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Alphabetics is awareness of how the letters of the alphabet relate to the sounds of the language. This involves being knowledgable of both phonics and phonemic awareness.

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2 challenges students with ASD face within learning alphabetics are:

* Students with Autism often overgeneralize the rules of phonics and apply it to words and sounds that come with an exception.
* Students with Autism are also much slower to learn and remember these exceptions with phonics letters and sounds.

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Explode the Code is an application used to drive phonics instruction. It provides many different skills for students, including decoding skills and is data-driven by recording incorrect and correct answers. I think this app would be useful because it does seem like it encompasses numerous skills in one place and the data collection would be extremely valuable.

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NEW!

We are excited to announce that you are now able to access the program from the browser on your mobile touchscreen device!

Break through the code with online, Explode The Code®

data-driven phonics instruction

Online Features

Individualized instruction and reinforcement based on continuous assessment

Research-based instruction supported by auditory and visual cues to promote independent learning

Robust reporting features that provide ongoing progress monitoring

Engage students and provides online delivery available across school, home and extended day services-no installation required

Phonics curriculum spanning grades K through 4 in one comprehensive program, effective for grade-level and intervention instruction

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Explode The Code workbook and online formats:

Explode The Code Online users have gained reading proficiency at a rate three times that of other students.

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"Explode The Code is an amazing tool that has helped students to reach extraordinary goals. This program has made readers out of those who could not read."

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NEW! We are excited to announce that you are now able to access the program from the browser on your mobile touchscreen device!

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Bob Books is not only a physical option used for phonics skills but it also offers a digital application to assist students. It assists students in decoding words interactively, and allows students to drag letters to correct positions after it has read. I think this app would be useful because it gives an option for students to actually practice what they've heard by dragging letters where they are supposed to go.

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Bob Books – 40 Years of Best-Selling Learn to Read Books

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Bob Books has Inspired Reading Success for Over 40 Years

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Starfall kids is an exceptional app that includes numerous stories and games. The stories have a read aloud feature and allow decodes the word for the student. The books themselves include interactive features within the pages. I have personally used Starfall with my ASD students and it is very useful. They have a good time with it and keeps them engaged while teaching phonics skills.

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Starfall Education: Kids Games, Movies, Books & Music for K-5 and above

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At Starfall, children have fun while they learn - specializing in reading, phonics & math - educational games, movies, books, songs, and more for children K-5 and above.

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Fluency is the ability to read a text accurately and effortlessly.

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* Students with ASD often face issues with memorization which will then affect their ability to be fluent when reading.
* Students with ASD may also have an issue with retaining information on phonics and phonemic awareness rules which may cause them to mispronounce words and affect their fluency.

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Book Caster allows interactive books to be created. They have an option to model reading on the app and the ebooks can be saved to any digital device and utilized for whatever need be. I think this would be useful because it would allow the student to be able to create a book that interests them while still reading aloud and practicing their fluency.

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CAST UDL Book Builder has been made possible in part by generous support from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary & Secondary Education, NEC Foundation of America, The John W. Alden Trust, and The Pinkerton Foundation

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6 Ways to Teach Alphabet Letters & Sounds

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Spark Reading allows students access to interactive and immersive reading. Outside of the many titles that are offered, Spark Reading also gives comprehension questions along the way. I think this app would be useful because the many different types of titles the app provides for students to practice their reading with.

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Practice to help all students master each sound

Assessments and prompts on your favorite books

Fiction and nonfiction articles to practice close reading.

Science passages with reading and science questions

Strengthen emergent reader phonics skills

Identify sounds that each student needs to master, provide weekly practice and measure progress.

Grades K-3

Weekly assignments

Progress and mastery reports

Your best (book) study companion

SparkReading Book Bundles give you ready-made quizzes and activities for the most assigned books in middle and high school, saving you time.

