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Not your everyday calendar, here you can find important events in literary history, authors' birthdays, and a variety of holidays, all with related activities and resources that make them more relevant to students.

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Not your everyday calendar, here you can find important events in literary history, authors' birthdays, and a variety of holidays, all with related activities and resources that make them more relevant to students.

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This video shows and speaks the 44 phonemes in the English language with correct pronunciation. Great to refer to if unsure with particular phonemes.

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Interactive Phonics Song with Hand Signs

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Interactive Phonics Song with Hand Signs

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Interactive phonics song - Barbara Milne

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Premium version of Read & Write for Google includes a Practice Read Aloud feature where one can upload text of interest to the learner.

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56 picture books read by Screen Actors Guild members. Available as an iOS app or online. Turn on closed captioning for additional support.

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Over 3,500 free books available with text to speech support on every page.  An excellent resource for oral reading practice.

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Free access to over 40,000 books for students under age 12 through June 30, 2020 by teacher invitation. Search for Read-to-Me and video stories.

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Instantly access over 40,000 of the best books & videos for kids on Epic

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Weekly podcast of folktales from around the world for children of all ages. Listen to the previous 90 podcasts and subscribe weekly.

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Created and produced by parents of young children, WBUR's Circle Round adapts carefully-selected folktales from around the world into sound- and music-rich radio plays for kids ages 4 to 10. Each 10- to 20-minute episode explores important issues like kindness, persistence and generosity.

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Over 400 picture books with human narration, more than half of them available in Spanish. Other languages available as well.

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Unite for Literacy provides free digital access to picture books, narrated in many languages. Literacy is at the core of a healthy community, so we unite with partners to enable all families to read with their young children.

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Explore the fairy tales, Greek myths, original stories and classic stories with high quality human narration. The text is on the page to follow along. Overlook the numerous ads as the book choices are excellent.

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Storynory has over 1,000 free audio stories for children, including classic fairy tales, myths, world stories, poems, and brand new originals read by professional actors.

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Get ready for the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade as Rocco reads Melissa Sweet's book, Balloons Over Broadway, in this episode of Read Out Loud! Read more "

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Forty books available. New books are added. Use the full screen when listening to these books.

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Story Time from Space Directory

Book by Susan Lendroth
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High-quality, free online program to teach beginning readers vocabulary, concepts and the main phonetic patterns of the English Language

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Reading Bear is a collection of free, well-made, multimedia phonics presentations. Your child can learn to read with Reading Bear.

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A unique digital learning platform where children from ages 5–12 can learn to read by writing and publishing short digital books.

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WriteReader is a research based online book creating and learning tool to increase student’s motivation and literacy skills in the classroom.

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Letter Tile Free Play for Mouse or Touch

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Really Great Reading Letter Tile Freeplay

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Kids Read to Kid - Decodable Chapter Books

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Kids Read to Kid - Decodable Chapter Books

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Eight Chapter books read by other kids. Remember to turn on the Closed Captioning as you listen.

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Welcome to the world of chapter books! For many of you, this will be the first book you read independently. We are so happy to be a part of your journey!

If you are new to reading, we suggest that you listen to the book first before you read it. This will help you remember the story and keep track of the characters as you read along.

When you're done with these books, check out our Abridged Classic Novels Tab. There we read to you our favorite abridged versions of beloved classic novels.

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An awesome free, online book creation tool - combine text, images, audio and video. Upload your own images, write, record, create! Write fiction/non-fiction, unlimited possibilities to write about anything of interest.

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Book Creator - Love Learning - Book Creator app

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Teachers love it. Students love it. Book Creator is the simplest, most inclusive way to create content in the classroom.

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Students spin the lever to create an adventure, Sci-Fi or fantasy story. Hundreds of writing prompts with creative combinations. Engaging and fun!

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Story Starters: Creative Writing Prompts for Kids | Scholastic.com

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Scholastic’s Story Starters kids’ writing activity generates creative writing prompts, from general fiction to adventure, fantasy, and science fiction.

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...now provides 274,400 story starters for kids.

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The Story Starter was selected as one of the T op 101 Websites for Writers by Writer's Digest Magazine in 2008, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017!

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now provides 274,400 story starters for kids. Write your story starter sentence on a piece of paper or copy and paste it into your favorite word processor and start writing your story! Please bookmark and link to this page and come back again to use The Story Starter.

