READING TOOLS

Technological Purpose
Building reading skills Specific Skills Focus
and comprehension
Great study tool for
doing digital Research.
Great way to build
students’ digital literacy
skills.
Reading Skills & Strategies Educational Strategy: Example of Tools: Software and Devices
How it is Used
Practice specific skills to  Earobics
 Phonemic awareness reinforce or remediate; progress  Fast For Word
 Phonics or alphabetic code monitoring  Simon Sounds it Out
 Fluency
 Vocabulary
 Word analysis
 Fluency and automaticity
 Spelling
 Motivation
Constant practice to develop Candy- https://www.candybank.com/
Spelling digital literacy skills; output
Grammar must be evaluated
Vocabulary
Analysis

 Phonemic awareness Practice specific skills to ReadLang-

This is a useful tool to  Fluency reinforce or remediate; progress http://readlang.com
assist students’ reading  Vocabulary monitoring
and to build  Word analysis
vocabulary.  Spelling

A great way to get  Fluency Teacher’s Monitoring &

students at lower levels  Vocabulary Evaluation. News in Levels
engaged with current  Phonemic awareness Self-Directed http://www.newsinlevels.com/
topics. Self- Innovation
Building reading skills
and comprehension.
This is a really Teacher’s Monitoring & Newsela - https://newsela.com/
marvelous  Vocabulary Evaluation.
tool for structuring  Grammar Self-Directed
students’  Word analysis Creativity & Self- Innovation
reading development in  Spelling
an
engaging way.
 Grammar & Comprehension Practice specific skills to Rewordify-
Develop  Vocabulary reinforce or remediate; progress http://rewordify.com/index.php
reading skills and  Motivation monitoring
comprehension  Phonemic awareness
 Fluency
Develop learners  Phonemic awareness Constant practice to develop CommonLit
reading and  Phonics or alphabetic literacy & reading skills; https://www.commonlit.org/themes.html
comprehension  Vocabulary Creativity & Self- Innovation
Skills.  Motivation
Useful for second
language
development.
Develop  Grammar & Comprehension Practice specific skills to ReadWorks Digital-
reading skills and  Vocabulary reinforce or remediate; progress http://digital.readworks.org/
comprehension monitoring

Reading practice for  Grammar & Comprehension
learners  Vocabulary
 Phonemic awareness
Develop reading skills  Grammar & Comprehension
& vocabulary  Vocabulary
Develop students  Grammar & Comprehension
collaborative digital  Vocabulary
study
and research skills
 Vocabulary
Building Reading Skills  Fluency
and Comprehension  Spelling
 Word Analysis
Practice specific skills to DreamReader
reinforce or remediate; progress http://dreamreader.net/
monitoring
Practice specific skills to Lingro
reinforce or remediate; progress http://lingro.com/
monitoring
Teacher’s Monitoring & Scrible-
Evaluation. https://www.scrible.com/
Self-Directed
Teacher’s Monitoring &
Evaluation of learner’s progress Reading Focus Card
Provide assistance if needed
Directions: Read the material DIGITAL TOOLS FOR TEACHERS pp. 10 – 20 about Reading Tools. Then complete the matrix below. The first
has been done for you as sample. You may also do your own research about technological tools used for teaching reading.