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Describe/define the specific literacy skill

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Alphabetics refers to how the letters of the alphabet relate to the sounds of the language, which involves being aware of the sounds that make up spoken words (phonemics) as well as how those sounds related to letters (phonics).  Phonemic awareness instruction focuses on the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate those sounds. Phonics instruction helps readers learn how the letters of written language map to the sounds of spoken language, or decoding.

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Common characteristics, challenges, or barriers of students with autism related to the specific literacy skill.

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Common characteristics, challenges, or barriers of students with autism related to the specific literacy skill.

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-Phonemic awareness can be developed through a number of activities that involve discriminating, categorizing, blending, deleting, adding, or substituting phonemes, as well as segmenting words.
- Children are typically taught phonemic awareness by learning the correspondence between phonemes and letters of the alphabet.
-  Effective instruction involves a focus on only one or two of the above mentioned activities at a time.
-Phonics can be taught through various methods which include synthetic phonics, analytic phonics, onset-rime phonics, and analogy-based phonics.
-  Challenges for children on the autism spectrum arise when learning this literacy skill because they tend to overgeneralize the rules, causing them to pronounce words oddly.
-  They are also tend to take longer to learn the exceptions to the rules making mastery much slower than typical children.

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Describe/define the specific literacy skill

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Vocabulary is the basis of knowing the words needed to communicate effectively, whether speaking and listening or reading and writing. Good readers must know what most of the words in a text mean before they can understand what they have read.

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Teaching Vocabulary to Children with Learning Disabilities

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Teaching Vocabulary to Children with Learning Disabilities

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Easy research-proven methods for teaching vocabulary to children with learning disabilities through direct vocabulary instruction tailed to their needs.

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Have your student write the word on one side and write the definition on the back side. You will want to review the flashcards with your student constantly, practicing them for the entire school year. It makes teaching vocabulary rewarding for you and your student because the bundle of words your student has learned grows bigger and bigger.

Have your student draw an image of each vocabulary word. Make the images funny and memorable so that they really stick into your student's mind. You can also use these drawings as flashcards.

First, post one of the flashcards up on the front door. Every time your student walks in and out of the door, they have to give you the word in a sentence. Encourage the whole classroom or the family to participate--so much fun! You can also make it into a Vocabulary Word of the Week if your student (or anyone else) needs extra practice time.

Make a game out of learning the vocabulary words by playing charades. Take turns where your student has to act out the word and you have to guess it, and then the other way around.

You can have your student use the vocabulary words into a fun and creative story. This will really help your student spell and practice using the words in sentences.

Once you have at least a dozen vocabulary words collected, you can a take familiar game like BINGO and use the vocabulary words to fill in the squares. This really makes teaching vocabulary fun because you can always add more words, use the game to review words, and use something tasty for the markers. Check out our Literacy Lunch video to see how to make an Orton-Gillingham BINGO board:

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Here are some teaching tips for teaching vocabulary to struggling readers, including fun activities and games.

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Common characteristics, challenges, or barriers of students with autism related to the specific literacy skill.

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Common characteristics, challenges, or barriers of students with autism related to the specific literacy skill.

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-  A large oral vocabulary will typically help developing beginning readers make sense of words they see in print.
-  When they sound out words, they match those sounds to the sounds of words they already know, associating the meaning of the word with its written form.
- A barrier for children with ASD is a condition called hyperlexia which is characterized by an intense focus with number and letters, the early and spontaneous ability to read words, and a gap between word-level decoding and comprehension.
-  The fact that the children with ASD can have word fluency can be deceiving because understanding of what is being read is often very poor.
-Another challenge for students with ASD that is related to this literacy skill is their limited oral language exposure due to limited socialization and/or restricted and repetitive interests, their vocabulary is sometimes only focus on their areas of interest.

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Describe/define the specific literacy skill

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Text comprehension is the most complex of the literacy skills.  Good readers are able to think intentionally about what they are reading so that they can construct meaning by making a connection and relating what they read to what they.

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Common characteristics, challenges, or barriers of students with autism related to the specific literacy skill.

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Common characteristics, challenges, or barriers of students with autism related to the specific literacy skill.

