Group items tagged

Oct. 10, 2011 entry describes the Bridge Assessment, from Center for Literacy and Disability Studies (University of North Carolina, Karen Erickson).

I first came across this site my last year as an ECSE teacher. ECE programs were just beginning to systemactically document the early literacy skills of their students, and this site provided a good place to start.

I watched as this site evolved: the wiki author was getting ready to make a presentation. Interesting process.

Website for the high incidence accessible technology team at the Montgomery County School District in MD.  Offers links to sites on a variety of tech ideas for literacy, math, science, and social studies.  Links deal with assistive tech for students with high incident disabilities. 

The recommended links on this site are searchable so specific information can be found systematically.

This is a blog site I have referenced before: Sam does an extensive amount of work around AAC and accessibility using Web 2.0 tools. This blog reference reviews a new and Free program from the University of North Carolina. It is a collaborative project between Comp Sci and the Department of Literacy and Disability (Karen Erickson's group). Take a look.

Free-Reading is an open source instructional program that helps educators teach early literacy. Because it is open source, it represents the collective wisdom of a wide community of teachers and researchers. Free-Reading contains a 40-week scope and sequence of primarily phonological awareness and phonics activities that can support and supplement a typical kindergarten or first grade "core" or "basal" program. Check the FAQs for their advisory board, who is sponsoring and research base.

Free eBook builder from CAST. Provides lots of supports for the designing of books and provides UDL supports for students who read the books. Great tool to use with a classroom to build a book together, for students to use to publish their work, and for teachers to write interactive books for their lessons.

Accessible books in a variety of formats (templates) free for download.