcing and teaching concepts that are learned implicitly through reading and writing. However, struggling readers and ELLS require a more direct approach, which NoRedInk.com provides.
Livia Forrest
ReadWriteThink http://www.readwritethink.org ReadWriteThink is a way to engage students to read and/or write. It has a number of resources, activities, games and tools. To help students who may struggle in these content areas. This resource works effectively to provide struggling readers with different resources to aid in their understanding of reading and writing. It also provides teachers with classroom lessons that can be used to remediate and engage students. Finally, it has a way that parents can support their child at home.
Sarah Steckling
http://www.storyboardthat.com/ I chose this website as a reading tool because it allows students to storyboard vocabulary words or create a storyboard to summarize the main events of a text. This tool can be used to assess comprehension, which is the main struggle my middle school students experience when reading. It can be used with all levels of students to assess their comprehension of a text and allows students a different way, other than a summary, to showcase their larning. Plus, students have fun with the assessment and get to use technology which increases student engagement!
Sarah Steckling
http://www.storyboardthat.com/ I chose this website as a reading tool because it allows students to storyboard vocabulary words or create a storyboard to summarize the main events of a text. This tool can be used to assess comprehension, which is the main struggle my middle school students experience when reading. It can be used with all levels of students to assess their comprehension of a text and allows students a different way, other than a summary, to showcase their learning. Plus, students have fun with the assessment and get to use technology which increases student engagement especially for students who struggle.
Brenda Hart
Hi, I often read words, poetry, or enjoyable snippets about things (in addition to the regular course work) in Spanish then I translate into English. Below are sites that I use, of course, Google translate is wonderful also: pen.org https://theculturetrip.com/europe/spain/articles/the-best-spanish-language-poets/http://www.spanishcentral.com/copyright Brenda Hart
Laurie A OBrien
I love using freerice. com http://freerice.com/#/english-vocabulary/1545. This interactive learning game for English and Reading allows students to practice both vocabulary skills, as well as grammar skills, including sentence structure and parts of speech. Students love this game because it donates rice to the world hunger program each time they get a correct answer. It reinforces the use of every day vocabulary and gives a plethora of examples of sentence structure.
Sarah Steckling
www.newsela.com I chose this resource because it contains nonfiction texts based on current events. The website allows you to print a text in different reading levels. This allows you to differentiate because you can give each student a text on the same topic, but at their reading level.
Danielle Plank
Brainpop is a wonderful resource. In its science program, students learn about fuels, energy, wood, lumber, metals, minerals, plants, oil, petroleum, pollution, solar, etc. https://www.brainpop.com/science/energy/naturalresources/
Asiyah Luqman
My go to resource for struggling learners is Readworks. I chose this resource because its standards aligned and offers a wide range of lessons and reading passages tailored to teaching specific content. http://www.readworks.org/ As a resource, Readworks offers lessons that are broad enough for differentiation; using a variety of reading content that is relevant to students. Suggestions for text-embedded questions, activities to promote full engagement and exit tickets make Readworks ideal for struggling readers. In addition, having the option of looking up individual passages by grade level, text type and learning focus is an added bonus for student practice.
Alissa Nicholas
I love brainpop jr. videos. The clips highlight necessary vocabulary, and give great clarification to the topic. The videos are support and very supportive to what is learned in class. Also the characters are engaging since the main speaker is a student herself and the other being a robot. What student wouldn't love to learn with a robot?
Cecilie Shealy
The literacy resource I use for struggling readers is Readworks. Readworks helps me provide my students with both differentiated instruction and homework. I can level passages for my students so that they feel successful with a given text. I can also translate the articles. It has a wealth of articles and question sets for specific skills and standards. It has both fiction and non fiction texts.
Brittany Higgins
I chose Reading A-Z because it is a great free resource. It can used to help struggling readers because readers are leveled and have lots of great illustrations and photos. https://www.readinga-z.com/
Daisy Ramirez
I chose this resource because it provides different strategies to help students comprehend the text. Also, there are some articles that contain pre-work for students to learn unfamiliar vocabulary and think about what the author is going to say. http://www.avidweekly.org/ is a website provided by AVID (college preparatory class) that helps students strengthen their reading and vocabulary skills. This website provides articles that are relevant to the students and what is going on in their world right now. This website has different types of levels of reading so as a teacher I would choose the appropriate one for my struggling reader.
Donna Waite
www.ereadingworksheets.com is a great website for struggling readers, with a large variety of worksheets such as; text structure, comprehension, author's purpose, fact or opinion, writing, main idea,etc. at all grade levels and best of all it's free.
Donna Waite
Ereading worksheets has a variety of worksheets for struggling readers such as; text structure, comprehension. writing, author's purpose, fact and opinion and more. There are all grade levels available and it s free.
