Writing Organization/ Proofreading/Copying
Draft: Builder
By Don Johnston
Draft:Builder is a soft ware program that allows students through the three key steps in creating a first draft: organizing ideas, taking notes and writing the draft. It models the logical, progressive steps of draft-writing and displays a visual representation of the process. The display gives students a framework to generate, manipulate and connect ideas and information.
Available from www.donjohnston.com
Kidspiration
By Inspiration Software INC.
Young students with disabilities may struggle with processing
information, expressing their ideas and demonstrating their knowledge. Now here
is a visual learning tool that can help. Kidspiration helps young students
learn to read, write and express themselves. With Kidspiration, young students
use engaging tools to create stories and descriptions. They explore new ideas
with thought webs and get help organizing and categorizing information.
Integrated Picture and Writing views help students develop visual concepts and
connect and expand those ideas into written expression. Simple maps, webs and
diagrams help young students organize their thoughts. Audio feature lets
students express their knowledge by recording their words or have their work
read out loud for sharing. More than 45 provided activities let teachers
adapt lessons quickly and teach new concepts
Available from www.donjohnston.com
Write Out Loud
By Don Johnston
Write:OutLoud is the easy-to-use talking word processor that gives immediate speech feedback as students type words, sentences and paragraphs. As students draft their writing, they see and hear if their writing makes sense and if it is what they wanted to say. Students can listen for proper word usage, tense inflections, omitted words and misspellings. They get the feedback right when they need it and when it is most relevant to them. The result? Students with disabilities can hear-as well as see-what they write so that they can compose, review, revise and correct their work independently. This product and work in conjecture with Co-Writer. Many professional have used this product to read text that has been scanned and/or cut and pasted from the world wide web.
Available from www.donjohnston.com
Highlighter Tapes
Highlight any text, then remove the tape without damaging. Great for helping students to copy and printed text.
Available from www.onionmountaintech.com
Writing/Reading (Language Arts) Games from www.funbrain.com
Here are some neat writing and reading games and lesson ideas from www.funbrain.com. Just click on the link below and start surfing for the game that best matches your lesson.
http://www5.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/getskill_s.cgi?A1=selects&A2=la&A4=4&A7=4
Unique Lessons That Are Developed by Fellow Teachers
By Track Star
Trackstar helps instructors organize and annotate Web sites (URLs) for use in lessons. One can find information about any concept of any content area. All one has to do is go to the Trackstar main page (link is provided below) and perform a search by keyword, author, or themes/standards. One can choose to view the information from their search in either frames or text.
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