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Blog About and Share a Literacy Resource for Struggling Readers

  • Posted by Susan Ruckdeschel
  • On 28 June, 2015
  • 1126 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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Elizabeth
I choose this resource to help facilitate students practicing skills for English Language Arts. The website: http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games_vocab.htm It has interactive games that allow students to practice vocabulary, spelling/phonics, and grammar skills just to name a few. The website is also great for Math practice. Students feel like they are playing a game while learning!
    Vicky Hackett
    I used that website when I was working with Special needs students. It was fun and and had so many skills you could work on using the smart board. The kids loved it!
      Dawn Hart
      http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games_vocab.htm I used this site with my class. It is so helpful with the various games it offers. The kids love playing them on the Smartboard.
    Rachel Wood
    I chose this resource to help struggling readers, and I know it works! Read 180 - Scholastic - (800) 724-6527 www.scholastic.com A multimedia technology driven program designed and validated by the Cognition and Technology Group at Vanderbilt University let by Dr. Ted Hasselbring. The program involves interactive CD’s with full motion video to provide schema/mental set, interactive text reading adjusted to students assessed reading level, spelling and word study, assessment and record keeping, paperback books leveled to match students, audio cassettes for each book with comprehension prompts, all set up in a 90 rotation in groups of 5 students (5 on the computer, 5 silently reading, 5 in teacher led instruction)... very nifty and well integrated.... Research conducted in Orange Co. Florida Middle Schools found impressive gains (1.5 yrs on the Degrees of Reading Power on average) with serious disabled readers. Scholastic has added more elements to systematically teach sound/symbol correspondences and provide teachers and students with progress monitoring. This is the most integrated and impressive looking use of technology to support reading I have ever seen. Unlike Accelerated Reader, it is an instructional program as well as a management and assessment/motivation program.
    Rachel Wood
    I chose this resource to help students who are struggling with reading skills. Not only does it give the teachers guided lesson plans with scaffolding for students, it gives the students access to high interest reading texts. http://www.avidweekly.org/ The lessons align with Common Core State Standards (at the secondary and postsecondary levels). Used by AVID teachers across all subject areas to teach AVID critical reading strategies. Elementary, middle and high schools plus postsecondary institutions all benefit from AVID Weekly. Features current newspaper articles and images from the Washington Post/Bloomberg News and Tribune News Services. Certain lessons include English language learner embedded scaffolds. New articles and lessons are available each month during the academic year.
    Dianna Fox
    I chose this resource to assist in language acquisition: http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/comic-creator-30021.html Creativity will flow in your classroom! Pre-writing activities, suggestions and lesson plans are shared for educators. Enjoy!
    Kristin Murphy
    I love bookflix and also really like the storybird site from the article. Maybe I will try that out this year!
    Andrew
    A literacy resource that I think is fantastic is CommonLit.org. This website provides leveled articles that are all connected via the topic. They have sets of articles that are a variety of types of text and they all connect to topics like humanity, law, education, etc. Each article or piece of text provides reading comprehension questions and the Lexile's can be changed in order to fit your reader. It works wonders for struggling readers and differentiation.
    Cassidy Kozusko
    A resource I have chosen to discuss is CommonLit (commonlit.org). This is a great resource ELL students and struggling reader in the classroom because students can click on words they don't understand for a definition and even have it translated in their own language if needed.
    Ariel
    I am new to teaching or learning about teaching. I have recently found this resource that has helped me in understanding different students. This site has a lot of different articles that may be helpful. https://www.edutopia.org/#graph2
    Cindy Conner
    I like to use the IXL program. It is a paid subscription, and it is worth every cent. You can find it at ixl.com. It offers a personalized learning experience for each child and is broken into sections for each skill the child needs to work on. It is great for any new reader.
Michele Harris
I chose this resource because of the many reading levels it covers for reading. The website: https://www.readinga-z.com/ It has many reading levels, so it will be beneficial when differentiating skills and reading practice. Students will feel successful when they are able to read fluently and comprehend.
    Casey Swift
    I love A-Z, however I hate how expensive it is. Each section is $99. I really like Raz-Kids, but I don't know if it is worth 100 bucks when there is so much good stuff out there that is free!
    Kristin Murphy
    I don't think I'm posting this in the right spot but I can't figure this blog out. ANYWAY, I chose Bookflix.com as my resource because it reads books to students and they have many engaging stories on their site. Trueflix.com is the nonfiction version.
    Cassie McCammon
    I love Reading A-Z! I love how they offer printable leveled readers! I have used their resources as a way to test fluency and reading level in my classroom. I have also used their leveled readers for stations in the classroom and to get books to send home with my students. I know the resources that they offer are very expensive, but if you get a free two-week trial, you can explore the website and print many helpful resources before the trial runs out. You may also want to talk to your school about getting an account. If the school gets a login that can be shared with multiple teachers it can cut costs and many students can benefit from it!
      katie truxton
      I really liked using reading A_Z also but it was a lot of work printing all those books and putting them together.
      katie truxton
      I really like i ready because the kids seem to enjoy doing it. They earn coins when they complete lessons which they can use to play games so it adds incentive for them and they track their progress so you can see growth or areas that need intervention. Parents can also access it at home and see how their child is doing. Kids can do it at school and at home which is great.
    Michele Savarese
    I chose the resource Science A-Z, https://www.sciencea-z.com/, because it has books of different reading levels, students can listen to a story, then read it themselves then depending on their level they can take a short quiz about what they read. I also like that there are videos on the website that motivate my students to think about a question but also to develop their own question that they then research on their own time. My students, especially my struggling readers love this website because they have many different options to gain information, they can watch short videos that spark their interest, they can read an article or book, and they can listen to the same article and book. Students also get points for every book they listen too and read, and every quiz they take. This is the only part you have to watch as students quickly learn that they can just skip through the story and get points, but this happens only with a few students as most are motivated to read about the topic of their choice.
    Michele Savarese
    I also think readingA-Z is a great resource. I use the points students earn to have them build their robot for a few minutes during "Fun Friday!!"
Ayla Boscarino-Cruz
I chose this resource to guide teachers seeking help for a struggling reader. The website: http://www.readingrockets.org/article/seeking-help-struggling-reader-seven-steps-teachers Reading Rockets is an amazing online resource with a plethora of knowledge, strategies, and suggestions about teaching reading. The specific article I chose guides teachers with seven steps to help a struggling reader. At times, teachers may be at a cross roads trying to figure where to begin or what step to take next when a child struggles in reading- this is a great resource to read through for ideas!
Terri Sinclair
I chose this resource because it has so many resources for both families and teachers of ELL students. Many of the resources used for ELL students can also be used for struggling readers. Next, provide us with a link to the resource and a brief description of it. http://www.colorincolorado.org/ Colorín Colorado is a national multimedia project that offers a wealth of bilingual, research-based information, activities, and advice for educators and families of English language learners. This site has a video library that compiles ELL classroom videos and interviews. It integrate Common Core and has a resource library featuring great recommended resources. Explain how the resource works effectively, or has the potential to work effectively, with struggling readers. The resource section covers many topics, including grade-level strategies and ideas for teaching more advanced reading and writing skills such as those required by the Common Core State Standards. The teacher can watch videos of the lesson in action and then apply those lesson in their own classrooms.
    Liz Prendergast
    The site I chose is Oxford Owl. This site gives a lot of resources for teachers and parents. It also has interactive activities for students. https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/
    Jean Faulk
    http://www.readingrockets.org/audience/teachers I have not used this resource yet, but hear good things about it from more experienced teachers. When I investigated the site, it had several good links for different areas of reading and understanding.
Kelly Higgins
The site teachers first, provides read aloud stories visually. The students will feel as if they are reading the actual book (with the pictures). The reader highlights each word as it is read. The main vocabulary word on the page has a separate diagram with the word underneath. This site could very well teach the students to read. The story is read at a nice pace for an early reader.
Kelly Hall
I have recently discovered www.sightwords.com . It is full of ready-to-print resources for students who need help in basic sight words. There are resources from both the Fry and the Dolch lists, as well as games. I recommend this to parents who need extra help as well.
Jennifer
I chose this article because it was very informative. The resource is; http://cehdvision2020.umn.edu/cehd-blog This site had many strategies for struggling readers. It discussed how as teacher we have to first pinpoint the areas the child is struggling in such as, phonics, Phonological awareness fluency etc. Then once you know the weakness you start working on interventions strategies for that child. It was a very helpful article
Jill
I chose the online reading resource of Reading Rockets. It can be found at: http://www.readingrockets.org/ It is an advantageous sight for all, since it provides resources from every angle from parent, teacher, speech language pathologist, guidance counselor, etc. It allows for student access, too. It also incorporates the content depending upon level of the teacher, i.e., first year teacher or struggling student. It provides information and educational videos on several targeted topics including phonics, phonological awareness, common core, parent engagement, early literacy, and so on. The site has downloads and a link to the popular PBS shows that kids love to watch and learn!
Jac
I have chosen Earobics which is a web based program that helps children with phonological awareness, processing speed (auditory) and listening skills. I over saw the program for two years at our school and the gains that the students made especially in processing skills was amazing. By improving the foundation skills of phonological awareness, processing speeds and listening skills you are greatly helping struggling readers. The only downside to this program was the cost. Maybe with a district willing to spend the money, get a grant or creative use of free trial a teacher could use this with their struggling readers. Being computer based with fun games it draws the students attention and keeps it. I added in incentives to help my students stay motivated. You can read an overview at http://school.discoveryeducation.com/parents/reviewcorner/software/earobics1.html . Their website is http://www.earobics.com/ .
Paul Manrique
I chose Words Their Way. This program is a developmental spelling program where students work with level-appropriate word sorts to improve their understanding of the English written language. Word sorts are simply sets of words which fall into certain spelling, sound, or semantic categories. This program has a special edition for English Language Learners that focuses on struggling readers. In this program, students are given tasks to sense of words on their own terms, like scientists or detectives, in which they look for patterns in spelling and sound in order to categorize the words. The program does not teach spelling rules but instead offers opportunities for hands-on, developmentally appropriate word work that leads to a greater understanding. There is an inventory (assessment) that does not look primarily at how many words were correct or incorrect. Instead it concentrates on the components of the written language where students experience difficulty. Once the assessment has been tallied, the students are placed in a specific stages of developmental spelling. They then begin working with word sorts appropriate to that stage. Here is an online resource on how to set up the program: http://www.elltoolbox.com/words-their-way.html#.Vigdpmflvs0 Here is another resource for the developmental stage word lists and sorts that are reproducible: http://barton.mpls.k12.mn.us/words_their_way
Paul Manrique
I chose Words Their Way program to assist my ELL and struggling students that are disabled. This program is a developmental spelling program where students work with level-appropriate word sorts to improve their understanding of the English written language. Word sorts are simply sets of words which fall into certain spelling, sound, or semantic categories. This program has a special edition for English Language Learners that focuses on struggling readers. In this program, students are given tasks to sense of words on their own terms, like scientists or detectives, in which they look for patterns in spelling and sound in order to categorize the words. The program does not teach spelling rules but instead offers opportunities for hands-on, developmentally appropriate word work that leads to a greater understanding. There is an inventory (assessment) that does not look primarily at how many words were correct or incorrect. Instead it concentrates on the components of the written language where students experience difficulty. Once the assessment has been tallied, the students are placed in a specific stages of developmental spelling. They then begin working with word sorts appropriate to that stage. Here is an online resource on how to set up the program: http://www.elltoolbox.com/words-their-way.html#.Vigdpmflvs0 Here is another resource for the developmental stage word lists and sorts that are reproducible: http://barton.mpls.k12.mn.us/words_their_way
Diana Folkner
The resource I chose was www.starfall.com it provides games and interactive stories for students to practice the beginning phonics skills starting with letter recognition and sounds to poems and little readers for kids who are beginning to read.
Monica
I chose BrainPop because it has over 1,000 short animated movies for students in grades K-12 (ages 6 to 17), together with quizzes and related materials, covering the subjects of science, social studies, English, mathematics, engineering and technology, health, and arts and music.
Jessica Eli
I chose http://www.readworks.org/ Readworks is a great site that focuses on reading comprehsion, and is also aligned to the Common Core State Standards. The website is great because you can search a topic based on subject or on the students reading levels, therefore you can work on one strategy with your students but give each student a passage on their level. Readwork passages also come with thick and thin questions as well as short answers.
Summer
I chose: http://www.everydaylanguagelearner.com/language-learning-resources/language-learning-activities/ because it is a great website that gives good examples for ELLs for goal setting and activities to do too.
Katherine Sands
I enjoyed using k12reader.com It is a website that has a free membership but it has access to just about anything reading related you could think of. Spelling Lists, Phonics, vocabulary, high interest comprehension passages with higher order thinking questions, grammar, writing, and basic reading skills from Pre-K to high school. This words with my struggling readers because I can go online, find a resource that I need for any student. If a student is struggling with prefixes, they have that, if a student is struggling with FRY words, they have it. I can also look up articles that relate to current teaching trends in a variety of subjects. They also have access to lesson templates, book lists, and graphic aids to help my readers of all levels.
Ivelise Viera
Currently, there are many fabulous resources to be found. I find that Flocabulary successfully engages students using educational hip-hop videos, and interactive activities. https://www.flocabulary.com/topics/ Flocabulary can be used in core subjects, since the website has a multitude of videos and activities in diverse topics. Videos and activities, including fill in the blanks are provided for practice with basic math, Earth science, life science, and ELA such as elements of a story, author’s purpose, context clues, inferencing, and word choice. I think the videos highlighted in the website can be used effectively with all students. Students may struggle in any of the essential components needed to be a successful reader. This website provides struggling readers another opportunity to improve on key terms, and learn how to apply reading strategies in an engaging manner. Another important factor is the fact that some students are hesitant to admit they do not understand a concept or term, for fear of ridicule; using the resources provided in this website, all students are able to review what they have learned during instruction.
Lindsey Sager
http://oedb.org/ilibrarian/50_essential_resources_for_esl_students/ I chose this because it gives resources to helps ELL students. You can edit them and print them out.
Michele Harris
I chose Tumblebooks because students are able to read books online or have them read to them. http://www.tumblebooklibrary.com/Default.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2f I chose it because of the wide variety of books to choose from.
Kenzie McCain
I chose the resource of ESGI Software. This software helps assess and develop ELA skills. https://www.esgisoftware.com/ I chose this resource because I use it in my classroom first to assess a student's understanding of ELA skills, but then to personalize a prescription for where to take the student next. For example, sight words. The initial/checkup assessments tell me what words a student has already mastered, and then it prints out flashcards, worksheets and book suggestions personalized to the student that can be used to develop the rest of the skills involved.
Kristin
I chose http://tweentribune.com as my resource. As this site is not only for language arts, it offers a wide variety of articles of varying lengths and topics, and educators have the ability to select different lexilie levels for the same article, allowing for differentiation for both struggling and advanced readers. Teachers are also able to assign articles to students, and the site includes quizzes and critical thinking questions to follow up on the articles.
Kristin
I chose the resource Tween Tribune (http://tweentribune.com). This site has articles of various topics and lengths, and educators can select different Lexile levels for the same articles, which allows for differentiation for both struggling and advanced readers. Teachers can assign articles to students and the site also offers quizzes and critical thinking questions to follow up after reading the articles.
Kathleen
I chose the resource of Starfall. This program helps struggling or beginning readers acquire new language and reading skills. http://www.starfall.com I chose this resource because I use it often with ELL students who are just beginning to learn English, as well as other students who are struggling with phonics. Students can interactively work with each letter of the alphabet, learning sounds and vocabulary that relates to that letter. Many of the letters include a short interactive game focused on matching sounds, or capital and lowercase letter identification. There are visual representations of the letter on each screen to assist students in making the print connection. There are also short stories that can be read to the students as well.
Lanita Roth
One resource that I have found to be very effective is the use of Frayer Models in the classroom. It is an ELL strategy, but it is also just good effective teaching practice for vocabulary. http://www.readingeducator.com/strategies/frayer.htm
    Lanita Roth
    I chose this particular resource since our school was low in the area of vocabulary. Our students are not coming to us with the needed background knowledge. The Frayer model is one way that helps students understand and be successful with vocabulary.
Lanita Roth
I chose the resource the Frayer model. It is an effective ELL strategy but it is a good graphic organizer for any vocabulary lesson. http://www.readingeducator.com/strategies/frayer.htm Vocabulary has become a weak area for our school. The children are not coming to us with the background or support that they used to have upon entering school. We as teachers have to come up with stratgies to help them build the background they need. The vocabulary affects reading greatly and the Frayer model has been something I have used successfully.
Amy
www.tumblebooks.com Tumblebooks is a great resource for struggling readers. It is a collection of animated talking picture books. There is a variety of books.
Roberta Abeln
I chose the resource Lyrics2learn because students improve reading fluency, background knowledge, reading comprehension and test taking skills through songs. http://www.lyrics2learn.com/ Lyrics2learn is a brain-based, on-line program that engages students by using music. It helps students memorize information quickly through repetition, rhythm and rhyme. This programs questions are aligned with Common Core Depth of Knowledge. This program is used as a center or a mini-lesson (whole group) beginning with literal comprehension on day 1, and ends with open ended constructed response.
Matthew
I used... https://prezi.com/crjnls3jz1cj/most-dangerous-game-map/ I enjoyed the information and how it can be differentiated.
Mandy
I chose the following literary resource for teaching English Language Learners: Colorin Colorado http://www.colorincolorado.org/literacy-instruction-ells This website is full of articles, videos and guides to use to adapt lesson plans to not only meet the needs of ELL students but all students. The website is easy to navigate and is divided into sections to easily find specific information. For example, the Teaching ELL section has the following subcategories: New to Teaching ELLs, Create a Welcoming Classroom, Strategies and Best Practices for ELLs, Language and Vocabulary Instruction, Literacy Instruction, Content Area Instruction for ELLs, Common Core, Technology and ELLs, The Role of the ESL Teacher, and Special Populations. The website also organizes its resources by grade level and state. A resource library and resources for family members are available as well. This site has the potential to work effectively as a resource for teachers with struggling readers because the resources offered are so extensive and are researched base.
Teresa
I love Storybird and Epic. My 4th graders get to write their own stories on storybird and on Epic they can choose from 1000's of books to read. My struggling readers have the chance to make their own stories at their level of creativity and wording, as well as read other 4th grader's books. Epic allows my readers to read books at their level and it gives me the chance to really see if they just flip through the pages and aren't really reading. www.storybird.com https://www.getepic.com/
    Dawn Contin
    Even though storybird says it is just for K-9th grade, I can definitely see me creating stories for differentiating some of the high school material. Thank you for letting us know about that site.
Jean Faulk
Since becoming a history teacher, I have become involved with the Florida Humanities Council. Due to their excellence in education, I have attended several of their workshops which provide me with the materials I need to take back to the classroom for my ELLs. After visiting St. Augustine I took back an audio tour of the city, which the students loved to listen to, a very colorful map, so the students could follow along while listening and several books, written in Spanish and English, to help with understanding. They are continually adding content for teachers so I would recommend this for content purposes. https://floridahumanities.org/educators/
Dawn Contin
The website I chose has resources for educators and families. This site has articles, videos, and book suggestions. The site is available in English or Spanish. You can even gear it toward which ever audience you are.
    Dawn Contin
    Not sure why the website didn't show. The website is http://www.colorincolorado.org/ Also, this can be beneficial for educators to help them get more information about ESOL students and how to better teach them. It gives families help in learning together and helping their child with school.
Jean Faulk
Because my ELLS are teens, trying to find material to read which has a translation from Spanish to English was challenging. I believe most of my students adapt quicker while reading things they enjoy and not just instructional text. I also have the problem of keeping my other students engaged when working with the ELLs. I found this website: http://www.fluentu.com/spanish/educator/blog/short-stories-in-spanish-for-students/ which is actually for Spanish students but the theory is by using short stories you can reach a level of understand of all the aspects of reading quicker and this site also has some that are English and Spanish which allows for my ELLs to be able to see both. I have found it very helpful.
