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1. Switch Steps Guide. A PROGRESSION OF STEPS IN BEGINNING SWITCH USE WITH TOYS, ELECTRICAL AND OTHER DEVICES (Copyright 1987, Jana B. Birch). 2. Understanding and Making Sentences - CSUN 2002. A CSUN presentation on using Picture Sentence Match and P

Students are likely to know many more words than they use in their writing. This lesson is designed to help students better use their vocabulary by teaching (or reviewing) what verbs are and to then help them access verbs they already know and use them in sentences. Students work together to brainstorm and create lists of verbs for each of the letters of the alphabet. Then, choosing one verb for each letter, they create pages for an Action Alphabet book. Each page includes an illustration and a sentence using the verb in context. The project can be adapted according to age level and language ability. Students in kindergarten may work together on a class book, while older students may work in small groups or individually. Similarly, the complexity of the example sentences will vary depending on students' writing levels."

Use this tool to improve your writing. Analyze your sentence structure! Use it to know which part of speech each word is. It can be useful in analyzing language and exploring how an AAC system in organized (if the AAC system is organized by parts of speech).

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. These original English texts, created and narrated by a team of contributors, can be listened to in multiple languages, on any device. The intent is to eventually support the 300 languages spoken in American homes.

"Hemingway highlights long, complex sentences and common errors; if you see a yellow highlight, shorten the sentence or split it."

Washington Post Article - Specific parts of the brain are activated when children try to comprehend sentences. Scans allow researchers to measure that process.

The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free

Great blog...and this a a good post explaining Core Vocabulary

Blog post about making different phrases from core vocabulary.

Practice creating and expanding sentences!

Fun manipulatives for teaching language arts.

Use drag n drop to move words around to make sentences

It can be difficult at first to shift from thinking about AAC in pre-programmed phrases and sentences and activity based pages to focusing on using core words. Once the shift is made; however, it becomes easy to look at using core words in natural, everyday occurrences as core words make up 75-80% of everyone's daily, natural language. Listed below are daily activities that typically occur in a classroom and ways to use core words during these activities at the one-word, two-word, and three-word level to help get the thinking process started. Notice how many of the core words and phrases can be used throughout the day in various situations and activities.

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.

"Our free Text Readability Consensus Calculator takes a sample of your writing and calculates the number of sentences, words, syllables, and characters in your sample. Our program takes the output of these numbers and plugs them into 7 popular readability formulas. These 7 readability formulas (see below) will help you find out the reading level and grade level of your materials and help you to determine if your audience can read your materials."

This MS Word four square writing template is a colorful table with cells to type sentences, and sound recorder icons to make voice recordings.

Type a word or phrase into the box and this quick page will create a sentence to help you remember it.

enter up to 10 spelling words, and there is a Teach Me feature with text to speech that says the word aloud, types it while saying each letter, and says the word in a sentence. The Play a Game feature has several interactive spelling games,. The Test Me f

Elementary, Middle, and High School Vocabulary, Spelling, Writing, Parts of Speech, Handwriting, Alphabetical Order

WordSift helps anyone easily sift through texts -- just cut and paste any text into WordSift and you can engage in a verbal quick-capture! The program helps to quickly identify important words that appear in the text. This function is widely available in various Tag Cloud programs on the web, but we have added the ability to mark and sort different lists of words important to educators. We have also integrated it with a few other functions, such as visualization of word thesaurus relationships (incorporating the amazing Visual Thesaurus® that we highly recommend in its own right) and Google® searches of images and videos. With just a click on any word in the Tag Cloud, the program displays instances of sentences in which that word is used in the text. WAY COOL

scroll down to DYNAMIC DISPLAY EXAMPLES Downloadable powerpoints which provide practice in creating sentences, targeting, commenting, cause & effect http://www.childrenshospital.org/centers-and-services/programs/a-_-e/augmentative-communication-program/downloads