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Many students with autism spectrum disorder demonstrate difficulties in reading comprehension. These difficulties may be attributed to deficits in Theory of Mind, Weak Central Coherence, and Executive Functioning

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Many students with autism spectrum disorder demonstrate difficulties in reading comprehension. These difficulties may be attributed to deficits in Theory of Mind, Weak Central Coherence, and Executive Functioning

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The following are some of the challenges and barriers...

Joint Attention & Social Engagement:  The ability to respond to and engage in shared, enjoyable experiences including looking to others to understand how they feel about their experiences and imitating others to learn new skills.

Theory of Mind & Social / Emotional Reciprocity: The ability to recognize and interpret the thoughts, perspectives, intentions, and emotions of others to predict their behavior; Understanding emotions through descriptions of body language and facial expressions.

Central Coherence:  Understanding the central tenets of a passage and creating meaning from text details; the ability to integrate details in order to understand the “big picture” of a passage.

Executive Function: The ability to organize information and thoughts for coherency, self-monitor for comprehension, and execute plans of action.

Restricted Interests & Motivation:  Abnormally intense preoccupation with specific interest areas or activities which impact motivation to read non-preferred text or results in getting stuck on words or phrases.

Prior Knowledge:  The ability to apply relevant background knowledge to make global and abstract connections in text.

Literal (vs. Abstract) Thinking:  Focus on factual information such as events and actual objects or people in the text and an absence of focus on concepts and generalizations often confused by a lack of understanding idioms, irony, figures of speech, innuendo, and sarcasm.

Pragmatics:  The ability to understand language and communication in social contexts and thus predict character intentions and behaviors.

Repetitive Patterns of Behavior: The desire for predictability that results in rigid adherence to schedules, routines, and thinking in an attempt to create “sameness"

Language, Communication & Vocabulary:  The ability to understand the complexities of language, communication, and vocabulary to comprehend text.

Language, Communication & Vocabulary:  The ability to understand the complexities of language, communication, and vocabulary to comprehend text.

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This video describes 5 facts on how we can support students with Autism on how to read.

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Phonemic awareness is the ability to identify and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words. To use phonics is to teach the relationship between the sounds of the spoken language (phonemes), and the letters (graphemes) or groups of letters or syllables of the written language

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This application helps students with Autism how to read words and correctly say them. The application uses a talk button to hear the student say the word and they are told if it is correct or incorrect. This application supports students with phonics and reading skills.

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Read 10-20 minutes with your kids everyday

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Engage beginner readers with light up words Engage reluctant readers with audio & word highlighting English Language Learners gain from pronunciation…

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Bob Books was designed to give young children the tools to cross from learning letters to reading words. Beginning reader book sets start slowly and progress from books with three-letter words, to books with more than one sentence per page. Because we meet children at the right level, parents are often amazed at how quickly their child can sound out words when reading their first Bob Book.

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Over night, the Maslens were inundated with phone calls. The books had entered the spotlight, and parents eager to help their children learn to read wanted Bob Books. "By that time we were going crazy," Bobby Maslen says. "We knew the potential was much more than we could handle ourselves."

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Is another amazing application that offers many amazing ways to learn how to read. Their phonics sections offer many activities and games where the student with autism can enhance their letter recognition, sound, and spelling. The application can be personalized to the skill level of the student. This is another great application that can be used at home and even in the classroom.

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PHONICS

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Letter sounds are the building blocks of words! We start the phonics journey by focusing on a single letter and making sure your child associates it with a single sound. From toddlers to kindergartners, kids love learning phonics with games and activities.

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If you can read it, you can spell it! Your child will use phonics to take apart the sounds they hear in words to discover how to spell them, leading to spelling words they haven't even seen yet!

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HOMER | The Essential Early Learning Program and App for Kids 2-8

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HOMER is the early learning program for ages 2-8 that is personalized to your child's interests to help them fall in love with learning. Try it free for 30 days!

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Vocabulary is a set of words, typically the set in a language or the set known to an individual.

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Here the student can look up words that he/she do not understand. The meaning, sound and how it is used in a sentences is provided on this website. This is a very helpful website for the student to learn the meaning and see examples.

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The world's leading online dictionary: English definitions, synonyms, word origins, example sentences, word games, and more. A trusted authority for 25+ years!

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TumblePremium collection has over 1100 titles and is perfect for public libraries and elementary schools, with content most appropriate for those in grades K-6. It includes animated talking picture books, chapter books, videos, non-fiction titles, graphic novels, playlists, and books in French and Spanish.  Students can read through many books, click on a word and the meaning will be explained to them. Great resource with so many books!

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TumbleBookLibrary is a curated database of children’s e-books, available by subscription to Elementary Schools and Public Libraries around the world. TumbleBookLibrary Premium has over 1100 titles for grades K-6, and includes our unique animated, talking picture books, read-along chapter books, non…

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This website offers many videos that help expand the vocabulary of students. You can follow along as the words are highlighted with beautiful images and videos. This can be great for the students with Autism as they use very simple videos and simple words.