Corinne Bosak
I am going to make it simple here and state that I have never worked with a better program than I-Ready software for Reading and Math. It can be differentiated for each student and the program recognizes the level the student is working on in each subject. Teachers can read a variety of reports and add instruction via the program for students struggling in a particular area of Reading, such as high frequency words, vocabulary or comprehension.....plus it gives great feedback to the teachers as well as the students.
Ciara Petros
This is a great website because it lets students focus and the grammar and basic sentence structure they need to complete sentences. When students are able to understand sentence structure, that aid in understanding sentences and words they may not otherwise have been able to understand. It works great helping students to practice out develop writing skills that they may have forgotten or missed prior to ninth grade
Aimee Morrell
I chose MobyMax because it is an adaptive program that allows the students to earn points and play games as they progress through the reading levels. The reading levels in the MobyMax program correlate with F&P levels pretty closely and the data I am able to retrieve from the program is outstanding. The program has reading for literature, informational as well as phonics and writing. Each section of the program provides a pretest to place the student at their proper level. To top it all off, it is fun and the students enjoy working with the program. www.mobymax.com
    Brian Glassman
    Good site. Thank you for the resource. Reading Plus is another good website to help students with reading. Interesting stories and students can see their progress. Thanks again.
Terri Sinclair
I am currently reading The Differentiated Classroom:Responding to the Needs of All Learners by Carol Ann Tomlinson. It was recently updated in 2014 and it shares dozens of instructional strategies, and then illustrates how real teachers are applying differentiation practices in their classrooms. http://www.ascd.org/professional-development/videos/the-differentiated-classroom-dvds.aspx?utm_source=ascd.org&utm_medium=advertising&utm_campaign=DIdvds-int-house This link leads you to both DVD excerpts and book excerpts.
Franze
It is always nice to have new resources to help students learn. You never know whicih one is going to help the the most.
Mary
I chose Brainpop--- It is an excellent resource for ELL and “regular” learner alike. The resources on the site are seeming endless. There are SO many topics on Brainpop which is especially great for an elementary teacher. The kids love it! In fact, I have taught at several different levels in elementary and each level I have taught has been absolutely enamored by it. The vocabulary used is explained when need be. The dialog is the perfect is at the perfect rate. Its levels provide differentiation (there is even an ELL side). Many reading concepts are covered and presented in a fun, informative way on Brainpop Jr. making it an excellent resource for struggling readers.
Patrice Ayala
I chose to use abcmouse.com because it can be used in both English and Spanish. It's easy for my Kindergarteners to navigate through the activities.
Kathy Crenshaw
The resource I like using is Starfall for my young struggling students. Some of the benefits for using this website is it provide the students additional ways of identifying sounds, putting those sound together to create words and words into stories. I give them the chance to see, hear, and practice. This is a great resource.
Katelin
I chose the resource starfall. http://www.starfall.com/ I chose this resource because it is great for my kindergarten students. It is kid friendly and they can navigate the website by themselves. Very little teacher direction is needed. They have lots of great activities under the letters, and the children can learn to start reading and pick the story they want to read. This is very beneficial for struggling readers.
    Penny Pruitt
    Starfall is a great program. Its colorful, creative and has so many activities for learning readers. My daughter is not an ELL student but was struggling with reading and Starfall along with another program I chose Earobics did wonders for her in just a few months. I love both of these programs. Great choice!
Alyssa Tretter
1. I choose the resource Words Their Way and also the ELL toolbox. 2.http://www.elltoolbox.com/words-their-way.html#.VpA6jPkrLIU 3. Words their Way is a word sort program that helps the students sort words my patterns. They are not just memorizing words but they are recognizing patterns and then using those patterns to build other words. There is a Words Their Way book for just ELL students that could be very beneficial. The ELL toolbox in which I found activities for Words their Way also is a great resource for not only ELL students but for struggling readers. This website outline many lessons for teachers that can be used in the classroom.
Alyssa Tretter
1. I chose Words Their Way and ELL ToolBox because I use this in my classroom and the students love it. 2. http://www.elltoolbox.com/words-their-way.html#.VpEuTPkrLIW 3. Words Their Way is a word sort program where the students focus on word patterns. They are tested in the beginning to see which word pattern stage they are in and then they are given sorts in that stage. The point of this is not to have the students just memorize words and how they spelled but to really understand a pattern and be able to transfer that pattern into different words. There is a Words Their Way book just for ELL students. The website I included describes Words Their Way but it is also a toolbox. Teachers can pull many lessons and activities from this website to use with their ELL students.
Michael Kaluzavich
I chose the resource Book builder. http://bookbuilder.cast.org/ It has resources for students to create their own digital book and read and explore other digital books.
Alyssa Tretter
I chose Reading A-Z because it has a large amount of resources for all students. It has great resources for ELL students. Many of the activities and passages can be translated into different languages. https://www.readinga-z.com/ These resources can work for all students but especially students who are struggling. There are activities at all levels. There are activities for the content areas, phonemic awareness, assessments, passages, vocabulary, and so much more. I have used this in my classroom during my small group instruction. I am able to pull passages and graphic organizers that meet the needs of each group. I have used many of the resources on the website but there is so much more that I would love to explore.
Dana Carlisle
I chose starfall.com. It is a great resource for beginning readers. It has phonics activities for all my students no matter what their reading level is. It also has short read along stories. It is a very child friendly web site. My class can easily navigate through it.
Kristina
spellingcity.com is a resource used on our grade level to differentiate spelling and vocabulary; students are grouped by ability and provided spelling lists that accommodate their skills. Spelling City offers games and practice activities centered around the students' assigned list. Though not free, it is a great resource if you are looking to differentiate spelling or vocabulary.
Dawn
I chose the Adapted Mind website which can be found at www.adaptedmind.com. I picked this resource because it helps struggling students with reading fluency, comprehension, spelling, and vocabulary. It has the students practice the vocabulary words before reading the selection which is a good practice to use with ELL students. After previewing the vocabulary, students have the chance to read the story on their own. They have to double click on any words they get stuck on because it doesn’t do all the reading for them.
Ayla Boscarino-Cruz
I chose this resource to guide teachers seeking help for a struggling reader. The website: http://www.readingrockets.org/article/seeking-help-struggling-reader-seven-steps-teachers Reading Rockets is an amazing online resource with a plethora of knowledge, strategies, and suggestions about teaching reading. The specific article I chose guides teachers with seven steps to help a struggling reader. At times, teachers may be at a cross roads trying to figure where to begin or what step to take next when a child struggles in reading- this is a great resource to read through for ideas!
Jean Faulk
My resource is: http://www.pathstoliteracy.org/resources/being-visual-raising-generation-visual-thinkers-bette-fetter The reason I chose this is because of the ease of the site and the amount of information it contained to help any struggling readers I have.
Heather Chandler
My resources are www.spellingcity.com and https://www.flocabulary.com/subjects/ Both of these sites are fun and intriguing for kids. At spelling city, children play with words in a fun and inviting manner. They learn phonics and vocabulary while playing games. Flocabulary is fun because of the catchy songs the kids love to sing along with.
Heather Chandler
To provide support for educators or parents to aid their struggling readers, I found the following source. This website www.readingrockets.org shows many wonderful techniques and videos to encourage educators in helping their struggling students. abcmouse and starfall are wonderful programs for the students. It helps them to get a good grasp on phonics.
Dayna Carroll
I would recommend Fountas and Pinnell's Leveled Literacy Intervention. http://www.heinemann.com/fountasandpinnell/lli_Overview.aspx This researched based resource is designed for a grade level's lowest readers. It is designed for small groups, no more than 3 students, and is in addition to the core work. This provides scaffolded, powerful daily instruction in reading and writing as well as it helps them expand their knowledge of sounds, letters and words and how they work. This program has proven successful in my intervention classroom and has moved most of my lowest readers up various reading levels, building their word knowledge and reading abilities gradually.
Laura Songer
I use http://www.sightwords.com. Some of my students struggle with sightwords and this site is full of ready-to-print resources and things for the students. They have both the Fry and Dolch lists and also games. I have sent this site home in a newsletter to my parents so the students can practice at home also.
Robyn Haney
I chose this resource because it allows students work on their specific level and at their own pace. It allows them to build on specific skills.
Ana Rodriguez
The website I have chosen is ixl.com I chose this website because it is a great practice resource for any reading, math, science, and social studies skills or concepts. It provides numerous practice problems and congratulates the students when correctly answered and also explains the mistake when wrong. It isn't timed therefore the students have the time necessary for them to process what is being asked and determine the correct answer. Students can be moved to a different grade level if needed while working on the same concept as well so they would be working at their personalized level.
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Sammantha
I chose a resource that has a list of tips to help struggling readers as well as some common misconceptions teachers have about teaching reading that can harm struggling readers. I chose this because as I read I found that the tips that it shared would be very helpful to teachers of all grade levels. http://smartblogs.com/education/2013/02/08/ccss-marisa-kaplan/ The list of tips for teachers are very easy to understand and can be applied to various ages and grade-levels. Teachers reading this list can find some new ways to reach those struggling readers that they may have not thought of before.
Danielle Jackson
I chose the resource http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies because I often find myself visiting this site. They have so many resources for Reading that include games, book recommendations, videos, and lesson plans. There are resources for phonics, writing, fluency, etc. This site also tells you when to do the lessons - before, during, or after reading, as well as if they should be done in small group or whole group.
Danielle
I would like to share: http://www.connectionsacademy.com/blog/posts/2013-06-10/7-Great-Online-Reading-Resources-for-Parents-and-Learning-Coaches.aspx This website offers websites for teachers and parents. Oftentimes, our parents do not know HOW to help their child at home. This website is helpful for both educators and parents. One website even allows you to submit questions that an educator will answer. The strategies are useful for ESE, ELL, or regular education students.
Rachel Wood
I utilize Kahoot in my classroom as a questioning technique. This allows my ELL students to answer simple questions, and generate higher order thinking questions. It is also interactive and has music to go with it, and you can attach youtube videos to play in the background, which can also help the struggling learners. It also promotes a healthy competition with the students, and definitely allows for ensuring students comprehension of the material. https://getkahoot.com/
Warren
I am choosing readability because it takes away the distractions of all the advertisements on the web page which allows the reader to focus on the text only. https://www.readability.com/
Kelly Hall
I chose http://www.coreknowledge.org/ckla because I believe in the comprehensive nature of the program. It incorporates age-appropriate topics with the learning of foundational skills. The topics are essential for students to become well-rounded citizens who share background knowledge so that comprehension can take place, and new learning can build on previous learning. For struggling readers, it fills many gaps in background knowledge.
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Thanks, Kelly. Core Knowledge is a wonderful resource for struggling learners. Also good with new teachers, or for districts with high teacher turnover because it places everyone on the same page - common strategies, common assessments, consistent growth. Thank you for your contribution! Susan
Melanie Counts
I am choosing ABCmouse.com because it scaffolds all of my kindergartners at their level. It even offers English and Spanish for the ELL students in my class. The link is https://www.abcmouse.com/
Ama Burns
I chose the resource Read Works. www.readworks.org Readworks.org is a website that provides FREE reading comprehension resources, lessons and units at all grade levels. The passages can also be aligned to the specific standards that you are focusing on. I like to use it for my struggling readers. I can search and download passages and question sets based on Lexile level and the specific skill that we are focusing on.
Ama Burns
For my second resource, I chose ReadWriteThink. www.readwritethink.org I chose this website because it offers lots of different resources on all grade levels, standards, and topics, including ELL and differentiation. It can also be incredible helpful when looking for "different" or "structured" lessons to use to reteach those students who just need a little more help. There are materials for the students such as interactives online. Many of the printable resources are for hands-on manipulatives or graphic organizers. The site also provides professional development resources.
Penny Pruitt
I chose Earobics. It can be found at http://www.hmhco.com/shop/education-curriculum/intervention/reading/earobics Earobics is an adaptive, research-based reading intervention program built on the Common Core. Individualized, adaptive learning provides targeted instruction in Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Comprehension, Vocabulary, Fluency, and Writing. Powerful management tools enable teachers and administrators to monitor and chart student progress for differentiation. Students can engage with lively characters, multi-sensory features, and there is a built-in Assessment. Research-proven, Earobics can be used with any core reading program. This is a program not only great for ELL students but any student struggling with reading. It did wonders for my daughter who is in a HAART class but struggled with reading. She is doing great now and it only took a few months for her. However, every student is different of course.
Kirstie Denson
BrainPop is a fantastic resource that I implement in my classroom. This resource is completely interactive and allows the students to own their learning. There are over 1,000 short animated movies for students in grades K-12 with any department you could think of! https://www.brainpop.com/
Michelle Piasecki
The above site might not be the best, but it gives an overview of Project CRISS strategies. One of these strategies is Picture Notes, which is one that I would recommend. Picture Notes is a strategy that gets students to create a visual summary of what has been learned. Usually, the notes are around a central question that addresses the topic of study. Students work in a small group and are times. This method helps you see if the students, especially ELL, learned the concept you are teaching
Michelle Piasecki
I found this resource thanks to an ESOL class I took last summer. It was from Larry Ferlazzo's best of list. This particular site provides different online activities for EFL/ESL for learners of different levels. There are specifically preschool acitivities on this site, which was the topic from the previous reading.
Leslie Owens
https://www.getepic.com/educators I use this website regularly in my classroom and encourage my students to use it at home as well. With a variety of informational text as well as literature, all at various learning levels, students have access to a fount of colorful, engaging, texts. I use this website with read alouds, as well as in small groups. I have created a profile for each of my students and can assign or suggest texts for them to read based upon their learning level and subject preferences. This website is a wonderful resource for every elementary school teacher.
Jonathan Fletcher
I am choosing brain pop. https://www.brainpop.com/ Not only does this resource cover a bunch of different topics, but more importantly it allows students to visualize some of the more abstract concepts I teach in Science.
Casey Swift
I really like the iReady Instructional online portion. This is a membership only resource, usually funded by the district, but I really like how the questions are higher on the complexity level and get the kids really thinking not about what there answer is... But WHY that is their answer and what evidence they have to support it. It also includes a lot of tutorials and self checking assessments so the kids can monitor their growth.
April Strong
I really enjoy using Readworks and Better Lesson to find meaningful lesson ideas for my students. http://betterlesson.com/ http://www.readworks.org/ Both sites allow you to search by standard or skill. This allows me to find a good fit for a whole group or small group lesson. Because I work with gifted students I need to find text that will peak my students' interests while address the academic needs of my students. Of course, these lessons are "tweaked" by me to suit the specific needs of my students.
Mangayarcarassy Neelavannan
I like the Reading Rockets website because it provides strategies and examples that can utilized in the classroom in an effective way. Link: http://www.readingrockets.org/article/seven-strategies-teach-students-text-comprehension The seven strategies to teach students text comprehension include monitoring comprehension, metacognition, graphic and semantic organizers, answering questions, generating questions, recognizing story structure and summarizing. I have referred this website multiple times when I was teaching my own children at home while they were growing up.
M. Celeste Holden
The resource I chose is http://readinga-z.com This website is a great resource that I use almost daily in my classroom. I really like how I can easily differentiate reading for my students with this resource and it has such a great variety of book levels and topics. It is very multi-cultural and the different levels allow everyone to feel successful as a reader. There is a wide- range of different types of genres to also choose from which make it very helpful if planning a unit or theme. Great for struggling readers and fluent readers.
Dianne Tillery
The resource I chose is ABCya.com. I chose this because it it easy for students, teachers, and parents to navigate. It is fa site with educational games for Pre-K through 5th grade. These games use common core standards. There are games with Spanish Word Bingo and Spanish vocabulary. This is a site that I have recently become aware of and plan to explore more. I think it would be very beneficial to all students. It works on the alphabet, reading, numbers, and more.
Teresa Collins
The resource I chose is i-ready. I chose this because it has a diagnostic component that I can set for my students to complete at will to see if there is improvement. It also will show me what assignments the students are struggling with and has resources that I can choose from to work with the student in small group or teacher time. My students are making gains using the program in both reading and math. login.i-ready.com
Elan Caruso
I chose Brainpop because it is a short video that gives students a brief overview on a topic. It also has cute characters and animations that they love! https://www.brainpop.com/ With the Brainpop videos, students can either watch them on the Chromebooks or we can view them as a class. Students can listen, but also use the closed caption to read what the characters are saying. Each video has several activities and a quiz to go along with them. Brainpop videos keep my students engaged, and they learn from them.
Elan Caruso
Brainpop videos are a great resource because they have short videos that give a brief overview of a topic, using characters and animations. https://www.brainpop.com/ This site is great for struggling readers because the videos can be watched individually on Chrome books or projected on a smart board. The videos can be viewed using the closed caption option, so students can see the dialogue. Each video contains activities and a quiz. My students love watching Brainpop videos and they learn from them too!
Diana Folkner
Read Words is a great program that offers different leveled text and questions that focus on different skills. The passages are interesting to the students and keep them engaged. http://www.readworks.org/books/passages?gclid=Cj0KEQiAlO20BRCcieCSncPlqqMBEiQAOZGMnCiZ8qeZYFmsdFGWqxhheSKLBiIDntfu7ApqU8CwxH4aAkrZ8P8HAQ
Joyce De La Torre
I use Raz-Kids an online reading website that reads to the students then ask them comprehension questions it has many levels, I use the reading A to Z to get short stories when I do stories from textbooks to compliment the stories. I have ESE IND students which most of them can not read. https://www.raz-kids.com/main/Search/?searchTerms=login
Heather
The resource I chose is Intervention Central. Intervention Central is the leading resource for Response to Intervention tools and resources and has a plethora of resources specifically geared for Reading Interventions. I chose this resource because I feel that we struggle to find lessons for small groups or intervention strategies for students and this offers many options. The website it http://www.interventioncentral.org/ and has the potential to work effectively with struggling readers. The academic interventions for reading that are listed are easy to implement in the classroom, and many of the resources have embedded links for extra resources and ways to progress monitor.
Crystal Steward
My school district uses the program iReady to instruct and assess student learning. This company has many online resources that help support all students, including struggling readers. This is our first year with the additional resource of the Teacher-Toolbox. This resource is AMAZING!! It has resources outlined for every standard, including interactive lessons, assessments, small group lessons, reading passages, student led activities, and teacher led activities. This resource works effectively because it allows me to differentiate my instruction for all students, especially struggling readers.
Kaneisha Hamilton
I chose the following website, due to its use of modern technology and this generation's interest. The like to the website is https://www.abcmouse.com The age group that this program starts with is two, leaving so much room for any student having trouble, to pick up where they need to. It teaches them each letter first, then goes into learning the sounds for each letter. Once they get past that stage, they then start to teach important sight words that are important to beginners, or any reader. It goes into word families and rhyming. They teach through fables, stories, songs, etc. It will keep any child's interest, but they will be learning little by little. Elementary teachers around the country have started using it in their classrooms, and statistics show that the test scores have gotten better. I will actually be starting my 2 year old on it next month.
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Mangayarcarassy Neelavannan
I chose this resource because it provides 18 teacher tested strategies that can help with differentiated instruction. Some of them include using inquiry to encourage student ownership, stimulate students' senses, share our own struggles/strengths, and consider a time limit for homework. The one I liked is explain fairness to avoid competition and ostracizing to help promote student growth mindset. I also like the tip on grouping students based on goals, not labels. Often times, we do not challenge our high achieving students and soon we lose them to boredom. http://www.edutopia.org/discussion/18-teacher-tested-strategies-differentiated-instruction
Dianne Tillery
I chose i-ready.com because our school is currently using this program for all of our students. This program assesses the students at the beginning of the school year and then builds lessons according the needs of the student. Teachers can constantly monitor student progress and change or add lessons as needed. Scheduled assessments throughout the year help determine the progress of the student.We use this program for language arts and math.
Melissa Howes
This website is helpful in expanding a child's reading vocabulary and comprehension while exploring a variety of topics and genres.
Melissa Howes
Early childhood education is a team effort. It is most successful when parents, teachers, and children work together and communicate. The Literacy Center Education Network provides an integrated learning system that allows parents to teach home language skills before sending their children to school. Teachers can use the same method to teach English Language Learners in Kindergarten. This site is free and user friendly.