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Students create their own full-color, online kids' books using Writing A-Z's Build-A-Book in the interactive Kids A-Z student-learning environment. Build-A-Book offers a library of thousands of images to spark ideas and help students illustrate their books. Build-A-Book supports steps of the writing process with prewriting, drafting, revision, and publication to the Kids Writing Library. Check to see if your school has a membership, otherwise take advantage of the 14 day free trial.

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Help Students Become Online Kids' Book Authors

Students create their own full-color, online kids' books using Writing A-Z's Build-A-Book in the interactive Kids A-Z student-learning environment. Build-A-Book offers a library of thousands of images to spark ideas and help students illustrate their books. Students can create books from nearly any genre or on nearly any subject. Build-A-Book supports steps of the writing process with prewriting, drafting, revision, and publication to the Kids Writing Library.

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Your class can read each other's writing in the Kids Writing Library.
Simply check the box when reviewing student writing in your In Basket.
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Nessy apps have no advertisements or in-app purchasing. Have fun learning the alphabet, phonics, sight words, syllable division and more with Nessy!

Nessy also offers a complete suite of online products to help with literacy and dyslexia. Click here for details.

Climb the mountain and play the yeti games. Each game will test memory and learning skills. The Yeti Master will explain signs of dyslexia.

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Lively Letters Phonemic Awareness and Phonics App

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Lively Letters Phonemic Awareness and Phonics App

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See why this app immediately hit the #1 spot for Paid Educational Apps on the App Store! Filled with valuable program content, it was originally designed to sell for $59.99. Due to the overwhelming response, the authors have kept it at its low introductory price.

As powerful as it is fun, this uniquely engaging teaching tool is changing lives one letter at a time! Lively Letters - Phonemic Awareness and Phonics simultaneously trains critical skills for reading, spelling, and pronunciation of English language sounds. Unlike most phonics apps, this one is actually teaching, as opposed to just drilling. With proven strategies such as memory tricks, mouth and hand cues, humorous stories (English and Spanish), colorful pictures of characters embedded into letters, and songs, this multisensory, structured approach has been shown to help students of all ages and abilities, including the most resistant learners and those learning English as a second language. Targeting phonemic (sound) awareness, phonics, and speech production, the three unique teaching activities are based on the key techniques of the world-renowned, research-based program, Lively Letters, created by speech language pathologist, Nancy Telian, MS, CCC-SLP, and published by Reading with TLC. Used by over 15 million students and 75 thousand teachers globally since 1990, the Lively Letters program has been shown to quickly boost skills.

This long-awaited app, created by Penny Castagnozzi and Nancy Telian, can be used successfully on its own or as a supplement to the Lively Letters program materials. It can also be implemented by those with no Lively Letters experience. Although many aspects of this app can be performed independently by students, best gains will be made with some instructor/parent involvement. Some adults and older students can use it independently. The app includes progress monitoring and three activities: Flashing, Tracking, and Matching. Choose which letters and what types of letters to use (i.e., Lively Letters pictures versus plain letters and lowercase versus uppercase letters). Record and play back the students' voices.

Flashing: This activity introduces, drills, and tests the letter sound associations for the 44 English speech sounds, using the multisensory cueing methods that Lively Letters is so famous for. As the chosen letters flash in, students can hear the associated sound, the song, and the story (narrated in English by Marianne Nice, MS, CCC-SLP, or in Spanish by Angela Livingston, MS,CCC-SLP, TSSLD, BE). They can also see photos of the hand and mouth cues can practice printing.

Tracking: In this activity, students engage in the powerful Lively Letters manipulative word play, (tracking) activities. Here you simultaneously train phonemic awareness and phonics, while further practicing letter sounds and speech production. Students have fun building the critical phonemic awareness skills of sound blending, segmenting, and manipulation while learning how to sound out words of increasing length and difficulty for reading and spelling. In response to prompts from the instructor or parent, the student reads and spells new words, based on letter or sound changes made by the instructor. Students can enjoy the Lively Letters "Human - Alien" game where they choose whether each word was a real or nonsense word. Some alternate uses of the Tracking Activity include receptive drilling, printing of the letters, spelling to dictation, marking letter patterns, and dividing multisyllable words.

Matching: Here's a playful way to practice letter sound associations and speech production skills. This activity also offers opportunities to associate uppercase to lowercase letters and to transition from Lively Letters pictures to plain letters. Students have fun playing the classic Match Game, now using the letters and letter types chosen.

