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Choose from a library of 40+ videos that support antiracist teaching & learning, & #SEL skills to help students engage in compassionate, productive conversations.

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For teachers and students engaging in antiracist teaching and learning

At the core of Flocabulary is hip-hop, a cultural movement started by black and Latinx youth in New York in the early '70s. It's important to understand the history of hip-hop and the socio-cultural and economic circumstances from which it emerged when teaching with Flocabulary. Why? We must honor where the music came from, especially in a society that has historically marginalized black voices. For a primer on the history of hip-hop culture, watch our Hip-Hop Fundamentals video. New to Flocabulary? We recommend that you watch our How to Use video for a broad overview of the product, including features like Discuss Mode, Vocab Game, and Lyric Lab.

What resources do we have for you?

We have a library of 40 videos that support antiracist teaching and learning, including biographies of black Americans, key cultural and historical events that demystify present-day race relations, and SEL skills to help students engage in compassionate, productive conversations. Many of these videos are free even if you don't have a Flocabulary account. Below, you'll also find an implementation guide, suggestions for educators doing this challenging work, and a summary of the ways Flocabulary is a culturally responsive tool.

Implementation Strategies

Teachers are dealing with a lot (as if they weren't already)! Teaching remotely during a global pandemic... in the midst of a social revolution. And now, while many schools are prioritizing racial justice instruction, there isn't a designated time in the day to teach it. Here are some implementation guidelines that foster a safe learning environment, no matter your schedule.

1. Establish Classroom Norms & Common Vocabulary

For learning to take place, students must feel respected, included, and connected. To establish a welcoming environment, set norms with your students. These will help you approach sensitive and difficult topics together. Examples of norms might include: "First we seek to understand, and then to be understood," and "We are learning to be comfortable with being uncomfortable." You can also use Flocabulary's Active Listening and Building Empathy videos to establish guidelines for engaging in discussions. A shared language is also important. Develop a common vocabulary and add to it over time. This might mean defining words like "accountability," "allyship," and "equity," as well as acronyms like POC and BIPOC (black, indigenous, and people of color). Be proactive in offering solutions and strategies to de-escalate conflict and diffuse tension. Consider setting up a "calmness corner," or teach students how to practice breathing exercises for emotional regulation. You can also use Flocabulary's Mindfulness & Meditation video as a resource for de-escalation and calmness.

2. Tie Racial Justice to Core Subject Areas

Racial justice affects all of us. Below are some tips for how to incorporate racial justice topics and themes into your instruction across academic subjects.

ELA:
As you read fiction and nonfiction, ask students to consider whose story is being told and whose is silenced. What is the historical context for the work and how does that context play a role in the text? Who is the intended audience for the story and how does that shape the telling of it? Center texts and voices from diverse cultures and backgrounds. Flocabulary's videos onMaya Angelou, Langston Hughes, and the Harlem Renaissance are great ways to introduce units on black artists and authors.

Social Studies:
In studying any event or period in history, consider whose perspective is being centered. Are there any racial or ethnic groups that are left out of the story? Use ourWhat is History video as a jumping-off point. Flocabulary's Historical Figures videos feature diverse perspectives, hidden figures like Katherine Johnson, and leaders and activists in the ongoing fight for racial justice. Showcase their stories with your students. Our video on John Lewis & Nonviolent Action was written and performed by a high school student. Use it to inspire your students to research a figure from history and tell their story in rap or in any form they choose.

Science:
Teach students about the contributions of black inventors and scientists. Use our video onGeorge Washington Carver as a starting point. Consider the ways in which science and technology have sometimes supported racism, such as the false belief that race is a real genetic difference among humans or facial recognition technology that tends to misidentify people of color. Then discuss ways in which advances in science, technology, and engineering can help promote racial equity.

Math:
As your students exploreData and Statistics, discuss the real-world applications that pertain to racial justice. What data exists or would be needed to quantify the problems that stem from racial inequality today? How can they analyze this data to better understand the situation, and how can they use mathematics to help represent these issues? Bring your students' lived experience into the classroom. Use details from your students' lives or current events as the storyline in word problems. Look to the news for charts, graphs and other data and ask students to answer questions based on them. For inspiration, look to Better World Ed, a curriculum that infuses math lessons with SEL skill building and global citizenship.

Elementary:
Elementary students are not too young to learn about topics like race, diversity, and respect. Research shows that when parents and teachers avoid these topics, children come to their own conclusions based on the world around them, which often promotes racist ideas in subtle and not-so-subtle ways. We have videos on each of these topics on ourRacial Justice page, as well as many others created for elementary students. You can see the grade recommendation for a video by clicking into Teacher Resources on the top of the video page or, from the Racial Justice page, right below each video thumbnail. Our elementary videos use vocabulary and examples that are relevant and appropriate but do not oversimplify the central concepts. Keep that principle in mind as you evaluate other resources for your elementary students.

3. Honor Hip-Hop & Black Culture with Lyric Lab

Hip-Hop is centrally important to youth culture around the world. It is also inherently educational, rich with vocabulary, wordplay, rhythm, humor, analogy, and allusion. As you watch Flocabulary videos, teach your students about the origins of hip-hop.

Every Flocabulary video includes Lyric Lab, a feature that gives students agency and voice by providing a process for writing their own raps with scaffolds like vocab definitions and a rhyming dictionary. We know most teachers will be new to rhyme- and rap-writing, and through this feature, we invite teachers to be learning partners alongside their students.

For help getting started writing academic raps, you can use our Rhyme & Rhythm video and this full lesson sequence. The lessons cover rhyme-writing to master vocabulary, telling a story, and more.

4. Build Community with Discuss Mode

If you have dedicated time each week for homeroom, study hall, or advisory, you can integrate racial justice discussions and continue the conversation all year. Discuss Mode is a great way to begin.

We recommend teachers preview a Flocabulary video to make sure it is well-suited for their students before playing it in the classroom. Then, watch the Flocabulary video through with your advisory or homeroom once without pausing. Finally, activate Discuss Mode and rewatch. Discuss Mode will pause playback at key moments with prompts for reflection and discussion. The questions can be used for stop-and-jot or journal prompts, think-pair-shares, or small group or full class discussions. This feature helps your students build personal connections and practice SEL skills like self-reflection, social awareness, and relationship building.

You can use Discuss Mode in our current events videos. Every Friday during the school year, Flocabulary publishes The Week in Rap and The Week in Rap Junior. These videos help students stay informed about national and world events. Watching The Week in Rap with a racial justice lens in Discuss Mode will help students make connections and historical parallels to understand the impact of race in society today.

How does Flocabulary fit into a culturally responsive classroom?

