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Read2Go is the most accessible e-book reader app for readers with print disabilities. Directly from within the Read2Go app, Bookshare members can find, download, and read books all on a single Apple device. No need to download books to computers, transfer files, or decompress files! Just download and READ!

Archived: The Compact for Reading Guide and School-Home Links is a guide designed to help family-school compact teams through the steps of building and implementing a Compact for Reading. It provides information, strategies, examples, and checklists to help parents, educators, and community members develop effective, workable compacts that can improve your school, increase family involvement, and increase student skills and achievement in reading.

Small love notes tucked inside a lunch box or book bag can really bring a smile to your child's face. In addition to reinforcing reading skills, you're also modeling the power of writing. Download these ready-to-print note papers, featuring whimsical, colorful artwork by well-known children's book illustrators.

This site reads books aloud, while showing the illustrations.

Free online worksheets to help teachers to measure and build reading comprehension of children. Students read the article or story and answer the questions

Voice Dream Reader is an iPhone and iPad app that lets you listen to any articles, blog posts, reports, papers, and books. It reads the text using the best available text-to-speech technology. The voice is clear and natural. This is the right app for you if you spend a lot of time commuting or exercising, and want to catch up on reading that you normally can't find time for.

Checklist of early reading skills by age

Online books read aloud. Literacy game. Printable activities

Make Pictures and Text Come Alive and "Talk." small recorder (1.67" W x 4.48" H x 1.44" D). How It Works Attach a special sticker to any book page, worksheet, game board, or flash card, scan the sticker with the MiniTR Recorder and begin recording. When you have completed the recording, it is ready for instant playback. Record pages of text, test questions, classroom instructions, or any materials that need to be read back to students. The MiniTR can hold up to 25 minutes of recordings. Each student will be empowered to read along, hear instructions in your own voice, and interact with individualized lessons. Support students who are nonverbal by prerecording words, phrases, and sentences. Then let the student use the MiniTR playback feature as a "voice." Features The MiniTR Recorder is ideal assistive technology for students with special needs. It is USB compatible, allowing you to backup or download your recordings. It has a built-in, high-quality speaker and comes with a headphone jack for private listening."

"Welcome to the Tar Heel Reader, a collection of free, easy-to-read, and accessible books on a wide range of topics. The books may be downloaded as slide shows in PowerPoint, Impress, or Flash format. Each book can be speech enabled and accessed using multiple interfaces, including touch screens, the IntelliKeys with custom overlays, and 1 to 3 switches."

Tar Heel Reader has thousands of simple story books for students of all ages to read at whatever level. If you are looking for simple text books with topics that are age appropriate, Tarheel Reader is for you.

On this website you will find books that have been adapted using the Picture Communication Symbols (PCS) and the Mayer-Johnson program BoardMaker (c). The Picture Communication Symbols (PCS) are typically used by individuals who have difficulty being understood verbally or have severe difficulty with reading and writing. If you have your own copy of the book, we have files that allow you to print the symbols that we used to adapt the books. These PCS can be cut out and glued into your own book so that you can read the adapted book again and again to your child or students. All files with symbols were created using Boardmaker Version 5.0.10 and require you to have that program loaded onto your computer into order to access these files

8 i spy games, use at different levels, reading-reading comprehension, understanding directions, talking about picutres

Gives step by step instructions on teaching how to read words in order

Bookshare's goal is to make the world of print accessible to people with disabilities. Bookshare offers more than 50,000 digital books, textbooks, teacher-recommended reading, periodicals and assistive technology tools. Bookshare is free for all U.S. students with a qualifying disability

free materials, books and other reading based materials; much more access with a subscription

WordTalk is a free plug-in developed for use with all versions of Microsoft Word (from Word 97 upwards), which can help people with reading difficulties use Microsoft Word more effectively.

Allows info in Microsoft word to be read aloud.

Chart on age of acquisition of phonological awareness skills, also some on reading/writing http://bit.ly/hVAcNS

Research and case study of social skills and academic achievement. Easy read.

Probably the best place to start on AppsForAAC (AAC: Augmentative & Alternative Communication) is by browsing the Full List of apps organised by category, speech system and symbol system used. For more information on a description of these categories and more information about this sites reason read the about page. You can also compare apps by clicking on the "Add to compare" link at the side or bottom of each app. Once you have added a few then just visit the App Comparison page to view your apps side by side.

The biggest reason (and the most important reason) is to share my ideas and activities with other SLPs so that they can enrich their lessons with their students. My favorite posts are posts that share ideas and have free downloads. I will never charge money for activities that I post. My free downloads are more of a "thank you" for reading my blog.