Let the fun begin!

Learn more about Lively Letters by visiting www.readingwithtlc.com.

An extraordinary new app

Admittedly, I am a Lively Letters devotee and have used this enjoyable, unique and high effective program to develop reading and writing skills with students in preschool through middle school. Children love this unique, multi-sensory approach to learn their letter sounds and develop phonemic awareness skills - advancing rapidly in learning to read and spell words. Parents frequently ask me why this evidence based program is not used in their child's school to teach literacy skills!

The new Lively Letters app is quite impressive and well thought out. It is truly sensational in bringing together the basic and most important elements of Lively Letters in a user friendly electronic format that is engaging and well polished.

I anticipate that this app will be a highly successful advancing literacy skills.

I recently updated this extraordinary app and discovered that the sound quality for the unvoiced phonemes is improved and it runs with greater speed and ease. Keeps getting better and better. My students so enjoy this program and the app is the icing on the cake!

Great app for learning letter sounds!

This is such a great app for learning letter sounds and working on sound manipulation skills. It contains all of Lively Letter stories and sounds for each letter, plus built in activities for practice deciding and encoding. A great value for your money!

Only two things I wish were different (maybe you will consider for future updates!!):
1. I wish there were a way to pause the story or song and then start playing again in the same place you left off. Especially when the story asks questions, I would love to pause and wait for the child to answer.
2. I wish you could drag the letters directly to the place you want them in the tracking activity. As it is now you have to tap once and it goes to the final position, then you drag it to the correct location.

Overall, this is an excellent app and you won't be disappointed!!

Worth EVERY PENNY and then some....

I'm a mom of two. One stronger reader and one weaker. They both LOVE this app! With letter sound stories, music, games and an opportunity to practice reading and spelling words... I couldn't be happier!! I will NEVER go back to flash cards again!! Can't relate at all to that previous poor review..... Have to wonder if they saw the same app I did or if they are disgruntled competition?? Hang up your flashcards and join the 21st-century... If My kids love this other kids will too.

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Telian-Cas Learning Concepts Inc

Compatibility

Requires iOS 10.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

Copyright

© 2017 Telian-Cas Learning Concepts Inc

Family Sharing

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

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‎See why this app immediately hit the #1 spot for Paid Educational Apps on the App Store! Filled with valuable program content, it was originally designed to sell for $59.99. Due to the overwhelming response, the authors have kept it at its low introductory price. As powerful as it is fun, this uniq...

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30 Sequential decodable books for beginning readers to read on their own.

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Lesson 1: Pal Has Ham
Lesson 2: Bob Hid It
Lesson 3: Pop Got a Hit
Lesson 4: What Can Two Do?
Lesson 5: What Will Dad See?
Lesson 6: Where Will Max Sit?
Lesson 7: Fix It Up
Lesson 8: Will Ron Fix His Rig?
Lesson 9: If You Want a Pet
Lesson 10: Get Wet
Lesson 11: Who Is It?
Lesson 12: Who Has a Pet?
Lesson 13: A Big Mess
Lesson 14: Van in a Jam
Lesson 15: The Bad Leg
Lesson 16: Get the Bell
Lesson 17: Mom Can Go
Lesson 18: Zip the Bag
Lesson 19: Yum, Yum, Yum
Lesson 20: Is It the Bus?
Lesson 21: Dog Fun
Lesson 22: A Hat to Fit Bun
Lesson 23: Rev It Up, Kim
Lesson 24: They Will Not Quit
Lesson 25: A Bug Can
Lesson 26: Up On Top
Lesson 27: Is It Like Us?
Lesson 28: Cub and Fox
Lesson 29: Will Mel Go?
Lesson 30: My Pup Jed

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Lesson 1: Pal Has Ham Lesson 2: Bob Hid It Lesson 3: Pop Got a Hit Lesson 4: What Can Two Do? Lesson 5: What Will Dad See? Lesson 6: Where Will Max Sit? Lesson 7: Fix It Up Lesson 8: Will Ron Fix His Rig?

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Customizable, free reading support tool for digital text from Microsoft.

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Microsoft Learning Tools are free tools that implement proven techniques to improve reading and writing for people regardless of their age or ability.

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Add this browser option - Immersive Reader is built in!

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Read aloud (TTS) accessible and inaccessible text (OCR), simplify difficult vocabulary, and translate English into other languages.

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Offers books that are both compelling and approachable for struggling teen and young adult readers.

