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Literacy Skills.......                 1.Alphabetics   

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Literacy Skills.......                 1.Alphabetics   

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Alphabetics is awareness of how the letters of the alphabet relate to the sounds of the language. Part of alphabetics is phonemic awareness, the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate sounds that make up spoken words. Another part of alphabetics is phonics which is decoding relationships with letters and  phonemes.

Challenges:

-> Children with ASD can be slower to identify these skills.

->Children with ASD may overgeneralize and not learn the exceptions to the rules and pronounce words oddly.

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Literacy Skills ......                                           2. Vocabulary 

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Literacy Skills ......                                           2. Vocabulary 

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Vocabulary means the child knows the words needed to communicate effectively, receptive or expressive and knows there meanings.

Challenges:

-> Children with ASD have a condition called hyperlexia, intense focus on words or numbers, they will have strong word recognition but less comprehension.

->Children with ASD are less able to add new words to their vocabulary repertoire.

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Literacy Skills.....                                 3. What is text comprehension?

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Literacy Skills.....                                 3. What is text comprehension?

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Text comprehension is the skill of understanding what we are reading and put this understanding to use.

Challenges:

-> Children with ASD struggle with connecting words & sentences to create understanding.

->Children with ASD also struggle to recall past knowledge from their schema to make connections.

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Literacy Skills.......                                    4. Reading Fluency 

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Literacy Skills.......                                    4. Reading Fluency 

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Fluency is the ability to read a text accurately and effortlessly. Almost like natural speech.

Challenges:

-> Children with ASD who have yet to develop fluency will read slowly, word by word.

->Children with ASD also struggle to integrate the words into meaningful phrases.

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Alphabetics Technology.                  LeapFrog Apps

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Alphabetics Technology.                  LeapFrog Apps

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These apps will help students work on phonics while they think they are playing games.
This will help teachers get those students that are resistant to traditional reading style teachings.

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Included Apps:
* Get Ready For Kindergarten: Counting at the Dragon Café
* Get Ready for Kindergarten: Shapes and Patterns Puppet Party
* Get Ready for Kindergarten: Soaring into Math
* Get Ready For Kindergarten: Stretchy Monkey's Super Day
* Get Ready For Kindergarten: Ozzie & Mack ABCs

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Get Ready for Kindergarten: Math & Phonics Bundle

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Included Apps: * Get Ready For Kindergarten: Counting at the Dragon Café * Get Ready for Kindergarten: Shapes and Patterns Puppet Party * Get Ready for Kindergarten: Soaring into Math * Get Ready For Kindergarten: Stretchy Monkey's Super Day * Get Ready For Kindergarten: Ozzie & Mack ABCs

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This site uses hip-hop music to engage students & increase vocabulary comprehension across grade levels.
This helps teaching staff let the kids be creative and uses prefered music to promote vocabulary.

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Flocabulary is a learning program for all grades that uses educational hip-hop music to engage students and increase achievement across the curriculum. Teach...

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Text Comprehension Technology.                     Graphic Organizers 

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Text Comprehension Technology.                     Graphic Organizers 

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Kids who struggle with comprehension can improve  by using graphic organizers. These simple, visual tools allow kids to break down stories and nonfiction texts. They also help kids keep track of thoughts as they read.
Teachers can use these very quickly and easily as they are a low tech opportunity to support reading comprehension.

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About the Author

About the Author

The Understood Team is made up of passionate writers, editors, and community moderators. Many of them learn and think differently, or have kids who do.

Reviewed by

Reviewed by

Ginny Osewalt is a dually certified elementary and special education teacher with more than 15 years of experience in general education, inclusion, resource room, and self-contained settings.

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Download: Graphic Organizers to Help Kids With Reading

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The Understood Team is made up of passionate writers, editors, and community moderators. Many of them learn and think differently, or have kids who do. Ginny Osewalt is a dually certified elementary and special education teacher with more than 15 years of experience in general education, inclusion, resource room, and self-contained settings.