More than 20 Middle and High School books included

Chapter quizzes and vocabulary reviews

Writing prompts

Reading practice for all levels

Interesting fiction and nonfiction articles to help students' close reading skills. Ready-to-go for independent reading, challenge work, or distance learning assignments.

Grades 2 - 12

Comprehension questions

Writing prompts

Reports on time spent and comprehension accuracy

Get students excited about reading science

Build reading, comprehension and vocabulary skills while learning about important scientific concepts. Ready-to-go for independent work or distance learning assignments.

Grades 2-6

30 passages

Comprehension, vocabulary checks

Math and/or science questions

See how Edulastic can make a difference at your school

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Teach Your Monster allows students to practice their fluency skills through fun interactive games. Teach Your Monster starts children at a level with phonics and works their way up when they show mastery. I think this would be useful because it gives children levels to make sure they're practicing what they need to be and it allows them to learn and have fun.

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Improving Fluency with Technology: Repeated and Performance Reading

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Fluency is reading with accuracy, speed, and understanding. Students who struggle with fluency may read slowly, in a monotone, ignoring punctuation, or in choppy start-and-stop rhythms. Support these students with tools that allow for repeated readings and performance, and model expressive reading with audiobooks, e-books, and your own live readings.

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Vocabulary is the basic building blocks of students communication. Vocabulary means that a child knows the words needed whether they are speaking, listening, reading, or writing.

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* Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder often have trouble with communication as a whole. This means they may find it more difficult to learn any new vocabulary.

* Students with ASD also may have less exposure to conversation due to deficits with socializing so this leads to deficits in learned vocabulary.

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Vocabulary Victor is an app that allows students to play a series of games to expand their vocabulary is a way that is engaging and interesting to them. It shows relationships between different words and also aids in spelling.

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A Better Way to Learn Words! | Vocab Victor

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Vocab Victor is an innovative word-learning App for Apple and Android devices. Play exciting word games to expand your English vocabulary!

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Endless Alphabet is an app that targets vocabulary, spelling and also integrates phonics instruction. This app is interactive and has students play word games in order to learn new vocabulary.

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Winner of Apple's App Store Best of 2013 award!

Set the stage for reading success with this delightfully interactive educational app. Kids will have a blast learning their ABC's and building vocabulary with the adorable Endless monsters. Each word features an interactive puzzle game with talking letters and a short animation illustrating the definition. Before you know it, your child will be using words like gargantuan and cooperate!
Features:

Over 70 words to learn and play with

Delightful animations teach children the definitions of the words in a fun and engaging way

Word game teaches children letters

Endless Alphabet was designed with your children in mind - there are no high scores, failures, limits or stress. Your children can interact with the app at their own pace.

Have a problem or suggestion?
Email us at support@originatorkids.com.

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Winner of Apple's App Store Best of 2013 award! Set the stage for reading success with this delightfully interactive educational app. Kids will have a blast learning their ABC's and building vocabulary with the adorable Endless monsters. Each word features an interactive puzzle game with talking letters and a short animation illustrating the definition.

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Spelling City is an app that drives vocabulary and spelling instruction and what I like best about this specific app is that it integrates academic language from math and science.

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How to use Free version of Spellingcity.com

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Text comprehension is the ability to think intentionally about what they are reading so that they can take meaning away from the text.

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* Students with ASD may exhibit a difficulty with reading comprehension that could be due to a deficit in theory of mind, or ability to facilitate their memory.

* Students with Autism also may have issues with reading comprehension due to inability to decode words or derive semantic meaning from them.

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Epic Books is a library with numerous titles of different genres that allow for children to read or be read aloud to and then answer comprehension questions about the story they just went through.

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Raz Kids offers many titles for students to read, and they are also leveled texts so students are able to read a genre they enjoy in whatever level they are capable of. This app also allows for comprehension questions after a story.

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Read Words is a website that has leveled text for students to read. It also has a read aloud feature. Read Works features many different titles including STEM, art, and poetry. Comprehension questions come alongside the passage.

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Implementing ReadWorks.org into Your Classrooms