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-  The goal of readers is to understand what they read and then put that understanding to use through an active process for learning, finding information, or entertainment.
-  There are several specific cognitive strategies that can help struggling readers; however,  most are not well suited for readers with ASD unless the students are taught explicitly how to apply them.
-  Strategies that have been found to help include the use of graphic and semantic organizers, explicit analysis of story structures, and the use of multiple strategies flexibly and in response to the needs of the reader with ASD.
- Students with ASD struggle to create an organizational structure and schema for connecting words and sentences to create a global understanding.
-  The ability to shift attention from word to the sentence level as well as memory capacity can be a challenge for children with ASD..

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Fluency is the ability to read a text accurately, quickly, and with expression.  Fluency allows a student to read a text aloud with little effort making their reading sound like spontaneously generated natural speech, both expressive and meaningful.

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-  Fluent readers are able to hold previously recognized words in memory while continuing to read and they understand each word as it is read.
-  This skill allows them to link the words they read together to create meaningful phrases before they speak them.
-  Fluency allows the reader to focus their attention on the meaning of the text, allowing them to make connections to and between the ideas in the text.
-  Reading aloud is the best way to develop fluency.
-  Readers who have not developed fluency read slowly, word by word.
-  Dysfluent readers struggle to integrate the word they read into meaningful phrases because their cognitive resources are focused on sounding out each word.

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Research Based Reading Comprehension Strategy: Making Connections

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Research Based Reading Comprehension Strategy: Making Connections

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This video shares reasons for the importance of making connections when reading and how this strategy can help students improve their reading comprehension.

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Research Based Reading Comprehension Strategy: Making Connections

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Technologies to Support Students with Autism Related to Literacy Skills

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This app is designed to develop students' phonemic awareness by focusing on vowel sounds and consonant blends through exercises that require students to listen to two non-words and identify what changes between the two words.  It also helps to develop segmentation and blending skills.  Students develop the core foundational skills that make up phonemic awareness by identifying the type of change that occurred including identifying the sound that changed through substitutions, omissions, or switching letters.  The app is suitable for all ages but is particularly useful for emerging or struggling readers.  Additionally, parents and teachers can monitor student progress and pinpoint weaker areas by looking at the results for each skill type.  Best of all, it is free.  This app can be particularly useful for older students who are still struggling with phonemic awareness because it has a game-like set up which could be appealing to them.

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The What's Changed? skill builder has been specifically designed to develop students' phonemic awareness - the ability to discern the sounds, and the sequence of sounds, within a word. Phonemic awareness is a critical skill for learning to read and can be improved with practice.

What's Changed? focuses on developing phonemic awareness with vowel sounds and consonant blends through exercises that require students to listen to two non-words and identify what changed between the two words.

Students develop the core foundational skills that make up phonemic awareness by identifying the type of change that occurred, including:
- identifying the sound that changed ('zat' to 'zad')
- substituting a new letter for the sound that changed ('feld' to 'fald')
- specifying the letter for a sound that was added or omitted ('strek' to 'stek')
- switching two letters for sounds that were switched ('blist' to 'blits')
Students with poor phonemic awareness skills often make these types of errors when reading.

What's Changed? also develops segmentation and blending skills - the ability to segment a word into its individual sounds and then blend the sounds together for whole word reading. These skills are also essential for successfully learning how to read, as they enable students to blends sounds together in order to recognize whole words when reading.

What's Changed? is suitable for students of all ages, particularly emerging readers and struggling readers. It is also good for English language learners wanting to improve their auditory discrimination and pronunciation of English. Parents or teachers can monitor students' progress, and pinpoint weaker areas by looking at the results for each skill type.

There are three different categories in What's Changed?, each with four increasing levels of difficulty. Within each game, the words build from VC (e.g. 'ob') to CCVCC (e.g. 'brisp'). The Standard English category develops letter-sound knowledge for the most common sounds of letters (for example, the /k/ sound of the letter 'c' as in 'cat').