Glenda Weidrick
While completing my summer school reading internship at Ashland University in Ohio, we worked with a wonderful website for our reading students. I continue today using my reading textbooks from college for ideas and other things in my own classroom www.rhlschool.com/reading.htm This resource has every grade level for reading, since most of my students in Intensive Reading classes at the high school have an 8th grade reading level, this website is wonderful to get worksheets and activities to help with literacy, fluency and comprehension. There are also English basic worksheets. Though the website hasn't been updated since 2011, it is still very useful.
Mangayarcarassy Neelavannan
The online Center for Applied Linguistics provides resources to help understand the fundamentals of sheltered instruction. One of the resources which I liked is the SIOP in action. It features instructional videos and illustrates three SIOP lessons at three grade levels: second, eighth and high school. The resource is designed to deepen understanding of SIOP model implementation at the classroom level and to support professional development intiatives. Link: http://www.cal.org/areas-of-impact/english-learners
Kristen A
I choose the paired passages link on the ReadWorks website because it supports reading comprehension practice and provides multiple choice an,d short answer questions to accompany each piece. http://www.readworks.org/books/passages/paired-passages The resources on this site provide practice for students who are struggling readers because the texts vary in lexile level and difficulty. The questions are research based and he'll improve comprehension. The below information regarding the question sets is from the ReadWorks website : "Models questioning. These are questions that good readers should be asking and answering themselves while they read. Note that the questions focus on the important information of the text, modeling for students to identify and focus on that important information, not on the less important details. Supports students to identify explicit information in the text to enable them to make more complex inferences and conclusions based on that evidence in the text. Explicitly supports understanding of non-fiction and literary text structures. The research is clear. One of the key reasons students struggle with comprehension is that they can’t recognize and understand the way paragraphs and texts are structured. Models how to make inferences and draw conclusions based on evidence in the text. Provides scaffolding to enhance the ability of students to understand the main idea or theme of a text. Highlights the use of context to understand vocabulary words and the author’s use of language to communicate meaning to the reader. Explicitly supports recognition of key signal words at the syntax/sentence-level that can impact the meaning of a sentence, paragraph, and the text as a whole. Provides thoughtful opportunities to write open response answers, based on close reading of evidence in the text."
Jennifer
http://www.readwritethink.org is my new go-to for lesson plans. I like how everything is provided with a click of a button and it seems to be grade-level appropriate. It also provides extensions for struggling readers as well as advanced readers.
Jennifer Baker
The resource I selected was an online article from Reading Rockets titled, Developing Fluent Readers by Jan Hasbrouck. One reason why I chose this article is because it is an excellent read for new teachers as it provides an overview of what fluency instruction should look like in the classroom. Additionally, the article includes practical interventions, strategies, and assessments teachers can use with struggling readers.
Jennifer Baker
The resource I selected was an online article from Reading Rockets titled, Developing Fluent Readers by Jan Hasbrouck. One reason why I chose this article is because it is an excellent read for new teachers as it provides an overview of what fluency instruction should look like in the classroom. Additionally, the article includes practical interventions, strategies, and assessments teachers can use with struggling readers. The article can be found using the following link: http://www.readingrockets.org/article/developing-fluent-readers
Susan
There are a variety of resources available to help parents and teachers of struggling readers. One of the resources I like is: http://www.k12reader.com/reading-activities-for-struggling-readers/. K12 Reader is a site with informative information for both parent and teacher. I like this article because the steps to help a struggling reader are easy to follow so they can be utilized at home or at school. There are a variety of different grade level reading activities that can be used immediately for students. Often times, teachers know how to help at school, but parents struggle. I like the information that is provided for parents to help educate them on good practices they can encourage at home with their child to improve their reading success. I think parental involvement is good and can only benefit the student all the way around when parents and teachers are working collectively together. This resource can be found at: http://www.k12reader.com/reading-activities-for-struggling-readers/
ANDRIA BARRERA
http://www.readingrockets.org/reading-topics/english-language-learners has many different resources to help a teacher and the ell students. This has wonderful resources for parents and teachers. It can be used as an extension resource, so that the parents know how to help at home.
Teresa
I work with middle school students that are in a self-contained classroom environment and the two programs/resources that seem to work the best for them this year are i-ready which is both reading and math and test them to determine where to start them. The other is a resource that is now only available to our high school students which is Academy of READING, which works on sound mathc, letter-sound match, visual match, auditory-visual match and comprehension skills. The links would be www.i-ready.com and www.autoskill.com Both of these resources help the students with literacy skills that they may need extra help on to achieve. They both also provide many printable resources through their sites that can be used to re-enforce the skills that they are struggling with in either a one-on-one group or small group setting.
Jennifer Chevalier
I have a heart for struggling readers because it is such a hinderance in their schooling. I think it is critical to "get them while they're young", so I wanted to share Reading Eggs. Link: http://readingeggs.com Reading Eggs is designed for students aged 3 and up. It is highly engaging, with colors, sounds, music and fun graphics, and includes online reading lessons, activities and e-books. It has been proven to be very effective with our Pre-K and Kindergarten students, as well as struggling readers in first and second grade. Lessons include, phonics, letter recognition, sight words, and vocabulary. It helps take kids back to the basics and fill in any gaps they may have.
Jennifer
readinga-z.com is an excellent source for all readers, especially struggling readers because of the levelled stories.
Jennifer Chevalier
It is important that struggling readers be given support because it is such a hinderance in their schooling. Reading Rockets provides resources for parents and teachers to help support students in reading. From videos to lessons, to strategies, this site has a lot to offer. Link: http://readingrockets.org This site includes articles about reading disabilities, what to do if one is suspected, and how to support students with disabilities. It takes a village to educate the child, so having a site that teachers and parents can use cooperatively to support a child is wonderful.
Jennifer Toth
I chose this resource because it offers information for both teachers and parents. I also like that it covers a broad range of topics from classroom strategies to suggestions for children's books and authors. It's comprehensive. readingrockets.org/reading-topics/english-language-learners This website provides a wealth of information about how children learn to read, why some struggle, and ideas for intervention.
Glenda Weidrick
My literacy resource for ELLs is a really informative website that allows the user to choose the topic that they are interested in where they need assistance or answers for effectively teaching the ELL students. There are bilingual quizzes and English only quizzes in grammar, vocabulary, crossword puzzles, etc. in the website that is listed under a subcategory from the main website.
Marcy Irwin
I would use reading atoz - This is a great resource for finding different lexile levels of student text. I think that putting as much text in the students hands as possible is key to a child's success in school.
Muriel Mis
I chose ell.stanford.edu because it has many resources that teachers can access to help us all learn how to deal with ELL's coming into our country. There are videos to help teachers learn the challenges and opportunities ELL's have coming to his country. It also has teaching resources to help teachers teach ELL's how to engage with the Next Generation Science Standards and the other standards as well. It has cutting edge lessons by leading educator's in their field.
Heather Chandler
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I, Heather Chandler, chose Flocabulary.com and spellingcity.com. Both of these resources provide a variety of fun learning opportunities. Flocabulary has hip and upbeat songs, that the children sing long after I display the video. They are specific to the concept I am teaching, such as point of view, or sequencing, etc... Spellingcity provides phonics through games and puzzles the students enjoy interacting with. https://www.flocabulary.com/ https://www.spellingcity.com/
Heather Chandler
I chose both Flocabulary and Spelling City because I frequently use these tools within my classroom, and the students love them. Flocabulary involves hip and memorable songs for the skills I am addressing within my classroom. Students sing the songs long after we have learned the skill/concept. For example, these videos include skills such as point of view, sequencing, grammar, and so much more. Spelling city helps the students learn vocabulary, phonics, and semantics through fun puzzles and games. These are both hot websites my students love! www.flocabulary.com www.spellingcity.com
Cheryl Jacaruso
I am adding this resource because it includes many different levels of texts that teachers can use to differentiate instruction. I used many of the short non-fiction articles for students to progress from less complex to more complex texts.
Cheryl Jacaruso
I am adding this resource because it includes many different short non-fiction texts. I have used these articles to help students progress from less complex texts to more complex texts.
Sandy Dennis
We use I-Ready in our district and this program monitors student progress throughout the year. 3 diagnostics are given during the school year. The program is designed to assess the student as to where they are at and give lessons accordingly. The teacher has access to student profile. These are very informative in helping drive instruction. You can add lessons to individual students that need more reinforcement. There are two added features: Tool Box and I-Ready Resource center which give you activities to do and where you can use the tutorials for classroom instruction. http://i-ready.com
Jennifer
http://www.readwritethink.org is my new go-to for lesson plans. I like how everything is provided with a click of a button and it seems to be grade-level appropriate. It also provides extensions for struggling readers as well as advanced readers. I also like readinga-z.com because I can differentiate.
Jennifer
Readinga-z.com is a great source for finding differentiated readers.
    Yamila Rezola
    I also think that A-Z Raz kids is an awesome resource as well. I have printed out books from there and have had students take them home to practice.
Cheryl Ivack
National Geographic Resource: Educator (grades K-12) and Students (grades K-12) http://www.nationalgeographic.com The National Geographic Web site features a variety of games, lesson plans and resources for students and teachers focusing on grades K-12 in a variety of topics. The site engages students with a rich source of images and activities to spark young minds. Search for "School Space: An Analysis of Map Perceptions", "Regions: A Hands-on Approach" or "Environmental Explorer" for a glimpse of what is available. The National Geographic site provides fun visual games which draws student interest, builds ESOL vocabulary & allows hands on approach to learning; which supports what we learned during a prior lesson, the Total Physical Response Method.
Cheryl Ivack
When teaching my intensive reading classes I have used “Focus” reading workbooks when instructing ESOL students. This series focus on reading comprehension by teaching strategies that allow the student to grasp the concepts of: main idea & supporting details, sequencing, cause & effect, vocabulary, compare & contrast, and finally, making predictions & inferencing. The series provides multiple short reading passages that provide exploration of the above areas of study allowing for repetitive practice after strong modeling and guided practice.
Maya
Imagine Learning is a program that I use in the classroom for my ELLs. It allows the learner to listen to and respond within its lessons. As a teacher I can review student's reports allowing me to pinpoint exactly what may be hindering the student. Better yet I can compare students and create strategy groups based on their needs. www.ImagineLearning.com also provides teachers with the core aligned lessons needed to help the learner move forward within a small group or whole class instruction. This is a resource that Title 1 purchases licenses for ELL students. Additionally, www.pumarossa.com, www.bilingua.com, are great resources for parents to learn language.
Brad Stradley
I use Reading Reflex for its simplicity and effectiveness. Students buy into it quickly and I get quite excited by their growth I get to witness.
Karrie Jones
I choose http://www.colorincolorado.org/. This site is a bilingual resource for educators and families of English Language Learners. This site offers ELL basics and resources listed by state and grade, news, research articles, featured book lists, video library and best teaching strategies for educators.
Ariel G.
I chose to use Free Apps to Support Vocabulary Acquisition by E.L.L.'s because classrooms are encouraging the use of iPads and other digital devices within the classroom to enhance learning experiences and to bring other resources to the classroom. We live in a very digital age. I chose this article from a trusted Educational site called Edutopia. The article can be found here: http://www.edutopia.org/blog/apps-support-ELL-vocabulary-acquisition-monica-burns The article gives descriptions of 4 free apps that can be used to help students with increasing their vocabulary. It looks very easy to use and works on understanding words... not just recalling them! I was very interested in learning about Mindsnacks because it also focuses on spelling and comprehension. I could see how students who require more one-to-one support could benefit from using this app. Additionally, the article recommends Flashcardlet. I have heard of this resource before and it is easy to customize for teachers to make it individualized for each student. Flashcardlet could be used to review content specific language before a quiz or a test.
Ariel G.
I chose to use an article from Edutopia called Free Apps to Support Vocabulary Acquisition by E.L.L.'s because technology is an important part of our teaching and this article suggest various free resources that can help to improve student vocabulary if you are able to use iPads within the classroom. We are living in a very digital age. Using Ipads in the classroom can help to enhance instruction and help to differentiate instruction based on student needs. I thought that this article listed 4 different applications that are easy to download and all target the same skills. I liked to learn more about the app MindSnacks because it allows for students to increase their vocabulary as well as spelling and comprehension! It also allows students to access 25 different lessons. It looks engaging and fun and has good reviews! The article mentions another app that I have already heard of called Flashcardlet. This app allows for the teacher to customize the content and could be used as review before a quiz or test in content-specific language. Moreover, I trust the website where I found this article. It is from Edutopia. I think that these apps have the potential to grow vocabulary in a way that is more game-like for students and can be accessed inside the classroom and at home. http://www.edutopia.org/blog/apps-support-ELL-vocabulary-acquisition-monica-burns
Jennifer Langlois
http://www.literacywithoutlimits.org I have attached above a great resource with lessons and other resources on working with struggling readers grades 4-12. Check it out.
Bobbie
I chose the resource Lyrics2learn because students improve reading fluency, background knowledge, reading comprehension and test taking skills through songs. http://www.lyrics2learn.com/ Lyrics2learn is a brain-based, on-line program that engages students by using music. It helps students memorize information quickly through repetition, rhythm and rhyme. This programs questions are aligned with Common Core Depth of Knowledge. This program is used as a center or a mini-lesson (whole group) beginning with literal comprehension on day 1, and ends with open ended constructed response.
Maya Gebus-Mockabee
I have chosen to provide the link to FluentU. This is a terrific site dedicated to all students of English. http://www.fluentu.com FluentU provides ELL with real videos to use as language examples along with ongoing lists of best practices for learners of all ages. The site also offers teachers an ongoing educator blog. Recent articles include topics such as writing, comprehension, and adult ESL strategies.
    desotosite
    http://www.readingrockets.org/ I like this resource because it offers great research-based strategies to teachers, parents, administrators, librarians, childcare providers, and anyone else involved in helping a young child become a strong, confident reader. They bring the reading research to life — to spread the word about reading instruction and to present "what works" in a way that parents and educators can understand and use. The Reading Rockets project includes PBS television programs (also available online and on DVD); online services through the websites ReadingRockets.org and ColorinColorado.org; professional development opportunities; and a robust social community on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, and Tumblr. grace.morrell@desotoschools.com
Jennifer Langlois (duty)
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Ariel Goldstein
I chose a blog post about 5 tips to help struggling readers. I chose this source because I like to branch out and look at how other educators are blogging and posting useful tips and resources. I like how by reading different blogs, you can see how something is implemented or how you can adapt a resource to fit your needs. This blogger is a teacher from Michigan. While this post is slightly old, the tips are still very applicable. In this post, she suggests using word sorts. Our Word Study Program includes dozens of sorts for the students to manipulate. In her second tip, she suggests teaching the short vowels. Some teachers use Secret Stories or other songs to help students to practice their vowel sounds or to help with recall. In tip 3, she suggests good reading habits. Through Lucy Calkins, we create an anchor chart about Readers Good Habits and it is displayed and referenced numerous times throughout Reader's Workshop. Lastly, she suggests time and repetition as two effective strategies. We know that students grow throughout the school year. A student may come into school in August knowing how to read a C book, and then they leave the school year being able to read at a K level. It is up to the teacher to continuously monitor and help the students to succeed so that they can reach their fullest levels of potential. http://funkyfirstgradefun.blogspot.com/2011/06/my-top-5-tips-for-working-with.html
Bobbie
I chose the resource is Flocabulary because students improve reading, background knowledge, reading comprehension and vocabulary through songs. https://www.flocabulary.com/ Flocabulary is a web-based learning program for all grades and subjects that uses educational hip-hop music to engage students and increase achievement. It helps students memorize information quickly through repetition, rhythm and rhyme. This programs questions are aligned with Common Core Depth of Knowledge.
Carole Kologi-Zawacki
http://www.eastsideliteracy.org/tutorsupport/Groups/GroupFAQ.htm I like this website in particular because it provides information in a question/answer format. It addresses adult English language learner strategies in an informative and easy to understand way.
Jennifer Camacho
I chose this website because it provides teachers and parents with meaningful articles and research on how to best help different different types of struggling readers. http://www.readingrockets.org/reading-topics/struggling-readers This website has articles and videos to help with topics such as early signs of struggling readers, articles about dyslexia, and strategies for enhancing memory. The spectrum of topics here is wide. If you want to read about it and it has to do with reading, it is probably on this website!
Angela L Ceccarelli
I love having students engage in current affairs. One way I get them to read the news is though timeforkids.com. There are a slew of articles and activities teachers can use in the classroom for whole group, small group, or individual work. The stories are engaging relevant and allow or good discussions and critical thinking.
Suzanne Wyatt
http://www.fcrr.org/resources/resources_sca_2-3.html I love this resource for getting small group lessons/practice for my students.
Suzanne Wyatt
A resource that I find is essential to help develop concept vocabulary in struggling readers as well is ELL students is brain pop jr. In an animated fashion with two characters which are consistent throughout all the videos students learn content vocabulary as well as application of the vocabulary.
Alissa Nicholas
I really like using www.starfall.com It is very interactive, has letters A-Z, and different stories the students can read. I use this during whole group lessons when we are learning new letters, and during small groups at the computer center.
Austin
http://a4esl.org I chose this article and website because it has a plethora of activities for teachers to choose from. For example, it has crossword puzzles and games for students who don't learn best from a workbook
Melanie Jurgovan
I really like http://www.visuwords.com. It is a great little tool not only because it defines the term that is entered, but it is visual as well, and the original term is then surrounded by other terms that are somehow related to it. The relationships between these words are shown using various symbols (legend is on the side bar). Some of these relationships include “is a part of”, “is similar to”, “opposes”, “entails”, “causes” and many more. For example, entering the term “polygon” results in other terms surrounding it such as decagon, triangle, quadrilateral, plane figure, concave polygon, convex polygon, etc. This visual representation is great for new terms, review, correlations, synonyms, antonyms, etc. Relating a new term to something else helps to build the correlations and hierarchy in the student’s mind, rather than it just being a standalone random new piece of information. Visuwords.com also allows you to double-click on some terms and spawn a new diagram – but still retaining the original term and relationship. It is also kind of fun for the kinesthetic learners, because you can drag the bubbles around and all the other bubbles follow. Using this tool on a regular basis would develop fluency so that students could start to make their own visual representation of terms using a similar methodology. Another advantage of this tool is that if a lesson is underway, a student could discreetly enter a term that they may have forgotten, or not know at all when it is clear that “the rest of the class” understands. It allows for a quick way to understand meaning without bringing attention to themselves or spending so much time figuring out the meaning that they lose out on what was really being taught.
Ariana Kennedy
My resource is the website for the Florida Center for Reading Recovery. This is a great website with differentiated center ideas and activities that are simple enough to send home with parents as well as implement in small groups or rotations in the classroom. This resource is great because it is tiered based on reading needs. It starts at kindergarten and moves thru fifth grade. So not only would this benefit your struggling readers but also your higher readers too. http://www.fcrr.org/resources/resources_sca.html
camille Lewis
I choose the resource - https://login.i-ready.com/ - because I have been using it and seeing the effectiveness of it for the past 3 years. On this website your students are able to complete lessons on their grade level to fill in any gaps in learning they may have. This has been a great resource because the choice of lessons and difficulty is adjusted as your students reading fluency and comprehension improves. It also gives a detailed report of students’ progress and gives additional lessons that you can complete in small groups with the students.
Camille lewis
I choose the resource - https://login.i-ready.com/ - because I have been using it and seeing the effectiveness of it for the past 3 years. On this website your students are able to complete lessons on their grade level to fill in any gaps in learning they may have. This has been a great resource because the choice of lessons and difficulty is adjusted as your students reading fluency and comprehension improves. It also gives a detailed report of students’ progress and gives additional lessons that you can complete in small groups with the students.
Jelane
I love www.readworks.org. It provides a mass variety of nonfiction articles on all grade levels. This allows me to differentiate concepts. For example, if I am teaching the three branches of government, it has articles on several levels about the topic. I also like that I can print copies of the articles or use the digital version, www.digital.readworks.org.