By teaching with hip-hop, we center young people. We respect their interests. We include their culture in their education. We also incorporate storytelling, humor, and high-quality music and visuals in our content with the aim of fostering emotional connections between students and their peers, teachers, and the curriculum so that curiosity and engagement come effortlessly.

Product features like Discuss Mode further these critical social and emotional connections while giving students agency and a voice in their learning. The Lyric Lab feature furthers the attention to hip-hop culture and art while, again, giving students more agency and voice in their learning. And of course, our music videos feature an inclusive cast of characters from different backgrounds and identities.

Hip-hop is a powerful teacher. It has been a poetic medium for communicating important messages since its inception. We only work with lyricists and rappers who understand that, no explanation needed. This is critical because students can tell the real from the fake. We find that students easily want to engage with Flocabulary because it's authentic. Check out interviews with some of our artists here. Flocabulary elevates working artists in the education space and centers the cultural contributions of POC creators, something curricula often leaves out.

Some prep work for teachers

Many teachers will be having difficult conversations about race, racism, and bias for the first time, right alongside their students. And it's not going to be easy. There are many resources available at the intersection of race, culture, and education. Here are a few tools for self-learning from Flocabulary as well as from organizations, authors, and educators we trust as experts in this arena.

Reflect on your identity with this exercise from Teaching Tolerance and understand your identity and the identity of your students as the lens through which learning takes place. Consider the racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds that make up your classroom. Teaching Tolerance is a great resource for educators, and we recommend exploring the website.

Facilitate conversations with fellow educators after watching the Flocabulary video Perspectives on Race (5-12). What did you learn? Did you recognize any of your students in the stories told?

Read Zaretta Hammond's book Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain, an accessible dive into the science of how the brain learns best and how educators can support their students' achievement.

Reach Chris Emdin's book For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too. Chris Emdin is known for passionate, thoughtful presentations about his areas of research, so check out recordings of his speaking engagements, too!

Watch the Teach Your Heart Out Town Hall - A Conversation on Racial Justice for an honest discussion among educators on their own experiences of racism in the classroom, and concrete examples of how educators can work together to combat racism in their day-to-day work.

Use social media to connect with and learn from your peers. Follow the #EduColor hashtag, used to facilitate "intersectional discussions of race and education." Here's a guide for using the hashtag.

Let's learn from one another!

What have you learned on your antiracist teaching journey? What are you eager to learn more about? We want to hear from you. Do you have a new implementation suggestion or a different perspective to share about one of our recommendations? Please contact us and let us know! It's important that we have dialogues to grow, consider new perspectives, and take action in support of racial justice so we can ensure the best for students. We also encourage you to join the Flocabulary Educator Group on Facebook or an upcoming #NearpodChat (each Wednesday at 8pm ET) to engage with peers on these important topics.

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Dante Alighieri - The Inferno, Cantos I-VIII (Read by John Ciardi) - Spotify

Danticat, Edwidge - "Seven" (read by Junot Diaz) - Free Stream

Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe (alternate version read by Nigel Graham) - Spotify

DeLillo's, Don - "Baader-Meinhof" (read by Chang-rae Lee) - MP3

DeLillo, Don - "The Itch" - Free Stream

Diaz, Junot - "Alma" (read by Victor Rasuk) - YouTube

Diaz, Junot - "How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie)" - Free MP3

Diaz, Junot - "The Cheaters Guide to Love" - YouTube

Dick, Philip K. - "Beyond Lies the Wub" - Free MP3

Dick, Philip K. - "The Defenders" - Free MP3

Dick, Philip K. - "The Eyes Have It" - Free MP3

Dick, Philip K. - "The Gun" - YouTube

Dick, Philip K. - "The Hanging Stranger" - Free MP3

Dick, Philip K - Radio Plays - Stream

Dickens, Charles - 24 Hours of Dickens Stories Featuring Classic Recordings by Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles & More - Free YouTube

Dickens, Charles - A Christmas Carol (Read by Neil Gaiman) - Free Stream

Dickens, Charles - Christmas Stories - Free MP3s

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Notes from the Underground - Free MP3

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - The Dream of a Ridiculous Man - Free Stream/Download

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - The Gambler - Free MP3 Zip File - Free Stream

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - The Grand Inquisitor (dramatic reading) - Free Stream - Free MP3 Zip

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - The Possessed - Free MP3

Doyle, Roddy - "Bullfighting" (Read by Dave Eggers) - Free MP3

Dr Who Audio Dramas - Spotify

Eliot, T.S. - The Cocktail Party (Performed by Alec Guinness & Cathleen Nesbitt) - Free Spotify

Erdich, Louise - "The Stone" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Faulkner, William - "Shingles for the Lord" - Free Stream

Faulkner, William - Faulkner Reads Faulkner - Free Stream

Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby - Free Stream

Flaubert, Gustave - Three Short Works

Ford, Richard - "Displaced" (Read by Richard Ford)

Forster, E.M. - "The Machine Stops" - Free iTunes

Gaiman, Neil - Coraline (Read in its entirety by Neil Gaiman and friends) - Video

Gaiman, Neil - "A Study in Emerald" - Free iTunes

Gaiman, Neil - "How to Talk to Other Girls at Parties" - Free MP3

Gaiman, Neil - "Orange" (read live) - Free Video

Gaiman, Neil - "Other People" (read by Neil Gaiman) - Free Video

Gaiman, Neil - The Graveyard Book (read by Neil Gaiman) - Free Video

Gaiman, Neil - "Troll Bridge" (read live, starts at 4:00 mark) - Free iTunes

Gaiman, Neil - "The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury" (read by Neil Gaiman) - Free Stream

Gaiman, Neil - "The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains" - Free MP3

Gaitskill, Mary - "The Other Place" (read by Jennifer Egan) - Free MP3

Geng, Veronica - "Love Trouble Is My Business" (read by Jonathan Franzen) - Free MP3

Gogol, Nikolai - "The Nose" - Free MP3

Gogol, Nikolai - The Overcoat and Other Short Stories - Free MP3 Zip File

Gordimer, Nadine - "A Style of Her Own" and "The Bridegroom" (read by the author, 1961) - Free Stream/Download

Gordimer, Nadine - "City Lovers" (read by Tessa Hadley) - Free MP3

Gordimer, Nadine - "Loot" (read by author) - YouTube

Gordimer, Nadine - "The Pet" (read by Joseph O'Neill) - Free Stream

Grahame, Kenneth - The Reluctant Dragon (read by Boris Karloff) - YouTube

Hawthorne, Nathaniel - Rappaccini's Daughter - Free Stream

Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter - Spotify

Hawthorne, Nathaniel - "Wakefield" (Read by Paul Auster) - YouTube

Hayden, Julie - "Day-Old Baby Rats" (read by Lorrie Moore) Free MP3

Heinlein, Robert - Methuselah's Children (abridged) - Free Stream/MP3

Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms (1948 radio drama) - YouTube

