1. Tools

3. Mac OS Text to Speech – Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click Dictation & Speech, then click Text to Speech. – Select the “Speak selected text when the key is pressed” checkbox. By default, speaking is enabled when you press Option-Esc. To choose a different key, click Change Key, press one or more modifier keys (Command, Shift, Option, or Control) together with another key, then click OK. – To have your Mac start speaking, press the specified key. To stop the speaking, press the key again. If text is selected when you press the key, the selected text is spoken. Otherwise, available text items in the current window are spoken; for example, if Mail is the current window, an email message is read. If no text items are available, you hear a beep.

4. Voice Dictation Set up Dictation – Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Dictation & Speech. Turn on Dictation, then choose from these Dictation options: – Use Enhanced Dictation.Enhanced Dictation – Choose your language and dialect. Some languages, such as English, have multiple dialects. – Choose the keyboard shortcut you will use to signal that you're ready to start dictating. – Choose your preferred microphone from the pop-up menu below the microphone icon.

5. Use Dictation Go to a document or other text field and place the insertion point where you want your dictated text to appear. Press the keyboard shortcut for starting dictation. The default shortcut is Fn Fn (press the Fn key twice). Or choose Edit > Start Dictation. When your Mac is listening, it displays a microphone with an input meter that rises and falls as you speak. Speak the words that you want your Mac to type. Use dictation commands to add punctuation, formatting, and more.dictation commands To stop dictating, click Done below the microphone icon, or press Fn, or switch to another window. The more you use Dictation, the better it understands you. Dictation learns the characteristics of your voice and adapts to your accent.

6. Text Edit Word Completion: Type a few letters and hit “ESC” Summarize: Services to Summarize (TextEdit Menu to Services, may need to add Summarize in Services Preferences) Edit to Speech Access Speak Text and Dictation

7. Windows 7 Voice Dictation – Open Speech Recognition by clicking the Start button Picture of the Start button, clicking All Programs, clicking Accessories, clicking Ease of Access, and then clicking Windows Speech Recognition. – Say "start listening" or click the Microphone button to start the listening mode. – Open the program you want to use or select the text box you want to dictate text into. – Say the text that you want dictate.

8. Windows 7 Text to Speech – Use Narrator: http://windows.microsoft.com/en- us/windows/hear-text-read-aloud- narrator#1TC=windows-7http://windows.microsoft.com/en- us/windows/hear-text-read-aloud- narrator#1TC=windows-7

9. Chrome Extensions and Apps Move It: Allows you to set reminders at 5 minute intervals so the students can get a movement break. Readability: Removes all the clutter from a page and lessons distractions for a more comfortable read. SpeakIt: Allows you to select text and convert it to speech. Beeline Reader: Uses a color gradient to guide your eyes from the end of one line to the beginning of the next

10. Chrome Extensions and Apps Timer – Super easy to use Timer Extensity – Allows you to easily manage your extensions and apps. Mindomo – Chrome App allows you to create mind maps quickly and easily. TLDR- Chrome : Too Long, Didn’t Read – Summaries Text Speech Logger – Dictate in one language and simultaneously translate in another Dictation.IO – voice recognition

11. Rewordify www.rewordify.com Simplifies and explains difficult English words. Paste in sentences, paragraphs, whole chapters or web addresses into the yellow box at the top of the page. Rewordified words are highlighted. Click them to hear the original word. Using the Settings options, students select the desired display mode. Check out the “Print and Learn Activities” option.

12. Graphic Organizers SmartArt option on the Insert tab in Word 2010 &2013 (Windows) or the Smart Art tab (Mac 2011) contains graphic organizers. In Mac word 2008 go to Insert to SmartArt Graphic. https://www.teachervision.com/graphic- organizers/printable/6293.html https://www.teachervision.com/graphic- organizers/printable/6293.html

13. Other Options in Word 2013 Speak – adds text to speech – Click on the dropdown to the right of the Quick Access toolbar (top right corner) and choose More Commands. At the next window click on the drop down by the first column that reads Popular Commands, select All Commands. – Scroll to the Speak feature and press the Add button and then click OK. – To use – Select/ highlight the text and press the Speak icon on the Quick Access Toolbar

