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PUBLIC MARKS from knann with tag reading

2009

Word List Generator

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The Word List Generator Project has created a database of 2084 words that elementary school teachers can use to help students practice and build sounding out and word-form recognition skills. Learn more about the project and how you can help. To generate a word list matching your students' instructional level, select parameters below--eg, to generate a list of CVC words beginning with continuous sounds, check the CVC checkbox and select "are continuous only" from the Initial sounds drop-down menu.

2008

Ghotit Dyslexia Literacy Assistance.

Ghotit offers unique writing and reading online services for people who suffer from dyslexia, dysgraphia or people who are not native-English speakers. Download the Internet Explorer plugin with text to speech capability.

Into the Book: Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies

This is an outstanding resource.... Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for K-4 students and teachers. We focus on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. Your class can watch our engaging 15-minute videos, and try the online interactive activities. Behind the Lesson provides teachers with information and teaching resources for each strategy. Watch our 10-minute professional development videos, and explore the Web site for lesson plans, video and audio clips, downloads, and more.

Wordle: using word clouds in a lesson

Nice example of how to use wordle in the classroom as a pre-reading strategy.

Childtopia

18 online animated books for Listen and reading comprehension. When in listening mode, the text is highlighted. Browsers with magnification can enlarge the text. More activties for language, math, etc. Teachers should preview for younger students as the interface is a different (and flash based).

K-1 Early learning

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These programs were designed to support many areas of the curriculum. They can be used with a range of assistive input devices including switches (emulating the spacebar or left mouse button); touch-screens and pointing devices. Our counting songs also accept input from keyboards including Intellikeys and Concept. All work brilliantly on an interactive whiteboard such as those produced by Smart or Promethean.

Read The Words

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Upload Adobe PDF Upload MS Word Upload HTML File Write Text Content Cut and Past Text Input Website Address Input RSS Feeds URL Step 2 - Select a Reader Listen to our Reader’s samples Choose 1 of 14 Different Readers Our Readers Speak English, Spanish, and French Each Reader has a Unique Voice and Some Have Accents Control your Reader’s Speed Play with your Reader’s Pitch It takes our readers approx 1 minute to generate a 1 hr long recording Step 3 - Sit Back and Listen Listen to your reading online Download your reading to your ipod or other mp3 player Broadcast your reading as a podcast and share it Post your reading in your Website or Blog Save yourself Time Turn the readers of your blog into listeners Allow your readers to listen while they multi-task and download your blog

2007

LoudLit.org

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LoudLit.org is committed to delivering public domain literature paired with high quality audio performances. We pair together great literature and accompanying audio. Putting the text and audio together, readers can learn spelling, punctuation and paragraph structure by listening and reading masterpieces of the written word. Read and listen via your web browser or on your mp3 player.

ReadingMatrix.com

Search Directory geared specifically to reading, Analyzing Text (12) new Audio and Text (18) Proofreading (4) Reading Comprehension Advanced (10) Reading Comprehension Beginner (14) Reading Comprehension Intermediate (19) Short Stories (11) Vocabulary (51)

Reading for Thinking

Website for author of developmental reading materials for high school students. Many of the books have online practice materials. Click the links under the book titles.

Kids' Lab Reading Workout

Great site for grades 1, 2, 3 for reading. Click the dropdown button to select the grade level.

Solar System Quiz: Locating Specific Information

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Use this site to practice locating explicit information in passages about the sun and planets in our solar system.

Did I Read It or Not?

Carson is reading about his body and how it works. It is hard for him to understand what he has read. Carson needs your help with his reading skills. LA.A.2.2.1.4.1 - The student understands explicit and implicit ideas and information in fourth-grade or higher texts.

Teachers: Content Literacy

Reading Is FAME is a four-course reading intervention for regular and special education 7 th -12 th graders reading as low as the 2 nd grade level. FAME is an acronym for the four courses contained within the program: Foundations of Reading; Adventures in Reading; Mastery of Meaning; Explorations.

The Official Robert Munsch Website

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Robert Munch enthuisiatically records over 50 of his books for your listening pleasure. All mp3 files are free to download and listen to on your computer or iPod!

LINKS Learning for Kids: Reading: Audio Stories

Eleven different stories with audio narration Most of us like stories. We like to hear an exciting story, read one, or even write one. And there are many different kinds of stories. In this section, you will find a collection of stories, most of which involve animals. The stories can be called character stories. They help us learn about ourselves, about others, and about how we behave. You can listen to the stories, read them, or do both. You might also enjoy sharing them with your brothers, sisters, or parents. As you read them, think about the following questions: Who were the characters in the story? Which character did you like best? Why? What problems arose? How did the characters solve the problems? How did the story end? Have you had experiences like the ones in the story? What did you do?

Time for Kids

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Current news articles for grades k-1, 2-3, 4-7. Use with Clicker 5 or WordTalk for text to spech. Find the article, click the Print button. A new, plain web page will appear. Copy and paste directly into Word or a new Clicker document.

Classic Short Stories

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This Web site is dedicated to the short story and to those interested in reading light prose. (In web page format, so it is easy to use with a text reader.) Fewer and fewer people these days read short stories. This is unfortunate--so few will ever experience the joy that reading such fine work can give. The goal of this site is to give a nice cross section of short stories in the hope that these short stories will excite these people into rediscovering this excellent source of entertainment.

2006

The Lexile Framework for Reading

The Lexile Framework for Reading is a scientific approach to reading measurement that matches readers to text. The Lexile Framework measures both reader ability and text difficulty on the same scale, called the Lexile scale. This approach allows educators to manage reading comprehension and encourage reader progress using Lexile measures and a broad range of Lexile products, tools and services. Lots of online tools

CLiCk, Speak Features

Reading with a simple interface - CLiCk, Speak is designed to be as easy to use for sighted users as possible. The interface is completely mouse driven; there's no need to remember any key combinations. Reading through a page is as simple as placing the cursor and hitting the GO button; reading a selection is as easy as highlighting the text and hitting the SPEAK button.

Tools for Reading, Writing, & Thinking

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A great collection of graphic organizers for middle and high school students

SEDL - Building Reading Proficiency at the Secondary Level: A Guide to Resources

An excellent guide to resoures for improving reading proficiency from grades 6-12. Visit http://www.sedl.org/pubs/reading16/12.html or click the link entitles Strategies for specific info for teaching

Creating Talking Books in PowerPoint

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Richard Walters' in-depth guide to making your own talking books is written especially for those with no experience of multimedia creation. This guide covers the construction of books in Microsoft's PowerPoint presentation software. It also available for TAG Software's HyperStudio and Crick Software's Clicker. The guide includes step-by-step instructions on how to scan pictures, add symbols, record speech and put together a talking book. Fully illustrated with screen shots, these guides are useful for teachers, parents and professionals who want to give young people access to any story.

WordTalk — From OATS.org

WordTalk is a free plug-in developed for use with all versions of Microsoft Word (from Word 97 upwards), which can help people with reading difficulties use Microsoft Word more effectively. It will speak the text of the document and will highlight it as it goes. It contains a talking dictionary to help decide which word spelling is most appropriate. It sits neatly in your toolbar and is highly configurable, allowing you to adjust the highlight colours, the voice and the speed of the speech.

BookAdventure.org: Kids Zone

Book Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 7,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes. Book Adventure was created by and is maintained by Sylvan Learning.