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Fluency Technology.                               One Minute Reader

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Fluency Technology.                               One Minute Reader

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The One Minute Reader program is based on learning strategies that research has shown are effective ways to develop reading fluency.
Teachers can use these to have a student compete with themselves and their previous best score.

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Reading is important for students' success.

Reading is a fundamental skill, one which adults sometimes take for granted. But many students have trouble learning to read. As they struggle to master this skill, they often find other subjects difficult too, and their self-esteem may suffer. Becoming able readers is crucial to students' success in school and in life.

Struggling readers need more than just books. They need a structured reading program that applies research-based principles to keep them on track and maximize results. They need a reading program like One Minute Reader.

* Engaging Content

One Minute Reader features interesting, nonfiction stories, packed with fascinating information. This engaging content taps into students' curiosity, so they want to find out more. Examples of book topics are Natural Wonders, Cool Creatures, and Fun Festivals.

* Develops Reading Fluency

The One Minute Reader program is based on learning strategies that research has shown are effective ways to develop reading fluency:

* Modeling by a fluent reader: Readers read along with a recording of a fluent reader to help them learn how to say the words and how to read in a natural voice.

* Repeated reading: Readers practice reading each story several times until they know the words and can read accurately and expressively.

* Enhances Vocabulary

One Minute Reader includes audio-supported definitions for selected vocabulary words in the stories, which helps readers learn the meanings and pronunciations of words they may find challenging.

One of four comprehension questions at the end of each story focuses on vocabulary.

An optional crossword puzzle in each book gives readers additional exposure to key words from the stories.

* Promotes Comprehension

A quiz step asks questions about the story to make sure students think about what the story is about and the ideas in it. The questions focus on identifying the main idea, attending to details, vocabulary, and making connections in the text.

* Motivating Feedback

Readers see graphs of their initial cold-timing score and then of their final hot-timing score, which shows how much they've improved. Watching their scores go up motivates readers to keep working.

* The Right Fit for Each Reader

One Minute Reader offers books in a range of reading levels from early reader through fifth grade, so each reader can find stories that are a good fit for his or her ability. You can use the placement program to determine the best fit.

Version 1.2.4

- Fixed iPad Pro 12.9 scaling issue.

A bit much and not enough

Please make the book packages less expensive and please develop word tracking rather than sentence tracking for the read along. Its nice to see the Read Naturally program on the iPad. It might be time to update the content to match the new platform. The pictures are out of the 70s.

The developer, Read Naturally, Inc., has not provided details about its privacy practices and handling of data to Apple. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.

No Details Provided

The developer will be required to provide privacy details when they submit their next app update.

Information

Seller

Read Naturally, Inc.

Compatibility

iPad

Requires iPadOS 8.0 or later.

Languages

English, German

In-App Purchases

1. Level E Ready, Set, Yellow! $3.99

2. Level 2 Ready, Set, Red! $3.99

3. Level 4 Ready, Set, Blue! $3.99
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Family Sharing

Up to six family members will be able to use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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‎Reading is important for students' success. Reading is a fundamental skill, one which adults sometimes take for granted. But many students have trouble learning to read. As they struggle to master this skill, they often find other subjects difficult too, and their self-esteem may suffer. Becoming...

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Alphabetics Technology.                    Preschool Prep Company

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Alphabetics Technology.                    Preschool Prep Company

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Preschool Prep Company does an outstanding job of teaching phonics, letter Sounds, digraphs and blends in a sensory friendly manner.
Teachers will love these videos to promote practice with their young ASD readers.

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Preschool Prep Company™ Books & DVDs have won hundreds of awards and are used in millions of homes and schools around the world. Preschool Prep Series DVDs include, Meet the Letters, Meet the Numbers, Meet the Shapes, Meet the Colors, Meet the Sight Words and Meet the Phonics, Letter Sounds, Digraphs and Blends.

