Introduction to accessible books and why access to literature is important to all students. Students will receive an overview of the features of PowerPoint 2007 and be guided through a step by step process of how to use it to create an accessible book.
sources for audioboooks, photos and sounds
"If You Build It, They Will Read!" Authoring Books Online with CAST Book Builder
Following
Universal Design for Learning principles, engage readers with a free online
authoring tool that allows users to create, read, and publish digital books
while meeting"
Students can actually create their own digital books that can be viewed online using a great FREE program called Microsoft Photo Story 3 for Windows. Students can create stories in any genre and make them come alive using this software program
This website was created to allow beginning readers to read books on their web browser. Readers can click on the triangle in the lower right-hand corner of each page to turn the pages. If they are unsure of a word, they can click on it to hear a child's voice read the word to them.
The books have been sorted by level and by subject according to the curriculum.
E-Books Directory is a daily growing list of freely downloadable ebooks, documents and lecture notes found all over the internet.You can submit and promote your own ebooks, add comments on already posted books or just browse through the directory below and download anything you need.
"Notebooking Central booklets complement Dinah Zike's Notebook Foldables for Spirals, Binders, and Composition Books book and companion CD, an essential guide for notebooking. Each Notebooking Central booklet contains content-specific Notebook Foldables with graphics to aid comprehension and memory, front tabs that elicit student responses on the back of tabs, underneath tabs, and on the notebook page surrounding tabs, and ideas for the use of Notebook Foldables within different content areas."
Great Expectations brings popular picture books to life using a multi-sensory approach - songs, tactile play, picture descriptions, body movement, engaged listening - all designed to promote active reading experiences for children with visual impairments.
Several options for listening. Librivox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and publish the audio files on teh internet. The goal is to record all the books in the public domain