Holly Clouse
This resource is invaluable for up to the date, student-relevant texts that can be adjusted to each student's exile score. So, the whole class is reading the same text, but I can assign them individually at just above their exile score. The site is https://newsela.com and it has a limited free membership that does what I need it to do. Sometimes I choose the texts and other times its student choice. There are comprehension checks and short answers that I have my students complete as a check for their understanding but not part of the grade. Their grades are based on different writing activities that I develop. It could be an essay, or a series of short answer and extended responses targeting specific comprehension goals. The articles are also great for close reads and the tools they have are pretty much the same as the tools on the FSA, so my students have additional practice using online tools. Newsela also has an app that my students can download onto their phone.
Marisa Grabiak
I chose this resource because it is something that I use often and the activities are all really good for the classroom. The CPALMS site is a place I'm sure we are all familiar with but the resources are helpful and geared toward the use of all learners but especially for your ELL students because you are able to differentiate and do them whole or small group. http://www.cpalms.org/Public/search/Resource#0
Kristy Ogburn
https://www.readinga-z.com I chose this website because it offers many different level of reading levels and an abundance of materials that could be used for differentiation.
Kyle
http://www.startwithabook.org/ I chose this site because it provides many different types of resources from educational apps, videos, books, and much more. it has many different activities you can tap into, from summer activities to themed units. I believe this could be a great source to utilize in class because it gives you multi media access, fun hands on activities and much more for both parents and teachers.
Brenda browning
https://www.khanacademy.org I chose Khan academy. I use this for math and they have just added a grammar section that is awesome. This provides a different method of working with grammar and the students think it is fun to do. I am impressed how they have it set up and delivered.
Carol
For struggling readers, I like Bookshare. You do need to have a learning disability that would affect your ability to read and process information, such as Dyslexia to gain access to this free program. I feel it is very helpful to increase fluency because it is bi-modal, highlighting the words as it orally reads aloud to you. This helps increase fluency over time. It is also linked to a dictionary allowing you to click on any word you are unfamiliar with to gain the meaning. Students can take notes while they are reading their book, keeping their thoughts and thinking clear, recalling information when needed. The link is bookshare.org. It is an accessible online library for people with print disabilities.
Lori Bederman
https://www.spellingcity.com/teacher-resources.html I use this sight for spelling and phonics patterns. The site helps with content and academic vocabulary . It will provide resources to teachers and games to match to skill for students. It is enjoyable and it has proven to be a useful tool for students to practice their spelling and vocabulary words. The students have made gains in their scores with spelling and vocabulary using this site.
Cecilie Shealy
The resource I chose is Reading Assistant. I chose this resource because it is helpful for any and all struggling readers. Here is a link to the resource: http://www.scilearn.com/products/reading-assistant. Reading Assistant is a computer software program that allows students to build word recognition and reading fluency by hearing text read aloud as well as seeing the words in front of them. This helps struggling readers understand what fluent reading sounds like as well as building their word repertoire.
Ermite
http://www.fcrr.org/for-educators/sca_cc.asp the Florida Center For Reading Research center offers activities for students of all level. Te activities are correlated to the common core standards and grouped by grade level and domains. Teachers of all grade level have at their finger tips resources to support struggling readers and keep them engaged. All the activities are research based and fun.
Blanca
I chose this site because has a lot of activities, www.k12readers.com This site give us resources for struggling readers as well as worksheets targeting specific skills.
Blanca
I chose this site because has a lot of activities www.k12readers.com This site give us resources for struggling readers as well as worksheets targeting specific skills.
Deirdre Dean
I like to have activities that the students can access in class either on the computer or through the Smart Board. Please explore the following at your leisure and maybe use a few if they suit your needs. (D. Dean) http://www.scholastic.com/wordgirl/synonym_toast.htm (D. Dean) A fun game that assists in mastering synonyms. http://mrnussbaum.com/generaltso1/Main.swf (D. Dean) Students identify what is not a synonym in this game. http://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/interactives/languages/words/idioms/ (d. Dean) This game helps students explore and become familiar with idioms. http://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/subject/Idioms (D. Dean) All sorts of activities to help students learn English - I particularly like the listening activities. http://reading.ecb.org/ (D.Dean) This sight is more for primary. Students (and teachers) create a log in (which can track progress for students) and explore reading comprehension through videos and accompanying activities. http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/construct/index.html (D. Dean) I had to include something from read, write think, a personal favorite and this helps primary students with their word families and hits reading and spelling.
Margery Bristow
www.readingrockets.org www.readingrockets.org/literacyapps This website has a bunch of great resources, including articles for parents and book lists. After clicking around, I found that there is a list of recommended literacy apps that can be downloaded. I thought this was a great idea to engage kids and get them excited about reading. There is a description of each app and a link to the app. Here's an example of what the website shows: ABCmouse.com - Early Learning Academy Price: Free Grade level: Pre-K, K Skill: Phonics, Spelling Device: Android, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Other ABCmouse.com - Early Learning Academy is the companion app to the subscription-based ABCmouse.com. Teachers can sign up for a free account online and use the same login for the app. Kids explore different activities in a virtual world. They can go directly to the day’s featured activity or work through a learning path that features five activities for their level, which can be customized by the teacher. Kids can learn letter and number skills as well as animal facts through simple games, books, puzzles, and coloring pages. I can imagine getting lost in the website, just researching the apps alone! I think readers at any level would be excited to practice their literacy skills using one of these apps!
Ariel Goldstein
I chose the resource Colorin Colorado because it is supported by the NEA and it has valuable resources that cover a variety of issues for E.L.L. learners. In particular, I chose an article on Increasing E.L.L. Student Reading Comprehension with Non-Fiction Text because we deal with a lot of Non-Fiction reading in First Grade. http://www.colorincolorado.org/article/increasing-ell-student-reading-comprehension-non-fiction-text This article gives teachers clues and tips on how to support students who are being exposed to Non-Fiction texts for the first time. It includes the procedure on how to introduce texts/text structure as well as using different strategies such as think-alouds, chapter walks, and "fixing" words to help students to better grasp how to navigate Non-Fiction texts and how to keep students engaged through buddies and through book/topic choice.
    Ariel Goldstein
    ** continued- This resource helps to guide teachers to effectively work towards implementing various strategies to increase comprehension while making students aware of the text structures within Non-Fiction text and teachers need to clearly show the difference between a Non-Fiction text (teaching book, all about book) versus Fiction(story). Teachers also need to constantly expose students to the text structures and to use different skills for students to help them to understand domain-specific vocabulary, hopefully, at their F&P levels.
Kathleen Olson
I chose this resource because it provides a variety of activities for struggling readers. http://www.readingrockets.org/article/activities-struggling-readers This site provides a wide variety articles, links, strategies, and ideas for teacher and parents to assist their students/child with reading strategies and skills needed to be successful.
Lisa
The website that I found that was very interesting was www.sightwords.com This website is extremely full of ready-to-print resources for students who need help in basic sight words. I have a lot of struggling readers in my class and the site is very helpful not only to me but, it is very useful for my parents as well.
Christina Buehler
I choose this resource because it is one I have been using for a few years now. I like to use close reading strategies to help all my students but I feel it is also beneficial for struggling readers. I like to pull resources from: www.readworks.org I pull informational texts that are at the appropriate level for my struggling readers. I use these for think alouds to model the thinking process while reading. I also use the close reading strategies of re-reading for different purposes to focus on vocabulary and phonics.
kristy ogburn
I chose this website because of the abundance of resources and activities it has available for students. www.starfall.com This website is easy for students to use. Its interactive and keeps them engaged all while they are learning phonics and also learning to read!
Sarah
The resource that I have found to work well and my students beg me to go on it is Imagine Learning, http://www.imaginelearning.com/. This website first assesses the students and then creates lessons for the students to work through. The main difference between this program and i-Ready (which my students also use), is that the format of the lessons is more interactive and game like. Sometimes they don't even realize their our learning (passive). As the teacher you can see how the students are preforming on each topic, and the site provides targeted lessons to enhance or reteach the concept if needed. The students that beg the most to go on our my ELL and struggling readers.
Larissa
The resource I would recommend is http://www.readworks.org/ Read Works is a great site because I can choose a topic and a reading level and find a text for my students that is exactly what they need. Read Works is aligned to the Common Core State Standards and also come along with questions for the students to answer after reading. Whether using the provided questions or not, the articles can be chosen so they cater to your students' specific needs.
Dawn Hart
I chose htt://readingrockets.org for my stie. I have 14 students (7 with plans and accommodations this year) so the need is great. The site helps struggling readers who having trouble with phonics, and comprehension and helps re-instill the love of reading. There are lots of links to explore if you need to find one to fit your specific classroom needs.
Michele
The Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention System (LLI) is a small-group, supplementary intervention designed for children who find reading and writing difficult. LLI is designed to bring children quickly up to grade-level competency—in 14 to 18 weeks on average. use LLI. After Iready determins how my groups will be divided, the LLI system is used as a remediation and be an intervention for struggling readers. There are many sites to find LLI Here is one I have used: http://www.fountasandpinnell.com/lli/
michele
I use LLI. Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI) The Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention is a powerful, short-term intervention, that provides daily, intensive, small-group instruction, which supplements classroom literacy teaching. LLI turns struggling readers into successful readers with engaging leveled books and fast-paced, systematically designed lessons The website I have use is: http://www.fountasandpinnell.com/lli/
Sarah Jett
There are so many resources out there on the internet for students that I find it hard to choose just one! One website in particular that I have just recently discovered is https://www.gamestolearnenglish.com/. I like that the games are interactive and content-filled. This website has been a great tool for our struggling readers, ELL, and ASD middle school students. Games to Learn English has many online interactive games, downloadable games, links to online picture dictionaries, and even interactive whiteboard games ready for download. This website can either be used as a refresher or teaching tool that covers multiple aspects of the English language. Overall, this is a great website for many different skill levels!
kristin G
I use www.audible.com/ at my school. This tool has lots of books on MP3 and the students can download the audio version. This way the students can follow along with the text while listening to it. This allows students who may struggle with reading to be in the same text as their peers.
Kelly
The resource I chose is Readworks. I use this resource because it is free and it has everything I need for all of my students. You can find it at Readworks.org. I can find passages for my struggling readers that are on their level. I give them the stories and comprehension questions and teach them how to answer them. All students don't have to do the same passages each time. Sometimes I find theme related passages to use with the whole class. The students seem to enjoy what I've done so far. I have not given these passages as homework assignments, but I could do that if I choose to.
Kristy Marvin
http://thisreadingmama.com/12-incredible-resources-for-struggling-readers/ This is a link to 12 different resources available for both parents and teachers of struggling readers. There are activities that can be implemented, books that can be chosen to interest struggling readers at their level, and games that will engage readers both at home and at school.This resource will allow families to feel their child is supported at school, and can also offer them extra support at home.
Deirdre Dean
I like to have activities that the students can access in class either on the computer or through the Smart Board, particularly for my struggling readers, though it engages students of all reading levels and abilities. Please explore the following at your leisure and maybe use a few if they suit your needs. (D. Dean) http://www.scholastic.com/wordgirl/synonym_toast.htm (D. Dean) A fun game that assists in mastering synonyms. http://mrnussbaum.com/generaltso1/Main.swf (D. Dean) Students identify what is not a synonym in this game. http://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/interactives/languages/words/idioms/ (D. Dean) This game helps students explore and become familiar with idioms. http://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/subject/Idioms (D. Dean) All sorts of activities to help students learn English - I particularly like the listening activities. http://reading.ecb.org/ (D.Dean) This sight is more for primary. Students (and teachers) create a log in (which can track progress for students) and explore reading comprehension through videos and accompanying activities. http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/construct/index.html (D. Dean) I had to include something from read, write think, a personal favorite and this helps primary students with their word families and hits reading and spelling. These resources are effective for struggling readers in that specific areas in need of development can be targeted, worked on and reviewed in small group or independently, and the students are just so engaged, and sometimes I find that to be half of the battle for our struggling readers.
Yamila Rezola
I teach Kindergarten and these two resource are great for those students starting out and are having trouble recognizing letters, sounds, and how to make simple words. As students start to understand the letter and sound concepts, students can then put these words into sentences in which the site let's them do. They are also able to hear stories and answer questions that build their comprehension and listening skills. The site builds from ABC's to I'm a reader. They also have some fun games for the students to play. http://www.starfall.com and http://pbskids.org
Yamila Rezola
Teaching Kindergarten these two resources were a great resource for those students starting out and are having trouble recognizing letters, sounds, and how to make simple words. As students start to understand the letter and sound concepts, students can then put these words into sentences in which the site let's them do. They are also able to hear stories and answer questions that build their comprehension and listening skills. The site builds from ABC's to I'm a reader. They also have some fun games for the students to play. http://www.starfall.com and http://pbskids.org
Kelly Davis
I chose to share the site called "Brain Pop"! Here is the link https://www.brainpop.com/ It is great for previewing new concepts before they are introduced in the lesson for science, math, and social studies. It also has interactive games with the content and even lessons that you can try out with your students. The students really love when I use it in the classroom and I really hope you do, too! There is a fee so you might want to check with your administrator first to see if they might purchase it for you.
Kathy V
The resource I have had success with for the 3rd through the 5th grades is Evan-Moor Daily Reading Comprehension, (www.evan-moor.com/courseware). I have used the 4th grade level book for the third and fourth grades, and the 6th grade level book for the 5th grade. The book consists of one page assignments – half of the page is reading, then students are given 4-6 multiple choice comprehension questions, and a short written response assignment. Because the lessons are on one page they are not intimidating and are great for class warm-ups, practice, or review. The lessons are divided into skills like Main Idea and Details, Sequence, Character, Setting, and Theme, Author’s Purpose, Compare and Contrast, and all the other skills that we teach. The stories are interesting and short, the questions on point and clear, and I highly recommend this little workbook.
ed janusz
I chose http://www.k12reader.com/reading-activities-for-struggling-readers/. I found the article consistent with the applied linguistics philosophy and approach. It mentions parenting inclusion, early literacy strategies, and other facets of helping struggling learners.
Erika Foster
I chose http://www.abcya.com/ because it is full of games and activities to help students with letters, letter sounds, sight words, parts of speech, and other topics. The site is organized by grade level so students can find activities appropriate to their level. This has been a great resource for struggling readers because they do not become easily frustrated. They are able to practice reading skills and they do not view it as work, only fun! I use it as one of my literacy centers, or when a student has finished work early.
Evelyn Kirksey
I like to use the site, starfall.com with struggling readers. Students can work independently on a computer or I-pad. They can work on letters/sounds, word recognition, various reading levels and math if needed. This site is for anyone struggling to readers both young and old. :)
Emily Kinnunen
snapandread.com Snap and Read is a tool that is used in classrooms to help with students who are struggling with reading. Using the tool you install on your computer, this tool will take any text on a screen and read the text to you. The other great thing about this website/app is that this tool can translate material for you as well! So for students who need to see sources in a different language, that is possible! You can also choose to have the text in one language but read in another. As a teacher, you can also control the speed that the text is read at to the students. I love using this resource with my small group ELL kids. Using it with my kids has made them more confident readers and it has helped them understand comprehension much better. It has also helped with their fluency when doing timed readings too.The best part: IT'S FREE!
Katelin
I chose Bookflix. Bookflix is a great resource to use. It highlights the words as it reads the stories. It also has extra activities that you can use to reinforce the story. Plus, students like to hear someone else, besides the teacher, read to them sometimes :)
Cheridan Smith
There are a myriad of resources available for the students to succeed. I would recommend readworks because as they say it is "The solution to reading comprehension". This site offers passages and lessons along with the common core standards to make sure everything is aligned and fits together for the progression of the students. Readworks helps students learn what is necessary at a pace that matches the student in progress.
Steve kempa
I utilize iCivics https://www.icivics.org/ This is a tremendous resource for stuggling readers becuase it supplements primary sources (18th century enlightenment based reading turns us all into struggling readers) with games. My 7th graders can't get enough.
Cheridan Smith
I like to use the site mobymax with my ESOL students because they are able to work on reading comprehension at the level they truly are at and at their own pace. Since I have all extremely different leveled learners it is difficult to teach them the same text all the time even with scaffolding. This site allows me to track their progress and see in which areas more focus is needed.
Tyler Small
I chose http://www.starfall.com/ because it has all the things you want to show your ELL students that will boost their learning. All the exercises are free for any student to go on and practice their English. The only downside is that there is a fee if an educator wants to purchase a membership. Starfall.com can teach a struggling reader anything from his/her abc's to learning to read a short story.It also has a spelling exercise where you match the object with the word while spelling the correct word. The age group suggest kindergarden, but if you have struggling ELL students this would be a great website for them!
Josh Zahller
The resource site I would like to share is www.mathantics.com. The presenter breaks apart problems and really reinforces what you've taught during class. He presents at a pace and uses language that is easy for the students to follow. He is also entertaining at times which helps keep the students attention.
Muriel Mis
I use https://www.readinga-z.com. They have 1000 leveled books for struggling readers. They also have poetry books, theatre scripts, guided reading and worksheets. They have a large selection to choose from to interest all students. I have used it in the past.
Dehlia Garrity
http://www.the2sisters.com/CAFE.html Love the 2 Sisters! I post relevant strategies for each quarter and my students know what to use to help them improve their reading. There are so many and they apply to all students struggling or not...talk about differentiated!
Jennifer Scheid
I use www.vocabulary.com when reading certain stories from the textbook. It provides word lists with practice, games, and spelling bees to keep them engaged. My students love that they can click on an individual word and further explore it. It really helps my struggling readers because they can use this site whenever they need it.
Jennifer Scheid
I love www.readwritethink.com because it supplies everything for me. I know it involves worksheets, but it's great supplemental material for my struggling students.
Marilyn Smith
I am really enjoying :https://www.readinga-z.com/ They have these great decodable readers that are leveled for you. You can use them in large are small groups. They are fun to look at with pictures and they are great for small group because you can get different leveled readers for different groups.
Emily Brackins
I really love using https://www.readinga-z.com/ like many of the other bloggers! It has a host of resources to offer. You can find a ton of free, leveled books to share with your students. This can help with differentiated instruction.You can also find fluency passages. You can also manage your students on the site. Making it easy to track what level each student is on and assign them books to read.
Michele
I chose SRA, as I have used this resource for many years. Although its been around for a long time, I still find it very beneficial. Some of the stories are outdated, and the illustrations are not the best but it works. Phonics based has come and gone, but it is back, and should not be ignored. The link is
Michele
I chose SRA, as I have used this resource for many years. Although its been around for a long time, I still find it very beneficial. Some of the stories are outdated, and the illustrations are not the best but it works. Phonics based has come and gone, but it is back, and should not be ignored. Must be done in small groups and consistently so students get used to the routine. The link ishttp://www.mheducation.com/prek-12/explore/sra-reading-labs.html
Yamila Rezola
http://www.readingrockets.org/reading-topics/struggling-readers Great resource for teachers that need tips with struggling readers. This is also great for parents that need to help their child with reading. I have also found a lot of information on https://www.pinterest.com This helps find new ideas, games, anchor charts, and even lessons for my struggling readers.
Cheridan Smith
The resource I am choosing to share is MobyMax.com. This is a great site that helps students individually at their own level while pushing them to move forward and it also connects the activities to the standards. There is very basic stuff on the site for new ELL students but there are also reading assessments that measure their level of reading and progress. It is great for the teacher to use because she or he can see each students score and grade them based on effort and right versus wrong.
Jerome Hudnell
http://ell.stanford.edu/teaching_resources I chose this site first, because of its great reputation as an institution. Also, the resources are right in line with the Common Core standards we are held to.
Frances Snyder
There are so many great resources to use with struggling readers. I love Discovery Education Spotlight on Strategies Series http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/blog/category/trending-topics/spotlight-on-strategies/. They are real strategies that other teachers are using successfully in their classrooms.
Regina
I use kahoot. I can create an online review game for all students to see. They can play against each other or the entire class.
