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Storybird is a great resource for students that have some basic writing skills, that simply need improvement. It focuses on student's narrative writing, prompting them to write a story. Students can write a picture book, comics, and even poetry using the various tools presented. It also offers a challenge option, addressing all levels in the writing process.

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Storybird - Read, write, discover, and share the books you'll always remember.

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Become a better writer with Storybird's creativity tools. Online courses, challenges, and reader feedback will help you improve your writing.

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This app helps teachers and parents to support their new writers. This app helps students to develop skills in their writing, prompting them to explain their perspective to begin. It then provides prompts for students based on fiction or nonfiction narratives. Prompts include pictures, supporting those students that may struggle with reading. This can also be used to create details for their writing. This tool is primarily used for the elementary level.

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From the Common Core Standards:

Many of the prompts included in the Write About This app ask students to explain their opinion about a variety of topics as well as provide a jumping off point for both fiction and non-fiction narratives.

Creative writing opportunities are also abound..with photos and prompts that will invite children to imagine and add unique details on everything from poetry & prose to lists & letters.

How Teachers Integrate Write About This

Students are given free writing time and find a prompt that inspires them. Celebrate the writing by emailing the teacher and parents the finished draft!

Student photographers are in charge of creating a custom photo prompt.

Teacher or students choose a prompt to display through a projector & the entire class responds in their Writer's Notebooks.

Begin a prompt as a class discussion starter & then the teacher models writing strategies by creating a Write About.

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What Teachers Have to Say:

"I couldn't get students to stop writing at the end of the day!"
- @RebeccaWildman, 4th Grade Teacher

"My students love it! They are even downloading and writing at home with family iPads!"
- @appleclassroom, 3rd Grade Teacher

"I downloaded your app yesterday and my 10 year old daughter is having a blast! In fact this morning, she chose creating a story over her TV time!"
- Tammy, parent & Special Education teacher

"I think folks should just skip free version and buy it. It belongs on every school iPad."
- @Teamhanrahan62, Apple Distinguished Educator

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From the Common Core Standards: Many of the prompts included in the Write About This app ask students to explain their opinion about a variety of topics as well as provide a jumping off point for both fiction and non-fiction narratives.

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This is a great tool kit for teachers or parents that are struggling with their child's needs. This tool kit primarily focuses on struggles with dyslexia and can be applied to all grade levels. This will offer different lessons addressing reading and writing and supports students along the way.

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Early Level

At the pre-school stage in a child’s development, a great deal of caution should be exercised. Children all develop at different rates and sometimes a child will seemingly be coping fine, but later for no apparent reason will start to stumble and then have significant difficulty. This might be because they have learned to recognise a few words by their appearance or shape, but don't have the phonic knowledge to decode. Once in school, when the number of words starts to increase, without the phonic knowledge, the child becomes muddled and even the words that were apparently known become problematic. For children who have had the optimum literacy rich environment within an appropriate context of play and fun, difficulties may only become apparent at a later stage. The purpose of making observations and taking action at this early stage is:

to ensure we maximise opportunities for literacy learning and development

to acknowledge that underdeveloped phonological awareness may be an indication of dyslexia

to address concerns at the earliest stage and to collaborate with parents and other caregivers involved in the child’s life and education.

Most of these difficulties can be observed within the context of experiences and outcomes in Curriculum for Excellence. Others can be observed in the routine of the nursery or classroom. It should be noted that we are looking for a pattern or profile of difficulties and not just one or two.

Most young children will exhibit some of the signs of dyslexic difficulties. It is therefore important that we look for a cluster of characteristics which may indicate dyslexia and that we do not jump to conclusions prematurely when pupils show only one or two indications.

Dyslexic difficulties will be at different levels of severity, requiring different levels of response and intervention. Observation and detailed assessment will be required within Curriculum for Excellence to identify specific strengths and development needs before any conclusions can be drawn.

First, Second, Third, Fourth and Senior Levels

There may be a number of reasons why a child or young person may experience difficulties in any of the curriculum levels which may or may not be dyslexia. When starting the process of exploring if dyslexia is a causal factor it is important to  take a child/young person centred approach looking at the Scottish working definition of dyslexia and considering if there is a correlation between this and their difficulties. For example this may include learning to read, write, spell or developing short-term and working memory skills.  (These difficulties may vary in severity from child to child and may seem out of sync with the child’s other abilities – e.g. oral, artistic, creative, emotional).

The Scottish working definition of dyslexia includes a range of associated factors which are highlighted below. You can select each one to see a range of questions linked to curriculum levels which  can help to develop further understanding of areas which the child or young person experience difficulties with in regards to dyslexia.

Additional things to consider

Are there any difficulties with motor skills (fine or gross) and/or co-ordination?  Is handwriting affected?  How does the child cope in the gym?

Consider self esteem, stress levels, behaviour factors, low achievement. Is it possible that problems with motivation to learn are a result of difficulties that could be associated with dyslexia?

In addition, it is important to consider if there could be any other reasons why children are not achieving the desired outcomes or giving the desired responses. Consider for example:

Your teaching:

Did I present this in a clear manner?

Did I talk too quickly?

Did I gain the child’s attention?

Did I make assumptions about the child’s prior knowledge?

Developmentally was the child ready for this?

Did I talk beyond the child’s concentration span?

Was the child interrupted or distracted by anything or anyone?

If there are ways in which you can change your language and/or teaching to support the child’s learning, then this is probably the first course of action.