The Readable English category builds on from the Standard English category, including the non-standard sounds of letters (for example, the other sounds the letter 'c' can make such as in 'cell', 'ocean' and 'cello'). In Readable English when a letter makes a sound other than its usual sound, it is marked with a glyph, enabling all the sounds of English to be represented by distinct characters (e.g. the different sounds of the letter 'o' in 'cove', 'love' and 'move' are clearly reflected with different glyphs).

The Color category uses only colors to represent sounds, which requires users to strictly focus on auditory discrimination rather than sound-symbol association.

Readable English: Read It | Speak It | Know It.

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

Family Sharing

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

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Lively Letters is an app that targets phonemic awareness, phonics and speech production in an engaging way.  It focuses more on teaching than just drilling, using proven strategies such as memory tricks, mouth and hand cues, humorous stories, colorful pictures of characters embedded into letter, and songs.  This multisensory structured approach is geared to students of all ages and abilities.  The app includes progress monitoring and three activities; Flashing, Tracking, and Matching.

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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.

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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!

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.

Even better!

I'd heard a lot about this app so I bought it a few months ago. I still can't believe the amazing impact it has on my students. They're learning their letter sounds at such a fast pace and are enjoying the activities so much that they're literally begging to meet the next letter sound character! The huge amount of content you get and the results I'm getting make this app invaluable! It's even better than I thought!

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Telian-Cas Learning Concepts Inc

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Requires iOS 9.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

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© 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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Starfall's ABC section teachers letter-sound relationships by providing a fun and engaging focus on each letter of the alphabet.  The explicit instruction is effective in kindergarten and with students in special education when combined with exercises in phonemic awareness.  This resource could be a great way to introduce a letter of the day or week to a whole class.  Students can view the pictures and animations  while the teacher demonstrates the activities or calls on volunteers to complete them.  Students can also work individually on teacher-assigned or self-chosen letters.

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ABC Pocket Phonics is a phonics based application that combines letter sounds, letter writing, and 170 first words to help teach reading.  It is split in to 12 groups of letter sounds, each group is followed by a set of storybooks that use those letter sounds.  Students read storybooks that are on the right level for them.  Children master the following skills writing letters, recognizing 72 letter sounds, blending letter sounds together to make words, and hearing a word and selecting its written form.

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"PocketPhonics teaches the basics of reading and writing to young kids. Most surprising? It seems to work." 148apps.com

PocketPhonics teaches kids letter sounds, first words and handwriting. It is used in hundreds of elementary schools and pre-schools, and tens of thousands of homes. It is aligned with the Common Core State Standards, and independent research (see appsinmypocket.com/research) found children learnt nine times faster using PocketPhonics compared to a classroom lesson.

"One of my children's favorite early reading apps" New York Times
"This app feels much like a private tutoring session for early readers with emphasis on letter sounds and writing." everythingmom.com
-"If you are working on phonics for your kids, this is the best application to have." Technology in Education
-"This app feels much like a private tutoring session for early readers with emphasis on letter sounds and writing." everythingmom.com
-"PocketPhonics is seriously educational and I think it's a terrific tool for helping early readers. You can tell that a ton of thought and research was put into it and best of all, they talked and listened to teachers. It shows." iPhoneMom.com
-"When it comes to learning apps for young learners and early readers, there is no better choice than PocketPhonics." ipad-applications.neiia.com

PocketPhonics is split in to 12 groups of letter sounds, each group is followed by a set of storybooks that use those letter sounds. Kids read storybooks that are on the right level for them.

The phonics levels are included in the price of this "basic edition", but the storybooks cost extra. PocketPhonics Stories (full edition) includes the stories in the price.

Phonics (letter sounds) help children to read by understanding the sounds that letters make. The National Reading Panel concluded that "children who have phonics instruction read better and spell better than other children".

In the first group of letter sounds, there are six sounds to master before the child will be able to read their first storybook. Most children aged 4+ start to read their first storybook within 10 weeks if they use the app for 15 mins everyday.

Parents and teachers can easily monitor children's progress online. Teachers and parents are emailed a certificate when a child completes a task.

Children can tap an unfamiliar word in a story, and the app will sound out the letters to help the child understand what the word says. They can tap again to hear the actual word and see a picture that illustrates its meaning.

