Strategies to Support Students with ADD or a Learning Disability

http://childdevelopmentinfo.com/learning/teacher.shtml

This article provides a variety of suggestions for teachers that could also be modified and be used by parents when working on academic tasks at home. At the bottom of the web page there are 35 common classroom behaviors with suggestions on how to alter the behavior by modifying your current teaching practices. Do you currently utilize these strategies or have one that is not listed on the web page that may help another teacher? If so, please feel free to share your idea as a comment.....
 

First Grade Reading Strategies Song

First Grade Reading Strategies Song

This is a video of a song that can be used to teach your students a variety of strategies to use while reading. It includes strategies such as look at the picture, skip then go back, get your mouth ready, does it sound right? It has a very catchy tune that is easy to memorize! :)

Online Reading Resources for Children

http://www.starfall.com/

This is a wonderful website that children can use to improve their reading skills. The activities range in ability from learning the alphabet to reading books from various genres. These activities are available for free.

http://www.raz-kids.com/

This website is ideal for teachers to use in their classroom. The only downside is that it requires a subscription. However, it is well worth the cost if it will be used regularly by the students. It allows students the opportunity to log on from any computer that has internet connection and read their assigned level text. The website provides support to readers by providing the option of reading the text to the students, independent reading, and a comprehension quiz at the end of each book. There is also a place where students can record themselves reading the text. The teacher can log on at any location to view the progress of each student, which activities that they have completed and any skills that they missed on the comprehension quiz. I bought a membership to use with my students two weeks ago and it has improved their motivation to read. I was surprised to hear that a few of my students were logging on to read outside of school because they are reluctant readers. I’m glad that I have found a way to make reading enjoyable for them and expose them to a variety of text.

Strategies for Teachers to Use with Struggling Readers

http://www.readingrockets.org/article/4528
This article provides several suggestions for teachers to support struggling readers in their classroom. These tips can be used by parents as well to help support their children. In my opinion, the two easiest suggestions to implement include: determining the interests of the students and provide reading material that relates to their interests and allowing students to borrow books from the classroom. This year I finally have a classroom library and the children often ask to borrow books. It is so heart warming when I say " Yes, you can borrow one" then they ask if they can borrow two. :)