Rita
The resource I choose to share is Reading Eggs. The site is: http://readingeggs.com/ Students have fun while learning to read. They practice sight words, vocabulary, and word phrases. Students can interact with the characters while reading, as well as listen to songs relating to the text. The children find this extremely fun and interesting.
Andria B.
I chose Words their Way by Donald R. Bear. https://www.pearsonhighered.com/series/Words-Their-Way-Series/2281883.html It is an amazing phonics program that helps children at their level. Each student is given a spelling inventory and then the students are group based on their phonics level. The students then complete different activities that help them master that phonic skill. As they master a phonic skill, they move to the next one.
Muriel Mis
I just started using this website to make up definitions test for my special education students. It works best for my students if I put the definition and give them 5 possible choices. I wish they gave the option to give only 3 choices because that is what I would do but they don't have that option. I was giving them orally and putting columns with three words in each column on the white but I like this way better. It allows me to keep the test for students that are absent.
Emily DeVanzo
One of my favorite resources is Iris.Peabody.vanderbilt.edu. This search engine is so useful to all staff working within schools. It provides resources, research based strategies,and promising practices that can be utilized to facilitate learning and teaching. I specifically chose this module because it discusses the importance of diagnosing the root of the the problem when you have a child who is not making progress with their learning. This is the direct link, https://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/module/dbi2/cresource/q2/p05/. This module really discusses the importance of being able to pinpoint where your assessment is failing the student. It also provides strategies for developing valid assessments aligned with the students IEP and the common core learning standards. It also discusses the importance of continuously assessing a student to properly evaluate your teaching goals and effectiveness. Developing effective assessments should happen horizontally and vertically. This module discusses how assessments should be developed by a team of teacher, both within concentration and unilaterally across concentrations. It discusses how students benefit from similarly structured and formatted assessments. I encourage you to visit the website and play around in the case studies and modules. They have quite the educational stockpile.
Nikki
I have used www.readworks.org many times. It is a great resource for teachers to find passages. You can find passages on most any topic and grade level. I also like the fact that you can choose and article and print it in different lexiles. The students can have a passage on the same topic, but on their lexile level. These would be great for both whole group and small group.
Mallory
I chose the resource http://www.mobymax.com/. I have used it in my classroom and I have seen a difference in the students reading skills. I like that there are a variety of lessons for all subject areas and the students are rewarded with game minutes based on their work. The website has some assessments to evaluate the student and then it teaches the students the strategies they need to work on. Just 15 minutes a couple days a week helps the children.
Brenda Hart
Good morning, These resources are straightforward and comprehensive. I highly recommend. I use these resources when teaching and when planning lessons: https://lincs.ed.gov/publications/pdf/MakingSense_LessonPlans_ALL.pdf https://www.youtube.com/user/rachelsenglish?feature=watch Rachel knows ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I often use the following resources when I want modern, interesting material outside of the usual classroom material: http://writersalmanac.org https://www.merriam-webster.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lastly, the following websites are for for teachers to just enjoy themselves or to use for high school students. I think you will find some of these websites useful when when teaching or for lesson plans, even if it's just using a snippet here and there.The material can be easily differentiated. As well, students may enjoy listening to a poem read by a Guatemalan poet, for instance. http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/article/memories-humberto-ak-abal https://pen.org/a-brief-account-of-several-art-events-and-other-horrifying-experiences/ https://pen.org/literature/illustrated-pen/ https://pen.org/millennial/ https://pen.org/war-on-a-lunchbreak/ https://pen.org/move-the-back-of-your-heart-towards-the-front-of-your-heart-2/ https://pen.org/aufgabe-salvadoran-poetry-feature/ https://pen.org/john-reed-two-sonnets/ https://pen.org/robert-weils-tribute-to-edith-grossman/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The resources that I suggested work well for me as I teach my students, including struggling readers. Of course, I use www.cplams.org to ensure that most coursework and lesson plans follow Florida standards. Brenda Hart
Valerie Ming
After reading so many comments on this blog, I realize that my two favorite resources are the same as many others:-) I love using Reading A-Z and Brainpop Jr. and Brainpop ESL. I know that Reading A-Z requires a subscription, but if you can convince your school or district to provide it, the resource has so many valuable components to help with phonics, fluency, and reading comprehension. Then, the free resource of Brainpop is phenomenal! I love how it offers so many different ELA topics. https://www.readinga-z.com https://www.jrbrainpop.com https://www.eslbrainpop.com
Coston
A great resource for all students is I-Ready from Curriculum Associates. Students take a diagnostic that addresses all components of reading. The program then provides lessons suited for the student's level of performance. I like it for all students, but especially for my ELL students and struggling students. It gives them to practice skills and concepts on their developmental level. Each lesson starts with an interactive tutorial. They also take quizzes after the lesson. I am able to view their progress on lessons, tests, and diagnostics. It is also aligned to the Florida Standards Assessment that the student take. http://www.curriculumassociates.com/products/iready/diagnostic-instruction.aspx?utm_source=iReadyApp
Alexis Paquette
http://thisreadingmama.com/12-incredible-resources-for-struggling-readers/ I chose this website because it offers lots of reading resources for struggling readings. That includes ideas, apps, and other websites. Also, it’s about thinking outside the box. Yes, if you are stuck, she suggests, even Pinterest can help! I feel like I have seen all the website I can see, but this offered a few different ideas.
Susan Meiler
I chose Imagine Learning because I have seen the smiles on my students faces when they feel successful. www.imaginelearning.com/students/strugglingreaders I currently use this resource with two of my ELL students during my enrichment/intervention time. The program includes reading guidance for Early Childhood, Primary/Upper Elementary, ELL, Struggling Reader, and Students with Disabilities. I also use Flocabulary.com and STARFALL
Eleanor Madsen
After reading comments on this blog, I think its great to have additional resources. I have always liked and used several of the mentioned websites. ( Brain pop Jr., Reading a-z, Reading Rockets and Try Hubbardscupboard.org). I found a new one that I think really explains and demonstrates through video clips how to implement many of the strategies discussed in the course Best Practices for Differentiating in K-5 classrooms. Try this. It looks terrific. ell.nwresd.org
Valerie Baker
I checked out the website www.cal.org/siop/resources/, because I am not familiar with it. I found that many of these lessons would be very beneficial in my classroom, and would like to implement some of these.
Mark Mihopulos
I love the Just Words program from Wilson Language. This powerful program teaches struggling readers and spellers like ENL students to learn the rules of English for decoding and encoding. A link to the program is http://www.wilsonlanguage.com/programs/just-words/ The program fits all of the rules of English into a single year but the effective quality and what sets this resource apart from others is the multisensory material use. When students can touch, see, hear and speak the language and take it from parts to whole and from whole to parts, they really learn it!
Warren Daum
www.tumblebooks.com is the resource I chose to help a struggling reader. With a subscription to tumblebooks, students and teachers have a large variety of animated picture books to read aloud to students, or have struggling readers read. It includes graphic novels for older students that are struggling readers, and it uses high interest animations for the students. Sometimes students need that visual aspect in order to engage with the content of the book.
Rebecca Brady
I have chosen Epic!. This resource is wonderful for the students. They can pick a number of books to read depending on their likes. It also has the read aloud function to help the students who are struggling with vocabulary and phonics. A number of my students did not like to read until the ELA teacher suggested this site and wow, the students are excited to be reading!! www.getepic.com
Jamie Lopez
A literacy website that I like to use is easyCBM, https://app.easycbm.com. It provides interventions, progress monitoring tools and also makes reports of the students progress. I use many of these interventions and measurement tools for my tier 2 and tier 3 students. The website also provides short videos describing the intervention, why and how we use it-which is really helpful for new teachers.
Yamila Rezola
http://www.readingrockets.org Great resource for struggling readers. The students could listen to the story and answer questions about the story in the end. I also love http://www.starfall.com because kids learn different letters, sounds, through games and play.
Minde Moore
The resource I choose is Brain Pop Jr. The link is www.jr.brainpop.com. This website has animated, curricular content that engages students, supports educators, and bolsters achievement. There are videos about many different topics such as reading skills, social studies, science, health, art, technology, etc. Students enjoy the characters in these videos and the humor that is added to them. There are many resources available for after the video is watched. There are quizzes, games, writing activities and flash cards. My students beg my to watch the videos and they often times refer back to them when talking about a certain skill. The visual is great for struggling readers.
Sarah
Although it was previously mentioned... I wanted to talk about Epic!. We have iPads in our classroom and this is an app that is free for educators. As a teacher one can create a class list and students can log on just by clicking their names. My students love it and my struggling readers love the fact that they can have many of the stories read to them. They are also adding new features where you can set up questions to go along with the books. There are so many books to choose from and titles that students actually know that it increases their level of interest. Did I mention this is free for educators?! https://www.getepic.com
Bryan
I chose this resource because I think it is not only good for the teachers, but could also be beneficial for parents who want to assist their child with reading. http://www.readworks.org/ gives you a variety of lexile leveled passages. Not only does it provide passages, but it also provides questions. AND ITS FREE! I think readworks is effective because you can gauge comprehension, you can provide many different leveled passages, and you can print them out. We are constantly telling our students to read with a pencil or annotate the text. You may just see it as using too much paper, but it gives the students the opportunity to mark up the text and make notes to refer back.
LaRhonda Brown
I am a big fan of Fountas and Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI) for struggling readers. This curriculum allows teachers to target students who struggle with reading and or writing and bring them to grade level in a few months. I've used it with my first graders and moved students usually by mid year. It allows you to target student deficiencies whether its phonics, fluency, comprehension or a combination and support them through daily 30 minute lessons done in small groups. LLI has a progress monitoring component which allows teachers to see which areas students are progressing in and continue to need support. It's not a quick fix, but does work for most struggling readers if done with fidelity. Schools would need to purchase the program from a vendor like Heinemann or Fountas and Pinnell.
Virgilio Beato
I chose the following resource: Reading Rockets. This website provides good tips on think-pair-share activites. The website is http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/think-pair-share. As an American Government Teacher, I use this strategy often after reading complex texts. It allows students to share with a partner what they have read, to see if they arrived at different conclusions or perspectives. For struggling readers, they can check for comprehension after they have completed a guided reading organizer, with another classmate.
Sammantha Cassiday
I chose the resource ictgames. It is a helpful resource for literacy games that students can play. I have used in on my smart board during literacy centers. Students or teachers can choose a literacy based game. On each game, there are different levels or in some cases different skills. Teachers can select the skill that a struggling reader needs practice on and the student can play the game. My kindergarteners love the games on this site. www.ictgames.com
Celeste Holden
The resource I recommend as a great reading resource is https://www.readinga-z.com/ I use this in my class for whole group instruction as well as for a great reading center. It is a resource where you can differentiate easily for your varying reading levels in your classroom. There are many tools available on this link for various forms of reading from leveled books with comprehension questions for different reading skill instruction, to poetry, and reader's theater scripts. My students love this site. I highly recommend it.
shari
I use Reading Eggs and Math Seeds (www.readingeggs.com and www.mathseeds.com) These are online reading and math games which are easy to follow, self paced, highly engaging and interactive lessons for elementary students. I have the students take the placement quiz which allows each student to start with lessons on their present levels. There are downloadable activity sheets, online books and Big Books as well as detailed progress reports for me to track each students's progress, strengths and weaknesses.
Erika Foster
I chose the resource Tumblebooks because it is full of picture books that are read aloud. This is great for struggling readers who are having difficulty decoding words. It can be found at: https://www.tumblebooklibrary.com/Default.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2f This resource is great for a listening center during literacy centers, or for students who have difficulty focusing during read to self time. Kids can follow along with a paper copy of the book if you have one, or with the digital version on screen. They can even use a whisper phone to read along with the audio as well. It really boosts the confidence of struggling readers.
Cecilie Shealy
The resource that I found and would like to share is NewsELA. This resource is very useful in both the reading and social studies classroom. It is useful because it will provide informational articles on current events. These lexiles of the articles provided can be altered to differentiate according to student reading levels. This resource can be found at https://newsela.com/. It will give your students practice reading nonfiction text. It will engage them by allowing them to read about current events that they are interested in. You can also change the articles to Spanish with the click of a button if necessary. You do need a login to access the full site.
Angela
I frequently use readworks.org as a reading resource that contains a plethora of articles and various topics and varying lexiles. This is a go-to source for my intervention groups since I ca pick articles based on a skill that my group needs additional practice on. It allows you to search articles by topic, skill, grade level, and lexile, and always has an abundance of articles from which to choose so that you can also find topics that are of interest to your students.
Christina Prisco-Buxbaum
I chose this resource because I have a lot of ENL students in my classroom and wanted to make texts more accessible even if I do not speak their home language. This is something they can use independently to help during lessons or on work that is assigned. It translates the text, or rewords it with simpler explanations of vocabulary words that might be overwhelming for their developing stage of language acquisition. http://rewordify.com/
Julia
I have been using Raz Kids for all my students. My students are able to read and progress nicely through the program. I like how to kids choose the books they are interested in. One of the things I had to teach my students is to slow down while reading. There is an assessment portion on Raz Kids so I have to conference with the students to show them their progress. Another thing I like about RAZ kids is the voice recording. Students are able to hear themselves read.
Michael
I chose this App, Reading Train because it contains over 400 books developed by a kinder/first grade teacher to help with all levels of readers in that age group. The students can begin by listening to the story, then reading the story, can earn points to spend. I have found it very beneficial in helping my struggling readers to experience confidence in reading.
Michael Harris
I chose http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games_vocab.htm, because in my opinion games are always a win-win in education kids are immediately drawn in and enjoy the learning process. While playing the game they are learning but they really don't see it that way they are just having fun.
Travis Thomas
I use https://www.readinga-z.com/ when helping my students select an appropriate book. I strongly believe that if you get the right book in their hands miracles can happen.
Travis Thomas
I use https://www.readinga-z.com/ when helping my students select the just right book. I strongly believe that if you get the right book in their hands then miracles can happen.
Laurie OBrien
I chose this resource because it is motivating and interactive. It also allows for home-school communication so that parents feel more involved and are able to effectively communicate with the teacher and what their children are learning. Students are excited to use this resource. https://www.readinga-z.com/ell/ This website is full of leveled readers so students can move at their own pace. it also students access to Raz-Kids and Raz Rocket where they can listen to videos that motivate and inspire. kids have fun interacting with these online resources. it also allows teachers to assess students digitally and provide immediate feedback.
CASSANDRA WYNN
I like to use Think Cerca to differentiate readings for my students. Think Cerca allows to assign activities based on grade level. I can then assign below grade level text, at grade level text, and above grade level text to my students on an individual basis. Think Cerca also will read the text to students out loud. Think Cerca is a step by step analysis of a text. Once a student completes one assignment, then it lets them go on to the next assignment building onto the first. It allows my struggling readers to focus on one thing at a time, and when they start at a grade level more appropriate for them, they begin to build confidence in their reading skills.
    Sheri
    Think Cerca is awesome for different levels of readers. I need to find a way to incorporate this more in my curriculum. Thanks for the reminder.
Katlyn Sandage
I love using readworks digital in my classroom. This resource allows for me to digitally assign different articles to each student as well as different question sets. This allows me to differentiate reading levels and skill practice. You can search under a specific skill, by reading level, or by topic. It allows differentiation to occur without students even knowing it. Previously I printed readworks articles for students and had students chose from their "color" folder, which contained their reading level. Now students just log into their account and their work is there. My students love it and I love it! It also does a lot of the grading for you!
Laurie OBrien
I utilize Brain Pop with my struggling readers. It not only shows them a short video on a particular concept in a student friendly way, but engages and motivate each child. Brain pop also allows for a brief quiz based on the video where the teacher can receive immediate feedback to assess comprehension.
Erin
This website provides multi sensory activities to help students learn letters and sounds, rhyming, and other reading concepts by getting them up and moving. It is geared towards young children, emergent readers but could possibly be used for students learning a second language or adapted for older children using reading skills and concepts at their level. http://thisreadingmama.com/multi-sensory-activities-teaching-reading/
Angela Ceccarelli
Newsela.org is a great site to use to find quality passages on pertinent topics that can be leveled for your students. This is a great way to differentiate instruction for my students.
Cassie McCammon
The resource that I have chosen is called Epic. You can access Epic at this link: https://www.getepic.com/app/profile-select . Epic is an online resource that has hundreds on e-books at all different levels. When you sign up as a teacher (free), you can choose your grade level, interests that fit your students, and needs of your students. The program then chooses suggested books for your class, but you still have access to any books on their site. I love this site for my struggling readers, because they are usually eager to get on the computer and read the books on this site. Some of the books are offered as audio books which is another plus for my lower readers. I find that the books available are high interest for my fourth graders, but easier readability. I will on occasion use this website whole group and do a read aloud on my smart board. Usually I offer this website as a station rotation during reading groups. It is also a good idea to check if a book has an AR test before reading it! My students get so excited to read a book on Epic and then they get to take an AR test. I find that my students are more successful on AR tests when they have read the book on EPIC.
Sheri
https://www.flocabulary.com/ This website engages students, helps them with understanding, and builds their own skills all while being fun, entertaining, and non-threatening. It covers almost any subject and topic and they are always adding to it--even social-emotional topics. As an English teacher, I use it to teach new concepts and then assign them to write a poem on what they learned. The site offers site words to use in creating the poem and offers words that rhyme to help alleviate the pressure of writing a poem. You can add any parameters as well. It is a great introduction tool and a clarifying tool for readers.
Amy
The site that I just signed up for and am going to use with my students is Vocabulary Journey. What I like best about the site is that the students pick Vocabulary Words that they don't know and only work on those words. So many times Vocabulary instruction is boring to kids because so many of the words they study are already words they know and are not challenging. This is wonderful for the advanced students in class because they are continuing to be challenged. The address is: https://www.vocabjourney.com Since you pick the lexile level of the words, it can be for any age, grade or level.
Anne Turner
The resource I choose is newsela.com. I just began using this resource this year to help my students with nonfiction comprehension. You can choose topical articles that will pique your student's interest and assign or print them for your students. The site also provides a short quiz that assesses your students' comprehension. Articles are also available at various reading/grade levels.
Todd
This website provides parents, educators and students many useful tips and activities to help the struggling reader. They provide research, guides, articles and videos that can be navigating easily. http://www.readingrockets.org/reading-topics/struggling-readers
Livia Forrest
The resource that I chose is https://www.readinga-z.com. I chose this resource because it provides resources for teachers to aide students that may struggle in different areas of reading. This works effectively because there is an opportunity to work and assess at different reading levels.
Sonia Findleyson-Webber
I used this website to help facilitate students practicing skills for English Language Arts, Math, Social Studies and World events in a resource classroom. The website is Kahooit.com. With this site the students are able to complete against each other in the classroom. This interactive game test their intellectual ability . Students feel they are playing a game while learning.
Kimberly Mokry
I use MobyMax. It allows my students to work on skills that are customized. I can easily set it up to align with their IEP goals. I can also reassign content as needed. MobyMax also allows me to print off assignments and we complete the tasks as a whole group, if needed. I like that it monitors their progress and I have full access to everything. My students like to earn the badges and "game" time even as high school students. They are motivated to make progress.
Kalynn Harshbarger
I was first introduced to this homophone song in a college Reading course. I have since used it in my classroom every year when I introduce homophones. It is a fun, silly and engaging video that the students love. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3prL9EHifw0
Mandy Morey
One of my favorite resources is Readworks.org This resource allows me to pull from a database of passages that are leveled and relevant to many topics that we read about during the school year. Whether for homework, intervention, seatwork,or other purposes. I can chose texts that are on a particular student's reading level and even paired passages that provide an opportunity for written responses in comparing passages. This site has proven itself both extremely useful and versatile.
Stacy
I chose this resource because I was new to the grade and a colleague recommended it. www.readworks.org The diversity of topics allows me to find topics that students not only need to learn about, but also ones that will help a struggling reader to become more interested and engaged in the reading process. The availability of differentiated reading levels makes access efficient.
Emily G
I chose the resource readworks.org. I am a new Kindergarten teacher and our reading coaches talk about this website a lot. I trust this resource and I think that It helps students who are struggling and are in need of an extra boost for reading.