Hemingway, Ernest - Ernest Hemingway Reads Ernest Hemingway - Free Stream

Hemingway, Ernest - Homage to Switzerland (read by Julian Barnes) - Free MP3

Hitchcock, Alfred - Alfred Hitchcock Presents Ghost Stories for Young People - Spotify

Hughes, Langston - "Simple on Indian Blood"(read by Ossie Davis) - Free Stream

Hughes, Langston - "A Toast to Harlem" (read by Ossie Davis) - Free Stream

Hughes, Langston - "Last Whipping" (read by Ossie Davis) - Free Stream

Hughes, Langston - "Feet Live Their Own Life" (read by Ossie Davis) - Free Stream

Hugo, Victor - Les Misérables - Radio drama narrated by Orson Welles - Multiple formats

Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Abridged version read by Christopher Lee) - Spotify

Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World (Dramatized version read by Huxley) - Free Stream

Irving, Washington - Rip Van Winkle - Free MP3

James, Henry - "Greville Fane" (read by Cynthia Ozick) - Free Stream/Download

Johnson, Denis - "Emergency" (read by Tobias Wolff) MP3

Joyce, James - "Eveline" (read by Sebastian Barry) - Free MP3

Joyce, James - Finnegans Wake - Free Stream

Joyce, James - "The Dead" - Free MP3 Zip File

Joyce, James - "The Dead" (Read by Cynthia Nixon & Colum McCann) - Free Stream

Joyce, James - "The Dead" (Read by Bart Wolffe) - Spotify

July, Miranda - "Ron Spivey" (read by David Sedaris) - Free MP3

Kafka, Franz - "A Little Fable" (Read by David Foster Wallace) - Free Stream

Kafka, Franz - "A Hunger Artist" (read by Hanif Kureishi) - Free MP3

Kafka, Franz - "Before the Law" - Free MP3

Kafka, Franz - "In the Penal Colony - Free MP3

Kafka, Franz - The Metamorphosis - Free iTunes - Free MP3 - Free Stream - Spotify

Karloff, Boris - Tales of the Frightened - YouTube

Kerouac, Burroughs, Ginsberg, etc - 18 Hours of Beat Readings - Spotify

Kincaid, Jamaica - "Figures in the Distance" (read by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) - Free MP3

Kincaid, Jamaica - "Girl" and "Wingless" (read by Edwidge Danticat) - Free Stream

King, Stephen - "Afterlife" - YouTube

Kipling, Rudyard - Kim - Free iTunes

Kipling, Rudyard - Rikki-Tikki-Tavi - Free MP3

Kipling, Rudyard - "The Elephant's Child" - Free MP3

Kipling, Rudyard - The Jungle Story - Free MP3 Zip File

L'Heureux, John - "Three Short Moments in a Long Life" - Free MP3 Stream

Lahiri, Jhumpa - "Casting Shadows‪"‬ (read by the author) - Free Stream

Lawrence, D.H. - Everlasting Flowers - Free MP3 Zip File

Lawrence, D.H. - A Woman and Her Dead Husband - Free MP3

Le Guin, Ursula - "The End" (Dramatized version) - Free MP3 Stream

Leroux, Gaston - The Phantom of the Opera (abridged) - Spotify

Lethem, Jonathan - "The Afterlife‪"‬ (read by the author) - Free Stream

Lewis, C.S. - The Chronicles of Narnia - Free MP3s

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

The Silver Chair

The Horse and His Boy

The Magician's Nephew

The Last Battle

Lewis, C.S. - The Screwtape Letters (narrated by John Cleese) - YouTube

Lewis, Sinclair - It Can't Happen Here (reading of an adapted play) - YouTube

London, Jack - The Heathen - Free MP3

London, Jack -To Build a Fire - Free MP3

Lovecraft, H.P - The Call of of Cthulhu & Other Stories - Spotify

Lovecraft, H.P. - The Outsider and The Hound (read by Roddy McDowall) - Free

Lu Xun - A Madman's Diary and Other Stories - Free MP3 Zip File

Mann, Thomas - Death in Venice - Free MP3s/Download

McCabe, Eugene - Annahullian (read by Colm Tóibín) - Free MP3

McCann, Colum - "Transatlantic" (read by author) - Free MP3

McEwan, Ian - "My Purple Scented Novel" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Melville, Herman - Moby-Dick read by Celebrities (Benedict Cumberbatch, John Waters, Stephen Fry, Tilda Swinton & More) - Free Stream/Download

Melville, Herman - Moby-Dick read by Other Celebrities - SoundCloud

Miller, Arthur - Readings from The Crucible and Death of a Salesman - Spotify

Miller Jr, Walter M. - A Canticle for Leibowitz (Dramatized Version) - Free Stream

Miller, William - Rent Party Jazz (read by Viola Davis) - YouTube

Milne, A.A. - Winnie the Pooh (read Disney Book Group) - Free iTunes

Milton, John - Paradise Regained - Free MP3 Zip File

Moore, Lorrie - "Paper Losses" (read by Gary Shteyngart) - Free Stream

Munro, Alice - "Axis" - Free MP3

Murakami, Haruki - "Barn Burning" - Free Stream

Murakami, Haruki - "On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning" - Free Stream

Murakami, Haruki - "U.F.O. in Kushiro" - Free Stream

Nabokov, Vladimir - My Russian Education (Read by Orhan Pamuk) - Free MP3

Nabokov, Vladimir - "Pnin" - Free Stream

Nabokov, Vladimir - Signs and Symbols - Free iTunes

Nabokov, Vladimir - Vladimir Nabokov Reads from Lolita & Selected Poems - Spotify

Nin, Anais - "Under a Glass Bell" (Read by the author) - YouTube

NPR - Star Wars Trilogy Radio Drama - YouTube

O'Connor, Flannery - "A Good Man is Hard to Find." (Read by author in 1959) - Stream/Download

O'Connor, Flannery - "Everything That Rises Must Converge" (Read by Estelle Parsons) - YouTube

O'Connor, Flannery - "Revelation" (Read by Studs Terkel) - Stream

O'Connor, Frank - "The Man of the World" (read by Julian Barnes) MP3

Oates, Joyce Carol - "Mastiff" (read by Louise Erdrich) - Free Stream

Oates, Joyce Carol -"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God‪"‬ (read by the author) - Free Stream