The classroom:

When I am talking, are children seated so that they can all see me without having to turn their heads?

Is the classroom welcoming?

Do the children know how to locate their belongings easily? Do they recognise them?

Is there an appropriate place to change shoes and store belongings tidily?

Can I make the walls more dyslexia friendly? (Too much visual material can be confusing if a child doesn’t understand what it is about.)

Do I consider the social mix of children within groups so that children can feel supported without feeling their abilities are underestimated?

Do I encourage a range of metacognitive styles?

Are there appropriate consistent daily routines so that the child knows what to expect?

Children with difficulties are often easily disorientated so require consideration to be given to aspects of seating. It is important that they are able to receive attention without having to turn around to see the board or the teacher. Visual impact is also improved when there is clear organisation within the classroom, including the classroom walls.

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What to look for - CfE levels

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There may be a number of reasons why a child or young person may experience difficulties in any of the curriculum levels which may or may not be dyslexia. When starting the process of exploring if dyslexia is a causal factor it is important to take a child/young person centred approach looking at the Scottish working definition of dyslexia and considering if there is a correlation between this and their difficulties.

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Time 4 Learning is typically a homeschooling tool, but can be beneficial in the classroom. This tool can be applied to any grade level and is tailored to student's needs. This program comes with interactive lessons for students to improve their writing. This program can be used as needed and incorporated into most lesson plans.

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Online Curriculum for PreK-12th
Time4Learning is a standards-based grade-appropriate curriculum with thousands of interactive lessons in math, language arts, social studies, and science. With automated grading, reporting and activity planning tools, homeschooling has never been easier.

Flexible and Student-Paced
With Time4Learning, you are in the driver’s seat. Students can login anywhere and anytime. There are no fixed times or schedules. Adjust the grade level for each subject, depending on your child’s skill-level and interests. Repeat lessons as many times as you want.

Fun and Engaging
Time4Learning makes learning fun with over 3,500 engaging lessons that children of all ages enjoy. Students develop skills through interactive activities and apply what they’re learning to everyday life. Assessment tools help you monitor their academic progress.

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The Student Experience

Your children log in to Time4Learning anytime and anywhere. In their student dashboard, they’ll find subjects assigned by you. Within each subject, there are activities, quizzes, and assessments that can be completed in order, or according to a parent-created activity plan.

Students can also keep track of their own progress. When they’ve completed their lessons for the day, Time4Fun offers a variety of games students can play to wind down.

The Parent Experience

Parents have their own login. In your parent dashboard, you can easily monitor your child’s progress and access tools to make homeschooling easier. With automated grading and reporting, Time4Learning does all the heavy lifting. The Activity Planner gives you more control over what topics are covered, and can provide your child with a more structured schedule.

With adjustable grade levels for each subject, you can customize your child’s education based on strengths and challenges. As a Time4Learning member, you can connect with an active community of like-minded parents and a friendly customer support team to address any challenges.

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Engaging Lessons

Children love our homeschool curriculum because it’s loaded with fun, interactive lessons! To keep them constantly engaged, attentive, and challenged, we use short animated lessons for younger students and a lecture format for older students.

Activity Planning

Worried about lesson planning? We have you covered! Time4Learning includes a free Curriculum Calculator and Activity Planner to schedule learning that meets your child’s specific needs. Add breaks at any time during the school year, and your student’s workload will automatically adjust.

Adjustable Grade Levels

Customize learning based on your child’s academic skill-level. Select different grade levels or assign courses for each subject and make changes at any time. Students have access to a grade level below or above their assigned grade, and can review topics or preview concepts whenever needed.*
*Not available for some middle school or high school courses.

Grading & Reporting

Automated grading and detailed reporting make tracking progress, keeping records, and compiling transcripts or portfolios easy for busy parents! You can generate customized reports based on exactly what you need, when you need it.

What Parents Are Saying

“Time4Learning is easier-to-use, more flexible, and more affordable than other homeschool programs we have used. This is exactly what our family was looking for!”

“We love the customer support team. They are dedicated people who understand homeschooling and are always willing to help you!”

“As a busy parent of two children, Time4Learning makes homeschooling much easier. The activities are fun, and the homeschool tools help me to plan activities and report on their progress.”

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Time4Learning makes flexible, online homeschooling fun for kids and easy for parents with access to standards-based PreK-12 activities.

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This program is great to use as students are going through the writing process. This program addresses any grammatical issues and will offer data for the teacher. At this point, the teacher can use this data to address any of the student's needs. This is typically used throughout middle and high school levels.

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My Access is a great tool to help students grow with their writing. This tool will first assess students on their needs and they offer suggestions of improvement in their writing. They measure student's skills through the 6 traits of writing and offer feedback as students write. Their writing will also be graded by this program. This can be used throughout any grade level and will address any needs present for students.

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Learning without Tears is a program to help students develop their literacy skills, along with their writing skills in the elementary levels. This program helps to build writers with writing practice within their activity book. It offers continuous practice to develop these skills and can be easily incorporated into lessons.

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This tool works to improve oral, written and vocabulary expression. It helps students to address any writing deficiencies using various manipulatives to support their understanding. It focuses on giving students the tools they need to express themselves, providing opportunities for details in their writing. This tool can be used with all students, regardless of developmental level. This is because it is tailored to their needs. This is typically used in the elementary level, but can be implemented in high school or middle school if necessary.

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