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A digital text repository of over 885,000 books for students who qualify. Combine with a text to speech program to make accessing grade level content possible.

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Bookshare | An Accessible Online Library for people with print disabilities

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Bookshare makes reading easier. People with dyslexia, blindness, cerebral palsy, and other reading barriers can customize their experience to suit their learning style and find virtually any book they need for school, work, or the joy of reading.

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Best Apps for Accessing Bookshare and Other Digital Texts - Voice Dream Reader ($14.99) and Dolphin Easy Reader (free)

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Best Apps for Accessing Bookshare and Other Digital Texts - Voice Dream Reader ($14.99) and Dolphin Easy Reader (free)

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Helperbird is a browser extension that includes literacy and dyslexia aiding features such as dyslexic fonts, Reader Mode, Microsoft's Immersive Reader, and many more. It works by making every website more accessible and is available on Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Firefox browsers.

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Helperbird: Accessibility & Dyslexia Software

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Read, understand and navigate the content of the web easier with Helperbird. Including immersive reader

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Ten popular children's books animated for independent reading, including Goodnight Moon and The Giving Tree

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From 2004 to 2010, a team of researchers and teachers at FCRR collected ideas and created Student Center Activities for use in pre-kindergarten through fifth grade classrooms. The activities are designed for students to practice, demonstrate, and extend their learning of what has already been taught, sometimes with teacher assistance and sometimes independently. Students can complete the activities in small groups, pairs, or individually.

Accompanying these Student Center Activities is a Teacher Resource Guide that offers important insights on differentiated instruction and how to use the Student Center materials.

Component

Name of the reading component: Phonological Awareness (PA), Phonics (P), Fluency (F), Vocabulary (V), or Comprehension (C). Each component is color coded: PA is purple, P is orange, F is red, V is green, C is blue.

Subcomponent

Name of the reading subcomponent, which is a subskill of the component.

Activity Name

Activity Number

The letters correspond with the reading component (PA, P, F, V, or C). The numbers are listed in ascending order within each component. The activities are sequenced from simple to more complex within each component and subcomponent.

Student Icon

The suggested number of students for the activity. One student icon indicates that students may work independently or with a small group. Two student icons indicate that the activity requires students to work in pairs. Two student icons with a plus sign indicate that the activity requires two or more students.

Objective

States the goal of the activity, which is aligned with the subcomponent.

Materials

Materials are located on the pages that follow the Activity Plan. Most materials are non-consumable to be prepared and used repeatedly (e.g., word cards can be laminated). Some materials are consumable and will need to be duplicated for each student doing the activity. Other materials, such as counters, are commonly found in most classrooms.

Activity Statement

One sentence explanation of the purpose of the activity and what students do to complete the activity.

Activity Steps

The first step describes how to setup the center. The second step begins with: The student, Students, Working in pairs, or Taking turns depending on the number of students needed to complete the activity. The second step also starts the series of steps to complete the activity. The next steps explain what the student does to complete the activity. The last step lists one of three accountability methods: Self-check, Peer evaluation, or Teacher evaluation.

Example

A visual of the activity and key materials.

Extensions and Adaptations

Suggestions that extend or provide an adaptation for additional practice on the skill addressed in the activity. Materials for the extensions and adaptations are included after the pages that align to the Activity Plan.

Users may use the FCRR Student Center Activities resources as long as modifications are not made, the resources will only be used for non-profit educational purposes, and the copyright belong jointly to the Florida Department of Education and the Florida Center for Reading Research. These resources may not be used for any commercial purposes. These resources on our site may be linked to but not reposted, reproduced, modified, or copied to other sites. For questions about the use of these resources, please contact The Florida Center for Reading Research at fcrr@fcrr.org.

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* "Speak 'N Spell for the iPad Generation" - The New York Times *

Word Wizard is an award-winning app used in schools that offers several unique reading and spelling activities for children ages four to 10.

--Learn to Read by Building Words --

* The Talking Movable Alphabet activity allows kids to experiment with word building and phonics thanks to the advanced text to speech engine (the first step in learning to read)
* Any text can be written and spoken
* 2 child voices + 5 adult voices (US, UK & Australian voices)
* Uppercase & lowercase letters, numbers, digraphs, ABC or QWERTY keyboard
* Many settings to adapt the activities to the child's needs (letter size, assign images to words, high contrast modes for kids with visual impairment,...)