As the child reads a story, the app tests whether they can read some of the key words. At the end of the story, it quizzes the child on all new words in that story.

Children master the following skills:

writing letters
recognising 72 letter sounds (e.g. 'ch' are the letters that make the initial sound in 'chat')
* blending letter sounds together to make words (e.g 'ch-a-t')
* hearing a word and selecting its written form (e.g. the app says, "chat", the child has to select 'chat' from a group of words)

How it works
* The phonics levels are included in the price.
* The books are extra, but can be tried for free. $1.49 monthly and $14.49 annual subscriptions unlock access to all books for an unlimited number of children
* The subscription gives you access to more books as they are added
* Once subscribed, your subscription auto-renews each month or annually. However, you can easily turn auto renew off via the Settings app
* Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase
* Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period
* Cannot cancel current subscription during its subscription period

Privacy policy:
http://appsinmypocket.com/privacy

Terms of use:
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Very useful aid to homeschoolers.

I am a mother of two boys, 3 & 5. I have had this app for 3 years. I homeschool my boys and started this app as a median to teach sounds form words. I began this app with my eldest son at 2 yrs old. He had already memorized his letter and some of their sounds by 18 months. He loved this app and making words. I love that this app teaches phonetics as that is how i teach to read. My eldest son was reading simple 3 to 4 word sentences at the age of 3yrs. I now use this for my youngest son and it is helping with his speech (he is also in speech therapy with his school). He can now build words using sounds, but has issues with multiple syllable words. I do wish i could adjust some of the practice words, add more words to help build more practice, and create a more gradual learning curve. However, overall it does work and it is a great tool!

One of my best apps!

I love this app and find it quite comprehensive and entertaining at the same time to keep kids interest going. I've seen my two toddlers grow up liking it and using it a lot. I think it really works! Thumbs up from a mom who does tons of research before getting anything for her kids!

5 year old plays it all the time.

Our granddaughter loves this app and spends a lot of time playing. Her letters are well made without reversals. She write text messages and spells most words correctly and effortlessly in her 3 month of kindergarten.

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Apps in My Pocket Ltd

Compatibility

Requires iOS 9.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

Copyright

© 2019 Apps in My Pocket Ltd

In-App Purchases

1. Lifetime subscription - books $16.99

2. Annual subscription for books $14.49

3. Monthly subscription for books $1.49

Family Sharing

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

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Technologies to Support Students with Autism Related to Literacy Skills

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Helping students with ASD develop breath and depth of vocabulary depends on building connections between words and meaning. Emotionary is a unique dictionary app which guides users through five primary emotions to find the right category of feeling, with all definitions pared back to the essentials and displayed so they can be easily compared.  This app gives students with ASD the words to express themselves effectively by developing a rich vocabulary of emotions.

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‎This truly unique dictionary is a world first. Emotionary guides users through five primary emotions to find the right category of feeling, with all definitions pared back to the essentials and displayed so they can be easily compared. With instant sharing functionality and the ability to create you...

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Graphic organizers and visual displays are good tools that can highlights the relationship between words.  EdWordle is a  website that allows students to create word clouds based on the frequency of words in a particular text.  It can lead students to think about the meaning, importance, and relationship of words as they analyze, create, and publish Wordles.

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EdWordle is a tool for editing "word clouds" based on the Wordle. The initial word cloud can be generated from the input text or read from an existing one. You can re-font, re-colore, resize, move, rotate, add and delete words to create custom visualizations.
EdWordle's main benefit is that it allows a neighborhood-preserving editing process, which keeps words at predictable and close locations during and after the editing process. Like Wordle, the images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can save them to your own desktop to use as you wish.

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Some examples created by others and you can further edit them:

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EdWordle is a tool for editing "word clouds" based on the Wordle. The initial word cloud can be generated from the input text or read from an existing one. You can re-font, re-colore, resize, move, rotate, add and delete words to create custom visualizations.

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Smories are stories written for children ages 4 to 8, read aloud by children and then filmed and posted to the website.  The idea behind Smories is to provide children with a place to see other children reading stories and be inspired to practice reading aloud.  The benefits for children with ASD is being exposed to other children who use appropriate emotion  and inflection while reading.  Teachers can use Smories to teach emotion recognition, word intonation/inflection appropriate to the meaning of the written word.