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Vocabulary Technology-               Reading Rockets 

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Vocabulary Technology-               Reading Rockets 

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This list was created to help educators know which spelling words should be taught to children.
This will help the teaching staff focus on over 80% of words used by students in written language.

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This list was created to help teachers know which spelling words should be taught to kids in grades 1-5. The list contains 850 words that account for 80 percent of the words children use in their writing - the ones they need to be able to spell correctly.

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Text Comprehension Technology.                   Picture the Sentence

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Text Comprehension Technology.                   Picture the Sentence

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This app helps the student visualize the sentence, process its parts in increase the likelihood of comprehension.
Great app for teachers to track where students are in there comprehension journey.

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An awesome speech therapy app! .Help your child learn to visualize and comprehend simple sentences!

From theimums.com: "I think the developer has done a great job with this app - it is engaging, simple to use, is very adjustable allowing it to be used by students with a range of abilities, and has the ability to track settings and data from multiple students. All this for $9.99 - a real bargain!! Highly recommended!"

"She is eating an apple under the tree." What does that sentence really mean? What would it look like? Picture the Sentence is an exciting app designed to practice language and auditory processing tasks at the basic sentence level. This app offers three different levels of difficulty so the child can learn how to attend to important elements of a sentence and "picture it," attaching meaning to the words and eventually forming mental pictures without visual support. It is also an excellent choice for anyone who is trying to learn and understand the English language. **Turn the voice commands off and the text feature on, and this game can also be a great way to practice basic reading comprehension skills too!

To watch a demonstration of this app and its features, please check our video on You Tube: http://youtu.be/gaiE7OQV-AQ on the HamaguchiApps channel.

We have incorporated a cute "Pick-a-Door" game, which can be selected at varying intervals so the user can take a break and have a little fun. The user opens each door until an animal comes out and says, "You found me!"

Options in the Settings Include:
* Choice of color drawing icons or stick figures
* Levels include: Easy (slow, with visual support staying on the screen) Intermediate (faster rate with pauses, with visual support flashing briefly on the screen) and Advanced (no pausing or visual support)
* Text on/Text off
* Choice of subjects: Pronouns (He/she/they) or nouns (boy/girl/children)
* Sandtimer (This delays the presentation of the picture choices so there is a greater challenge to the child's working memory.) It is enabled in the "default" mode but can be easily turned off
* Sentence Types: Subject + verb, subject + verb + object, subject + verb + prepositional phrase, subject + verb + object + prepositional phrase
*Progress/Data tracker that allows you to collect and save data, email it or print it

Hamaguchi Apps is dedicated to the mission of bringing high-quality apps to the general public and professionals for affordable prices.

*We recommend you download this app over a Wi-Fi connection rather than through phone lines due to the app size, so the download is not interrupted.*Please contact our tech support if you are experiencing any technical issues with our apps. We will always help you troubleshoot it and get back to you generally within one business day. We cannot respond to reviews and there are generally easy solutions to every issue. info@hamaguchiapps.com

PRIVACY POLICY: We do NOT collect personal data from our users and have no ads. Personal data regarding user performance on the tasks on this app are self-contained and not transmitted in any way. There are no in-app purchases in this app. A demo link will allow a user with internet access to view a video on YouTube to learn about the features of this app, as well as a link to our other apps in the iTunes store.

Developed by Patti Hamaguchi, M.A., CCC-SLP, a noted speech-language pathologist and author of Childhood Speech, Language & Listening Problems: What Every Parent Should Know, as well as books on the treatment of auditory processing disorders.

To find out more about this app, report a problem, ask a question or find out about our other upcoming projects, visit our website: www.hamaguchiapps.com

Nice App for Memory Skills

This is a nice app for working on auditory processing and memory skills. I love the colorful pictures and the ability to customize to fit individual needs. The reward game for answering correctly is also a nice touch. I would love to see the option to choose the number of answer choices separate from the difficulty level. It would also be great to have the the option to select answers by just touching rather than dragging and dropping.