Barbara Brunner
I would recommend Mobymax.com as a resource for struggling readers. The program allows teachers to assign standards but also starts the students where they currently are and builds up. The program is always adding more resources and subject areas and even has a phonics and vocabulary area. The program is free and allows you to set up your class and even create contests and send words of encouragement. The address is www.Mobymax.com. The other program I found working really well was Mindplay.com The students are tested and lessons begin where the students need to practice and builds from there. It practices spelling and word sounds and works up from there. Mindplay is not free but bases its pricing on number of people on the program at one time. So You might have multiple students but only say two can be on at the same time. So you would rotate the students with only two on at a time. The goal with their software is thirty minutes a day every day. www.mindplay.com
Janeen Wade
snappywords.com this site is personally one of my FAVORITE resources for vocabulary. It is basically an interactive, visual dictionary. By visual I mean that it shows the word relationships (synonyms, antonyms, homophones) all within one visual word map. I have found that by letting students use this resource to manipulate and figure out words that it broadens their understanding of word relationships and the important of figuring out the context of a word within a sentence.
Codyann Catlin
The resource that I chose has been the Comprehension Connections book by McGregor as it provides teachers with strategic guides and activities to digging deeper into reading to ensure comprehension for students. This book has activities and examples from decoding to making inferences and conclusions that are fun and engaging for teachers and students. For example, when teaching key details one activity idea is to show students a bag full of items and try and fit only the important items we need for the activity (say you are going to dinner, you can only bring the things you need) in a small purse or wallet. Then, model the same activity to show students how to decide the important details when reading.
Bridget Keplar
Rewordify.com is an amazing website that will take a text and modify the text for any struggling reader! It has helped out so much with our new science textbook and history.
Allyson Snow
http://www.mobymax.com The is an effective website for struggling readers because there are so many different option available for reading and vocabulary. There is help for ESOL students with sight words and sounds. In addition, and what I use weekly in my class, is vocabulary practice. Students are given 5 new vocabulary terms to practice in different ways in each lesson.
Vicky Hackett
I would choose word sorts. There are several levels starting with basic sounds to vocabulary.It is a way to learn words, what they mean and works on fluency. They color sort the words. Go over the words daily, cut out and paste, check, practice until fluent with the words. Word patterns can be sorted. It is an awesome way to teach words, vocabulary and fluency. It can be done with a partner.
James T Mayo
I would like to use the Inferencing Strategies worksheet http://nasboces-pob.agilixbuzz.com/student.html#/activity/63437997/item/2769dd33-1674-4976-9d1c-7207af795c6a I find students struggle to construct meaning from difficult texts, and inferencing can help. The sheet encourages using context clues to figure out the message of the writing, which is another strategy students struggle with. Context clues and inferencing are two strategies for struggling readers and this sheet helps.
Andrea E Griffith
https://newsela.com/ I have used this site in the past. It gives many different topics and for each article it gives different reading levels with comprehension problems that students have to answer.
Andrea E Griffith
I chose this site because I know this program works. I have seen students go from beginning readers to 2nd and 3rd grade levels just by putting in effort. It breaks everything down into zones: spelling zone, reading zone, writing zone, and success zone.
Susan Ruckdeschel
I would chose the Reading Buddy Software (readingbuddysoftware.com) because it can improve a child's reading by 50% in 3 months. The Reading Buddy Software is an advanced speech recognition technology that listens, responds, and teaches young struggling readers. I like this software because it is child friendly and very interactive. The resource has the potential to work effectively with struggling readers because it records weaknesses and tutors them until their fluency and comprehension improves. It will motivate and provide research base reading strategies and enrich their experiences with literature on sports, biology, adventure, poetry,history and technology.
A S
I chose http://www.k12reader.com. They have numerous resources aimed at addressing struggling readers and overall language arts skills.
Katelin
One of my favorite resources to use in my classroom is bookflix. I enjoy bookflix because it reads the books to the students. This allows them to be read to by someone other than me! :) I also like that they have options for ELL learners. This helps struggling readers because it highlights each word as it reads it. You can pause the book and go through and read it yourself too if needed.
Melissa Dwyer
The resource I chose to share is ABCmouse.com. I like it because it is easy to use, you can set the levels on it and there are a ton of great activities the kids can do. www.ABCMouse.com. There are categories of Reading, MAth, Science, and Art. The students can choose from a multitude of games and activities depending on their levels. I also believe they just opened their membership for free for teachers.
Jenifer Catlin
I chose is http://readinga-z.com I really like how I can easily Easy differenteiation, Variet in topics Various levels Intercative Great Diagrams. Cultural diversity
Laurie A OBrien
https://www.storyjumper.com/ Storyjumper.com is a great resource for ELLs. Students can create their own stories as well as listen to stories created by others. It allows for visual, auditory and kinesthetic learning styles. My students love interacting online and practicing writing skills.
Emily
I love reading a-z books on the iPad to listen to or I print them out for my kids to keep and read. I love them because they are leveled and kids can read them over and over again.
Emily
I love reading a-z books on the iPad to listen to or I print them out for my kids to keep and read. I love them because they are leveled and kids can read them over and over again. I use them with kindergarten and third grade. The illustrations support kids' comprehension.
Jennifer Wedin
I am choosing to share Wilson Fundations http://www.wilsonlanguage.com/programs/fundations/implementation/. This is a resource that we use in our k-2 A-team time to help children with phonics. It is also something I use with some of my older ESE students who did not get the building blocks of phonics when they were younger.
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