Orwell, George - 1984 (Radio Drama from 1949 starting David Niven) - Free Stream

Orwell, George - 1984 (Complete reading by Pacifica Radio) - Soundcloud

Orwell, George - Animal Farm - Spotify version

Oz, Amos - "The King of Norway" (read by Jonathan Safran Foer) - Free Stream

Ozick, Cynthia - "The Shawl" (read by Joyce Carol Oates) - Free Stream

Paley, Grace - "Love" (read by George Saunders) - Free Stream

Plath, Sylvia - Three Women (a radio play) - Free Stream

Poe, Edgar Allan - 5 Hours of Edgar Allan Poe Stories Read by Vincent Price & Basil Rathbone - Spotify

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Essential Edgar Allan Poe - Spotify

Poe, Edgar Allan - "The Masque of the Red Death" and Annabel Lee (read by William S. Burroughs) - Free YouTube Audio

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Cask of Amontillado - Free MP3/Stream

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Mask of the Red Death (read by William S. Burroughs) - Spotify

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Pit and the Pendulum - Free MP3

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven - Free MP3

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by Stan Lee) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by James Earl Jones) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by Neil Gaiman) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by John Astin) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (as read by Anne Waldman) - SoundCloud

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by Christopher Lee) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by Vincent Price) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by Christopher Walken) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Tell Tale Heart - Free MP3

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Tell Tale Heart (read by Christopher Lee) - Free YouTube Audio

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Tell Tale Heart (read by Iggy Pop) - Free YouTube Audio

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Tell Tale Heart, Silence, Annabel Lee (read by James Mason) - Free Stream

Porter, Eleanor - Pollyanna - Free MP3 Zip File

Price, Vincent - The Price of Fear (Classic radio show featuring Vincent Price) - Free YouTube

Pritchett, V.S. - The Rescue (Read by Jonathan Lethem) - Free Stream

Prokofiev, Sergei - Peter and the Wolf (Narrated by David Bowie) - Spotify

Proust, Marcel - À La Recherche Du Temps Perdu (Œuvre Intégrale) (in French) - Free Stream

Ratcliffe, Stephen - Continuum - Free MP3 Stream

Rand, Ayn - Anthem - Spotify

Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front - Free Stream

Rushdie, Salman - "The Little King‪"‬ (read by the author) - Free Stream

Rushdie, Salman - "The Old Man in the Piazza‪"‬ (read by the author) - Free Stream

Ruskin, John - The Golden River - Free MP3

Safran Foer, Jonathan - "Love is Blind and Deaf" - Video Animation

Saramago, José - "The Centaur" (Read by Nadine Gordimer) - Free MP3

Sartre, Jean-Paul (Performed by Lucy Lawless and Jaime Murray) - Free Stream

Saunders, George - "Elliott Spencer" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Saunders, George - "Ghoul" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Saunders, George - "Love Letter" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Sedaris, David - "The Mouse and the Snake" from Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary - Free MP3 - Web site

Sedaris, David - "Six to Eight Black Men" from the album 'Live at Carnegie Hall' - YouTube Audio

Sedaris, David - "Solution to Saturday's Puzzle"from When You Are Engulfed in Flames - Free MP3

Sendak, Maurice - Where the Wild Things Are (read by Christopher Walken) - YouTube

Seuss, Dr. - Green Eggs and Ham (read by Neil Gaiman) - YouTube

Seuss, Dr. - How The Grinch Stole Christmas (read by Boris Karloff) - Spotify

Seuss, Dr. - How The Grinch Stole Christmas (read by Keith Morrison) - YouTube

Schwartz, Delmore - "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" (Read by Lou Reed) - Free Stream

Shakespeare, William - A 68 Hour Playlist of Shakespeare's Plays Being Performed by Great Actors: Gielgud, McKellen & More - Free on Spotify

Shakespeare, William - 10 Plays Performed by Orson Welles on the Radio - Free Stream

Shakespeare, William - Hamlet (Starring John Gielgud) - Spotify + Archive.org

Shakespeare, William - Macbeth (with Alec Guinness) - Free Spotify

Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein (narrated by Aaron Mahnke of the Lore podcast) - Free iTunes

Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein - Free iTunes - Free MP3

Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein (Abridged version read by Christophe Lee) - Spotify

Shepard, Sam - "Indianapolis (Highway 74)" read by Dave Eggers - Free Stream

Silverstein, Shel - The Giving Tree (Animated film narrated by the author) - YouTube

Silverstein, Shel - The Giving Tree (Read by Arianna Huffington) - YouTube

Singer, Isaac Bashevis - Disguised (read by Nathan Englander) - Free MP3

Smith, Zadie - "Escape from New York" (read by Zadie Smith) - Free Audio Stream

Stein, Gertrude - If I Told Him: a Completed Portrait of Picasso - Free MP3

Stein, Gertrude - Matisse - Free MP3

Stein, Gertrude - The Fifteenth Of November . . . T. S. Eliot - Free MP3

Stein, Gertrude - The Making of Americans - Free MP3

Stevenson, Robert Louis - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (Read by Christopher Lee) - Spotify

Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island (Read by Hans Conried) - Spotify

Stoker, Bram - Dracula (Read by Christopher Lee) - YouTube

Stone, Tanya Lee - The House That Jane Built: A Story About Jane Addams (Read by Kiernan Shipka) - YouTube

Thomas, Dylan - A Child's Christmas in Wales (read by Thomas) - Youtube

Tolstoy, Leo - Anna Karenina - Free Stream

Tolstoy, Leo - Anna Karenina -

Tolstoy, Leo - Five Short Stories - Spotify

Tolstoy, Leo - Selected Short Stories - Free Stream/MP3

Tolstoy, Leo - What Men Live By and Other Tales - Free iTunes

Tolstoy, Leo - Selected Short Stories - Free Multiple formats

Wells, Tower - "Leopard" (Read by David Sedaris) - Free MP3 Stream

Trollope, Anthony - Barchester Towers - Free MP3 Zip File

Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Multiple versions here

Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Spotify version

Unknown - Epic of Gilgamesh - Free iTunes

Unknown - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Free MP3 Zip File

Updike, John - "Playing with Dynamite" (read by Roger Angell) - Free MP3

Updike, John - "A & P." (read by Allegra Goodman) - Free MP3

Updike, John - "The City" (read by John Updike) - Free Stream

Updike, John - "The Lovely Troubled Daughters of Our Old Crowd" - YouTube

Updike, John - "Twin Beds in Rome" - Free Stream

Verne, Jules - Mysterious Island - Free iTunes

Verne, Jules - The Master of the World - Free MP3

Voltaire - Candide - Free MP3

Vonnegut, Kurt - 2BR02B - Free MP3

Vonnegut, Kurt - "Harrison Bergeron" - Free MP3

Vonnegut, Kurt - The Big Trip Up Yonder - Free MP3

Vonnegut, Kurt - Slaughterhouse 5, Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, Welcome to the Monkey House (Abridged readings by Vonnegut) - Spotify