Emily G
I chose the resource abcya.com I am a new Kindergarten teacher and our reading coaches talk about this website a lot. I trust this resource and I think that It helps students who are struggling and are in need of an extra boost for reading. We play sight word bingo during centers and I think that my children are learning a lot from it.
Laura Leister
The resource that I chose was ReadWorks. http://www.readworks.org/ This resource provides grade level texts that have accompanying activities based on skills like cause and effect, sequence of events, or summarizing. I like this site because it allows me to find resources based on grade level and also skill. I can pull different articles for students based on their lexile and know that they are reading at a level that is comfortable for them while still working on the same skill. This works great with flexible grouping. I can group my students by lexile level and find articles appropriate for each group. They have a wide variety of topics and skills that could be used across different content areas.
S. Allcorn
The resource I chose is "This Reading Mama". It has 12 resources for parents to help them with their struggling readers. It was a good resource because she gave more than one option to gain information on how to help your child. Although it is good for parents, it is also a great resource for teachers as well. There was one resource that was about 5 ways to teach in a multi-sensory way. This would be great for teaching in general and not just for struggling readers. http://thisreadingmama.com/12-incredible-resources-for-struggling-readers/
Livia Forrest
I would use Imagine Learning. This resource allows students to hear lessons in their native language and provides teachers the ability to look at meaningful data that will help with driving instruction. It is an interactive program so struggling readers enjoy being on the program. They are placed in the program based on their ability to demonstrate skills on an initial diagnostic. http://www.imaginelearning.com
John
The resource I utilized in my classroom was and is reading rockets (http://www.readingrockets.org/). do to its many uses and the way it guides its user into a learning adventure. This a phenomenal resource as it provides resources for both teacher and student. Its full of blogs, videos, reading lists, suggestions for struggling readers. It was introduced to my students and they found it helpfully as the site was so easy to navigate and understand. This site is effective for strugglin readers as it allows them after an assessment to pick books that are suggested for their reading level (hopefully spurring a young mind into the reading world). I really love this site.
Yamila Rezola
There are a lot of resources for struggling readers out there and I mentioned a few like star fall for the little ones and PBS kids. I also like A to Z readers https://www.readinga-z.com because you are able to download books at your level to read them. There are printable level books, poetry books, high frequency words, phonics, and many more.
Muriel Mis
In my classroom, my students really enjoy ABCYa. There are many different types of games the students can use such as: The students can move the tiles to put the letters in the proper order. They can also create an "All About Me" sheet. It is very important to start at a very young age to encourage students to like to interact with these types of websites.
John
I like to use razkids. The reason I enjoy this is because it allows my students to work on a reading level that is just right for them. The students can listen, read, and and answer questions in order to build their fluency, decoding and comprehension skills. The website also allows us to collect data on strengths and areas to improve for the students.
Allison Rapp
I highly recommend Reading Rockets (http://www.readingrockets.org/reading-topics/struggling-readers) to target young, struggling readers. This site covers all of the bases when it comes to pinpointing problems and finding solutions for common hurdles in the classroom. It also includes resources for everyone from the principal to the school librarian. It works effectively because it allows teachers to start from the ground up, helping them build a strong foundation with struggling readers.
David Foley
https://www.flocabulary.com/ Students love this website. My students have really enjoyed using it as a hook to a math lesson and a refresher for past covered content. I also like that after my students complete the video I have assigned, they want to go off and explore different concepts, just showing how engaging this website is.
Kelly Jacobs
An excellent resource for primary students or ELL students is Starfall.com. This site is free. It is helpful to students practice phonics activities and develop vocabulary. There is a section for each letter of the alphabet. Each letter shows path of motion, and offers several images of words beginning with the target letter. Each word is named for the learner. Students are given practice with identifying same beginning sounds and develop vocabulary.
Muriel Mis
I like to use www.readingrockets.org. It has lots of classroom strategies with videos of QAR in action and others. I has videos from PBS. It also has reading basics, reading 101 course and writing samples. It has the common core standards. It has lots of very good information.
Jennifer King
My school uses a program called iReady for all of our students. Students begin the year by taking a diagnostic test in the areas of ELA and math. The diagnostic measures the students' independent ability levels in several different domains (based on standards of the state or common core). After the diagnostic, iReady pushes out lessons that are individualized for each student's ability level. This works great for ELLs because they can be successful on lessons at their level of readiness. This is a very pricy product - one that is a major district investment. However, it is said to closely align with state standards and to prepare students for state assessments very well. Along with the online component, there are also printable materials available in the teacher toolbox area - great for use in whole group settings, small groups, and even to send home as homework. www.curriculumassociates.com/products/iready/i-ready-takethetour.aspx
Sharon Mckenzie
I have found that http://www.readingrockets.org/ is an awesome site to assist readers and parents of readers. Often times when a student is struggling with reading they are dealing with things such as self-esteem they don't want to feel bad because they can't read well or struggle with words that may be easier for other students. This causes self-esteem issues because they are worried the other students will make fun of them. This site has options that parents can utilize if they are unsure of how to help their struggling child. It is imperative in this life that a child learns to read by the time they are 8 due to FSA testing/Common Core Standards. If a child is struggling early on, teachers could suggest websites such as readingrockets.com to the parents to assist their child at home. This site is also very useful for teachers as well, check out the classroom strategies. They are very helpful.
Matthew Bowling
I chose a resource that involves using physical movement to help with reading practices. This website engages students with movement throughout the classroom with the use of highlighters, higher order questioning skills, and physical movement. Each student is required to move about the classroom to help find context clues and other resources within the text to promote higher reading skills. When students are required to stand, they must be able to answer questions about the text in order to sit down or continue to a new station. This will help with struggling readers because it will allow for the focus to not be on their struggles but allow them to be more focused on moving within the classroom. The article speaks of breaking up the routine of the brain to allow it to focus on other aspects of the classroom and in turn, it may allow for greater comprehension for struggling readers as the idea is not necessarily focused on reading 100 percent of the time. This will work great within my classroom as the concept of physical education in moving the body and we will accomplish two practices through one idea.
Coretta Pifer
I choose Teachers First as my resource. This website has a lot of different ideas for ways a teachers might be able to adjust a lesson, activity, or even give a means of practice to some students. The website is http://www.teachersfirst.com/content/esl/adaptstrat.cfm This page has different links a teacher can use to give more ideas about ways to adjust or what to look out for before starting. There are mainly just ideas or websites that can be used to help a student, but what I liked the most is when you go to the link that you are needing help with it gives you ideas of what to check first for your ESL or ESOL students. This a great help as many times I wouldn't think about something being an issue until after and I have questions. This helps me prep better and maybe get rid of any issues before they happen.
Sarah Stout
I have used this particular resource with struggling readers in the past. Highlighting the line of the text in a different color strip allows students to stay focused on what they are reading one word at a time. This resource shows a good way to create the overlay reading strips. It also gives a link to another resource to help with struggling readers. http://learningspecialistmaterials.blogspot.com/2012/10/help-for-struggling-readers-creating.html I also found a site that gave teachers four tips for struggling readers. It can be found here: http://edge.ascd.org/blogpost/4-reading-strategies-for-struggling-readers
Alison
My kids really enjoy using Storyline online. You can access this link at storylineonline.net It is a great way for readers to listen to stories being read to them. The kids really love hearing the stories read and it is a fun and engaging way to improve literacy skills!
Heather
The literacy resource I find useful is a website that offers articles based on lexile levels. A teacher can choose the same "article" that will be tiered based on each student's reading level. This resource enables the teacher to provide intervention as well as enrichment for the classroom. http://www.readworks.org/
Laurie A OBrien
I chose studystack.com. https://www.studystack.com/ This is an excellent interactive way to teach vocabulary for middle school ELA. I love this resource and so do my students. Not only do the flashcards reinforce vocabulary on multiple genres, but it also allows students to play online word video games to reinforce core vocabulary lessons. There is even a quiz that students can access as a formative assessment tool for teachers.
Jessica
My district currently uses iReady, as do most districts across Florida. Recently, iReady added a ton of new vocabulary lessons for K-2 that have ELL supports built right in!
Samantha Hickey
I use NewsELA with my struggling readers. I love that the articles are current events and on things students are hearing about in their daily lives. The articles are leveled which is great for my struggling readers because they can all be successful and still read the same content and complete the same activities!
Adelle Masching
A digital resource I use is called Raz Kids. I like this resource because not only are books available at different levels, they are often available in Spanish which is great for my bilingual classroom. I'm not sure as though the program is available for all schools, but we have access to it since we are a title school. The program also includes activities and graphic organizers to go with that resource. It's been a great addition to my classroom.
Kaleigh Limper
I have used CommonLit.org and Newsela.com for my struggling readers (ELL & Non ELL). Both websites provide a variety of texts on different subject matters at difference reading levels. NewsELA also allows teachers and students to change the lexile level of the passage. Both sites offer standardized testing style questions that accompany each passage. While we can all probably agree that state testing is not a true show of a student's progress or success, it is something that we cannot avoid and NEED to expose our ELL students to. CommonLit.org offers a great data tracking system from quiz to quiz as well.
Mandy Morey
My resource is Google Slides. (Just make sure your students have a Google account and password) My students love creating a slide presentation when researching a topic, person, etc. It would be great for them to put together a Google Slides presentation on themselves, their family, and their heritage. Sharing these with the class will allow everyone a chance to be proud of themselves and appreciate where others are coming from as well.
Henry
In my district we use razkids which helps students read a book online on their level. It helps build their comprehension skills and allows teachers see where their strengths and weaknesses are when reading.
Allyson Snow
1.) I chose this resource because it provides reading articles with questions for the students, along with an answer key for the teachers. Articles are available by grade level, they show you the Lexile level, you can look for specific reading topics you want the students to work on, and you can choose different topics. 2.) http://www.readworks.org/ 3.) Since the articles list Lexile scores, teachers can start from the student's individual reading level and slowly increase the level. Also, if a student is struggling in a specific area, for example: main idea, the teacher can differentiate instruction by giving students articles that pertain to their struggling area.
Crystal Pelt
I like to use i-Ready for whole group, small group and individual interactive lessons. This site is good for reading and math. I choose lessons based on the current skill. Students are able to run the lesson on the smart board. This is highly engaging. There are many lessons that teach explicit vocabulary and reading strategies. I am able to access lessons that are below level, on level, and above level to meet my students' needs.
Ashley Trares
A resource that I use in the media center is My Capstone Library, www.mycapstonelibrary.com. It is an ebook service so you do need to purchase the books to access them. The books are interactive and there is an audio option. They are high interest books. There is also a search option that students can use to find the subject or level that they are looking for. Capstone offers databases for research as well (PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next) which would great for struggling readers.
Amy Michele Keen
I really like Failure Free Reading for struggling readers. It is a whole language based program. It gives readers the confidence and hope that they did not have. There is a diagnostic assessment when students begin. There is an online component, a small group read aloud component, and individual practice. When students struggle with reading, many times, they have not been successful with phonics. This provides a different approach through repetition of words and sentences, to help them learn to read and add more words to the students' knowledge banks. I believe in teaching phonics and whole language. However, this is a great resource for students who have a difficult time with phonics.
Kaleigh Limper
LightSail is an app that can be purchased through the Apple or Andriod App Store to help teachers assist struggling readers. According to the app's description: "Students can use LightSail to check out texts from their schools' digital libraries and read the books directly on their devices. As students progress through a book, questions appear to gauge their comprehension. As students complete these assessments, they earn badges and also earn a Lexile measure." This could be a creative way to get kids excited about reading if they are allowed to used their phones or ipads to help enhance their literacy
Billie Jo
Bookshare is my go to for struggling learners with visual perception problems, especially at the high school level. Membership offers a level of independence needed at this age, while providing the tools to lead to success
lauren winick
A resource that I use on a regular basis is teacherspayteachers.com. This is a wonderful resource for lessons, strategies and graphic organizers to help with all aspects of reading comprehension, fluency, vocabulary, decoding etc. There are plenty of free resources on this website. some of the resources do cost money.
lauren
A resource that I use on a regular basis is teacherspayteachers.com. This is a wonderful resource for lessons, strategies and graphic organizers to help with all aspects of reading comprehension, fluency, vocabulary, decoding etc. There are plenty of free resources on this website. some of the resources do cost money.
Yan-Ping Luu
I recommend www.rewordify.com to my ELLs to help them understand reading passages which are difficult for them to comprehend. This resource is a free online software that improves reading comprehension. Students can type an English text or a web page to be rewordify and simplified. An original passage reads like this, "The ravenous throng scampered toward the delectable viands, which the chef had impeccably arrayed on the table." The rewordified text reads as followed, "The extremely hungry crowd ran toward the delicious food, which the chef had extremely well organized (into rows) on the table." "Ravenous" was rewordified into "Extremely hungry." "Extremely hungry" was highlighted in yellow. When you hover the cursor over it, a text box with "ravenous" and its rewordified version "extremely hungry" appears in a text box. Students can click the megaphone icon and hear "ravenous" being read out loud. The same apply to all the rewordified words. You can also enter a web site URL. Students prefer using this resource to looking up words in the dictionary, because this resource offer easy-to-understand definitions. Another great feature of this resource is its Learning Session which offer an interactive word-learning experience. Students can see the word, hear it, and spell it multiple times. It helps them to learn words in context. It is based on a repetitive multimodal approach. Students will hear and type the words multiple times. They can customize their learning list by including the words they have rewordified. This has made acquiring vocabulary more interactive and more interesting to students.
Linda
I like to see the students use Storyrobe. Its an app on an ipod, ipad, or iphone. It helps students work in groups with lots of visuals. They can work in groups and add to the stories that they make together.
Ashley
I use the resource she loves math at times when planning lessons. This helps me as a math teacher prepare lessons that are catered towards high school students. It also can serve as a resource for students to spend time looking into topics of math further and deepening their understanding. I like it because it's a teacher that is making the site, so she has seen things in the classroom and has an understanding of teaching math. http://www.shelovesmath.com/ Basically the site is all the different types of math that you might learn in high school broken down into their smaller topics. It's easy to find any topic, and she will describe problems and concepts around that topic. This resource isn't the best for struggling readers, but it will help teachers who are helping struggling readers by providing them with clear explanations that will aid them in explaining concepts to their students who might not be able to get it reading themselves.
Ciara Gill
One of the resources that I really find to be great is http://www.storyboardthat.com/. While you have to sign up for a subscription to use full-time and with more resources, students can get access to up to six storyboards and create their own backgrounds, characters, and then write explanations. Great tool to use for schools that are one-to-one as well.
Vicky Hackett
Spelling City is a great website for basic words you want them to learn. It has many components to it. Lists can be personalized. They can see and say the sounds- practice- take tests.
Misty
I chose this because it has really helped some of my students this year who are struggling with reading or have dyslexia. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/readwrite-for-google-chro/inoeonmfapjbbkmdafoankkfajkcphgd?hl=en-US Read and write is an app available in chrome. All of my students have chrome books so this app is readily available. It is able to read text aloud, it will simplify websites to get rid of all of the distractions, students can use it to build vocabulary lists. It has many capabilities. The great thing is that students can use it without feeling singled out or different because it is available to all students.
Rebecca
Since we are supposed to be sharing a common assessment for learning, I've chosen this article: http://www.literacyinlearningexchange.org/sites/default/files/vm0212assessment.pdf I want to be like everyone else and say that this article seemed interesting, but honestly, I chose it because it fit the assignment. I know that's not what we're supposed to say, but I value honesty, integrity, and individuality. An honest question like "why did you choose this article?" deserves an honest answer. Regarding this article, it is interesting to see how common assessment can be used in the English class--and across the core subjects, allowing teachers to quickly and effectively get a sense as to students' understanding and be able to give prompt feedback, all while working with other teachers within their teams or clusters to share this information so they will also be able to learn more about their students.
Latrice Samuel
I will use the brain pop for all subjects in my classroom. I have used it previously for math, social studies as well as my social emotional group. I also use ReadWorks because it is a good resource that gives not just a reading article at the Lexile, but it has comprehension questions as well. And if you really find a book that you want to use it gives you a whole lesson and units as well as the standards use for those units.
Vicky Hackett
I like the resource Starfall.com for teaching ABC's and sight words. The matching sight word activity is a way students can work together. They say the word. When the pair matches they continue on in the game. It moves up levels. I would put a child that know sight words with ELL student. It has stories using the sight words. It build success. They have books reproduced to read.
KRISTEN WOODSIDE
The resource I chose is https://www.getepic.com/. I chose this resource because I have found it to be one of the most effective and engaging with my struggling readers. The website differentiates to each student, surveying them about their age, interests, etc. then gives them a browsing page full of online books and audio books. My students have really benefited from it because they can practice their reading skills and build confidence with the audio books. I have found that children benefit so much just from being read to, and Epic allows that to happen on an individual basis.
Jessica Warren
For the past couple of years I have used Newsela.com to support my Intensive Reading students. This website provides current non-fiction world wide news stories. I am able to choose what articles I want to assign and the students are also able to choose any news articles that interest them to work on independently. Each article comes with 4 text dependent questions that are based on a variety of common core standards as well as an extended response question. My access allows me to see performance broken down by student and standard. The link is: https://newsela.com/ One of the major advantages is the ability to engage my students because of its relevant topics (Sports, money, science, law, education, etc). Students are also able to adjust the lexile level of each article to fit their current performance level or give them a little extra push.
Danielle Maccarrone
I am choosing the Starfall.com. It's an excellent resource for the students in my self-contained k-2 class. It allows them to see visuals and examples of the content they are learning. It also provides games, stories, and other exercises in which the students can spend time to learn and practice on their own.
Kelly Zelaya
http://thisreadingmama.com/12-incredible-resources-for-struggling-readers/ I chose this site to help parents with students who have dyslexia. The site has resources in how to understand what the child sees and needs for better learning. It helps parents teach their students methods in order to get control of the dyslexia. As well as methods to aid the student with their homework and studies.
Larré Davis
Unfortunately, I have not been in an elementary or secondary classroom for sometime and and am truly unfamiliar with resources for emerging readers or ELL students. If I think back to teaching reading to at-risk student ages 16-24, I used https://www.bluford.org/audiobooks/to assist struggling readers because this website has free audiobooks for students to listen and read along with their favorite Bluford series short novel. These were very high interest books that has titles and topics the inner city students could relate to and that would maintain their interest.
Jenny Rayburn
Colorin Colorado is a wonderful site I was introduced to a couple of years ago while completing Polk State's EPI program. It's a great resource for ELL educators. I found it very useful for my growth as an educator for non native speaking students and, in fact, all my students. It is a great website for resources for administrators, teachers, paras, and parents. They can find articles, videos, and books. I highly recommend checking it out!
Jenny Rayburn
Colorin Colorado is a wonderful website and resource for all! Administrators, teachers,paras, and parents all could benefit from this site. It has articles, videos, and books and many other resources. I was introduced to this site a couple of years ago apart of an EPI program. I have since used this resource a handful of times and have found it beneficial!
Leslie
I love "reading a-z." This website offers a huge variety of differentiated reading passages on a number of different topics. It includes both literature and informational text, as well as skill-specific units and standards-based lesson plans and activities. I use this website regularly to pull leveled passages and comprehension questions for my small groups.
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.
Brandi Oatis
I chose https://www.flocabulary.com/. Flocabulary is a website that provides hip hop songs and videos for all content area topics. Its a fun and engaging way for students to be exposed to new content and to remember it! Struggling readers, in particular, need something to hook them or make them want to learn. These engaging videos teach content through a fun way!
Lori M
I also use Reading A to Z and love it! This is another site I use https://www.getepic.com/. I like to use the resource book Reading Strategies to set goals for my struggling readers.
E. Bauer
I will use the mind mapping strategy with the help of the website https://www.goconqr.com/en-US/p/44118 Here my students can use technology to express their findings after a discussion about each lesson. Next years, more students will have their own computers, so we can use this in the classroom to create mind maps, share them, and adjust them and edit them over the course of the year. ELL students will be particularly helped by this online tool that can be shared with the group quickly and easily, with access at home and at school.