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Autism iHelp-Comprehension is a vocabulary teaching app targeting receptive language skills using real life photographs, and requires the child to follow written or verbal instructions.

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The ability to read the instruction in the free version is far more advanced than the action requested i.e. "Place the star on the bucket". It requires knowledge of the names of shapes and objects as well as the concept of left, right and middle.
The user will need to be able to place a finger and hold it on the object in order to move it. It does not appear to be immediately responsive to touch and sometimes takes a while to respond

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The ability to read the instruction in the free version is far more advanced than the action requested i.e. "Place the star on the bucket". It requires knowledge of the names of shapes and objects as well as the concept of left, right and middle.

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Technologies to Support Students with Autism Related to Literacy Skills

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Vooks is a collection of animated storybooks for kids.  Stories come to life as children are immersed in the plot, characters, and hear the narration and sound effects while still being able to read.  Lesson plans are accessible to parents and teachers to extend the learning beyond each storybook.  They provide themes, summaries, talking points, discussion topics, activity ideas, and vocabulary cards.

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Vooks - Storybooks brought to life with beautiful animation!

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Vooks is an entire library of kids storybooks brought to life with beautiful animation, read-aloud narration, engaging music and sound, and read-along text.

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PlayTales interactive books provides stories designed to education and inspire young readers with features that help readers with ASD make connections with text and better understand what they read.  Features allow personalization of stories by adding photos of the child, making him/her the star of their favorite story.  Highlighted text makes reading easier as words are individually highlighted as the child reads them, helping with recognition.  Additionally, three reading options are available: Read to Me, Read By Myself, and Autoplay.

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Millions of children are already reading PlayTales interactive books!

Parents worldwide are discovering the award-winning bookstore app that offers the best-quality, interactive storybooks for children.

PlayTales' stories are designed to educate, entertain, and inspire young readers ages 1 to 12. The PlayTales library features classic children´s tales such as The Ugly Duckling, Sleeping Beauty, and Puss in Boots, along with new favorites like Pocoyo, Popeye, Betty Boop, Sesame Street, and Felix that Cat.

Download PlayTales and checkout the bookstore featuring over 200 titles to choose from and new books are added each week! Each story listed in the PlayTales bookstore features a summary and screenshots so you'll be able to preview books before making any purchases.

Features:
- Enjoy new stories every month!
- Variety of stories for kids ages 1 to 12.
- Fun personalized stories: Add a photo of your child and make them the star of their favorite adventure!
- New highlighted text makes reading easier for kids: words are individually highlighted as the child reads them, helping with recognition.
- Choose between three reading options: Read To Me, Read By Myself, and Autoplay.
- Stories available in 8 different languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese (Mandarin), and Japonese.
- Download as many stories as you want and save them on your bookshelf.
- You can access and read the stories wherever and as often as you want.
- Find stories from Sesame Street, Pocoyo, and many more beloved characters!
- New user-friendly search option in the app. Search for your favorite stories with just one word.
- Categories allow you to find stories with your favorite themes in just one click.
- Playtales Gold is certified as being safe for kids by the KidSAFE Seal Program.
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Version 2.12

Needs update

My iPad gives us a message that this app needs to be updated to iOS 11....please do so that we can use this app...

Autism child

I hope you update this application I have a child with autism who likes these stories a lot but his old ipad that never updates so that he could continue with the stories already broke down and had a very bad time without his stories crying all day he does not understand that it doesn't work anymore and I hope to update soon atte mom desperate with a child with autism

Best app for Children

This is the best app for kids i've seen in the appstore. It offers a collection of hundreds of books, all of them with interactive elements, beautiful graphics and different reading modes. 8 languages are offered, which is great for a bilingual family like mine. I couldn't ask for more!

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

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Compatibility

iPad

Requires iPadOS 5.0 or later.