Vonnegut, Kurt - "The Drone" - Free Stream

Vonnegut, Kurt - The Soldier's Story (as a radio opera) - Free Stream

Wallace, David Foster - "Good People" - Free Stream

Wallace, David Foster - "The View from Mrs. Thompson's" (read by DFW) - Free MP3

Waugh, Evelyn - Brideshead Revisit, Abridged (read by Sir John Gielgud) - Stream

Welles, Orson - "The Shadow" radio drama (Performed by Welles) - Free MP3

Wells, HG - Magic Shop - Free Stream

Wells, HG - Time Machine (narrated by Kelsey Grammer) - Free iTunes

Wells, HG - Time Machine (dramatized version) - Spotify

Wells, HG - The War of the Worlds (Famous 1938 radio adaptation by Orson Welles) - Stream

Wells, HG - The War of the Worlds (Read by Maxwell Caulfield) - Spotify

Welty, Eudora - "Where Is the Voice Coming From?" (read by Joyce Carol Oates) - MP3

Welty, Eudora - "Why I Live at the P.O." - YouTube

Wharton, Edith - The Age of Innocence - Free iTunes

Wharton, Edith - The Fulness of Life - Free MP3

Wilde, Oscar - The Happy Prince - Free MP3

Version read by Stephen Fry - YouTube

Version read by Orson Welles and Bing Crosby - YouTube

Wilde, Oscar - The Importance of Being Earnest (Performed by John Gielgud) - Free

Wolff, Tobias - "Bullet in the Brain" (read by T. Coraghessan Boyle) (MP3)

Wolff, Tobias - "The Night in Question" (read by Akhil Sharma) (MP3)

Woolf, Virginia - The Voyage Out - Free Stream

Woolf, Virginia - The Short Stories - Spotify

Wyss, Johann David - The Swiss Family Robinson - Free MP3 Zip File

Poetry

Angelou, Maya - On the Pulse of Morning (read by the author) - YouTube

Angelou, Maya - Phenomenal Woman - YouTube

Angelou, Maya - Still I Rise & On the Pulse of the Morning (read by author) - YouTube

Anonymous - Beowulf - Free iTunes - Free MP3s - Reading by Seamus Heaney

Apollinaire, Guillaume - Le pont Mirabeau (Read by author in 1913) - Free MP3

Apollinaire, Guillaume - Marie (Read by author in 1913) - Free MP3

Apollinaire, Guillaume - Le Voyageur (Read by author in 1913) - Free MP3

Aragon, Louis - Elsa (read by author) - Free Stream

Arnold, Matthew - The Poetry of Matthew Arnold - Free Stream on Spotify

Arnold, Matthew - Dover Beach - Free Stream/Download

Ashbery, John - Everyman - Free MP3

Ashbery, John - "Meditations of a Parrot," "The Painter" and "The Picture of Little J.A. in a Prospect of Flowers" (read by the author)- Free Stream/MP3

Ashbery, John - Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror - YouTube

Auden, W.H. - 1st September, 1939; As I Walked Out One Evening; "Song of the Master and Boatswain," (read by Dylan Thomas) - YouTube

Auden, W.H. - 1st September, 1939 - YouTube

Auden, W.H. - As I Walked Out One Evening (read by Auden) - YouTube

Auden, W.H. - Autumn Song - Free MP3

Auden, W.H. - Bucolics and Horae Cononicae (read by Auden) - Free Stream/Download

Auden, W. H. - In Memory of WB Yeats - YouTube

Auden, W.H. - Metalogue to The Magic Flute (read by Auden - Free Stream/Download

Auden, W.H. - The Sea and The Mirror (read by the author) - Free Stream/Download

Baudelaire, Charles - Les fleurs du mal (in French) - Free Stream

Beckett, Samuel - Tailpiece and 23rd Addenda (read by the author) - YouTube

Beefheart, Captain - Fallin Ditch, Skeleton Makes Good & More (read by the author) - YouTube

Blake, William - A Little Boy Lost - Free MP3

Blake, William - Jerusalem - Free MP3 Zip File

Blake, William - Laughing Song - Free MP3

Blake, William - London - Free MP3

Blake, William - Preface to Milton - Free MP3

Blake, William - Piping Down Valleys Wild - Free MP3

Blake, William - Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, as read by Allen Ginsberg - Free Stream/MP3

Blake, William - The Chimney Sweeper - Free MP3

Blake, William - The School Boy - Free MP3

Blake, William - Visions of the Daughters of Albion - Free MP3

Borges, Jorge Luis - Art of Poetry/Arte Poétic - Free MP3

Borges, Jorge Luis - Borges Reads 30 of His Poems in Spanish - Spotify

Borges, Jorge Luis - Plainness - Free Stream

Bradbury, Ray - If Only We Had Taller Been (read by the author) - YouTube

Bronte, Emily - Anticipation - Free MP3

Bronte, Emily - Encouragement - Free MP3

Bronte, Emily - Poems - Free MP3

Bukowski, Charles - 4 Hours of Bukowski Readings - Spotify

Bukowski, Charles - At Terror Street and Agony Way - Free Audio

Bukowski, Charles - Beer - Animated Video

Bukowski, Charles - Bluebird - YouTube Audio

Bukowski, Charles - Girl on the Escalator - Vimeo

Bukowski, Charles - Hostage - Spotify

Bukowski, Charles - Master Collection - Spotify

Bukowski, Charles - Something For The Touts, The Nuns, The Grocery Clerks, And You - YouTube Audio

Bukowski, Charles - The Laughing Heart (read by Tom Waits) - YouTube Audio

Bukowski, Charles - The Crunch and Roll The Dice (read by Bono) - YouTube Audio

Bukowski, Charles - The Secret to My Endurance (read by Bukowski) - YouTube Audio

Bukowski, Charles - Bluebird and Torched Out (read by Harry Dean Stanton) - YouTube Video

Burton, Tim - The Nightmare Before Christmas (read by Christopher Lee) - YouTube Video

Byron - Childe Harold: Canto III - Free MP3

Byron - Darkness - Free MP3

Byron - Newton - Free MP3

Byron - She Walks in Beauty - Free MP3

Cage, John - Overpopulation and Art - Free Stream

Carroll, Jim - Praying Mantis - Spotify

Carroll, Lewis - Jabberwocky (read by Neil Gaiman) - YouTube

Carroll, Lewis - Youtube Animated Video

Carroll, Lewis - The Poetry of Lewis Carroll - Spotify

Carver, Raymond - Late Fragment - Free Stream

Cavafy, C.P. - Ithaca (read by Sean Connery) - YouTube

Ciardi, John - As If: Poems New and Selected by John Ciardi (read by the author) - Spotify

