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Tutorial/cheat sheet for creating customized graph paper in MS Word for visual or physical access

word wheels

Descriptions of SmartArt graphics in MS Word/PowerPoint

Grades 1-6 Mathematics vocabulary word wall cards provide a display of mathematics content words and associated visual cues to assist in vocabulary development. The cards should be used as an instructional tool for teachers and then as a reference for all students, particularly English learners and students with disabilities.

"LAMP Words for Life AAC Books and Activities Below are a series of files I personally created for children to learn vocabulary.  which goes with various books and o   Realize that vocabularies vary if any customization has been done to the device, so your child's vocabulary may not directly match the sequences represented in the files, however, the sequences will likely get you very close to the correct sequence."

Create instructional materials to help users of the LAMP: Words for Life app by using the free NuVoice Pass Software from Prentke Romich Company. This video briefly shows you how to download the software, install the software, change the user area to match the LAMP: Words for Life Full Vocabulary user area, and how to create the icon sequences.

Research suggests that word prediction helps students become better spellers.

How to improve literacy skills with word clouds

RWG Word Cloud YouTube video

Read&Write 11 Word Cloud

LCPSAT one-page tutorial

Tutorial/cheat sheet on creating electronic forms in MS Word 2007

lingro was conceived in August 2005, when Artur decided to practice his Spanish by reading Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal. As a competent but non-expert speaker, he found that looking up new vocabulary took much more time than the reading itself. Frustrated with how slow existing online dictionaries were, he wrote a program to help him translate and learn words in their original context. lingro's mission is to create an on-line environment that allows anyone learning a language to quickly look up and learn the vocabulary most important to them.

Webinar broken up into different sections that explains LAMP Word for Life.

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.  

Story from Huffington Post about a school that banned the R-Word.

How to enable text to speech in MS Word

Microsoft Word 2007 offers new and improved features in an exciting new interface for easily creating citations and a bibliography

Episode #116 features a description of how and why to use core vocabulary (high frequency words) as the basis for an augmentative/alternative communication system. The entire episode was generated using only "Frequently Occurring Home and School Words" from the list generated in the article "Vocabulary-Use Patterns in Preschool Children: Effects of Context and Time Sampling" by Christine A. Marvin, David R. Beukelman, and Denise Bilyeu published in Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Volume 10 in December, 1994. The episode demonstrates that using only high frequency words users can still elicit complex, generative language. You might find it beneficial to listen to the episode twice or to read along as you listen to the episode. TRANSCRIPT: http://bit.ly/howtohelpsaythingstranscript