Mac

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

Languages

English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese

Family Sharing

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

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StoryPals is a reading comprehension app that lets children create their own stories.  There are 24 short stories that target kids on reading levels from grades 2 to 6.  Students can hear the stories read to them or read them themselves.  Each story has a quiz attached, so teachers or parents can assign and track responses.  Questions center on who, what, where, when, and why a good strategy for improving literacy for students with ASD.

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Before having students read or hear stories independently, it's best to work closely with them, either one on one or in small groups, to model the story reading process. When working with multiple students, the tool can be a great way to more easily assess reading and listening comprehension as students read silently. On the creative side, working with students to write original stories is a fun process, and can also help kids become more metacognitive about narrative structure, aiding in their reading comprehension. As you create stories, help kids develop good questions for an adjoining assessment. Creating a quiz for one of their original works is a great exercise in higher order thinking and processing.

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Technologies to Support Students with Autism Related to Literacy Skills

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Technologies to Support Students with Autism Related to Literacy Skills

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Pictello is an interactive storytelling app that lets students make virtual storybooks with their own titles, phots, videos, and captions.  It can be especially useful for students with ASD who have difficulty understanding social cues, reading facial expressions, and interpreting body language.  Video modeling tools can improve fluency through social engagement and by customizing digital stories from a child's environment engagement will increase.

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Kid in Story Book Maker is a storytelling app designed for easy-to-make personalized stories that can help boost social skills while developing fluency.  Students can create their own stories using pictures of themselves.  The benefit of creating social stories for student with ASD is that they allow them to see themselves in different situations before they encounter them, which can help ease anxiety.  Engagement is also benefit to increase the student's desire to read, which can help develop fluency.

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A social story creation tool for teachers in special-needs settings.

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Literably is a simple and useful reading fluency assessment tool that can provide concrete feedback about a student's reading ability.  It can provided a way for teachers or parents to assess progress in reading accuracy, expression, and speed.  They student can cycle through and record different activities and Literably will automatically score the student's reading. It is recommended that teachers or parents look in detail at the results and listen to the student's audio to spot-check accuracy and fidelity.

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"A game-changer for doing reading assessments through the school year: easy to use at home or in classroom, scored by a trained human, fast turn-around, records the reading, can be shared with parents."

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Beginning Reading and Phonological Awareness for Students with Learning Disabilities

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Beginning Reading and Phonological Awareness for Students with Learning Disabilities

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By: ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation

Learning to read begins well before the first day of school. When Ron and Donna tell nursery rhymes to their baby, Mia, they are beginning to teach Mia to read. They are helping her to hear the similarities and differences in the sounds of words. She will begin to manipulate and understand sounds in spoken language, and she will practice this understanding by making up rhymes and new words of her own. She will learn the names of the letters and she will learn the different sounds each letter represents. As she gets a little older, Ron and Donna will teach her to write letters and numbers that she will already recognize by their shapes. Finally, she will associate the letters of the alphabet with the sounds of the words she uses when she speaks. At this point, she is on her way to learning to read!

When she tries to read books with her parents, at school, and on her own, Mia will learn how to learn new words by sounding them out. With more practice, she will begin to recognize familiar words easily and quickly, and she will know the patterns of spelling that appear in words and the patterns of words as they appear in sentences. She will be able to pay attention not just to the letters and words, but to the meanings they represent. Ultimately, Mia will be able to think about the meaning of the text as she reads.

Where does phonological awareness fit into this process?

Key to the process of learning to read is Mia's ability to identify the different sounds that make words and to associate these sounds with written words. In order to learn to read, Mia must be aware of phonemes. A phoneme is the smallest functional unit of sound. For example, the word cat contains three distinctly different sounds. There are 44 phonemes in the English language, including letter combinations such as /th/.

In addition to identifying these sounds, Mia must also be able to manipulate them. Word play involving segmenting words into their constituent sounds, rhyming words, and blending sounds to make words is also essential to the reading process. The ability to identify and manipulate the sounds of language is called phonological awareness.

Adams (1990) described five levels of phonological awareness ranging from an awareness of rhyme to being able to switch or substitute the components in a word. While phonological awareness affects early reading ability, the ability to read also increases phonological awareness (Smith, Simmons, & Kameenui, 1995).