Cocteau, Jean - Requiem (read by the author) - Free Stream

Cohen, Leonard - "For E.J.P" and "You Have the Lovers" (read by Cohen) - Free Stream/Download

Coleridge, Samuel - Kubla Khan - Free MP3

Coleridge, Samuel - Kubla Khan (read by Benedict Cumberbatch) - YouTube

Coleridge, Samuel - Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Free MP3

Coleridge, Samuel - The Dungeon - Free MP3

Coleridge, Samuel - Poems (Read by Ralph Richardson) - Free Spotify

Collins, Billy - The Best Cigarette (Poetry collection read by the author) - Free Spotify

Collins, Billy - Soap - Spotify

Crane, Hart - "The Broken Tower" and "The Hurricane" (read by Tennessee Williams) - Vimeo

Crowley, Aleister - Poems by Aleister Crowley (read by Aleister Crowley) - Spotify

Cummings, EE - Somewhere I Have Never Travelled - (read by author) - YouTube

Cummings, EE - Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town - (read by author) - YouTube

Dante - Inferno (read by John Ciardi) - Spotify

De Troyes, Chretien - Lancelot, or The Knight of the Cart- Stream

Dickinson, Emily - An 8 Hour Reading of Emily Dickinson Poetry- YouTube

Dickinson, Emily - The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Series 2 - Free MP3

Dickinson, Emily - Poems & Letters - Spotify

Dickinson, Emily - Because I Could Not Stop for Death - Free MP3

Dickinson, Emily - Hope Is the Thing With Feathers - Free MP3

Dickinson, Emily - 'I Started Early-Took My Dog' - YouTube

Dickinson, Emily - There's a certain Slant of light" (read by Susan Howe) - YouTube

Donne, John - Death, Be Not Proud - Free Stream/MP3

Donne, John - The Good-morrow - Free Stream/MP3

Donne, John - The Sunne Rising - Free MP3

Ehrmann, Max - Desiderata (Read by Leonard Nimoy) - YouTube

Eliot, T.S. - Four Quartets (Read by T.S. Eliot) - YouTube

Eliot, T.S. - Four Quartets (Read by Alec Guinness) - YouTube

Eliot, T.S. - Journey of the Magi(Read by T.S. Eliot) - YouTube

Eliot, T.S. - Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (Read by T.S. Eliot) - Spotify playlist

Eliot, T.S. - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Eliot, T.S. - The Waste Land - Free MP3

Listen to reading by TS Eliot - YouTube

Hear reading by Jeremy Irons and Eileen Atkins - Stream

Eliot, T.S. - T.S. Eliot Reading Poems and Choruses - Spotify

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence - A Coney Island of the Mind - Spotify

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence - Baseball Canto - Free MP3/Stream

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence - Evil - Free MP3/Stream

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence - 'The First and the Last of Everything' (read by author) - Free Stream

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence - "Underwear" (read by author) - YouTube

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence - Wilfred Funk (read by author) - Free MP3/Stream

Frost, Robert - A Line Storm Song - Free MP3

Frost, Robert - My Butterfly - Free MP3

Frost, Robert - October - Free MP3

Frost, Robert - Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (read by author) - YouTube

Frost, Robert - The Gift Outright (read by author) - YouTube

Frost, Robert - "The Road Not Taken," "The Pasture," "Mowing," "Birches," "After Apple-Picking," and "The Tuft of Flowers" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Frost, Robert - Robert Frost Reads His Poetry - Free Spotify

Gaiman, Neil - The Mushroom Hunters (read by Amanda Palmer) - Soundcloud

Ginsberg, Allen - A Supermarket in California (read by Ginsberg) - Free MP3

Ginsberg, Allen - America (read by Ginsberg) - Free Stream

Ginsberg, Allen - First Blues: Rags, Ballads and Harmonium Songs - Spotify

Ginsberg, Allen - Howl, A Strange New Cottage in Berkeley, and Supermarket in California (read by Ginsberg) - Free MP3/Stream

Ginsberg, Allen - Howl (read by Ginsberg, 1959) - YouTube

Ginsberg, Allen - Howl (first recorded reading of Howl by Ginsberg, 1956) - Free Stream

Ginsberg, Allen - Howl (read by James Franco) - YouTube

Ginsberg, Allen - Jahweh and Allah Battle - Free Stream

Ginsberg, Allen - Kaddish and other works (read by Ginsberg) - Free Stream

Ginsberg , Allen - Mind Breaths (read by Ginsberg) - Free Stream/Download

Ginsberg, Allen - Sunflower Sutra (read by Ginsberg) - Free MP3

Ginsberg, Allen - The Last Word on First Blues - Spotify

Ginsberg, Allen - The Lion for Real (read by Ginsberg) - Free on Spotify

Ginsberg, Allen - "The Shrouded Stranger Of The Night," "Sweet Levinsky," and "Stanzas: Written at Night in Radio City." - Free Stream/Download

Ginsberg, Allen - "What would you do if you lost it?" (read by Ginsberg) - Free Stream/Download

Ginsberg, Allen - Witchita Vortex Sutra - Spotify

Giorno, John - The Death of William Burroughs - Free Stream

Hardy, Thomas - Poems (read by Richard Burton) - Spotify

Hemingway, Ernest - Second Poem to Mary (read by Hemingway) - Free YouTube

Henley, Ernest - Invictus - Free YouTube

Hitchcock, Robyn - "If Death is Not the End" (Read by Alan Rickman) - Free Stream

Hughes, Langston - Langston Hughes Reads Langston Hughes - Spotify

Hughes, Langston - The Dream Keeper and Other Poems of Langston Hughes (read by Hughes) - Spotify

Hughes, Langston - The Glory of Negro History - Spotify

The Negro Speaks of Rivers (ready by Hughes) - YouTube

Hughes, Langston - The Voice of Langston Hughes - Spotify

Hughes, Ted - Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes & Peter Porter Read Their Poetry - Spotify

Keats, John - To Autumn - Free MP3

Keats, John - Ode on a Grecian Urn - Free MP3

Keats, John - Ode to a Nightingale (as recited loosely by F. Scott Fitzgerald) - YouTube

Keats, John - Ode to a Nightingale (as read by Benedict Cumberbatch) - YouTube

Keats, John - On First Looking into Chapman's Homer - Free MP3

Keats, John - When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be - Free MP3

