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41 different K-1 texts read aloud with visible text. Great support for beginning readers.

"Hi, Fly Guy" by Tedd Arnold read aloud online. Text easy to follow while listening.

Predictable structure, nice message, good text for helping beginning readers acquire sight words and reading confidence.

Reflection on reading motivation.

units, lessons, passages. Frieda Hiebert and Joanna Williams on their board.

Teachers of kids, 4-14, may be interested in entering their classes. May 5 is official start.

13 great wordless picture books. Most work across age groups.

Videos, notes, all sorts of instructional guidance for teachers wishing to teach children with significant disabilities to read, write, and do math.

Great resource for teachers of children with significant disabilities.

Consider what this might mean for communication technologies, writing technologies, and reading technologies. Durability, portability, flexibility, cost... Keep your eyes open.

Blog entry at Dave Koppenhaver's literacy and disability website about struggling readers and writers.

Remarkable resource for beginning readers, their families, and teachers of beginning readers. Tens of 1000's of digital books that can be read online with or without speech support or downloaded for use offline. Each book can be accessed using multiple interfaces, including touch screens, the IntelliKeys with custom overlays, and 1 to 3 switches. Parents and professionals may write their own books as well, a great way to create materials targeted to the specific interests of a child or student.

Gallaudet's Visual Language and Visual Learning (VL2) storybooks in app form. Stories are told in ASL and English. Built on bilingual learning principles.

Read aloud by two children (clearly actors, but still cute). Text clearly visible. Excellent digital text experience for developing readers. Fun for others.

Simplistic. Good read for undergraduates or teachers with little knowledge of either ADHD or writing instruction or both.

Interesting read, useful to college profs. Working hard to consider applications to kids with significant disabilities.

The math, language, communication, reading, and writing online modules created by the Center for Literacy and Disability Studies for teachers of children with the most significant intellectual disabilities.

Video of Pat Cunningham, professor at Wake Forest, discussing in detail how to teach letters, sounds, and words within a Four Blocks Literacy Framework.

What a great site! 250 comics and editorials, give or take, updated daily. Pearls Before Swine, Pooch Cafe, FoxTrot, Non Sequitur, Peanuts, Stone Soup...

Free podcasts on a variety of literacy and learning topics. Thoughtfu and you can't beat the price.

Great way to educate yourself in a time of lean resources for many teachers.

Rich variety of resources for classroom teachers, or anyone interested in educating teachers and children. Spend some time exploring. Not a quick stop.

Bring world knowledge to your students in interesting ways.