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Vocabulary | Between the Lions Early Reading | PBS LearningMedia

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Here are segments selected from Between the Lions, the series that helps kids "Get Wild About Reading!" This special collection provides a set of early Reading/Language Arts resources, organized by early elementary and preschool literacy skills.

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Text comprehension allows readers to extract or construct meaning from the written word. Students who misread words or misinterpret their meanings are at a disadvantage. Proper instruction can boost students’ skills in this key area

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Fluency is a combination of the ability to read with accuracy, speed, and proper expression, which ultimately helps students strengthen their reading comprehension skills. Accuracy. An integral component of fluency is the ability to identify letters, letter patterns, and isolated words accurately and quickly.

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Speak It! is a great text-to-speech solution that can allow students with reading disabilities to get a little help with reading when they need it. This can be used in the classroom, at home, and on the go for students to comprehend what they are reading.

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Speak It app converts text into speech. Select text > Speak it

Speak It app converts text into speech on any websites. Select words or paragraphs and then just listen. Useful and convenient Speak It for everyone in six supported languages. How to use: 1) select words or paragraphs 2) right click on this text 3) click Speak It to confirm in the context menu Features: * Languages - English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Russian * Rate * Pitch * Volume

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Speak It app converts text into speech. Select text > Speak it

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IXL is personalized learning. With a comprehensive K-12 curriculum, individualized guidance, and real-time analytics, IXL meets the unique needs of each learner. This website/application is such a great tool. Not only does it have fun interactive games, but it offers multiple ways for the students to comprehend what they are learning.

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IXL | Math, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, and Spanish

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IXL is the world's most popular subscription-based learning site for K-12. Used by over 15 million students, IXL provides personalized learning in more than 10,000 topics, covering math, language arts, science, social studies, and Spanish. Interactive questions, awards, and certificates keep kids motivated as they master skills.

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This website offers many supports for literacy. Students have access to their page where they can read books and be quizzed on their comprehension of the story. This is a great website/application that can enhance the reading skills of students with Autism.

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Reading Eggs is a great app to help kids develop reading fluency. It offers a wide variety of interactive reading games, guided reading lessons, phonics activities, word puzzles, nursery rhymes, and more than 300 storybooks. This is a useful website because it offers many components to help support students with Autism to learn how to read.

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Signup to the Learn-To-Read Program for Schools - Reading Eggs

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Reading Eggs makes learning essential reading and phonics skills easy and fun for young students. Start your FREE trial today!

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Starfall is another great app to help kids become fluent readers using interactive games, fun activities, songs, rhymes, and many more. More specifically, kids will get to practice letter sounds, and word recognition and enhance their reading comprehension.

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Spark Reading, as its name indicates, is all about improving kids reading skills through interactive and immersive stories. The app provides access to a moving digital library that kids can take with them anywhere. Stories in Spark Reading are selected by teachers and educators and cover a wide variety of topics including both fiction and non-fiction titles.

Stories come with comprehension question and activities to test their understanding. It also features recommendations based on kids reading levels and interests and allow them to track their reading progress along the way. Parents and teachers can use the app’s reporting feature to track kids reading progress, monitor their performance, view scores,  time spent reading and many more.

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Spark Reading improves the reading skills of students ages 6 to 16, designed by award winning experts and teachers to build up your child's reading ability and grade level.

"Kids Apps We Love" - Apple App Store

Featuring hundreds of topics and thousands of questions, your kids will be hooked reading one story after the next as they improve their critical thinking skills and reading comprehension.

Spark Reading is designed to highlight the best stories for your child's reading level and interests, empowering them to pick the perfect story to stay engaged with their learning.

Your child can take this digital library with them anywhere. Every academic subject is covered, and every story was written specifically for this app.

We are always adding new stories to help your child grow as a reader, so please write to us if there are any topics you'd like to see us add to the app!

Studies show that just 10 minutes of reading a day makes a world of difference for students. Completing comprehension questions has been linked to higher scores in reading proficiency.

"A book is a door. You open it. You step through." - Jeanette Winterson

"Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere." - Mary Schmich

"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader." - Margaret Fuller

- Uses widely adopted standards for 2nd grade through 8th grade, including Lexile levels
- Expertly curated by teachers and educators, with content across all topics and grade levels
- Award-winning designers and writers
- Age-appropriate books that children love to read
- A vast collection of fiction and nonfiction titles
- Learner-centered STEM topics (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math)
- Stories on every academic subject
- Aligns with school curriculum, works great for homeschooling
- Recommendations to match your student's reading level and promote accelerated reading
- As students track their progress through each category, they will build a passion for reading
- Easy to monitor the progress of multiple student profiles, track their scores, how much time they are spending reading, and their favorite topics
- Safe and kid-friendly environment to explore and learn!

The app allows the reader to reread and retake the tests without punishment. Teachers and caretakers can review time spent reading and other personalized data.