Carmen Cantizano
One of the best resources to use with first grade ELLs is www.starfall.com and www.more.starfall.com. The student can learn phonics and reading in an interactive, easy to follow website. Starfall ABCs motivates through positive reinforcement and play. Students see, hear, and interact with letters and sounds in words, sentences, and games.
Sheryl Milligan
I love the website Storyline Online. There are several famous actors and actresses that read the stories aloud for students and they use lots of enthusiasm which shows ELL students how to use expression. Students can follow along and learn new vocabulary.
Brandi Oatis
www.k12reader.com This website is a great resource for parents and teachers for reading, spelling, and grammar practice.
Jennifer Camacho
First, tell us why you chose the resource. I chose this resource because I specialize in mathematics instruction for elementary students. Literacy is involved daily in mathematics in problem solving, word problems, and discussions. It is very important to me that math teachers use the mathematical practices defined in the common core standards to teach concepts to students. One of the best resources I always turn to for math lessons, topics, activities, and online games is NCTM. SO I thought I would check there first for ELL support as well. Next, provide us with a link to the resource and a brief description of it. https://goo.gl/6yTghv The website does a good job of telling how we should instruct ELL students while still attending to and using the mathematical practices. Explain how the resource works effectively, or has the potential to work effectively, with struggling readers. In a math classroom it is important for all students to feel comfortable speaking out, making mistakes, and having mathematical arguments. ELL students must feel the same way even though they may be hesitant to demonstrate opinions, solutions, and mathematical knowledge at first with a limited amount of English language knowledge. Literacy can come into play in a math classroom on a daily basis when problem solving and discussion are involved with instruction.
Sheryl Milligan
I like to use Brainpop. This is a wonderful resource for ELL students because it shows them a video to explain the standards we are teaching. The kids love them and the videos keep them engaged which is key.
Laurie A OBrien
I love using studystack with my students. It reinforces vocabulary in so many different areas by allowing them to play matching games, use flashcards, and play video games to enhance and reinforce their knowledge of vocabulary and concepts taught in a particular unit. It is engaging and exciting for students.
Joyce De La Torre
I use Raz-kids which is part of the program A to Z, which the students first listen to the story then try to read it then answer the quiz questions. It gives all the data for comprehension and story elements. I use it for my students everyday, they do three stories daily.
Jessica Stennett
The resource I use is https://www.gonoodle.com/. It is an amazing resource that keeps my first graders engaged and excited about learning. One of my favorite features of the resource is Word Jam. This feature allows you to enter the vocabulary you are working on into the program.Students create dance moves to go along with the vocabulary words.
Jennifer
I chose this resource because it offers suggestions on games you can play with students in the classroom to make learning the English language memorable ,fun and engaging. The website I found is... https://goo.gl/UQe6Xb It has several suggestions for games you can play with students in the classroom to build on vocabulary knowledge and use. I feel like this resource has the potential to work with struggling learners because it is learning through play. This type of learning tends to help the brain build connections in the brain through all of the different types of learners.
Christina
I chose Reading A-Z, https://www.readinga-z.com/, which is a resource online that is constantly being updated and modified. It is a subscription service that allows the user access to A LOT of books and stories for every reading level. The website has more than 2,500 downloadable books (including English, Spanish, and French versions) and thousands of teaching and learning materials.
Vicky Hackett
I choose a resource to increase the very important sight words. It gives a assessment for them and practice activities. You can see the progress. www.sightwords.com It has practice and assessment and is useful to teacher and student.
Dawn Bacevic
I chose the resource Fun Brain because it is a user-friendly site for kids. The link is https://www.funbrain.com/. It includes a variety of activities, books, videos, and games for reading and math. This resource has the potential to work well for struggling readers because it includes phonics songs, videos, and popular books for differing interests. I really like the Playground where kids can choose skills for their own level.
Eric
I chose this website because this helps provides resources to help parents help their child with their reading struggles. www.readingrockets.org is the website. This website will give parents resources to help their kid(s) which is another resource the student has to help them. The teacher and parent can both help the student become a better reader using multiple resources.
Bea
As a Pre-K and Kindergarden teacher, I found a lot of this blogs information useful and am interested in exploring some of the suggested resources. For the youngest of struggling learners, I have found a rebus reading activity website with 25 lessons that is very instrumental in helping many of my students make the jump and become emergent readers. The activities were originally designed and published on a page called Little Giraffes under Sentence Practice. Later, it was absorbed by A to Z. The original site helps students acquire a strong command of sight words and the rhythm of sentences. It's simple form can be used with the youngest of learners and it increases the difficulty while providing multiple practices. It only adds a few words at a time to keep students motivated and not overwhelmed. Parents become interested in their child's reading and seem to eagerly support this format.Here is the link: http://www.littlegiraffes.com/sentencepractice.html
Christina Buehler
A resource I like to use is Readworks.org. I use these articles for close reading for small group remediation as well as pulling articles to add to my social studies and science curriculum. This helps with incorporating reading and writing skills in subjects other than ELA. These passages are also great for vocabulary comprehension.
Cynthia Washam
I went to the Color in Colorado site because it has a wealth of good information about teaching ESOL. I easily found several resources. One I consider particularly useful and easy to apply is cooperative learning. Working in groups helps ELLs in several ways. One is that they're exposed to hearing how other students frame their answers. Another is that they can learn from members of their group without the pressure of asking questions in front of the entire class. Finally, working in groups promotes social interaction, which is crucial for ELLS, especially in their early days at a new school. http://www.colorincolorado.org/article/cooperative-learning-strategies
Hossy Habashzada
I've used Brain Pop. It has covers various subjects such as Health, Math, Science, Social Studies, English, Arts, Music, Engineering and Technology. They're many fun games to play and animated education. I've found the resource helpful.
Nicole Kusnierz
The resource that I picked was Flocabulary. It can be found at Flocabulary.com. This is a fun and engaging way for students to work on concepts in all subject areas. It has fun songs activities and lessons that the students love. Students ask to listen to songs on Flocabulary and help them to remember concepts that we are working on in class. It helps struggling readers work on new concepts but also helps them with vocabulary. They can hear and see the words on the screen as the song is playing. I think that the audio and visual combined helps students learn the new words.
Jenniffer Bermudez
I choose Reading A-Z because the teacher and the students have access to leveled reading books. It can be very interactive for the students by having online access. They can track their progress and the assessments provide a clear indication of how the students are progressing. www.readinga-z.com.
Susan Meiler
readingrockets.org Reading Rockets is a wonderful website to utilize for both teachers and parents. It shares wonderful information and articles to help teachers and parents understand what may be causing the struggle as well as vital information to get children on their way to success.
Michelle Doughty
I love so many sites and many of them are mentioned here; Reading Rockets, Readworks, and many more. I have to say that learning A-Z is a great resource to us for struggling learners.This website allows for differentiated resources and blended learning. They have all kinds of resources from sight words to printable readers. It is truly a resource that is helpful with today's struggling readers. I use it regularly in my class.
Donna
Brainpop is resource we frequently use in our classroom. There is a variety of subject matter and the students like being able to be interactive with the smart board to answer the quiz questions at the end of each video.
Julie
I use digital.readworks.org Students read Fiction and Nonfiction passages. The passages introduce vocabulary and some even include audio. The passages are listed under specific reading skills. There are higher order questions at the end of the passages. The students are provided with immediate feedback and may try multiple times to answer the questions. I am able to see student responses in an effort to provide individual support as needed.
Robles
I chose Quizlet.com to help my students learn the vocabulary that they will be using during their writing assignments. I call these words "trick words" since they do not have a rule they follow like most words. On the website provided my students are able to listen tot he pronunciation of the word, play games and also take a short quiz at the end.
Donna
Razkids is a great website to help students build comprehension. It allows them to read an on level book online and you can monitor their comprehension and understanding.
James Hollowell
I chose, "Top Ways to Implement Differentiated Instruction Strategies" from Teachhub.com because it talks about the different ways to differentiate teaching but it also explains the reasoning behind the differentiation such as flexible grouping where we might initially group students with similar learning levels but students learn at different rate at different assessment times it might become evident that student need to be moved to different groups. it also talks about learning centers and independent studies. I use Kahn academy because I have math students at so many different levels of learning that it becomes nearly impossible for me to cover all the levels in a class period but this site allows each student to work at their own pace at their own level.
Mary Villiers
I have used newsela.com for informational articles. You can select articles at different reading levels for differentiation. There is also quiz comprehension questions for each article that the students can answer.
Siobhan Awad
I like Reading Rockets. You can find many different types of activities to use in your reading classroom. They have videos to demonstrate how they are used and even suggest when the best time to use them would be
Steve Cullipher
I found http://www.esl-lounge.com/. It seems like a pretty comprehensive offering with multiple levels of comprehension. It offers board games, flash cards and many other tools for use with ELL students. The cost is reasonable and they offer a site license for group subscriptions.
Dawn Bacevic
The resource I am choosing to share is Progressive Phonics which can be found @http://www.progressivephonics.com/. This is a great resource to help struggling readers build a foundation with phonics skills. The website has a variety of books and materials that are organized by phonics patterns. It starts off with very basic alphabet knowledge and moves to more challenging reading levels.
Summer Odom
I really like the website www.newsela.com. I like it because I can adjust the lexile level for each student. If I know a student can read at a higher/lower level I can change the lexile level to fit that student. This is very important to their comprehension. We are reading the same article but at different levels. I also like this website because I can pick very interesting topics for my students. Many times certain topics that they have to read are not very interesting to them and I feel as though they do not really read something that is not interesting. When they have an article that they are able to identify with, they will tend to read more closely and really grasp what they are reading. This helps with comprehension, reading, and writing.
Steve Cullipher
I chose "Beginning Reading and Writing" https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0807739766. Chapter six is dedicated to ELL's, albeit for the Pre-K level. There is scripted dialogue that accompanies classroom experiences with various students. The methods used in this book focus on how to respond to students incorrect English in a positive way to help them immersively. The information can be easily adapted for any classroom.
Britt Kelly
https://www.teachervision.com/lesson-planning/graphic-organizer This site offers many graphic organizers and checklists that can be used across the curriculum. This helps students manage their thoughts, ideas, and information and guides them to clear expectations. The site also provides lessons with paired worksheets and organizers. I also like to use Pebble Go. It is a non-fiction resource that provides many accommodations for students including text to talk and spanish version.
Summer
One resource I like to use is www.teachervision.com. It has so many useful resources that I can pull from to help my students. If we are learning a new skill I like to go to this website to see what resources are available. Many times they have different grade levels which is a huge help. They have different kinds of graphic organizers. One thing that I learned from my students that they do not all learn the same way. If I am using a graphic organizer for a skill and I see that one or more students are not understanding it we can change the organizer and see if that helps.
Laura
I chose NewsELA. This site has current events at various levels with comprehension questions. You can adjust reading levels so the topic is article material is the same, but the reading levels are different. The students usually do not even realize they are not the same.
Jackie
One resource that I have used is Flocabulary. This resources can be assessed at www.flocabulary.com. This resources offers several subjects and lessons that are interactive and entertaining to the students. you are able to assign work to your class and the students really enjoy the music and the ability to watch the music videos again and again. Its like students do not even realize they are learning when they memorize the songs.
Kathleen Olson
One resource I use in my classroom is readworks.org Readworks allows me to choose a particular text based on the standard being taught or subject content. Each text is able to be set at a specific lexile level so that each student is able to read about the same topic, but on their level.
sarah
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/learn_eng.htm This site has 35 different activities to use with Spanish speaking students who are beginning to learn English. There are many vocabulary games, an audio dictionary, and visually enticing matching activities.
Alyce Hartwig
I like to use this vocabulary site, Vocabulary.co.il, (http://www.vocabulary.co.il/) with students and my ELL students. It has a variety games and incorporates pictures and repetition that helps ELL learners. I also helps build their word banks. While I really like this site, it should be used to supplement their learning. It offers a variety ways learn vocabulary. It focuses on affixes, antonyms, synonyms, Latin roots, etc. And on top of all that, the kids love it!
Deanna Henderson
I chose a go-to for younger students,http://www.starfall.com/. It is easy for students to navigate, it provides practice in letter recognition, phonemic awareness, and reading. It is effective with struggling readers because they can learn at their own pace, play games, and watch animations all while learning the basics for reading success.
Allison Rapp
The literacy resource I have chosen for struggling readers is www.newsela.com. It is a fantastic sight for informational text and current articles. The article choices can be filtered by grade level and reading skill (by standard). Once you have chosen an article, the Lexile level can be easily changed to fit the needs of all levels of readers. There are also accompanying quizzes and writing prompts which are also differentiated based on the Lexile level chosen.
Theresa Messina
CommonLit.org Awesome site! Grades 5-12 Free reading passages and progress monitoring across the content areas. Special features for struggling readers: activities are interactive or can be printed as PDFs; it can read the text aloud and even translate to another language.
Christopher Montgomery
The resource that I will attach is a website put together by PBS and people who wanted to help reading become habit for struggling readers. http://www.readingrockets.org/atoz/1151/all is a website that has a profound amount of research available on struggling readers and articles that convey best ways to help our students who struggle to read. Comes in a variety of ways, with videos, articles, fun opportunities to learn. It also has a number of pull down bars, which you can find ways to help your students, it has an interactive portion for parents and teachers. Lastly, it has a blog available for us to continue to get better as educators along with childrens books and articles to help promote reading.
summer odom
I like using www.newsela.com because there are many different topics that I can pick from. Newsela allows me to pick a lexile level for each student but it maintains the content which is important. There are comprehension questions for each article and even writing prompts. It is very easy to do paired articles for writing. I like it because the topics are very interesting for the students and that keeps them engaged.
summer odom
I like using www.newsela.com because there are many different topics that I can pick from. Newsela allows me to pick a lexile level for each student but it maintains the content which is important. There are comprehension questions for each article and even writing prompts. It is very easy to do paired articles for writing. I like it because the topics are very interesting for the students and that keeps them engaged.
summer odom
I like to use www.vocabularyworkshop.com because it helps build vocabulary skills. When we started using the website (along with their workbook) I saw a huge increase in their vocabulary tests. The website offers vocabulary games and that really engage the students. It teaches them the parts of speech, gives them an example, shows a picture, reads them a story, and even has quizzes for the lessons. This has really worked in my classroom.
Sara
One resource I use in my classroom is the Strategic Instruction Model (SIM), http://sim.kucrl.org/#3. This resource provides a wealth of graphic organizers that can help students at any grade level learn and retain information. I really like the concept mastery routine, an extremely flexible graphic to help define by example and elimination.
Dawn Bacevic
A resource that I like to use for my younger students is ABCYA which is found at http://www.abcya.com. It teaches a variety of skills to students in a fun way. Lessons can be differentiated by grade level and subject. This is a great resource to reinforce basic skills with my ELLs and others that could benefit from remediation.
Ariel
I use Epic Books with my students. I chose this resource because students can follow along with a story and read the book or they can just listen to the book being read aloud to them. Words are highlighted and defined. The texts can be selected to be "just-right" books and they can also be content specific. There is a wide variety of texts to choose from (some have heavy picture support while others you need to use more context clues. https://www.getepic.com/app/sign_in
Aimee Popson
My students love to go on abcya at www.abcya.com. There are numerous games all geared toward teaching phonics at varying levels. One of the reasons I like this site is its ease of use for the students. It also engages them in a way that is fun for them while they are learning. There is even a Spanish word Bingo game.
Cynthia Washam
Dave's ESL Cafe gets my thumbs up because it's fun. The web site is a hub of mostly American ESL teachers around the world. If I'm looking for inspiration, I can browse through dozens of topics including grammar, pronunciation, spelling, writing and vocabulary. Each topic has loads of tips from ESL teachers. David in Korea wrote about creating a Bingo game with easily confused words, instead of the usual numbers, to improve his students' ability to listen. Maria in Brazil hones her students' listening skills by playing an English rock song then giving them scrambled lyrics to assemble in the right order. The web site also offers an extensive listing of international English-teaching jobs and more than 3,000 links on every imaginable topic related to ESL.
Aimee Popson
My school has purchased licences for all identified struggling ELL students to use a program called Imagine Learning. I like it because the students who go on it each day for 20 minutes with fidelity all show growth in their reading. This program also allows me to see each students progress, allowing me to pinpoint where they are struggling and/or succeeding. I then differentiate my lessons accordingly.
Tiffany Reddick
I chose TweenTribune. (https://www.tweentribune.com/)This is a fantastic, constantly updated news site for children. There are tons of articles about news events going on all around the world. The best overall part about this site is it is completely kid friendly. The news stories are relevant and exciting, but students aren't exposed to crime, death, or other adult topics. The best part for ELL students and any struggling reader is that each story has different Lexile versions to choose from so students can find the most appropriate reading level to the articles they wish to read. Another great part about this site is students can post comments, BUT they are not posted to the site until the teacher approves them. I've used this site for years and my students love it.
Monica
I Love Using Brainpop https://www.brainpop.com/ This resource covers a ton of different topics, but more importantly it allows students to visualize some of the more abstract concepts.
Monica
I love bookflix and also really like the storybird site from the article. Maybe I will try that out this year!
Liz Galasso
This pdf holds great strategies for ELLS. The website itself nysrti.org has a wealth of information too. http://nysrti.org/files/documents/resources/ell/rti_for_ell_-_webinar_esparza_brown_pdf Proficiency of language should not be considered a deficiency in learning. This PDF provides helpful tools to progress monitor performance, make considerations in lesson planning for ELLs, and provides strategies to scaffold for ELLs. There are 61 slides with helpful, easy-to read, ideas to help ELLs grow their language skills.
Colleen Mueller
I chose the resource http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/index.htm. This is an interactive website about immigration. On it, students can take an interactive tour of Ellis Island to learning about immigration in the past. They can also learn about immigration today by listening to interviews from kids who have recently moved to the U.S. This is a great resource for ELLs and struggling readers. It has plenty of pictures, narrates the information to the viewer, and even has a closed captioning option.
Katelin
I like to use Bookflix in my classroom. This allows the students to see the words highlighted as the story is read to them. It is a great resource for them to use. There are also additional follow-up activities you can use for the stories.
Kymberly Marriner
I chose https://sheg.stanford.edu/home_page Standford History Education site as a resource. It provides different ways to target specific lesson topics for students. There are many way to scaffold the learning in their lesson plans. The lesson plans hit many of the standards and offers unique ways to review, re-read, and assess students on a topic in World history. One way it works with struggling readers is its ability to engage every student in actively participating – breaking the learning or reading in to manageable chunks. The review for the teacher is awesome and lesson plans are included to add or take away scaffolding as needed.
Cody Montgomery
Well I have two resources that I find can help with literacy resources for struggling learners. The first is http://www.readingrockets.org/teaching/reading101-course/toolbox/resources aka Reading rockets and provides everything from hellp for parents, teachers and students. It has Everything from blogs, videos, worksheets and exercises to provide in the classroom. It has great potential to be a valuable resource if used by instructors for decoding, differentiated instruction, resources and information on struggling readers. Also, Pinterest is a great resource now, it has links to all kids of resources and is a social media resource that attaches teachers to one another and unlimited sharing and invaluable information. https://www.pinterest.com/lauracandler/literacy-teaching-resources/?lp=true
Joselyn Iglesia
The resource that I love is www.songsforteaching.com. It is a great resource for all students to benefit from. It has a song for students to connect and retain the content. I think this a very effective, interactive, and engaging way where all learners can participate and be successful. What kid does not like a silly or funny or a song to sing. That's how they learn in preschool when they are first learning to speak so why not encourage the arts as an avenue for children to learn. Try it for your next lesson.
Liz
The School Library Journal had a great article called the Four Surefire Techniques for Engaging English Language Learners- It provided great strategies for comprehensible input and output. It also gave a list of other resourceful websites such as colorin colorado-
Dehlia V Garrity
http://www.cpalms.org/Public/ I have used CPALMS many times as it provides, lessons, games, assessments...no need to reinvent the wheel and it correlates with the standards and common core. Manatee Countee Teachers can log on from Webnet...just click on the Florida DOE SSO icon and use your Webnet login ID!
