• Print out the same passage in multiple reading levels such as using Newsela.com, Tweentribune, or Clarkness Beginning Readers, Reading Elephant, or using this list of Free decodable texts (Read about decodable readers here.)

• Provide parents with directions for chunking text

  1. cut up a passage and read it in chunks

  2. use a highlighter to make smaller sentences out of complex sentences

• Provide guidance on how to use a reading strip (DIY reading Stripe) (Purchase Reading Strip) or window to facilitate tracking.

Home Practice: Provide links to digital books at a variety of levels such as Newsela.com, Tweentribune, or Clarkness Beginning Readers, or Flyleaf decodable books and activities. Flyleaf has phonics scope and sequence with decodable books and corresponding home activities. Each book has homework activities that correspond to the phonics element being taught and provides instructions on how to select the appropriate book.

• Continuous Learning Opportunities: Select books using one of the sites above and email them to students or use one of the websites that allows you to assign digital books specific to each student. Tweentribune has current news articles arranged by grade and allows you to select between four Lexile ranges and assign the articles to each student. Both Epic and Raz Kids / Reading A-Z allow you to search by Lexile or reading level to assign students books. Epic also has text to speech and audiobook options. Both are free through June.

• The chunking and reading strip suggestions to the left could also be sent out digitally.

• BeeLine Reader, reading guide extension for Chrome

• Use a QR code to suggest videos that can be viewed on smartphones from Youtube, PBS Learning Media

• Offer games that can be played at home to address the content.

• Offer a maker/craft/science exploration activity.

• Offer videos from Discovery Education (all Macomb Educators have free access), PBS Learning Media

• Share interactive websites for math (NLVM), science (Phet), ELA (ReadWriteThink) all subjects (Annenberg).

• Offer a maker/craft/science exploration activity.

• Provide a graphic organizer or “thinking map” and directions for use to support comprehension based on text structure.

• Use Popplet to design thinking maps (save as template) to support comprehension based on text structure.

• Use Rewordify to adjust language and vocabulary of assignments/websites.