Group items tagged

Debbie Schwind and Judie Schoonover article on using art

Mark, Chris, Judie, and Sally's slidedeck on the creation of a strategy-a-day calendar from ATIA 2015

"Building Books Page by Page: Becoming Your Own Digital Publisher! EDU-41" Mike Marotta, Judie and Sally ATIA14

"Google Story Builder is a fun Google tool that will get your students developing their basic writing skills. You don't need a Google account to participate and younger students can easily navigate through the Google Story Builder steps. Once the students have finished writing their story, they can add music and watch the animated video of their writing experience."

"Tasks Galore Publishing's blog provides parents and professionals with information to help students with Autism become more independent in school and life."

Google Story Builder allows anyone to create short, Google-Docs style videos. You can adjust the characters, the story line, the plot, and even customize the music.

"12 Activities to help your child with social skills"

"Here are dozens of free autism social skills teaching resources, most with free pdf downloads.  The resources vary in difficulty and can be used for children between ~ age 6 and ~ age 18.  The resources are organized by color-coded categories below:"

The storyboard creator uses a familiar drag and drop interface that users of all ages pick up in seconds. Our creator allows you to fully customize numerous aspects of your storyboard; from coloring in your own character, to adding text, we have everything you need to get the story straight! *Detailed Image Library:Creating a beautiful and expressive storyboard is easy with our extensive and well curated library of over 325 characters, 225 scenes, and over 45,000 images in search. If that still isn't enough we offer another powerful tool; the ability to upload your own images! *Focus is on The Story: By using a storyboard like a graphic organizer it helps structure students work into a linear and concise story. Although it feels easy at first, breaking down ones thoughts into just a few cells works critical skills in prioritizing the right information and creating a good story flow.

JUdie and Cindy's resources for Wanna Play ATIA15

Clear and simple definitions in basic American English from North America's leading language experts. More usage examples than any other dictionary

"When making your own PowerPoint book, a template can be a helpful time saver. The templates below are for creating ABC books and personal books for students with significant disabilities, including deaf-blindness. The templates have high contrast backgrounds and some have finger spellings. (The finger spelling photos come from Pics4Learning.com. They are free!). The templates have also been setup so that there is an auditory click and some movement when students turn the pages in the book. In all of the downloadable templates, the pages and the text boxes have already been made. Teachers, therapists and/or parents can spend time adding pictures and text, rather then the technical aspects of starting from scratch."

"Newsela is an innovative way to build reading comprehension with nonfiction that's always relevant: daily news. It's easy and amazing. Register now to see the impact Newsela can have on your classroom."

"PowerPoint allows you to add audio to your presentation. For example, you could add background music to one slide, a sound effect to another, and even record your own narration or commentary. You can then edit the audio to customize it for your presentation."

List of books with repeated lines useful for helping students practice learning to read or learn language. When teaching language, use stories and songs with lines that repeat, with more lines that repeat, and with even more lines that repeat. When targeting specific words, expose students to the same words over and over and over and over and over. Use the Symbolate feature of Boardmaker to place pictures over each word to adapted stories or books with repetitive lines.  

15 nonprofit organizations have joined forces to support parents of the one in five children with learning and attention issues throughout their journey. Searchable database of vetted resources.

"Learning new vocabulary can be stressful and challenging, but it doesn't have to be. Words U puts college-level vocabulary words in your hands, and lets you discover them as you message your friends."

A collection of tangible items LCPS educators can check out.

Free resource for creating and sharing books. Bookemon offers educators and K12 schools a secure, private and friendly environment for their students and staff to create and share books online. Bookemon lets everyone make their own books to preserve their memories in photos, drawings, family recipes and stories to share with their family and future generations.

Richard Byrne lists and talks about resources for creating ebooks and audiobooks 0e