1. Reading and Writing Supports for BCPS students
Sherri Keller, OT/AT team

2. Writing and Comprehension
Microsoft Word
Adding items to quick access toolbar
Spelling and Grammar
Speak that feature
Thesaurus
Translate (need web)
Right click on any word for these features

3. Reading and Writing Supports
OneNote
Learning Toolbar
Dictate – Need connection
Immersive Reader
Insert Audio
Insert Video
List making (dragging and dropping)
Adding lines to paper and graph paper
Page Templates
Changing background color

4. Writing Support Dictation io Dictation io
Speak in a variety of languages
Copy and paste into Word
Drag and drop into Word
Text to speech feature
Split screen
Drag and drop into Kurzweil

5. Writing Support Talk Typer Speak into dictation box Edit if necessary
Dictate line by line, edit as you go
Offers suggestions/alternatives when you select the blue or green horizontal lines in the dictation window
Hear aloud what you dictated
Allows basic punctuation: period, questions mark, comma
Copy and paste text into document

6. Writing Support Kurzweil Open a blank draft Audio note
Open dyslexic font
Type and talk
Word prediction
Word List
Talking Calculator
Graphic organizer
Split Screen
Review Checklist
Save as word file
Save to OneDrive
Save to student folder (Documents)

7. Co:Writer – Needs to be purchased
Writing Support
Co:Writer – Needs to be purchased
Word prediction
Topic dictionaries
Speak selection
Word Bank
Settings for accessibility needs for display, prediction and speech

8. Clicker 7 – Needs to be purchased
Writing Support
Clicker 7 – Needs to be purchased
Writing with talking word processor
Superkeys- cluster the keys enlarges them and works with word prediction
Voice notes
Word prediction
Clicker sets
Sentence sets to be customized by ability
Connect Sets
Allow students to choose from clusters of words to create a sentence
Works in chunks
Word Banks
Sentence starters
Writing books with supports
Talk set- to Narrate images/make a story
Sorting, classification, mind maps

9. Low tech writing strategies
Resources
Low tech writing strategies
Raised line graph paper
Highlighted lined Papers
Finger Spacers
Writing tools
Slant boards
Writing frame

10. Reading Support BCPS E-book Options
BCPS one- Digital Tools
Destiny Library Catalog
Tumble Book Library
Most databases in BCPS one have text to speech option (such as World Book and SIRS)
Digital Content Summary
Kurzweil – Universal Library has a large repository of e-books
Baltimore County Public Library Overdrive: (partnership with BCPS schools)
Student uses student id number to log in and check books out
E-books
Audiobooks
Check out 5 e-books at a time without overdue fees

11. Reading Support E-Book Options
Bookshare
Bookshare: In order for you to become a Bookshare® member, an expert must confirm that you have a print disability that severely inhibits or prevents you from reading traditional print materials. Anyone in the world with a qualifying print disability may join Bookshare. (
The individual student or school needs to sign up for an account.
Pick someone at the school to manage the bookshare account and add books to students profile.
What is it?
An accessible online library for people with print disabilities
Listen to books with text to speech voices
Hear and see highlighted words on the screen
Read with enlarged fonts or large print

12. Reading Support Kurzweil Accessing the Universal Library
31 Natural Text-to-Speech voices
Text-to-Speech in 18 languages and dialects
Customizable reading rate and presentation
Improve readability with OpenDyslexic font and Text magnification
Read text in Word, PDF, EPUB, RTF, Daisy, and on the Web
Access to over 1,800 classic literature texts
Resume Reading brings opens the exact page you were last reading
Change background and text color with the click of a button

13. Reading and Comprehension Support
Kurzweil
Define words
Widgit Picture Dictionary and Talking dictionary
Synonym button
Vocabulary study guides; English and bi-lingual
Note tools:
Sticky notes
Voice Notes
Column Notes
Mark important place in text with Bookmark tools
Highlight key text structures with multiple colored highlighters
Cross-out text to aid with the process of elimination
 Online reference tools 
Support active reading, note taking, and chapter summaries with templates
Translate words or full passages to 70+ languages

14. Reading and Writing Supports
Instructional Activities
Resources available on the Innovative Learning Wiki
A chart of instructional activities, description and supporting technology tools