Sidebar 1: We began with a video.
I love beginning with videos! This video had nothing to do with reading
remediation or compensation, but it was very cool. Check it out!
http://www.apple.com/ca/ipad/life-on-ipad/
Sidebar 2: We did a UDL PollEv,
responding to the statement, “Share ways you as a teacher can REPRESENT
information to students to reach ALL learners.”
Sidebar
3: This took us to “101
ways to show what you know”, a document that would be very useful to print and
stick to the wall near where you plan instruction and assessment.
Now
back to the main focus.
5 websites
that offer reading remediation:
All the following websites have
interactive tools to support early readers, free of charge!
This website focuses on phonics
development, beginning with letters and sounds and advancing to simple
words. A variety of games and
interactive books are available for learning.
The target
audience is pre-school, kindergarten, and first grade.
Videos and slideshows teach
phonics rules using a variety of vocabulary. This is done in a progressive
manner to help learners decode 1200 different words. Students aged 4 to 7 are
the main users of this website.
3) LEARN TO READ FREE
This website has interactive
games using pictures and the first 55 words a student will learn to read, so is
suited to the beginning reader. These games adhere to the Montessori approach
to education.
4) SOFTSCHOOLS
This site offers phonics games,
worksheets, and flashcards for learning to read. It also offers worksheets and
projects for a variety of skills and subject areas for pre-kindergarten through
middle school, many of which focus on the vocabulary aspect of reading.
This site has a series of free
games to practice the first stages of reading. It focuses on phonics to teach
vocabulary.
5 softwares that offer reading
remediation (by Amy Murnagan):
Description: Lexia provides reading skills for students of all abilities, and delivers performance data and analysis without interrupting the flow of instruction to administer a test. This technology-based approach accelerates reading skills development, predicts students' year-end performance and provides teachers data-driven action plans to help differentiate instruction. Click to see the Lexia Overview Video!
Benefits:
Lexia benefits all students by providing a personalized reading experience.
This software teaches students an abundance of reading skills: rhyming, word
prediction, letter recognition, sounds, comprehension, etc. This software is
extremely beneficial to educators, because it provides data related to students
strengths and areas for improvement. Furthermore, this software offers strategies
for improving a particular skill associated with a student's reading abilities.
This software is a reflection of Universal Design for Learning because it
addresses the needs of ALL learners.
2) READING HORIZONS DISCOVERY
Website: http://www.readinghorizons.com/
Description: Simply by teaching the core framework of the Reading Horizons methodology - the 42 Sounds of the Alphabet, 5 Phonetic Skills, and 2 Decoding Skills - students are empowered with skills that allow them to prove they are reading, spelling, and pronouncing the majority of the words in the English language with accuracy.
Benefits: Reading Horizons recognizes the necessary decoding skills involved in the reading process. Dyslexia is associated with deficits related to understanding the "code" associated with reading. Therefore, this software is designed for all readers but definitely supports students with Dyslexia.
3) THE SENTENCE MASTER
Description:
Benefits: The Sentence Master is designed for students who are struggling to learn to read or haven’t responded to a phonics-based approach. This software supports students with Autism, intellectual and developmental disabilities, language-learning disorders, and hearing impairments. Sentence Master is also tailored to meet the needs English Language Learners (K-6).
4) EAROBICADescription: Aerobics is a multisensory reading intervention solution. This software incorporates interactive activities, guided instruction, students resources, teacher guides, correlations and assessments to enhance students reading abilities.
5) SCIENTIFIC LEARNING READING ASSISTANT
Description:
Benefits: Over-sized classrooms are prevalent in today's education system and educators are unable to provide the one to one reading support necessary to students. This software is beneficial to all beginning readers and aids in teaching reading strategies.
5
reading remediation apps in iTunes:
Name of App
|
Targeted Reading Skill
|
Cost
|
Hooked
on Phonics Learn to Read
|
phonics and decoding
|
Free
|
Cimo Spelling (sight words)
|
learning high frequency sight words
|
$2.99
|
Question Builder
|
reading comprehension—questioning and inference
|
$5.99
|
Super Reader
|
reading comprehension
|
$1.99
|
Grammar Jammers
|
grammar use
|
Free
|
For
the rest of the class we heard a presentation about apps that provide
compensatory reading supports. Some of
these were the same as the apps my group described in our “New Apps for
Learning Disabilities” presentation. My
favourites:
Enhanced
textbooks—take notes, write study cards, watch videos, check definitions, link
to pictures, change font size, turn on closed captioning, and more! Best
assistive tech ever! Everything you would ever want from a textbook on one
screen.
ReadIris—take pictures of handouts, then edit them as needed. NaviDys, which changes font and spacing between letters and lines to help decoding, could be applied to this afterwards.
Symbol Support—this was interesting because I once had a student who carried a picture book with her for communication…Symbol Support is that book in high tech!
I
also liked Scribd, more for personal use than for anything I would use with
students. Thanks for all the great ideas.
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