Mrs. Carden's Reading Website
Teacher Resources
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The Reading League is a non-profit organization led by educators and reading experts that promotes the science of reading. This organization strives to provide educators with the information and knowledge needed for effective literacy instruction for all students. On this website, you will find peer-reviewed articles written and edited by educators and researchers that focus on the science of reading. They also have an online academy to advance learning through professional development, as well as live recorded training events. This site is filled with valuable resources to help you improve your practice. You can become a member of The Reading League for free!
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SAReads is a project of Literacy San Antonio, Inc. According to their website, their mission is to "increase the number of children reading on grade level by empowering teachers to use the science of reading and increasing access to books. The website also quotes Dr. Louisa Moats saying, "The Science of Reading is NOT an ideology, a philosophy, a political agenda, a one-size-fits-all approach, a program of instruction, nor a specific component of instruction. It IS the emerging consensus based on thousands of comprehensive scientific studies".
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Reading Rockets is an excellent site for teachers and parents to learn more information and explore resources on how children learn to read and how to help struggling readers. This site contains a wealth of knowledge and reading resources for teaching reading, helping struggling readers, reading topics, and books and authors. This site also includes research guides and resources, videos, blogs, and much more! I highly recommend taking time to explore all this site has to offer.
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This link will guide you to the Ohio Department of Education website where you will be able to learn more about House Bill 436 and what it means for public school educators. This bill was signed into law on January 9, 2021 by Governor Mike DeWine and will go into effective in the 2022-2023 school year. This bill will require public schools to provide dyslexia screening, intervention, and remediation.
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Colorin Colorado is a bilingual site for educators and families of English Language Learners. This site offers resources to learn more about English Language Learners and how best to teach this population of students. There are also many resources for school support and families. This website also includes a resource library, videos, and a list of suggested books and authors. This is certainly a site worth exploring, especially for teachers of English Language Learners.
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Read Works is an incredible resource for reading teachers, especially those working to improve reading comprehension in their classroom. This website includes lessons, units, and reading passages. This site offers a wide variety of printable reading passages with question sets. Teachers can search passages by keyword, grade, lexile level, topic, text type, and skill/strategy. Once creating an account for free, teachers can save the resources they like to their "binder" for later use. This is a very useful site for reading teachers of all levels.
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This website includes access to free assessment tools and resources. Their free assessment tools allow you to diagnose decoding difficulties and pinpoint specific weaknesses. Using their free grouping matrix, you can group students based on their type and depth of decoding difficulty. There are also K-12 research-based interventions and prevention resources to teach foundation skills that lead to strong decoding and fluent reading. This is a great resource for teachers trying to boost phonemic awareness, phonics, and fluency skills.
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News ELA is a wonderful, free resource that includes relevant news articles for students of all ages. The "library" on this site is organized by subject. Users can also search by "news" and select articles pertaining to the 2016 Election, sports, arts, health, law, money, kids, opinion, science, war and peace. There are also articles in Spanish as well as text sets organized by subject. Like ReadWorks, once creating a free account, teachers can save items to their "binder". This website is unique because, once finding an article of interest, teachers can adjust the reading level of the article. This allows students to read the same information but at a level most appropriate for them. If students are reading the article online, there is a sidebar for students to take notes while they read and there is an online quiz to take after reading. This is an outstanding resource for educators of all grade levels, especially those looking to incorporate nonfiction and current events into their classroom.
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Read Write Think is a free reading website for teachers that includes classroom resources, information on professional development, videos, and parent/afterschool resources organized by grade level. Teachers can explore resources by grade level, resource type, learning objective, and theme. This is an excellent site for teachers looking to expand their professional knowledge and gather reading resources.
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InfOhio is a digital library for students from PreK through grade twelve. Text sets and resources are divided into ages 3-5, grades K-5, grades 6-8, grades 9-12, and parent resources. There are also resources for educators including a curriculum library, professional development, professional databases, school library services, free webinars and more. You can search for specific topics to find resources separated by grade level.
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Within the InfOhio portal, you will find a link to BookFlix. This is a great site for emergent and beginning readers. This site is owned by Scholastic, Inc. and includes a wide variety of paired fiction and non-fiction texts on many different topics including animals and nature, people and places, adventure, and much more! Students will first watch the story and then read the paired book. Teachers can also print lesson plans and resources to go with texts they choose.
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Also within the InfOhio portal, you will find a link to World Book Kids. This a great source for elementary and middle school learners to safely search for research information. The articles can also be read aloud for students who benefit from this option.
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I created this slideshow with permission from Sarah Paul. She has a wonderful Instagram account, @snippetsbysarah , that focuses on teaching reading in grades k-3. She is a former first grade teacher and is currently a k-3 reading teacher. This slideshow focuses on word recognition and highlights important components of the bottom half of Scarborough's Reading Rope.
Teaching Videos
What Teachers Need to Know about
the Science of Reading
Emily Hanford, a senior education correspondent from American Public Media Reports, explains why so many students struggle with reading. She explores why the science of reading, although clear, is not being used in most elementary classrooms. This video discusses what reading research proves to be most effective early reading instruction.
The Simple View of Reading
This interview with Linda Farrell, a reading expert, explains the simple view of reading and the first two questions to consider when a child is struggling to read... is this a language issue or a decoding issue?
Why Explicit Instruction?
Dr. Anita Archer, explains the benefits and rationale of explicit, interactive instruction. As Dr. Anita Archer says "we need to keep the TEACH in TEACHER".
Matching Interventions to Students
In this video from the Ohio Department of Education, Joan Sedita explains how to use a multi-tiered system of supports to match interventions to specific areas of need for students. You can CLICK HERE to watch other videos included in the 2021 Literacy Academy. Additional videos can be found along the right hand side below the video viewing screen.
Tap It, Map It, Graph It
In this short video, you will learn how to use orthographic mapping to help your students store sight words in their working memory.