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Link: http://www.inspiration.com/Kidspiration
Description: Kidspiration is a visual workspace for children kindergarten to 3rd grade. Kidspiration develops conceptual understanding in math, writing, and reading by guiding children through graphic organizers, templates, and manipulation.
Guidelines and Checkpoints: 5.1, 5.2, 1.1, 7.1
Kidspiration offers communication via text or symbols and pictures. Not only can children receive information this way, they can compose and construct their own stories and graphic organizers with this app as well. They can select font sizes, colors, text or symbols, etc.
Addresses learner variability: Text to speech helps children with difficulty with decoding when the intent is to comprehend. Emerging readers and English Language Learners would benefit from the symbols and text to speech components of Kidspiration.

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Link: https://www.bookshare.org/cms/
Description: Bookshare customizes text to accommodate specific needs (highlights, braille, etc). It is free, but must have a qualifying disability.

Guidelines and Checkpoints: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Bookshare customizes the display of information and offers alternatives for visual and auditory information. Students can listen to books, see text and follow along with word-level highlighting, adjust reading speed, font, and color, enlarge font size, read in braille, and add bookmarks and notes.
Addresses learner variability: Students with vision impairments, low vision, or even blind could benefit from accessing all kinds of fiction and non fiction books on Bookshare. Books are popular, known stories (Fancy Nancy, Goosebumps, Flat Stanley, etc). Students would be able to engage in the same stories that their peers are, participate in book talks, literacy circles, etc. since they're able to focus on understanding the story vs trying to decode the story,

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Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/readwrite-for-google-chro/inoeonmfapjbbkmdafoankkfajkcphgd?hl=en-US&_ga=2.31014652.29718226.1564535779-2068325550.1564535779
Description: Read&Write offers text to speech, highlighting, text and picture dictionaries, speech to text, word prediction, and the ability to create voice notes.
Guidelines and Checkpoints: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.2, 3.2, 6.2
Read&Write meets several checkpoints and guidelines. It offers ways of customizing information with highlighting, text and picture dictionaries, etc. It also offers alternatives to visual and auditory information with both text-to-speech and speech-to-text. It reduces visual stress with screen masks, and actually highlights and summarizes information for the user.
Addresses learner variability:  Read&Write can be used to support learners with vision challenges as well as students with hearing impairments or are deaf. This would certainly be an option for students with disabilities, but would also be used to support students who are still learning to pull critical information and summarize it.

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Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/crashcourse/videos
Description: An educational you tube channel with science based videos that meet Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Videos are 3-5 minutes long.
Guidelines and Checkpoints: 2.5, 3.2
Crash Course kids illustrates concepts through multi media. For example, a lesson on the food chain that is delivered lecture style or in writing could also be shared via the Crash Course video on food chains.  These videos are short and cover only the big ideas and critical features. It eliminates the "extra."
Addresses learner variability: This tool is useful for students who might not benefit from lecture style teaching. A video can supplement (or even provide) information for students who need content presented visually.

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Link: https://goboardmaker.com/pages/what-is-boardmaker
Description: Boardmaker Online lets students access activities assigned to them. The app has personalized visual supports and symbol adapted educational materials to the iPad. (This is the same company, but different product than the printed visuals you might be familiar with in classrooms).
Guidelines and Checkpoints: 1.2, 5.1, 8.1
Boardmaker Online can address a multitude of social learning goals as well as other content areas. It can display student goals in a variety of ways, and can even support speech and language goals as augmentative and alternative communication.
Addresses learner variability: Boardmaker online could be used to develop students who are struggling with social skills. While you can print materials (visuals, social narratives, etc), learners can also access familiar, consistent graphics and teacher designed activities online.

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Description: A graphic organizer is a visual display that demonstrates relationships between facts, concepts or ideas.
Guidelines and Checkpoints: 3.1, 3.3, 3.4, 6.2
Graphic organizers, particularly KWL charts, provide learners with an opportunity to visualize and activate their background knowledge. They can also guide information and processing and facilitate managing resources by "laying it all out there" so to speak, but in an organized and meaningful manner.
Addresses learner variability: Students with processing disorders or struggle to organize thoughts and ideas can benefit from graphic organizers to show knowledge, convey thoughts and ideas, and to organize thoughts to construct essays, stories, and presentations.

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Description: Highlighting tape is clear, colored tape that can be used in texts, on anchor charts, and in writing to highlight vocabulary, letters, or other features of text. It's also repositionable.
Guidelines and Checkpoints: 1.1, 2.1, 3.3
Highlighter tape and highlighters can be a useful tool to help readers remember key words. The use of highlighters could be used to point out words that are vocabulary words or critical words that students should know or are struggling to pronounce or remember. Highlighting tools are also a great way to introduce the idea of annotating texts in order to help with a student's comprehension level.
Addresses learner variability: Highlighting tape is a great tool to reduce distractions and remove distractions that are not essential to the goal. I'd encourage students to use this to isolate challenging words in text or on posters, for word/letter hunts in the classroom.

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Link: https://readingeggs.com/
Description: The lessons use animation, characters, songs, and rewards to keep children motivated. The program is interactive, which helps children stay engaged.

Guidelines and Checkpoints: 7.1, 5.1, 6.1
Not only does Reading Eggs optimize individual choice and autonomy with its tools, layouts, and timing, it also guides goal setting. When children start the program, they can complete a placement quiz to ensure they are starting at the correct reading level.
Addresses learner variability:
This is a tool I would definitely use in my classroom. It suits young children well, and it's hard to find developmentally appropriate technology for them. This would help not only young children, but older emergent readers as well.

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Link: https://mathseeds.com/?_ga=2.264799819.536486972.1564498809-618453795.1564498809
Description: Mathseeds is designed for early childhood (ages 3-9). It teaches math and problem solving skills to build foundation skills for later math. It offers feedback to students, keeping them engaged. Used on tablet or computer.
Guidelines and Checkpoints: 7.1, 5.2
Mathseeds optimizes individual choice and autonomy with a variety of games and styles of learning. The games also allow for manipulation of virtual objects, which encompasses checkpoint 5.2, using multiple tools for construction and composition.
Addresses learner variability: This tool could be used to help children who are ready to generalize the manipulation of concrete objects in 2D on the computer. It could also be used to practice 1:1 correspondence via the touch screen feature.

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Link: https://flipgrid.com/
Description: I added flipgrid because my high school student uses it and it's changed how she views some of her classes. The teacher can post a question/topic and the student's respond in video (90 seconds), engaging in discussion back and forth.
Guidelines and Checkpoints: 3.2, 5.1, 7.2
As I mentioned above, my daughter is excited to do homework now, and puts a lot of thought into what she's going to say in her 90 second video, especially if it's on something she loves, like history. That limited time also helps kids narrow down big ideas. For many kids today, social learning optimizes relevance, value, and authenticity. It really appreciates their interests and skills. It also offers multiple media for communication instead of just writing.
Addresses learner variability: Students who have difficulty articulating thoughts in paper would benefit greatly from Flipgrid. This would certainly be an option for students. Some students might be uncomfortable videoing themselves.

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Description: Small sensory toys that can be given to students who struggle to focus if not in motion. Things like stress balls, playdough, tangles, are self-regulation tools help with focus, attention, and calming.
Guidelines and Checkpoints: 5.1, 7.3
Fidgets (or focus tools) can help with attending and focusing, which can minimize threats and distractions. As noted below, when children are not engaged, they can sometimes engage in behaviors that make learning a struggle for all.
Addresses learner variability: When children are not actively engaged, challenging behaviors can sometimes occur. By using these tangible sensory items to help with stress, anxiety, or just a desire to move,