No information is collected from the device, it is fully secure and COPPA compliant.

"This app helped me in my reading. Now I have an A+. I am very happy I tried this app."

* No Wi-Fi needed - study anywhere and learn at your own pace
* Audio for each story to be read out loud
* Highlighting of the words to read along (with audio)
* Each passage and question set takes approximately 5-8 minutes to complete (stories for older grade levels 7-10 minutes)

Teachers: stories and question sets from this app can be assigned as activities in Apple's Schoolwork app

User feedback:
"I like how it highlights where the answer was in the passage when you pick your answer." - Kami Butterfield, teacher

"The selections are age appropriate and the responses to the questions are not too easy - some thought needs to go into it." - Mary Skummer, teacher

"The feature showing where the answer is located in the passage is a spot on tool since I ask my students to be able to provide this in their oral and written responses." - Harold Nelson, teacher

"Great for reading practice - I would highly recommend it."

"These apps are awesome! Our boys absolutely love these. We have done 3rd, 4th & 5th grade comprehension. They love the fun aspect of getting the questions right, and think of these more as games than the learning apps they are."

Current categories include science, sports, history, inventions, food and nutrition, geography, animals, mythology, biographies, and more.

We love to hear from you!
Please send any feedback or questions to hello@peekaboo.mobi

*With practice you can achieve your best score!*

Version 5.6.0

New visuals, events, and stories have been added. Plus - enhanced student progress through their learning journey!

Great

I am homeschooling my little sister, due to all of this. Cause school is canceled. I could not find any books that is her level, she likes to read, and has a test, so I don't have to make up a test.😂 She loves all these books and has read each at least twice. The only thing I would say that is bad is that our parents lost their jobs and cannot afford more books in her grade level. Because of this virus, you should make the all of the books free, because not everyone can afford it. Remember, that everyone including my family are fighting a hard battle.

Thank you so much for your review and great job helping your sister! We have been trying to make a lot of our content free to help families that are now studying at home. Write to us from the app and we'll see if we can help even more.

Great App

I give the app a 4.5 because I was looking for an app that my kids would use to read instead of the old traditional way. An app with things they are interested in. I came across this app and both my kids loved when they saw books/stories about basketball or baseball (their favorite sports) they even like that it gave a quiz at the end. Which I thought was brilliant because you can tell kids to read and read but do they really understand it? How do you know they really read the book/story? With the quiz at the end it's a little reassurance that yes, they did read the book/story and they understood it.. I had only one issue at the beginning which was that even tho I downloaded and paid for subscription on my iPad, there was no way to "log in" to the same account I had made on my iPad so they could use on their iPads. So I emailed the company and within 2 hours I had an answer back helping me. * Kudos for great customer service!!*

** just a suggestion, you should create a way for parents to make an account and adding the kids, so then the kids can log in without having to pay the subscription again**

Thanks so much for your great review. We are glad we were able to help you. We are working on new stories and other updates so write to us if you ever have more suggestions!

Not the best learning app

This is not the best learning app. I have read so many stories in my lifetime, but have never experienced so much overage stories. For example, if you are twenty, you would want to read something for your age level so that you could understand it. But if your in this app, you can't do that for even kids! Kids should be able to have a FREE environment that lays out all of the books they will understand and something that's on their grade level or age range. This app again doesn't provide that! I have read a story about Abraham Lincoln on this app. I know it's obviously something I can understand, but do you really expect a 8/9 yr old child to be able to look at every detail and answer pointless hard questions about it? NO! That should be in the fourth grade range! That's what I'm talking about. Now, this is MY opinion. Don't take this personal. I do love this app but please, UPGRADE DA DANG THANG! Please!! Let children have the right to understand stories in grade level and age range! We are all people! Come on, that's just JANK!!!!!

We love that you are looking for the best reading materials for the grade level that you need. Thanks for your well-written review. We have lots of good reviews from people who say this app has really helped them with their reading, but we always want to keep improving and we love to hear suggestions. The stories are written for the specific grade level. Because the Abraham Lincoln story is at the third grade level, it is written simply and with shorter sentences for that grade level, like "When he was a child, his family moved to Indiana." and "He ran for President in 1860 and won." There is a lot more which can be said about Lincoln but this is just a general overview of his life for that reading level. If you ever have other questions or suggestions for us please write to us here or from within the app, we love to hear from you.

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Peekaboo Studios LLC

Compatibility

iPhone

Requires iOS 13.0 or later.

iPad

Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.

iPod touch

Requires iOS 13.0 or later.

Mac

Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.

Languages

English, Arabic, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish

Age Rating

4+, Made for Ages 9-11

Family Sharing

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‎Spark Reading improves the reading skills of students ages 6 to 16, designed by award winning experts and teachers to build up your child's reading ability and grade level. "Kids Apps We Love" - Apple App Store Featuring hundreds of topics and thousands of questions, your kids will be hooked readi...