Kerouac, Jack - 4 Albums with Kerouac Reciting Poetry & Verse - Spotify

Kipling, Rudyard - If (read by Dennis Hopper) - YouTube

Kipling, Rudyard - If (read by Michael Caine) - YouTube

Kipling, Rudyard - My Boy Jack (read by Ralph Fiennes) - YouTube

Kipling, Rudyard - The Gods of the Copybook Headings - Free MP3

Kipling, Rudyard - The Way Through the Woods - Free MP3

Levertov, Denise - City Psalm, Open Secret, Love Song, The Ache of Marriage, To the Muse, The Certainty (read by the author) - SoundCloud

Lorca, Federico Garcia (Read by Patti Smith) - YouTube

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth - Selected Works - Free MP3

McCrae, John - "In Flanders Fields" (read by Leonard Cohen) - YouTube

Melville, Herman - Ball's Bluff - Free Stream

Merwin, W.S. - After a Storm (read by author) - Free Stream/Download

Merwin, W.S. - Berryman (read by Janna Levin - Free Stream

Milton, John - On His Blindness - Free MP3

Multiple Authors - 19 Century French Poetry, Read in French by Paul Mankin - Spotify

Multiple Authors - 20th Century French Poetry, Narrated by Paul Mankin - Spotify

Multiple Authors - French African Poetry, Read in French by Paul Mankin - Spotify

Nabokov, Vladimir - The University Town (read by Ralph Fiennes) - Free Stream

Nash, Ogden - Christmas with Ogden Nash - Spotify

Nash, Ogden - Ogden Nash Read Ogden Nash - Spotify

Neruda, Pablo - First Poetry Reading in the US (1966) - Free Stream

Neruda, Pablo - First Poetry Reading in English (1971) - Free Stream

Neruda, Pablo - Birth (Read by Neruda) - Free Stream

Neruda, Pablo - Keeping Quiet (Read by Sylvia Boorstein) - Free Stream

Neruda, Pablo - Pablo Neruda Lee a Pablo Neruda - Spotify

O'Hara, Frank - Animals (read by Zadie Smith) - Free Stream

Oliver, Mary - "The Summer Day," "Little Dog's Rhapsody in the Night," "Many Miles" and "Night and the River" (read by the author) - YouTube

Plath, Sylvia - Sylvia Plath reading her poetry (23 poems read by the author) - YouTube

Plath, Sylvia - Ariel (read by author) - YouTube Stream

Plath, Sylvia - A Birthday Present (read by the author) - Free MP3/Stream

Plath, Sylvia - Daddy (read by author) - YouTube

Plath, Sylvia - Fever 103 (read by the author) - YouTube

Plath, Sylvia - Lady Lazarus (read by author) - YouTube

Plath, Sylvia - Morning Song (read by Meryl Streep) - SoundCould

Plath, Sylvia - Spinster - Soundcloud

Plath, Sylvia - The Applicant (read by the author) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - Annabel Lee - Free MP3

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by Christopher Walken) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven - Free MP3

Pope, Alexander - Nature and Art - Free Stream

Pope, Alexander - The Quiet Life - Free Stream

Pound, Ezra - Canto XVII ("So that the vine burst from my fingers') - Free MP3

Pound, Ezra - Canto XXX - Free MP3

Pound, Ezra - Canto XLV - Free MP3

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Pound, Ezra - Homage to Sextus Propertius, Section VI (read by author) - Free MP3

Pound, Ezra - Sestina: Altaforte (read by author) - YouTube

Pound, Ezra - The Seafarer (read by author) - Free MP3

Rexroth, Kenneth - "One Hundred Poems from the Chinese" and "In Defense of the Earth" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Rich, Adrienne - Mourning Poem, Spring Thunder, White Night and other poems (read by author) - Free Stream/Download

Rich, Adrienne - "Planetarium" (read by astrophysicist Janna Levin) - Soundcloud

Rich, Adrienne - "Power" (read by astrophysicist Roseanne Cash) - Soundcloud

Rich, Adrienne - What Kind of Times Are These? (read by the author) - Soundcloud

Rimbaud, Arthur - Illuminations - Free MP3 Zip File

Rumi - Poems read by Tilda Swinton, Madonna, Robert Bly & Coleman Barks - YouTube/Soundcloud

Sandburg, Carl - A Lincoln Album: Readings by Carl Sandburg - Spotify

Sandburg, Carl - Chicago - Free Stream

Sandburg, Carl - The People Yes - Spotify

Sassoon, Siegfried - Aftermath (Read by Jeremy Irons) - YouTube

Sexton, Anne - Waiting to Die (read by author) - YouTube

Sexton, Anne - "Her Kind," "The Ambition Bird," "Ringing the Bells," "Music Swims Back to Me," and "The Truth the Dead Know" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Sexton, Anne - "With Mercy for the Greedy," "The Starry Night," "Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound," and "Self in 1958," (read by the author) - Free Stream

Sexton, Anne - Divorce, Thy Name is Woman," "Gods Making a Living," "Jesus Cooks," "Jesus Walking," and "The Fury of Overshoes" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Sexton, Anne - "Rowing," "Riding the Elevator Into the Sky," "The Play," "The Rowing Endeth," "Us," and "The Touch" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Sexton, Anne - What's That - Spotify

Schiller, Friedrich - Poetry of Friedrich von Schiller: Read in German by Kinski - Spotify

Shakespeare, William - Shakespeare's Sonnets - Free MP3s

Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Adonais - Free MP3

Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Ozymandias of Egypt - Free MP3

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Various Poems (read by Vincent Price) - Free Spotify

Smith, Patti - Reading at Columbia University of Poetry That Would Become Horses (1975) - YouTube

Smith, Patti - Reading of 12 Poems From "Seventh Heaven" (1972) - YouTube

Stein, Gertrude - A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson (read by Gertrude Stein) - Free MP3

Stevens, Wallace - "Credences of Summer" and "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" (read by the author) - Free Stream/Download

Stevens, Wallace - "The Idea of Order at Key West," "The Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain," and "Vacancy in the Park" (read by the author) - .au format - .gsm format -.ra format

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Szymborska, Wisława - Life While-You-Wait (Read by Amanda Palmer) - Soundcloud

Tennyson, Alfred Lord - Break, Break, Break - Free MP3

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Thomas, Dylan - Dylan Thomas Reads 8 Hours of His Poetry - Spotify

Thomas, Dylan - Three Poems Read by W.H. Auden - Free

Thomas, Dylan - An Evening with Dylan Thomas - Spotify

Thomas, Dylan - Richard Burton Reads 15 Poems by Dylan Thomas - Spotify

Thomas, Dylan - Ballad of the Long-Legged Bait' and 14 Other Poems (read by Richard Burton) - YouTube

Thomas, Dylan - Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (read by the author) - Free MP3/Stream

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Thomas, Dylan - The Wild West (read by the author) - Free MP3/Stream