Another Home Run from Hamagachi!

This app is wonderful in its simplicity. There are complete, clear & concise instructions on how to use the app and how to adapt the app to the student/child. This app can be used with more than one student/child, the progress can be tracked then emailed. This app employs the use of pictures to help increase the expressive & receptive language skills and helping the student with their cognitive thinking processes, auditory processing skills and their visual skills. Children can take the concepts of the individual words as shown with the pictures and apply them to another picture that sums up the sentence. If the child chooses wrongly, there is no judgement associated with the incorrect choice, just another chance to choose again. When the correct picture is chosen the sentence is spoken again. Well thought out and very engaging. Highly recommend this app!

Wonderful cognitive and auditory learning game!

This App provides a wonderful opportunity for children to strengthen their auditory processing skills as well as cognition. The game encourages the user to "picture" the phrase, to think about what it really means, and what it would look like in picture form. For example, the phrase shown is "The boy is eating," the game then provides an option for a sand timer for thinking-time, and finally the user picks the picture that best matches the phrase previously shown. There is even a fun 'pick the door' activity that pops up after so many phrases are completed. Children's progress can be recorded and even sent through email. The App also has multiple user options.

The developer, Hamaguchi Learning & Development, LLC, has not provided details about its privacy practices and handling of data to Apple. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.

No Details Provided

The developer will be required to provide privacy details when they submit their next app update.

Information

Seller

Hamaguchi Learning & Development, LLC

Compatibility

iPad

Requires iPadOS 8.0 or later.

Mac

Requires macOS 11 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip.

Family Sharing

With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.

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Fluency Technology.                            Next Up Talker 

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Fluency Technology.                            Next Up Talker 

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TextAloud 4 converts text from documents, webpages, PDF files and more into natural-sounding speech.
This will help teachers support those readers that still need text to be read aloud in order to improve fluency and comprehension.

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NextUp Talker is a Text to Speech program specifically designed for people who have temporarily or permanently lost their voice. With natural, human-sounding voices and convenient short-cuts to quickly enter commonly used sentences and phrases, NextUp Talker allows you to overcome vocal impairment by communicating with others using a Windows PC or Tablet PC.

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TextAloud Text to Speech Software and Natural Sounding Voices

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NextUp Talker is a Text to Speech program specifically designed for people who have temporarily or permanently lost their voice. With natural, human-sounding voices and convenient short-cuts to quickly enter commonly used sentences and phrases, NextUp Talker allows you to overcome vocal impairment by communicating with others using a Windows PC or Tablet PC.

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Alphabetics Technology.                        Starfall

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Alphabetics Technology.                        Starfall

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Starfall’s emphasis on phonemic awareness, systematic sequential phonics, and common sight words in conjunction with audiovisual interactivity.
Teachers can use this as an effective in teaching tool for emergent readers.

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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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Uses visuals and multiple options to work on opposites.
This will help students struggling with opposites.

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The perfect kids game for learning about opposites

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Text Comprehension Technology.             Grammar Songs by Melissa

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Text Comprehension Technology.             Grammar Songs by Melissa

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Melissa uses music to teach reading strategies that increase reading comprehensions amongst struggling readers. The songs are memorable and fun for kids to sing along with.
Teachers can use these songs as a wrap up or recap of strategies they taught or even assign this as homework or student support.

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Grammar Songs began as an innovative and memorable way to teach grammar, reading, and writing skills to students. The founder of Grammar Songs is Melissa, a teacher in her fifteenth year. In a period of only 4 ½ years, Melissa was responsible for teaching K, 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades.

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Fluency Technology.                                      IXL

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Fluency Technology.                                      IXL

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IXL goes from grade Pre-K to 12th, it gives breaks down reading part into smaller parts allowing students to be placed where they need to work on skill acquisition and increasing fluency at their own pace.
Allows teachers to personalize instruction for the individual learner to practice their reading skills to increase fluency.

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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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