Many children with learning disabilities have deficiencies in their ability to process phonological information. Thus, they do not readily learn how to relate letters of the alphabet to the sounds of language (Lyon, 1995). For all students, the processes of phonological awareness, including phonemic awareness, must be explicitly taught.

Children from culturally diverse backgrounds may have particular difficulties with phonological awareness. Exposure to language at home, exposure to reading at an early age, and dialect all affect the ability of children to understand the phonological distinctions on which the English language is built. Teachers must apply sensitive effort and use a variety of techniques to help children learn these skills when standard English is not spoken at home (Lyon, 1994).

How is phonological awareness taught?

To teach phonological awareness, begin by demonstrating the relationships of parts to wholes. Then model and demonstrate how to segment short sentences into individual words, showing how the sentence is made up of words. Use chips or other manipulatives to represent the number of words in the sentence. Once the students understand part-whole relationships at the sentence level, move on to the word level, introducing multisyllable words for segmentation into syllables. Finally, move to phoneme tasks by modeling a specific sound and asking the students to produce that sound both in isolation and in a variety of words and syllables.

It is best to begin with easier words and then move on to more difficult ones. Five characteristics make a word easier or more difficult (Kameenui, 1995):

1. The size of the phonological unit (e.g., it is easier to break sentences into words and words into syllables than to break syllables into phonemes).

2. The number of phonemes in the word (e.g., it is easier to break phonemically short words such as no, see and cap than snort, sleep or scrap).

3. Phoneme position in words (e.g., initial consonants are easier than final consonants and middle consonants are most difficult).

4. Phonological properties of words (e.g., continuant such as /s/ and /m/ are easier than very brief sounds such as /t/).

5. Phonological awareness challenges. (e.g., rhyming and initial phoneme identification are easier than blending and segmenting.)

Examples of phonological awareness tasks include phoneme deletion ("What word would be left if the /k/ sound were taken away from cat?"); Word to word matching ("Do pen and pipe begin with the same sound?"); Blending ("What word would we have if we blended these sounds together: /m/ /o/ /p/?"); phoneme segmentation ("What sounds do you hear in the word hot?"); phoneme counting ("How many sounds do you hear in the word cake?"); and rhyming ("Tell me all of the words that you know that rhyme with the word cat?") (Stanovich, 1994).

Beginning readers require more direct instructional support from teachers in the early stages of teaching. This is illustrated in the following example: The teacher models the sound or the strategy for making the sound, and has the children use the strategy to produce the sound. It is very important that the teacher model the correct sounds. This is done using several examples for each dimension and level of difficulty. The children are prompted to use the strategy during guided practice and more difficult examples are introduced. A sequence and schedule of opportunities for children to apply and develop facility with sounds should be tailored to each child's needs, and should be given top priority. Opportunities to engage in phonological awareness activities should be plentiful, frequent, and fun (Kameenui, 1995).
References
References

Adams, M.J. (1990) Beginning to read: Thinking and learning about print. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Kameenui, E.J. (Winter, 1996). Shakespeare and beginning reading: The readiness is all. TEACHING Exceptional Children, 27 (2).

Lyon, G. R. (1995). Toward a definition of dyslexia. Annals of Dyslexia, 45, 3-27.

Lyon, G.R. (1994). Research In Learning Disabilities at the NICHD. Technical document. Bethesda, MD: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health.

Smith, S.B., Simmons, D.C., & Kameenui, E.J. (February, 1995). Synthesis of research on phonological awareness: Principles and implications for reading acquisition. (Technical Report no. 21, National Center to Improve the Tools of Education). Eugene: University of Oregon.

Stanovich, K.E. (1994). Romance and reality. The Reading Teacher, 47, 280-291.

A companion digest, #E539, and a companion ERIC minibibliography are available on request. ERIC Digests are in the public domain and may be freely reproduced and disseminated. This publication was prepared with funding from the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education, under contract no. RR93002005. The opinions expressed in this report do not necessarily reflect the positions or policies of OERI or the Department of Education.

The ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education, The Council for Exceptional Children, 1920 Association Drive Reston, VA 22091

ERIC Digest #E540 December 1995

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