1. Assistive Technology Writing

2. Composing Written Material Low Tech, Mid Tech, High Tech Word cards /book/ wall Pocket Dictionary/Thesaurus Electronic/talking spell checker/dictionary Word processing with spell checker Talking word processing Abbreviation/expansion Word processing with writing supports Multimedia software Voice recognition software

3. Low Tech Word cards / book / wall Word cards are one of the techniques used in many reading programs. They can be used for game playing to further reinforce their meaning or in improve word recognition skills.. Word books are used at different levels like a dictionary for students to access while they are writing.

4. Low Tech Word cards / book / wall Word walls are a successful technique for learning sight words. Technology can assist in building word walls by entering the info onto a computer and running the words off with magnetic paper.

5. Writing Templates – Teacher Made Low Tech Teacher made templates for writing are helpful in getting students to write.

6. Adding color in Inspiration Go to Effect – Background Color and choose a color. For Text boxes use the fill color and line color options. For text select the text option.

7. Templates in Inspiration Hi Tech Aside from being able to create diagrams and outlines in Inspiration, it is possible to use Inspiration Templates. (File – Open Template) The templates could be both low and high tech devices dependent upon whether they were used on the computer or printed for students to fill in and use.

8. Write Outloud & Co-Writer Available from Don Johnston.comDon Johnston.com

9. Word Processing with Writing Supports High Tech Microsoft Word has some built- in options that can help in the writing process. This includes: Grammar & Spelling checker Thesaurus Templates Track Changes Highlighting / Underlining

10. Microsoft Excel High Tech Microsoft Excel can also be used in building writing skills. One can build a document with movable text to create sentences. Excel & vocabulary words – book sample – Excel VocabularyExcel Vocabulary Look at the literacy document here.literacy document

11. Dragon Dictate & IListen Available from Nuance at http://www.nuance.com/ http://www.nuance.com/ IListen – voice recognition software for the Mac – read more about it here: http://www.macspeech.com/ http://www.macspeech.com/