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Narrated original, non-fiction picture books support beginning readers of all ages. Features include predictable, rhythmic language; images with clear, familiar subjects; and text that ranges from one word up to a few sentences per page. Our books provide unique audio support to families who speak (or are learning to speak) English, indigenous or foreign languages. Simple audio buttons on each page allow you to hear narrations by native speakers in warm, expressive voices.

offers free digital picture books, with a twist. Parents can not only sit and read these original English texts from the Unite for Literacy website, but also hear them read in a variety of languages. The intent is to eventually support the 300 languages spoken in American homes.

SEE ME, FEEL ME, TOUCH ME, HEAR ME: Adapting Books for Divergent Learners PowerPoint Presentation Click on this link for a document containing instructions, considerations, samples, resources, specific units, and sites for assisitve technology support materials The A-Z of Adapting Books for Students with Disabilities in Virginia Click on this link for a document filled with resources specifically for adapting books by Ynez Peterson, OTR/L, AT Specialist Click on this link for ideas on how to fill your room with literacy while meeting the needs of diverse learners by Judy Owens and Gerald Abner SET-BC Accessible Books Video demonstrations on creating and FREE accessible books for downloading from Special Education Technology-British Columbia To download, open, edit and print these files, you must have Boardmaker® software , available at www.mayer-johnson.com .

scroll down page for additional thematic literacy links on subsequent site adapted books

Pdf of powerpoint documenting Gerald Abner and Judy Owen's Buckets of Literacy approach to adapted books.

Phonemic awareness activities! Phonics activities! Perfect for literacy centers and small group instruction. A little bit of cutting and gluing on your part allows us to provide 15 activities in each area of literacy for use in your classroom.

Home page for resources to make and use to teach.

Comprehensive integrated and discreet literacy tool for supporting the reading, writing, and research needs of all students. Provides text-to-speech, English to Spanish translations, mathematical conversions, interactive dictonary and thesaurus, word pred

Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening

Compares features of Read&Write Gold, Kurzweil, WYNN, and ClaroRead

The purpose of this Early Childhood Literacy portion of the WATI website is to provide professionals and parents who work with young children with disabilities with assistance in integrating assistive technology into their literacy programs

"A combination of focused activities and creative, open-ended technology projects can help you take a new approach to building literacy with your elementary students. Use these articles, samples, and lessons to find new ideas and approaches that will work for your learners"

Compiled by an SLP. Use the links to navigate to a wealth of resources on many topics. Speech-Language Therapy Materials on the Internet>>Literacy Link will bring you to those on Adapted Books http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster2/sptherapy.html#literacy

This program is designed to be a fun way to develop your children's early literacy skills as you read story books with them. In the books For Children, you will find coaches, Pedro, Hali, and Monty who give ideas of how to talk with children about the books. In the books For Teachers and Parents, there is also another coach named Terry, who talks about literacy development and suggests fun activities to do with children.

Great resources and activities and prompts in helping children read!

Research-Based Practices for Creating Access to the General Curriculum in Reading and Literacy for Students with Significant Intellectual Disabilities

The purpose of this wiki is two-fold: provide information and resources for grade 1 - 6 teachers who want to learn more about literacy instruction for students with significant disabilities.to model what an online community of practice for teachers could look like.

Engaging and interactive online games and offline activities for math, literacy, and science. Many of the games can be downloaded and saved.

Collection of interactive websites providing fun and informative games for students to learn about finance and banking

Paths to Technology is designed to assist educators and families in learning and staying current on ever-changing technology for students with visual impairments and blindness. The goal of this project is to enable students with visual impairments and blindness (VIB) to succeed in paperless mainstream classrooms and post-school opportunities for employment by achieving digital literacy and by staying current with rapidly evolving technology. Created as an interactive site, Paths to Technology will be a resource for defining and disseminating best practices, training, and support for teachers of the visually impaired, braille transcribers, other education professionals, parents and students themselves.

Teacher discusses activities she made using resources such as the website http://makinglearningfun.com