14. Spell Check and Thesaurus in Word 2013 (Windows) also provide auditory support – F7 + Shift Key for Thesaurus AutoCorrect for Abbreviation Expansion Art Remove the Background – Format to Remove Background on left

15. Demonstrate Knowledge Blabberize.com: http://blabberize.com/http://blabberize.com/ Fotobabble.com: http://www.fotobabble.com/http://www.fotobabble.com/ Voki.com: http://voki.com/http://voki.com/ Photopeach.com: http://photopeach.com/http://photopeach.com/ http://www.piclits.com/compose_dragdrop.aspx Create a PicLit http://www.piclits.com/compose_dragdrop.aspx Add audio to a picture to demonstrate knowledge, tell a story

16. Summarization http://smmry.com https://www.tools4noobs.com/summarize/ http://freesummarizer.com/#summarizecontai ner http://freesummarizer.com/#summarizecontai ner http://textcompactor.com/ http://www.simplish.org/ (Simplify, Summary, Spelling) http://www.simplish.org/ TLDR extension for Chrome

17. Simplified Text or Cognitive Rescaling Simple English Language of Wikkipea in list of languages 60 second recap: http://www.60secondrecap.com/ http://www.60secondrecap.com/ Tar Heel Reader: http://tarheelreader.org/http://tarheelreader.org/ In Simple English: http://www.online- utility.org/english/simple_basic_helper.jsphttp://www.online- utility.org/english/simple_basic_helper.jsp http://udleditions.cast.org/ CAST UDL Editions http://udleditions.cast.org/ http://www.storyshares.org/ Beginning reader at high school level http://www.storyshares.org/

18. Audio Books http://www.storynory.com/ http://podiobooks.com http://www.storylineonline.net/ http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/ Search by Readability http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/ https://librivox.org/

19. Read Conmigo Free bilingual children's books: Books download as PDFs. Can do on iPad on Computer https://www.readconmigo.org

20. Graphic Novels/Comic Books Shakespeare Comic Books – https://www.shakespearecomics.com/ https://www.shakespearecomics.com/ http://digitaltoolsforteachers.blogspot.com/2 011/04/online-comics-and-graphic- novels.html Digital Tools For Teachers http://digitaltoolsforteachers.blogspot.com/2 011/04/online-comics-and-graphic- novels.html https://www.tes.com TES https://www.tes.com – The Tempest

22. Search Engines Kiddle – Google Search Engine for Kids http://www.kiddle.co/ http://www.kiddle.co/ Kids Click: http://www.kidsclick.org/searches/advanceds earchform.php http://www.kidsclick.org/searches/advanceds earchform.php http://www.sweetsearch.com/ Sweet Search http://www.sweetsearch.com/ http://www.wolframalpha.com/ WolframAlpha http://www.wolframalpha.com/

23. Kiddle Safe sites and pages written specifically for kids. Handpicked and checked by Kiddle editors. Typically, results 1-3. Safe, trusted sites that are not written specifically for kids, but have content written in a simple way, easy for kids to understand. Handpicked and checked by Kiddle editors. Typically, results 4-7. Safe, famous sites that are written for adults, providing expert content, but are harder for kids to understand. Filtered by Google safe search. Typically, results 8 onwards.

24. Visual Dictionaries and Thesaurus http://www.kidtopia.info/snappy_words.html https://www.instagrok.com/ http://www.online-languages.info/

25. Vocabulary Rewordify.com: https://rewordify.com/https://rewordify.com/ VocabGrabber: www.visualthesauras.com/vocabgrabber www.visualthesauras.com/vocabgrabber UpGoerSix – Color codes vocabulary in a text by how common the words are http://splasho.com/upgoer6/ http://splasho.com/upgoer6/

26. Visualizations http://www.wordle.net/ http://tagcrowd.com/ http://www.tagxedo.com/ https://tagul.com/ http://www.kizclub.com/stories.htm

27. Math http://lcps.org/Page/1661 http://www.wolframalpha.com/ https://www.brightstorm.com/ Videos by teachers https://www.brightstorm.com/

28. Bouncy Balls https://bouncyballs.org Tracks amount of sound in room – For when room is too loud or on the flip side for when a student’s voice is too soft.

