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Learning Objectives describe the function and be able to implement a variety of free or low cost tools and resources to help provide students with options to better express what they know. describe the function and be able to implement a variety of free or low cost tools and resources to help educators provide more options for how to represent content in a way that increases learner variability. describe the function and be able to implement a variety of free or low cost tools and resources to help educators provide more options to increase student engagement. Participants will…

Reading & Writing Jeopardy $100 Providing Structure Verbal As A Strength Fun With Text Promoting Literacy Potpourri $200 $300 $400 $500 $400 $300 $200 $100 $500 $400 $300 $200 $100 $500 $400 $300 $200 $100 $500 $400 $300 $200 $100 Final Jeopardy Final Jeopardy

1 - $100 A visual tool used to segment, chunk, or otherwise define areas in which to write created using tools like & & What are Graphic Organizers?

1 - $200 A visual tool to segment, chunk, or otherwise define a chronological sequence of events created using tools like and What are timeline generators?

1 - $300 A way to provide tactile and visual prompts to help segment, tell, and/or retell a story to include important aspects such as setting, characters, conflict, events, and conclusion. What is a story rope? (Or any other similar strategies, like using Legos)

1 - $400 A feature in an MS Office product that allows a user to quickly add multiple images with a corresponding blank text box to create a structured guide to writing about what is seen in the picture. What is the Photo Album feature of PowerPoint?

1 - $500 A free website where students can Drag N’ Drop or type text over images to create poems, posters or pictures by describing what they see. What is

2 - $100 A way for students to express what they know without having to generate (handwrite, type, dictate, etc.) text without the use of pictures or video. What is voice recording?

2 - $200 is a web-based method for a user to record audio, which is useful as an alternative to writing as a form of expression, which produces this as an image that can be "quickly" scanned by a Web-enabled device resulting in a "response“ that plays the recorded audio. What is a QR code? Video Tutorial:

2 - $300 is a web-based method for a user to perform this function, which is useful as an alternative to writing as a form of expression. An online way to record your voice?

2 - $400 A free, open sourced software which allows users to record long tracks of audio useful for practicing reading fluency. What is Audacity?

2 - $ and provide a user with a way to upload or create one of these and add corresponding audio, which is useful as a way of giving directions, demonstrating knowledge, or telling a story What is a picture?

3 - $100 The Simple English language of Wikipedia, and the TLDR extension in Chrome are all examples of web sites or tools that help a user perform this task What is summarizing text?

3 - $200 is a free website which allows users to enter words to create letter-by- letter visualizations of the word by pulling from tags of letters with photos uploaded to the photo sharing site which is useful in practicing this skill? What is spelling?

3 - $300 A tool used to create visualizations from blocks of text useful to help students vary word choice in their own writing or to highlight themes in text. What are word cloud generators, like &

3 - $ & are fun ways to practice this necessary lifelong skill What is keyboarding or typing? HIAT Comparison Chart:

3 - $500 A method for improving writing performance which involves the author generating text for the purpose of impacting/influencing others in the world such as writing a blog post, commenting on another’s blog post, commenting on another persons’ work, posting or commenting on social media, etc. What is writing for an authentic purpose or audience? Eliza

4 - $100 This "function" allows a user to hear digital text read aloud which may be useful for listening to questions, understanding vocabulary, processing information, and editing written work. What is text to speech? For example, with Read&Write for Google from TextHelp

4 - $200 A method for teaching literacy skills by way of adjusting narratives through the inclusion of additional textures, audio, additional pictures, moveable objects, rebus text, and/or other media formats. What are adapting/ adapted books?

4 - $300 A website from the University of North Carolina with an enormous library of digital books with pictures which also allows users to generate and add to that library by authoring their own books. What is

4 - $400 A proven methodology to improve the reading abilities of students that is a function of a device found almost ubiquitously in every home in the United States. What is Closed Captioning?

4 - $500 The Night Light Stories Podcast, The Barefoot Books Podcast, The Story Nory Podcast, and all provide these in audio formats, which has been proven to increase reading abilities of students who listen. What are stories? Evidence:

5 - $ the Lego website and the Marvel website allow users to create this form of representation and expression What are comic strips?

5 - $200 This free website allows a user to incorporate text, images, videos, and hyperlinks to create an poster useful for representing content or expressing knowledge. Whatis

5 - $300 A function built in to MS Word that provides data about the reading level and complexity of the text. What are Readability Statistics? (Enable in File>Options>Proofing)

5 - $400 A practice or initiative of selecting only materials that are born accessible (…or at least digital). What is the PALM (Purchase Accessible Learning Materials) Initiative?

5 - $500 The best way to adapt a worksheet. What is to design a lesson where students have options to express what they know in different ways so they don’t need to do the worksheet?

Final Jeopardy A podcast and compendium blog that currently features over 430 free or mostly free tools, resources, and/or strategies along with explanations for how they can be used to provide more options for students. What is The A.T.TIPSCAST? (

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