-- Learn to Spell using the Talking Movable Alphabet and your word lists --

* 3 spelling activities that increase in difficulty
* 200 built-in word lists (about 2000 words)
* Add your own words to create unique spelling quizzes!
* Add your own images to illustrate your word lists
* Keep tabs on your children's progress with detailed reports

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* Used in Schools (140K units sold to schools)
* "This is an important breakthrough in reading instruction" - The New York Times
* "This is a fantastic app for young children, right through to children in later elementary school " - Wired's GeekDad
* Editor's Choice Award for Excellence in Design - Children's Technology Review
* Winner of a Parents' Choice Award
* More than 290K units sold!
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Talking Movable Alphabet Activity
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* Pronounce and spell-check any word, number or sentence
* Natural Sounding Voice - three American voices, one British voice, and one Australian voice
* Letter sound (phonic) or name when a letter is touched in the alphabet
* Alphabetic or QWERTY layout, letters, numbers, consonant digraphs (like "th") and vowels digraphs (like "oo")
* Uppercase or lowercase letters
* Keyboard emulation option
* 4 letter sizes available (allowing for more or fewer letters on the board)
* Customized word pronunciation, if necessary
* Accessibility: external keyboard support and 4 high contrast modes available
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Fun Spelling Activities
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3 spelling activities of increasing difficulty are provided to adapt the activity to the child's spelling level. You can use the built-in word lists or create your own.

1 - "Word Practice" says and displays the word to spell, and asks the child to spell it using the talking movable alphabet
2 - "Scrambled Letters" says the word and displays the letters needed to build the word or sentence, and asks the child to reorder the letters.
3 - "Spelling Quizzes" is a standard spelling test. The app won't move onto the next word until the child has correctly spelled the word, helping them to remember its correct spelling.

* 200 built-in word lists: Words for beginners, Dolch Words, 1,000 most frequently used words, body parts and more
* Create custom Word Lists by entering your own words and sentences
* Import and export Word Lists you've created
* Hints are available should kids not know how to spell a word
* Colorful animations are displayed when a word is completed
* Once a quiz is completed, interactive animations are available as a reward

-- Users & Reports --
* Unlimited number of users
* Detailed Spelling Test Reports per user (can be exported in PDF)
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More Accolades
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* The New York Times
"This is an important breakthrough in reading instruction because it leverages the iPad's size, powerful speech synthesis abilities, and touchscreen so that every letter can be a building block of phonetically accurate sound"

* Children's Technology Review
Editor's Choice Award for Excellence in Design - 4.8 stars out of 5 - "Turn your iPad into a talking alphabet/language generator - and the perfect tool for a child just starting to experiment with letters and their sounds"
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Please send any feedback or suggestions to support@lescapadou.com

* Assigning images to words: you can now load more images from Wikimedia Commons
* Accessibility: external keyboard support for special needs kids who can't use the Movable Alphabet

Boring for younger kids

It's a well thought out app but lacks playfulness and whimsy. My toddler (who is beginning to read and write) did two exercises and got bored after the dry "spell this, spell that" commands. Still it seems like a very promising app for older kids.

Word Wizard

This is truly a dream come true app. I teach students from grades 2-7th grades with learning difficulties spelling. This program has helped students learn to spell and boost their confidence and grades. Students use the iPad while wearing earbuds, so I can have a full class working with no with interruptions from others. Students with writing difficulties appreciate working on the iPad in place of trying to print or cursive words that are already difficult to spell let alone write out. So using the iPad allows them to find success. I export the lists from my iPad and import them onto my students iPads. When I ad the spelling lists, I also ad a test. Grades have really gone up after using this app. I think this is my 4th year of using it and Pierre is wonderful to communicate with. He's very helpful.

Thank you!

Words of Gratitude

I am so grateful for this App. I used it for my first son who has Autism . The app was a true confidence builder . The added features for speed , voice tone , colors , drag and pull were helpful collaboratively to engage him . I didn't hesitate to use it for my 2nd son also with Autism . Now 13 and 10 , I still use it opposed to just saying words for them . I use another app that allows me to make our own list of words for spelling test etc however this App will always be held with the highest esteem for phonics and our strong foundation . I refer parents to it all the time .
Best Regards
Keesha , RN

Thanks for your review - do you know that you can also add your own word lists in this app? If you need help, you can contact us at support@lescapadou.com

Information

Compatibility

Requires iOS 11.3 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

Copyright

© L'Escapadou 2011-2019

Family Sharing

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

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+ t - Show Table of Contents

+ h - Show Highlights and Notes dialog

+ - Show Display settings

+ - Show Reading tools settings

+ a - Start/stop Read-aloud

space - Pause Read-aloud (while reading)

+ f - Focus search input (if one is available)

+ r - Focus the reader document

left - Previous page

right - Next page

+ pageUp - Previous chapter/section

+ pageDown - Next chapter/section

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+ w - Announce current reading position or page

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Create a Reading Progress assignment

Support independent reading practice with Reading Progress assignments in Teams.

