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Episode #46 features another excerpt from the presentation for the Individual Differences in Learning Association in Howard County, Maryland. This excerpt describes WordTalk; a free text-to-speech plug-in for Microsoft Word. The episode features a bumper from Karen Janowski who is an assistive technology consultant, an assistive technology specialist for a school district in Massachusetts, adjunct faculty member at Simmons College, and school board member in her town. She is also one of the innovators behind the UDLTechToolKit wiki, which contains a plethora of resources useful for differentiating instruction.

This is a great tool to get students motivated to write. Once they realize writing can be fun they will want to write more!

The graphics provide wonderful visual prompts that inspire students to create text and story content.

Make your own comics! Great for literacy, story starters, social situation stories and more!

"Episode #144 features a description of three tools useful for supporting reading by minimizing distractions, providing statistics, and helping to decrease the complexity of difficult vocabulary within bodies of text."

http://www.childcareland.com/free.html Free File folder activities

A wealth of free downloadable file folder activities and other manipulatives

Universal Design for Learning: Theory and Practice by Anne Meyer, David H. Rose, & David Gordon $59.99 (Paperback/Full color edition) | $29.99 (Paperback/Black and white) Anne Meyer and David Rose, who first laid out the principles of UDL in the '90s, provide an ambitious, engaging discussion of new research and best practices. This book gives the UDL field an essential and authoritative learning resource for the coming years.

Universal Design for Learning: Theory and Practice interactive, online text to learn about and discuss UDL

Turn online videos into interactive learning experiences that engage students and deepen understanding. Add images, text, and questions to any online video, creating interactive lessons that meet your students' needs."

you can dictate from anywhere and receive your completed work via email, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, in about 3 hours -

Flockdraw is a free to use online whiteboard based painting & drawing tool. It makes it easy to draw online free with multiple people for fun or business. You can have unlimited people in a room and the drawing updates in real time. Uses different colors, shapes and text.Start drawing now!

LCPS announcement about home use of Read Write Gold.

This literacy software program has a toolbar with Reading, Writing, Study Skills, and Research tools that include text-to-speech, word prediction, talking spell check and calculator, and more. The customizable toolbar floats on top of applications such as Microsoft Word, Internet Explorer, and Adobe Reader, so students can access the support tools when needed.

"Listing over 1 million free books on the Web"

We offer searchable online literature for the student, educator, or enthusiast.

The best ebooks at the best price: free!

News presented in a kid-friendly format, TIME For Kids is a weekly classroom news magazine that motivates kids to read! Issues cover a wide range of real-world topics kids love to learn about - and it's the best nonfiction text you'll find! 

StoryToolz is a nice assembly of useful tools for writers. Writers who are struggling to come up with ideas for fiction stories will like the story starters featured on StoryToolz. StoryToolz has three tools that you can use to get story ideas; Random Conflicts, Half Title Generator, and Story Idea Generator. To use any of these three tools just select the tool from the main menu then look at the randomly generated idea. If you don't like the options, run the tool again until you get options that you like. In addition to the writing prompts tools StoryToolz offers a few tools to help you edit your work. The Cliché Buster analyzes your work to find clichés that you have used in your writing. The Readability tool analyzes your text to estimate a reading level on several scales.

Start-to-Finish Online is your on-ramp to new College and Career Readiness standards. It supports students at their reading level and builds their skills to prepare them for the new reading expectations. Start-to-Finish includes a wide selection of engaging, leveled fiction and non-fiction chapter books.

Learning Ally and the Virginia Accessible Instructional Materials Center (AIM-VA) have created a partnership to give eligible K-12 students with IEPs access to Learning Ally's library of 80,000 audio textbooks and literature titles, including VOICEtext audiobooks that highlight text as it's being read, improving and enhancing student comprehension.