Reading and Writing About Age Appropriate Literature ATAINS Conference Bridgewater, Nova Scotia April 3-5, 2003 Elizabeth Pass, Assistive Technology Specialist.

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Reading and Writing About Age Appropriate Literature ATAINS Conference Bridgewater, Nova Scotia April 3-5, 2003 Elizabeth Pass, Assistive Technology Specialist Halifax Regional School Board Halifax, Nova Scotia

Paperback book Computer book with built-in scanning for switch users Audiocassette Start-to-Finish® Books

Start-to-Finish® Books: An Overview Students significantly behind in reading require texts that minimize hurdles that impede decoding, fluency, comprehension and independent reading. For the student, story content must be age-appropriate & very interesting. For the teacher, it must be tied to curriculum. Start-to-Finish books are created using the “Written for Success” formula, a set of more than 50 guidelines for writing easy-to-read text. The subject matter of Start-to-Finish books is appropriate for students from grade four through high school. Each book contains links to curriculum. Ex: Nick Ford Mysteries contain material related to history, geography, social studies, biography & science. Approximately 70 titles offer stories about history, famous people, sports, fictional mysteries, classic adventures Excerpts from a paper by Jerry Stemach, Dorothy Tyacke, Gail Venable

Start-to-Finish® Teacher Materials key words, character & place names plot and character development vocabulary development activities computer based quizzes graph generated for quiz results detailed progress reports for teacher viewing and printing Pre / Post - Reading Resources Assessment and Tracking

Two libraries for progressing students GOLD grade 2/3 readability simpler syntax and vocabulary easily decodable words limited # of ideas per sentence limited # of complex sentences word-by-word highlighting 5000 to 7000 words per book words per page 10 to 12 chapters words per chapter full page illustrations BLUE grade 4/5 readability complex or abstract vocabulary more ideas in longer sentences varied sentence structures varied word order sentence-by-sentence highlighting 10,000 to 12,000 words per book words per page 10 to 12 chapters words per chapter smaller illustrations-various placements

Talking Word Processor Emerging writers experience the connection between the spoken word and written word. Struggling writers use appropriate words as they use editing tools. Developing writers build confidence in their ability to express themselves. All students improve spelling and vocabulary as they edit and revise. Write:OutLoud is a word processor that gives speech feedback as students type words, sentences and paragraphs. They can listen for word usage, tense inflections, omitted words and misspellings.

Individual writing templates can be personalized with features which best support the writer’s needs. Reads and highlights text to assist student editing Reads and highlights to assist student reading and comprehension Talking toolbar, large buttons and keyboard shortcuts provide additional support for students with alternate access needs. Talking Word Processor

Talking vocabulary tools offer spell & homonym checking and word definitions. Provides auditory and visual cues of misspellings as students write Imports and reads electronic text Talking Word Processor

Emerging phonetic spellers get the word they want. Struggling students find the right word with fewer cues. Developing writers create good first sentences that are grammatically correct. All students build vocabulary. Co:Writer 4000 generates possibilities for the word a student is beginning to type. It generates predictions by combining knowledge of spelling, grammar rules, context clues, student history and letter cues. Students overcome mechanical barriers which then allows them to focus on conveying ideas. Word Prediction

Speaks predicted words and completed sentences Grammar support fosters better sentences Fewer keystrokes reduces fatigue FlexSpell™ offers traditional spelling predictions for phonetic spellers Sends text to word processors, text fields and programs.

Word Prediction Select main dictionaries to meet student’s developing language needs Select topic dictionaries included with Co:Writer to enhance task-specific writing Create custom topic dictionaries from wordlists and text documents Download additional topic dictionaries from DJ website

For more information Download additional topic dictionaries © Copyright Don Johnston Incorporated. Used with permission Permission to use/reproduce presentation and handouts is granted Please maintain credits. Elizabeth Pass, Assistive Technology Specialist Halifax Regional School Board, Halifax, Nova Scotia