Reading Resources
Welcome to our Adult Readers Resource Library!
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Below, we have different categories that learners often struggle with. Each category page contains different resources and activities that will help new readers strengthen their skills in that area. Click on a topic below to be directed to that part of the page, or scroll through and explore the categories until you find something interesting!
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Beginning Resources
These resources will help a reader who is just starting out their literacy jounrey!
This activity will help a beginning reader learn key words that are important to them and their life.
This short article details seven strategies to have students use to become stronger readers.
Phonics
Phonics helps readers connect the letter(s) on the page, to the sound they hear.
This resource will help a reader apply phonics as they read and write.
This resource contains an exercise to do with a reader to help them to use phonics to identify words.
Vocabulary
Different resources to help a reader grow and learn vocabulary words.
A guide to recognizing and using different homonyms.
A guide to the Language Experience Approach, which will provide a readwer with a list of new vocabulary words that are relevent to their life.
A work sheet for turning present tense words into their past tense counterparts.
An exercise to help a reader identify and remember new words.
Advice on how to encourage readers to build vocabulary while they read silently.
This resource helps readers break down longer words into parts they'll be able to read.
This resource will help a reader select and study new vocabulary words.
Word Recognition
These resources will help a reader recognize different and similar words on a page.
This resource will help reduce confusion around common words that start with "TH' and "WH".
This resource targets common areas that readers make word recognition errors.
This resources is designed to help learners who have trouble mixing vowels.
This resource will help readers identify words as they read.
Word sorts introduce patterns and help learners quickly identify similar words.
Reading Comprehension
These resources will help a reader understand and think about the words they are reading.
This resource is targeted at readers who understand the material they read, but cannot recall what they have read afterwards.
This activity helps readers who struggle with comprehension to pull important information out of the tests they read.
This activity is designed to help learners comprehend non-fiction information, such as information from textbooks.
Reading Fluency
These resources are targeted to help a reader read accurately, quickly, and with expression.
This resource will help incorporate high interest books into a lesson to help a reader gain fluency as they read aloud.
This sheet contains different activities to use with different level learners to help increase their reading rate.
Writing
These resources are targeted to help a new reader strengthen their writing skills.
Contains a sample essay with a set of questions, and instruction on how to construct your own short paragraph.
This resource contains sample paragraph frames to help students structure and organize their thoughts as they write.
This resource has an activity to help students arrange and organize sentence.
A list of words a learner can use when writing to help them transition to different sections of their essay.
Can't find what you're looking for?
This isn't all of our resources! Contact your program coordinator to ask about specific subjects and topics that you need more help with, as we may have a resource better suited to your needs at our learning center.