Reading Resources
Academic Word Finder
Word Lists
Academic Word List for vocabulary instruction
Dolch Sight Words
Fry Sight Words
- This tool pulls the most useful academic (tier two) vocabulary words from a given text.
- Offers lesson plans and student activities (with audio) specific to pronunciation.
- Provides good modeled reading.
- Offers audio-versions of articles
- A list of all articles sortable by theme and by level
- Articles pertain to and written by adult learners
- Learn more about this evidence based strategy for adult learners by watching these videos of an adult educator teaching the strategy using explicit instruction.
- "...measures the complexity of the text by breaking down [a text] and studying its characteristics, such as sentence length and word frequency, which represent the syntactic and semantic challenges that the text presents to a reader."
- An evidence-based course of study designed to teach adult learners to decode and spell words accurately and fluently.
- Offers hundreds of graded reading passages designed especially for adult learners.
- Provides online adult phonics stories and activities for basic skills, health literacy and more. Most activities are designed utilizing CASAS Competencies.
- A text complexity resource for teachers.
- "Read closely. Think critically. Be worldly. Newsela is an innovative way for students to build reading comprehension with nonfiction that's always relevant: daily news." Includes articles and activities aligned to the Common Core, articles written at multiple levels of text complexity, and quizzes to test reading comprehension.
- This site offers articles with the pros and cons of controversial issues. It " ...provides resources for critical thinking and to educate without bias. We research issues that are controversial and important, and we present them in a balanced, comprehensive, straightforward, transparent, and primarily pro-con format at no charge."
- "ReadWorks provides research-based units, lessons, and authentic, leveled non-fiction and literary passages directly to educators online, for free, to be shared broadly."
- Offers classroom resources such as lessons and student interactives; various graphic organizers (compare & contrast map, essay map, resume generator, venn diagram and more) that can be completed on-line.
- "...offers STAR partners a variety of useful resources and resource citations for implementing evidence-based reading instruction (EBRI). STAR trainers and practitioners have access to a compilation of materials."
- Provides adult stories repeating phonics skills for students learning or reviewing basic phonics.
- Improve and build vocabulary with this on-line adaptive learning system.
Word Lists
Academic Word List for vocabulary instruction
Dolch Sight Words
Fry Sight Words
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Read this "...overview of what is known about how literacy develops, the component skills of reading and writing, and the practices that are effective for developing them."
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"...a variety of free resources for teachers, tutors, and program administrators who are interested in learning more about teaching adults to read."
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