Monday, November 17, 2008

AT Tip 1 - Reading / Learning

I started publishing a Technology Tip-a-week for Special Education Teachers and staff, both early learning and older student tips. Now I'm posting those tips here for anyone to reference. So here is Tip number one.

A. For young students and early readers: Starfall http://www.starfall.com/
Starfall.com© has literacy activities for students pre-kindergarten through 2nd grade, and beyond for students with special learning needs.
Choose from a variety of activity levels, such as "Learn to Read". Within each activity there are letter & word games and interactive books.

In the books, click on a word to have it spoken.



B. Older students with limited reading skills – an
Online Newspaper
The Key: http://www.keynews.org/
The Key is a newspaper written for people with limited reading skills. It provides news & information about current events, and is published monthly.

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