On this page, teachers will find many resources to help students achieve success in literacy. All of the resources provided may be incorporated into your literacy instruction. There are also resources that can be implemented with technology in order to improve your student's reading motivation. *If you want to know more information about the resources provided, please click on each picture next to the description.
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1.) Orton-Gillingham blending board: The Orton-Gillingham blending board is used to help students segment and blend consonant and vowels. The blending board is very beneficial for students who are considered "emergent" readers. Students will learn how to blend sounds into words once they are familiarized with the process of the blending board. Click on the blending board to watch a video on how the blending board works.
2.) Phonics They Use text: Written by long-standing bestseller, Patrica M. Cunningham, this text provides teachers with developmentally appropriate activities that help students with fluency, rhyme-based decoding, spelling, and much more. Cunningham shares numerous strategies and hands-on activities that provide a framework for teaching phonics to struggling readers. The text also includes assessments to monitor student's progress.
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3.) Reading A-Z: This resource is available for teachers to use once they have paid the $109.95 annual fee. Reading A-Z does offer a free trial period to interested teachers. Some of the resources that are available from A-Z include leveled readers ranging from 29 different reading levels, graphic organizers, flash cards, and comprehension worksheets to meet the needs of all students in the classroom.
4.) Read, Write, Think.org: The website was created to provide educators and parents with high quality practices in reading and language arts instruction by offering free materials. All of the lesson plans found on the website are aligned to the IRA and NCTE standards. There are also many interactive tools found on this website to engage every learner in the classroom.
5.) Starfall.com: This website has been around since 2002 with a sole purpose of helping students learn to read. There are many great tools on the website that are free for students to use. However, there is an annual membership fee that costs $150.00 for one classroom that offers students more resources to use than just the basic features.
6.) Scholastic: Scholastic has been around for over 90 years assisting educators in delivering literacy resources for student's use. Teachers, parents, and students are able to use the website and its resources at little to no costs. Teachers can access "Storia" school edition to assign eBooks to each students that correlates with their assigned reading level. Storia also tracks the student's reading progress.
7.) Phonics dance: Virginia Dowd, an educator, consultant, and author, created "The Phonics Dance" to help students achieve success in phonics. The Phonics Dance incorporates fast paced movements with chants and rhymes. Students quickly catch on to the chants and rhymes and begin to use the strategies in the classroom to help with their phonics.
8.) Leveled Literacy Kit: Fountas and Pinnell created a Leveled Literacy Intervention System (LLI) to help students who struggle with reading and writing. The LLI kit was designed to be instructed in a small intensive group setting and should be used in addition to the literacy coursework used in the classroom. Each kit includes a wide variety of engaging leveled texts designed for the students who are reading below grade level in your classroom.
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9.) DRA2: The Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA) is a formative reading assessment in which teachers observe, record, and evaluate changes in their student's reading performance through the course of a school year. The DRA assessment should be used to gather the student's guided reading level and independent reading level. The DRA2 kit for grades K-3 is roughly 422.00 dollars, but can be used in multiple classrooms.
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10.) Handwriting Without Tears: I am a firm believer that writing and reading go hand in hand. That is why it is so important to implement handwriting into every reading classroom. Handwriting Without Tears offers students multi-sensory tools and strategies to incorporate in their writing.
This resource provides teachers with free writing templates and online activities.
This resource provides teachers with free writing templates and online activities.