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Reading and Writing
Reference Guides
Reference Guide (English)
Reference Guide (Spanish)
Toolbar Tool Guide
Tool Usage Guide
K-12 Tool Guide
Elementary Education Support for English/LA Skills
Writing Process Tool Guide
Support Tools for Students with Dyslexia
Quick Reference for Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing (D/HH) and Blind/Low Vision (B/LV)
Toolmatcher
Toolmatcher allows you to quickly assess a student's learning needs and discover which features of Read&Write and OrbitDoc are best suited to help.
www.texthelp.com/resources/toolmatcher/
Training
R&W for Google - Text to Speech
R&W for Google - Word Prediction
R&W for Google - Speech Input (Dictation)
R&W for Google - Feature Overview & Other Features
Interactive Toolbar (English)
Interactive Toolbar (Spanish)
A website with different types of written materials to use for practice
Text-to-Speech Tools
Implementation
Tool Benefits and Instructional Applications
Activity sheet for R&W beginners
Writing Process Checklist
Highlighting with Purpose
Reading Comprehension Sample Lesson
R&W Tools Practice
Reference Guides
Quick Card for Chrome
Quick Card for iPad
Quick Card for Language Translation on Chrome
Annotation Quick Card in Chrome
Parent Guide for using Snap and Read at home on Chrome
Training
Adjust Options in Chrome
Use the Read Aloud Tool in Chrome
Use the OCR Tool in Chrome
Use the Translation Tool in Chrome
Use the Text Leveling Tool in Chrome
How to Take Notes Using the Study Tool in Chrome
Use the Outline Template Tool in Chrome
How to Remove Distractions, Color Coverlay, & Picture Dictionary in Chrome
Access PDF's using the PDF Reader in Chrome
Use the PDF Annotations Tool in Chrome
Clear Recent PDFs from PDF Workspace in Chrome
Implementation
Student to Feature Map
Reference Guides
Quick Reference Card for Chrome
Keyboard Shortcuts for Chrome
Parent Guide
Test Accommodations Tool
Quick Reference Card for iOS
Training
Chrome
Adjust Options in Chrome
Use the Word Prediction Tool
Use the Speech Recognition Tool
Use the Horizontal View
Use as Needed Mode
Use CoWriter to Edit
Turn on Prediction Languages
Translate Writing into English Writing
Add and Remove Personal Words
Create a Topic for Vocabulary Support
iPads
Adjust Options in iOS App
Create a Topic for Vocabulary Support
Import an Image
Export and Share Writing
Enable the Co:Writer Keyboard
Access and Change the Keyboard Settings
Implementation
Student to Feature Map
Writing
Integration of AAC & Writing
The following website is an INCREDIBLE resource that was created to support the implementation of AAC across activities for written expression!
There are implementation resources, research articles, video resources, and student examples using all forms of AAC & Writing.
Reading
Literacy Instruction for Students with Significant Disabilities
This is website GREAT reading website developed by Karen Erikson, David Koppenhaver, and Caroline Musselwhite. If you are looking to develop a more comprehensive approach to literacy instruction for students with multiple disabilities or significant cognitive challenges please explore the information and resources on this site.
The site is broken down into 6 main areas.
1) Getting Started provides a framework for this instruction and offers guidance for determining whether instruction for individual learners should focus on emergent or conventional literacy.
The 2) Access to Communication section offers a number of resources to support access to and early development of skills in the areas of linguistic, social, operational, and strategic competence.
Access to 3) appropriate reading material and to 4) affective writing supports both contain important foundational information and practical resource suggestions.
More in-depth information is also provided for 5) emergent literacy instruction (e.g., shared reading, predictable chart writing, alphabet knowledge, phonological awareness) and 6) conventional literacy instruction (e.g., guided reading, decoding, structured writing, self-selected reading).
Shared Reading Presentation from Caroline Musselwhite
What is Shared Reading Video