29. Go Noodle www.gonoodle.com – get kids moving www.gonoodle.com

30. Allows You To Create Comics http://pixton.com http://toondoo.com http://www.readwritethink.org/

31. Essay Writing/Research https://academichelp.net/ Academic Help https://academichelp.net/ https://rpc.elm4you.org/ Research Project Calculator https://rpc.elm4you.org/ https://www.zotero.org/ Zotero –cite your research https://www.zotero.org/

32. Interactive Sites http://interactivesites.weebly.com/ K-5 http://interactivesites.weebly.com/ http://www.readwritethink.org/ K-12 http://www.readwritethink.org/ https://www.ixl.com/ Pre-K – 12 https://www.ixl.com/ http://powermylearning.org/ K-12 http://powermylearning.org/

33. Science http://sciencewriter.cast.org/welcome CAST Science Writer http://sciencewriter.cast.org/welcome

34. To Download YouTube Videos Download Helper: https://www.downloadhelper.net/ https://www.downloadhelper.net/ YouTube Enhancer: https://www.youtube- enhancer.com/https://www.youtube- enhancer.com/

35. Phy Ed https://www.michigan.gov/documents/mde/ NCInclusivePE_212172_7.pdf https://www.michigan.gov/documents/mde/ NCInclusivePE_212172_7.pdf http://www.pecentral.org/adapted/adaptedac tivities.html http://www.pecentral.org/adapted/adaptedac tivities.html

36. iPad Apps Reading Epic - Epic! is the leading all-you-can-read eBook library for kids 12 and under offering unlimited access to over 10,000 high-quality children’s books, now including thousands of read-to-me and Audio books.

37. News/Reading Newsela – Daily news at the just-right reading level for you

38. Organization/Concept Maps Tools4Students – In Spanish too. Tools 4 Students offers 25 graphic organizers supporting common comprehension skills like main idea and detail, sequencing, compare and contrast etc. Each organizer can be used again and again and be emailed, drop boxed, or saved as a PDF.

39. Writing Accommodations Spell Better - Spell Better delivers effective and empowering assistive tools for struggling writers with dyslexia. With powerful word prediction, advanced text-to-speech, and dyslexic spell checking, it offers just the right support for lasting improvements in writing success. SnapType Occupational Therapy - SnapType helps students keep up with their peers in class even when their penmanship holds them back.

40. Math Math SketchExplorer - Drag, manipulate and animate visual mathematics to develop and generalize your understanding of fundamental concepts across elementary math, geometry, algebra, trigonometry, calculus, and beyond.

41. ModMath - ModMath is an adaptive program to assist students in acquiring math skills from basic arithmetic to complex algebraic equations. The app, created in cooperation with the Christopher's Way Foundation, lets you type math problems right onto the touch screen of an iPad rather than write them out long-hand. You can then solve the problems using the built-in touch pad. And you can print, save to cloud services like Dropbox, or e- mail the assignments all without ever picking up a pencil.

42. Presentation Telestory - Write, direct, and star in your own TV show with TeleStory! Shadow Puppet - Easily create videos in the classroom! Students as young as five can make videos to tell stories, explain ideas, or document their learning. 30+ lesson ideas supporting Common Core make it easy to get started!

43. Chatterpix Kids - Grab your camera! Let’s ChatterPix! Chatterpix Kids can make anything talk -- pets, friends, doodles, and more. Simply take any photo, draw a line to make a mouth, and record your voice. Then share your Pix with friends and family as silly greetings, playful messages, creative cards, or even fancy book reports. And best of all, it’s FREE!

44. Breathing MyCalmBeat – A Brain Exercise that helps improve your ability to manage stress through slow breathing.

45. AT Newsletters http://www.isd199.org/departments/special_ services/assistive_technology___a_t_/ http://www.isd199.org/departments/special_ services/assistive_technology___a_t_/

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