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"This fully functional "talking" calculator calculates basic math functions and can be used with or without a screen reader. Every button and edit area talks. It is easy to use with large keys and contrasting colors. It has three display areas, so when the user adds a series of numbers, the total is always displayed, even as a new number is being entered and while always displaying any numbers in memory."

"If You Build It, They Will Read!" Authoring Books Online with CAST Book Builder Following Universal Design for Learning principles, engage readers with a free online authoring tool that allows users to create, read, and publish digital books while meeting"

An easy, fun, little project to keep students engaged during Guided Reading: The Giant Googly-Eye Pointer! For the pre-reading set, you can use these to help tracking. For fluent readers, you can use it to ask students to find certain words in the text ("Can you find the compound word on this page? Put your googly eye on it!")

Cheat sheet created by the Loudoun County Public Schools' Assistive Technology Team on using the Boardmaker Plus v. 6 Symbolate tool. Type in the text, or copy and paste it from a document or the Internet, and the graphics will appear with the text. It also has a text to speech feature that reads the text aloud. Provides wonderful supports for struggling readers and English language learners!

Spectronics provides step by step instructions on using the Symbolate tool available in Boardmaker v. 6. This text with graphics tool provides wonderful visual supports for struggling readers and English language learners. It also has a text to speech feature to provide audio support.

SETBC provides step by step instructions on using the Symbolate tool available in Boardmaker v. 6. This text with graphics tool provides wonderful visual supports for struggling readers and English language learners. It also has a text to speech feature to provide audio support.

Looking for Audio Read Alouds. This binder offers great read aloud sources for students of all ages. Created by techwithtia

This online activity is designed for beginning and struggling readers to help them recognize word patterns and learn about onset and rime. Students are first asked to select a vowel, and are then presented with a series of words to sort into short-vowel word families. Students can then print their completed word family chart and use it to practice reading the words fluently. 

Interactive Word Family Sorting Activity

Resources for Visuals: Where To Go When Creating Picture Schedules, Visual Cues, and Pre-Reading Tools

Bookshare provides accessible books and periodicals for readers with print disabilities, and is free for all U.S. students with qualifying disabilities, thanks to an award from the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP).

Example of different ways to use mindmaps

If you found this site by searching for Be More Awesome during an Escape The Room with Instructional Strategies session, guess what?!?! You're doing it! We encourage you to search the LCPS AT Diigo site to find other resources to help you provide options for students! Try searching for "reading" or "math" or anything else you're interested in learning about. Now be even more awesome by going to the link associated with this resource to discover your next clue OR, if you use a screen reader, do another search in the LCPS AT Diigo Group for the tag "BeMoreAccessible".