Lisa Perez
I use the website scholastic.com. Our school has order the scholastic magazines StoryWorks. The stories in the magazine come as is but the online resource allows you to tier the reading based on struggling readers as well as tiered questioning. Some worksheets show students where in the story to find the paragraph by asking them questions to 'think' about where in the story to find the answers. This way, all my students are working on the same story, but at their own level.
kristy ogburn
I chose the website reading a-z. I like this website because it offers many different levels of reading material to build comprehension and fluencyhttps://www.readinga-z.com
Tammy Harper
Reading and understanding informational text in science can be extremely challenging, expecially in Chemistry. Cloze reading exercises can support the learning of difficult concepts, epecially when using informational texts that relate to the subject matter in a common, interesting manner. This site has readings specific for Chemistry complete with text based questions. There are a variety of grade levels and topics represented so that students needing different reading and challenge levels chan be supported http://bpsscience.weebly.com/science-and-literacy-close-reading-cwa--more.html
Donna Waite
I like the resource, You Gotta Read. I teach incarcerated high school boys. The site is designed for students who hate to read. They offer short stories and longer stories. All are high interest, with vocabulary support and comprehension questions. http://www.wegottaread.com/
Jamie Lopez
A website I found recently is www.sightwords.com. It's a great website that provides videos, game ideas and task card generators for teaching students sight words. I have made sight word bingo, generated Dolch word flash cards and more. It's really helpful when trying to find fun and engaging ways to teach high frequency words to kids. And it's free!
Sydney Thacker
When I taught kindergarten I used abcya.com a lot. One game I used was the alphabet order. the game scrambles the letters and the child has to place them in the correct order. I suggest you make alphabet card to put in front of the child so they can follow the order with their fingers.
Carey
I love Reading A-Z (https://www.readinga-z.com/). I think this is such a great resource for struggling readers. The books are leveled so the students can read on their own level. There are so many books to choose from. Not a fan of the price as you can go to the library and get books for free; however, Reading A-Z makes picking the right book so easy.
Rachael Watts
The website I use is reading a-z. It offers different levels of reading material and activities to along along with them. This website helps me when differentiating instruction. https://www.readinga-z.com
elizabeth galasso
Colorincolorado.org is a resourceful website for parents and teachers of ELLS. There are tips, strategies, and videos to help support English language learners. If you haven't checked it out, you must.
Rebecca
A website that I have found useful in the classroom is getepic.com. It is a book site for students that they can read on any mobile device. There are a number of different genres that the students can choose from and most are AR leveled books. Teachers can create a profile for their students to keep track of the books that they have read. I believe that this is a great resource for all students.
Margaret Macbeth
The resource I am recommending is one we use for students who need reading remediation. Students are able to select an article that is of interest to them and are guided through a series of exercises and activities that engage them with the article on a deeper level. The difficultly level is based on a benchmark "level set" test which helps to establish their current Lexile score. Over time, their Lexile level is increased to challenge them more and bring them up to grade level. I have seen my students reading levels begin to improve in the short two months since we have been working with this program. It also is motivating for them to engage on the platform because there are incentive prizes they can earn based on how many articles and points they earn. http://www.achieve3000.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMItvmv_sXh1gIVxx6GCh3A2wVuEAAYASAAEgKdt_D_BwE
Amy Keen
New-2-you is a great resource for teaching basic reading. It has three different levels to choose from for each article. news-2-you.com This would be good for ELLs because the articles are relevant, world current events, for all ages. There is an option for the computer to read it to the student. There is, also, an option which present picture symbols with each word.
Jessica Warren
For the past couple of years, I have used www.Newsela.com for my Intensive Reading classes. This website allows the teacher to set up classrooms and individual student log in information. The site contains newly released world wide news stories and about 4-5 standards based questions per article. The students have the ability to alter the lexile level of their assigned articles to fit their reading ability. The teachers gradebook is notified of the change and the students individual lexile is adjusted based on their settings. The articles are also provided in Spanish if the student needs that modification. Students are also able to pick news stories that interest them to go above and beyond the assignments created by the teacher.
Sara
The resource that I rely on the most is the Frayer Model of vocabulary instruction. It allows the students space to fully explore a word and is flexible. The model requires the word and its definition, but the rest of the squares can include a graphic representation, examples/nonexamples, synonyms and antonyms, sentences, cognates, etc. Here's a link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13NSAhOSmqPpct5_JKKn-qjxAwg5s9RdU818sllGpdZE/edit
Sara Childers
I've implemented this strategy for this school year. It's meant to keep students organized and show understanding in a concise way. This format provides incredible flexibility. I often use the "IN" section for bellwork, the "THROUGH" section for text annotations, reading notes, or graphic organizers, and "OUT" section for text-dependent questions. http://classresourcesforteachers.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-in-through-out-interactive-notebook.html
Sejal Desai
When previously teaching elementary students, I used the resource BrainPop and BrainPop Jr. This site allows educators introduce a concept through a short video, mini class quiz and games. This would work with struggling readers because it allows them to first make a visual connection with the topic. Along with that on the bottom of the videos, there a subtitles. The teacher could make this introduction into a reading lesson by turning the volume down and reading the simple sentences at the bottom in a group or individual setting. There are also mini reading and writing lessons on the site which students could work on at home, a computer center or as a group. https://www.brainpop.com/
Joselyn Iglesia
An awesome resource for struggling readers is storyline online. 24 popular picture books for kids are read by narrators, and each book gives you lesson plan ideas, activities, and the kids love hearing the actors read the stories, because they are so expressive, and it helps them to gain oral language, vocabulary as well as to love books. Joselyn
Courtney Cappella
The resource I chose is IXL.com, which is a website that allows students to individually practice reading and writing skills. I chose this resource because I believe it allows students to practice the basic fundamental reading skills at their own pace. This website tracks student progress and allows teachers to follow along with their learning. When students guess an answer wrong, the program will tell them the correct answer and give an explanation as to WHY their answer was incorrect, and which answer is right and why.
Jennifer Duggan
I have chosen this resource because it is something that will help me when teaching social studies at all levels. It will help me differentiate and work with different types of learners.  http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/ This resource contains links to pictures, readings, and videos for different time periods through history. There are glossaries, multi-media resources that can benefit students at different levels. It is also easy for teachers to find resources and manipulate to help struggling readers chunk. The videos will help reinforce the information and students will be able to read and listen to the information.
Tiffany Aguas
The literary resource that I find very useful for teaching English Language Learners is Newsela. I chose this resource because it provides a wide variety of articles and topics that are sure to engage readers from 2nd-12th grade. It is helpful for struggling readers, because teachers can change the language or lexile level. The articles also highlight and auto define vocabulary based on the student's lexile level. Along with vocabulary, the articles come with writing prompts and quizzes. The website also offers plenty of tools for teachers, such as themed text sets, progress monitoring tools, and class assignment binders. Here is the link: https://newsela.com
Shana Moss
I like newsela.com. Another teacher recommended it and I haven’t been using it long but so far, it’s impressive. If you know the student’s reading level, the level can be plugged in and the student can read an article at his/her level. And if the level is too low/high, it can be adjusted. I haven’t had to adjust levels yet but that was one of the selling points when I signed up. I started using it for students that were out of the classroom/ make up work but the more I play with the site, the more I think I am going to use it more. The articles are interesting and the few students I have used the site with have given positive feedback about the site and articles.
Enrico Pucci
As a member of a team, I believe that my social studies classroom must help students develop reading comprehension strategies that are meaningful and help my students met their language arts learning goals. One of the websites that I especially like is Readin A - Z. This website offers grade and lexile appropriate reading on almost any topic so that I can meet my content goals and help the students develop their comprehension skills. https://www.readinga-z.com/content-area-reading/social-studies/
Jennifer Bittner
The resource that I chose is Quizlet. You can access Quizlet at www.quizlet.com. I use Quizlet in my classroom in a variety of ways. I use it in flashcard mode displayed on the SMART Board and students respond using whiteboards. Usually I have a students leading the review. This allows me to assess quickly each individual student's need with vocabulary and then assign additional practice if needed. Students also use Quizlet in a 1:1 ration with Chromebook. Students can independently practice at their own pace and I can have students working on a variety of individual sets. I also like the features that Quizlet offers students. The students like to play the interactive games and they learn their vocabulary in a fun way. The Quizlet Live feature is one of the best ways for students to play and learn vocabulary at the same time. Quizlet also has a lot of other features that help ELL students learn their vocabulary. Quizlet will speak the words and definitions so students can hear them read and pronounced correctly. You can also add images to your flashcards, which also helps ELL students visualize what the words mean. All around, I really feel that this is an awesome website/resource to help students learn vocabulary and help them become better readers.
Jen Trim-Bittner
You can access Quizlet at www. quizlet. com. I use Quizlet in my classroom in a variety of ways. I use it in flashcard mode displayed on the SMART Board and students respond using whiteboards. Usually I have a students leading the review. This allows me to assess quickly each individual student's need with vocabulary and then assign additional practice if needed. Students also use Quizlet in a 1:1 ration with Chromebook. Students can independently practice at their own pace and I can have students working on a variety of individual sets. I also like the features that Quizlet offers students. The students like to play the interactive games and they learn their vocabulary in a fun way. The Quizlet Live feature is one of the best ways for students to play and learn vocabulary at the same time. Quizlet also has a lot of other features that help ELL students learn their vocabulary. Quizlet will speak the words and definitions so students can hear them read and pronounced correctly. You can also add images to your flashcards, which also helps ELL students visualize what the words mean. All around, I really feel that this is an awesome website/resource to help students learn vocabulary and help them become better readers.
Salvatore Lombardo
I like the discussion and appreciate all input.
Salvatore Lombardo
I like the link below which allows students to practice skills for English Language Arts. The website: http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games_vocab.htm It has interactive games that allow students to practice vocabulary, spelling/phonics, and grammar skills just to name a few. The website is also great for Math practice. Students feel like they are playing a game while learning!
Maritza Tuohy
I chose newsela.com. I like this site because it has current and authentic articles about current issue. The articles can be adjusted to meet the varies needs of students.
Jennifer Zuppinger
I really like Reading A to Z. I find the resources to be appropriate for almost every learner. I like that you are able to print readers for similar skills at several different levels. The readers I have used from them are of high interest to the students. They also provide graphic organizers and other activities to go along with the readers, enhancing comprehension.
Alexis Wilson
One resource I found is the following website: http://www.fortheteachers.org/differentiation_framework/. I chose this resource because it really lays out a framework for differentiation in English Language Arts and various strategies to use. This resource explains different point in the lesson that a teacher can incorporate differentiation, exactly what differentiation is, and a few activities and materials to use when implementing differentiation. This resource can be used effectively because it reaches out to readers in several different ways so that a concept can be explained, taught, and re-mediated at the level that each student specifically needs to enhance their own learning.
Sara Thompson
I chose http://www.readingrockets.org/. I used this resource frequently in the EPI program I attended and while preparing for the SAE K-6 exam.There are many articles for teaching reading, classroom strategies, and how to help struggling readers. There is also information on the following: Comprehension Content area literacy Dyslexia Early literacy development Educational technology English language learners Fluency Oral language Parent engagement Phonemic awareness Phonics Reading aloud Spelling & word study STEM literacy Summer reading Vocabulary Writing There is also a section for parents to help their children develop skills and find solutions for issues they are facing. There are also printables, paired fiction and nonfiction books, quizzes, writing prompts, and other resources that can be used in the classroom and home. I also love the videos for teachers. It is helpful to see strategies being implemented.
JESSICA NESBY
I chose the picture dictionary (www.pdictionary.com) because I work with ELL students as well as students with limited verbal communication skills. The picture dictionary puts pictures with many common words. Having the picture dictionary allows these students to make connections to the words that they hear on a daily basis, in addition to increasing their own vocabulary for communicating with others.
Patrick Dickensheets
I choose the website MobyMax.com. It is a great resource for all curricular areas. It has differentiated reading from beginning alphabet recognition to high school reading passages. It tracks data for you such as learning velocity and time student spent engaged. It rewards students with game time as they do well and will even set daily goals for them. I strongly recommend this resource.
Salvatore Lombardo
I like the discovery education and Netflix sites. This allows for current information to be provided to student. DE gives differentiation of instruction by providing materiel to different stages of learners.
Robert Lombardo
A resource that I use to help struggling readers is the Quizlet app. This is an app/website where students can make interactive flash cards, view already created content, and even play interactive games and timed exercises to test themselves on vocabulary. The link for this website is as follows: www.quizlet.com. This app allows for differentiation and students to pace themselves which is ideal for struggling readers. They can access it on a variety of platforms and can explore a set of vocabulary in many ways (flash cards, games, interactive, time trials, etc.).
Susana
A resource that I enjoy to use with my ELLs is esl.brainpop.com. I enjoy using this online tool because it provides ELLs with an interactive video and follows up with grammar, vocabulary and comprehension practice.
Paula
Readworks.org is a great resource for short articles available at varying reading levels.
Kristin O'Brien
I enjoy using www.mobymax.com and www.newsela.com for struggling readers. Both of these resources allow the teacher to scaffold and differentiate. Mobymax is great because it adjusts to the reader on their level and continues to assess and challenge them to develop. The students like it because they can earn time for free choice of games and I like it because the games are also reinforcing the standards. News ELA is great for non-fiction. There are levels of text all on the same topic so after reading you can group/pair students who didn’t read the same article to share knowledge and they can each contribute.
Cynthia Washam
In 45 minutes, the speaker in this video perfectly captures the basics of assessing ELLs. She explains without resorting to education jargon why teachers must go beyond administering a written literacy test to learn not only a student's English literacy, but also his native-language literacy and culture. The video also includes an excellent example of a kindergarten teacher assessing his ELL charges in a way that keeps them engaged. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysDDfG-enCc
Sara Childers
I like to use freerice.com as a resource for all students. There are several sections to choose: vocabulary, grammar, math, etc. It feels like a game, it feeds people, but best of all, it reinforces language skills.
Vanessa
One resource I like to use is ReadWorks.org. Our kindergarten grade group utilizes this website for a lot of our writing activities with our students. It provides great articles that we can use and tie to our standards. The articles are kept relatively short (time appropraite for our grade) and are read to the students slowly and clearly. This resource works because it provides our students with information about a wide variety of topics and it keeps them engaged.
Vanessa
One resource I like to use is ReadWorks.org. Our kindergarten grade group utilizes this website for a lot of our writing activities with our students. It provides great articles that we can use and tie to our standards. The articles are kept relatively short (time appropraite for our grade) and are read to the students slowly and clearly. This resource works because it provides our students with information about a wide variety of topics and it keeps them engaged. It also provides with short, easy to remember information that can be used during out writing time.
Monica
Reading A-Z is one of my favorites! Leveled readers are used as stations in my classroom and the students like them. I also use it for testing fluency and reading levels in my classroom. The printables are so useful and found in the resource section. The only thing I do not like is the price . . . it is very expensive, but if you ask your school about getting an account, then other teachers will be able to share in the information with you.
Monica
I use Reading A-Z's leveled reading books daily, and the students love having their very own books. We can highlight words they are having difficulty with, and the children can take ownership in their books when they color the pages. The students can then bring the books home so that they have their own library with books they can read independently or to a parent
Sydney Thacker
I chose abcya.com because my kids like the educational games, such as alphabet order. Where the abc's are mixed up and you have to put them in the correct order.
Doni
I use readworks.org. I can differentiate reading based on the level the student needs in order to be successful. I can provide students the opportunity to access grade level text by having them listen to the text prior to partner reading. In order to scaffold students to success, they need opportunities to access grade level text while having the opportunity to read at their just right level.
Noemi Fuentes
I use http://www.mobymax.com/ in my classroom for struggling readers. I use thise resource because it is interactive, engaging and leveled to a students learning ability. When studetns first log in they are assessed multiple reading components to determine the students ability. From there on, the program adjusts and presents material that the student can feel successful yet building on necessary skills the student struggles with. There are many apps, to include vocabulary, phonics, letter recognition, reading skills, literature comprehension, science, math, social studies among others. Moby Max, allows me to track student growth and areas of need that I can present during reading remediation. If used effectively, this resource can help identify and brigde learning gaps. It is of course a supplemental resource that used in conjuction with differentiated lessons in the classroom, can help struggling readers find success.
Kerry Giardino
The current program will benefit children ages 3 through 2nd grade with curriculum created by a board of teachers and educational experts from a variety of fields including science and history. The scope of the online curriculum includes: Language development (vocabulary, listening skills, grammar) Reading (the alphabet, phonics, sight words, comprehension, genres, reading strategies) Math (numbers and operations, shapes, measurement, patterns,) Science and Technology (weather, plants and animals, matter and energy, space science, inventions) Social Studies (families and communities, geography and maps, U.S. history, states, famous Americans) Health (the human body, habits for health and safety, health care) Each level and subject incorporates books, songs, games, puzzles, art activities, and printables to help children have a well-rounded experience with the information.
Cristen English
The resource I use often is one that helps me look for connections between reading and writing and to hone in on different needs of my students. It is http://www.readwritethink.org/. This resource has the latest research on reading and writing, strategies, lesson plans, visuals, and graphic organizers that allow teachers to target different needs. It is also organized by grade level and topic. I love that it is grounded in research and full of examples.
Joselyn Iglesia
The resource that I think provides a lot of information for parents and for teachers is www.readwritethink.org. It is filled with student, and teacher interactive videos, classroom resources, as well as lesson plans for teachers. In addition it has a lot of printable resources for teacher to use such as worksheets and graphic organizers.A lot of the materials are evidence-based resources.
Andrea Tarlowski
I chose this resource as many students have trouble with fluency while reading. I like the whole-to-parts structure and sound letter correspondence component. The lesson starts with instruction on rimes and then onset rime analogies.
Andrea Tarlowski
I chose this resource as many students have trouble with fluency while reading. I like the whole-to-parts structure and sound letter correspondence component. The lesson starts with instruction on rimes and then onset rime analogies.
Laree Thomas
Laree Thomas I chose this resource because it helps strengthen the students vocabulary words at their individual levels. http://freerice.com/#/english-vocabulary/1502 The resource helps with struggling readers by expanding their vocabulary and having the sound available to hear the phonic breakdown and fluency of the word helps.
Adriana Lugo
I would like to share a resource about the initiative EQuIP. This resource is designed to identify high quality materials aligned to CCSS or NGSS. I chose this resource because more and more as educators we are pressed to push standards into everything we do and this resource is full of so many different ways to implement CCSS into your everday lesson. Link: https://www.achieve.org/EQuIP There resource includes examples of instructional material, rubrics you can use, examples of student work, how to help students annotate work, training information and also modules and videos to assist in using all of these resources. This site has so many tools to help educators align our lessons to the standards and improve the quality of instructional material. It begins with the planning, and if lessons are planned with high quality material, we can plan our goals for all readers, advanced and struggling.
Kristen Boyd
The resource that I like to use is brainpop.com. Not only does Brain Pop have fun videos for the students to watch, but it also has a quiz to take at the end for better understanding. It is important to make sure that the video you are showing is grade level appropriate for your students. I have seen teachers show a middle school level video to 3rd graders and they are not able to complete understand the concept.
Will
I like to use the resourse Moby Max. It has the students first take a placement test to determine achievement then creates lessons based specifically on the student's progress and accuracy through the lessons. It allows for individualize education and direct instruction to each learner and provides feedback to the teacher who can then edit the lessons or skills being taught
Adam Greer
The Literacy Resource for Struggling Learners I am going to blog about is Reading A-Z. The link to the site is: https://www.readinga-z.com/ I use these lessons and guidelines because they use articles and vocab that is on level for struggling learners. I think it is important to make sure we are meeting all students needs. This site allows students to progress at their own pace. Specifically, for struggling learners, it can show standards and common core areas that have been mastered; while, providing more examples for misunderstood areas. Another aspect I enjoy is the data. I am very data driven when it comes to my students reading levels and abilities. This site provides reports that I use to track students.
Penny Bailey
I chose IREADY. The link address is: https://login.i-ready.com It is