1. Enter a title for this assignment - this is required.

2. To select a passage for your students:

6. (Optional) Complete the additional fields to create more data sorting opportunities when reviewing student work.

Pronunciation sensitivity: Specify how strict you'd like Auto-detect to be when listening and estimating errors. Choose Less sensitive to leave more flexibility for pronunciation, and More sensitive to demand more exact reading performance. This setting is adjustable when reviewing student work.

Note: Pronunciation detection for each language is generalized based on common pronunciation and may not recognize accents and dialects well. This is just a starting point, and we are working to ensure those with accents and dialects are included. Use your discretion to mark errors manually when the speech detection does not meet the needs of your student.

Reading Coach defaults to On when you create a Reading Progress assignment. Toggle Reading Coach to Off from here if desired.

Edit your passage: If you've uploaded a Word or PDF document of your own, you can edit the passage right in Reading Progress. Select Edit, then make any changes you'd like in the document.

Note: ReadWorks passages are not editable. Passage details like title, reading level and genre will populate automatically.

7. Select Next.

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8. (Optional) Edit additional aspects of your assignment by adding Instructions, changing the Points or extending the Date due.

9. Select which student's you'd like to have complete this assignment, then select Assign.

Your students will be notified of their new assignment, and it will appear in your assignments list.​​​​​​

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Review and Return student work in Reading Progress

Collect valuable data while you review and return student Reading Progress assignments.

1. Mark and categorize student errors by selecting any word they misread. Use the dropdown menu to mark words as correct or categorize an error. Reading Progress will collect and tabulate the errors in the Accuracy rate and Correct words per minute cards at the top of the review panel.

Error types include:
- Omission: a word in the passage that the student skipped
- Insertion: a word not written in the passage that a student added
- Mispronunciation: a word that wasn't pronounced clearly or correctly
- Repetition: a word that a student reads more than once
- Self-correction: when a student reads incorrectly, recognizes their mistake, and reads again correctly ​

2. If the student has added additional words, you can insert them in the body of text.

Select the word closest to where you would like to insert text.

Choose Edit text from the dropdown menu.

Select where you would like to insert text, then type in what you heard the student say.

9. Decide what you would like students to see in their report.

10. Enter written feedback and points for the assignment, then select Return.

11. Press the arrows next to your student's name to quickly navigate to the next student.​

Note: You can also select Return for Revision toask students to try the assignment again.

Use Auto-detect to save time

Estimate student errors to save time. Auto-detect evaluates student recordings to identify likely mispronunciations and other reading errors for educators. Educators can always adjust the errors to reflect student performance.

Keyboard shortcuts for quick reviewing

Once you've selected any word in the text, you can use keyboard shortcuts to navigate the reading and categorize errors.

1. Move from word to word with the Left and Right arrow keys.

2. Use Ctrl+> to jump to the next error word. The video will begin playing again from that point.

3. Use the Space bar to play and pause the video as needed.

4. When you encounter a word you'd like to adjust, press Down or Enter to open the error menu.

3. Select Enter to mark the error; the dashboard will recalculate as you mark errors and the dropdown will close.

Complete a Reading Progress assignment

Got a Reading Progress assignment due? To complete this assignment you will record yourself reading out loud. It looks just like your other assignments and will show up in your class team's General channel and in the Assignments tab.

1. Select the document under My work to open Reading Progress.

Note: The first time you complete a Reading Progress assignment, you will need to select Allow so the app can access your camera and audio recordings.

2. You can select the Immersive Reader and choose the settings that help you read best.

Celebrate - your brain is getting stronger!

Languages that can use the auto-detect feature

Auto-detect is a PREVIEW feature in Reading Progress that estimates errors based on common pronunciation. Documents in any language can be uploaded and marked manually. Languages that are currently supported by Auto-detect include:

Netherlands

Belgium

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