Reading Disorder - Teaching Resources

Links verified 4//26 /2026

1. 7 Hands-on Strategies for Struggling Readers - The recommended seven hands-on learning strategies that can promote\learning and support for struggling readers during literacy instruction include Build the Words, Feel theWords, Whole Body Letters, Five Finger Retell, Sight Word BINGO, Elkonin Boxes, and Word Swat.
2. Clues to Reading Disabilities - Things to look for in different age groups that might suggest a reading disability.
3. Effective Interventions for Older Students - PowerPoint on lessons from research of what works for students with reading difficulties.
4. Effective Reading Interventions for Kids With Learning Disabilities - Excellent resource for teachers advising best approach to teaching kids with LD to read.
5. FYI for Kids- Magazine articles for second grade through fifth grade
6. Kids Can’t Wait: Strategies to Support Struggling Readers - Meanwhile, without test results in hand, here is what teachers can do to support their struggling students (in addition to trusting their instincts)
7. Reading Difficulties - Evaluating developmental, educational, and family history in conjunction with standardized testing can increase recognition of risk factors for reading difficulties.
8. Interventions for Students with Reading Disabilities - PowerPoint on the requirements at the school and classroom level.
9. Reading Interventions for Kids with Learning Disabilities - What research has revealed as the best approach to teaching kids with LD to read.
10. Storyline Online® - the SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s Emmy® Award-winning children’s literacy program featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Readers include Angela Bassett, Jaime Camil, Bryan Cranston, Viola Davis, Jennifer Garner, John Lithgow, Gary Oldman, Chris Pine, Meryl Streep, Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Yeoh and many more. Select the book and you will hear a reader read the story outloud. An idea is to check out the book from the library and follow along with your book.
11. Storynory - Storynory has been giving free audio stories to the world since November 2005. We are a podcast and a website with audio streaming. Some months we serve around a million downloads of our mp3 files. All our content is free. We aim for our audio stories to showcase imagination, good writing, and great narrations.
12. The UFLI Foundations Toolbox - These resources go along with a program, but they are great to practice specific skills and also give free reading passages to go along with each lesson. Those passages are GREAT to enhance topics taught!