Updike, John - Rainbow (read by author) - Free Stream

Valéry, Paul - "Fragment Du Narcisse" (read by author) - Free Stream

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Wilbur, Richard - A Storm in April, The Ride, Shad-Time, Advice From the Muse and Other Poems (read by author) - Free Stream/Download

Wilde, Oscar - The Ballad of Reading Gaol - Free MP3/Stream

Williams, Tennessee - Selected Poems - Free Stream/Download

Williams, Willam Carlos - Selected Poems (read by poet 1954 ) - Free MP3

Williams, William Carlos - 39 Poems Read for The Library of Congress Recording Laboratory. May 5, 1945 - Free MP3

Williams, William Carlos - The Red Wheelbarrow, Tract, The Defective Record, To a Poor Old Woman, A Coronal, To Elsie, The Wind Increases, Classic Scene (read by poet 1954) - Free

Wordsworth, William - Daffodils (Read by Jeremy Irons) - YouTube

Wordsworth, William - The Last of the Flock - Free MP3

Wordsworth, William - Solitary Reaper - Free MP3

Wordsworth, William - Tintern Abbey - Free MP3

Yeats, William Butler - William Butler Reads His Own Work - Spotify

Yeats, William Butler - The Lake Isle of Innisfree, The Fiddler of Dooney, The Song of the Old Mother, Coole and Ballylee (read by the author) - YouTube

Yeats, William Butler - Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven - Free MP3

Yeats, William Butler - Byzantium - Real Media

Yeats, William Butler - Lake Isle of Innesfree (read by the author) - Free MP3

Yeats, William Butler - Lake Isle of Innesfree (read by Anthony Hopkins) - YouTube

Yeats, William Butler - Sailing to Byzantium - Free MP3

Yeats, William Butler - The Cold Heaven - Free Stream/MP3

Yeats, William Butler - The Fiddler of Dooney (read by the author) - Free MP3

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Yeats, William Butler - To my Heart, bidding it have no Fear (read by Richard Dawkins) - YouTube

Yeats, William Butler - When You Are Old - Free MP3

Yeats, William Butler - When You Are Old (Read by Colin Farrell) - YouTube

Non-Fiction

Amis, Martin - "Phantom of the Opera"

Aristotle - Poetics (MP3 download)

Aristotle - Politics (MP3 download full zip file)

Bauhaus Reviewed: 1919 to 1933 (Oral History of the Bauhaus School) - Spotify

Augustine, Saint - City of God (full zip file)

Beard, Charles - History of the United States, Volume 1 (full zip file)

Beard, Charles - History of the United States, Volume 2(full zip file)

Beard, Charles - History of the United States, Volume 3 (full zip file)

Beard, Charles - History of the United States, Volume 4 (full zip file)

Berger, John - Fellow Prisoners (read by Berger)

Berkeley, George - A Defence of Free-Thinking in Mathematics (Free MP3)

Burke, Edmund - A Philosophical Enquiry (Full zip file)

Burke, Edmund - Reflections on the Revolution in France (Full zip file)

Burroughs, William S. - Breakthrough in Grey Room (Spotify)

Burroughs, William S. - Burroughs at 100 (A radio documentary narrated by Iggy Pop)

Camus, Albert - Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1957 (YouTube)

Camus, Albert - The Human Crisis (Read by Actor Viggo Mortensen) - YouTube

Camus, Albert - Letter to His Elementary School Teacher (Read by Actor Benedict Cumberbatch) - YouTube

Campbell, Joseph - 48 Hours of Joseph Campbell Lectures - Spotify

Carroll, Lewis - Symbolic Logic (Free MP3)

Carroll, Lewis - The Game of Logic (Free MP3)

Channing, Edward - A Short History of the United States (full zip file)

Chomsky, Noam - 24 Hours of Lectures and Talks on Democracy (Spotify)

Confucius - The Sayings of Confucius (MP3 full zip file download)

Darwin, Charles - On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (MP3 download full zip file)

Descartes, Rene - Discourse on Method (MP3 download).

Descartes, Rene - Meditations on First Philosophy (full zip file)

Dickens, Charles - A Child's History of England (full zip file)

Doctorow, Cory - Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright and the Future of the Future (Streamed)

Douglass, Frederick - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (MP3 download)

Douglass, Frederick - A Speech to the People of Rochester, New York on the Hypocrisy of Slavery (MP3 download)

Douglass, Frederick - The Meaning of July 4th for the Negro (read by James Earl Jones) - YouTube

Dubois, W.E.B. - The Soul of Black Folks (iTunes)

Duchamp, Marcel - The Creative Act (YouTube)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo - History (MP3 download)

Einhard, The Life of Charlemagne (full zip file)

Einstein, Albert - Relativity (MP3 download full zip file)

Einstein, Albert - Albert Einstein in His Own Voice (Spotify)

Faulkner, William - Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1954 (Soundcloud)

Foster Wallace, David - "Consider the Lobster" (Stream)

Foster Wallace, David - This is Water, 2005 Kenyon Commencement Speech (YouTube)

Foster Wallace, David - The View from Mrs Thompson's (read by the author)

Fuller, Buckminster - Buckminster Fuller Speaks His Mind - Spotify

Fuller, Buckminster - Everything I Know (Lecture Series) - Free Stream

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel - "The Solitude of Latin America" (Nobel Prize Speech) (YouTube/Web Site)

Gibbon, Edward - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 1. (Librivox collection of MP3's)

Gibbon, Edward - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 2. (Librivox collection of MP3's)

Gibbon, Edward - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 3. (Librivox collection of MP3's)

Gibbon, Edward - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 4. (Librivox collection of MP3's)

Goethe - Theory of Colors (MP3s)

Grant, Ulysses S. - The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant (Various formats)

Harding, Samuel - The Story of the Middle Ages (Free Stream)

Henry, Patrick - Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death (MP3 download)

Henry, Patrick - Speech Addressing the Virginia House of Burgesses; Richmond, Virginia; March 23, 1775 (MP3 download)

Hitchcock, Alfred - Alfred Hitchcock Interviews - Spotify

Hogben, Julie Margaret - "When the Doorman is Your Main Man" (Read by Cecily Strong) - Stream Online

Holmes, Oliver Wendell - The Fountain of Youth (mp3 download)

Huxley, Aldous - Speaking Personally - (Spotify)

Huxley, Aldous - The Visionary Experience - (MP3 stream)

James, William - The Moral Equivalent of War (mp3 download)

Jefferson, Thomas - The Declaration of Independence (mp3 download)

Jobs, Steve - Stanford Graduations Speech, 2005 (YouTube)

Kandinsky, Wassily - Concerning the Spiritual in Art (mp3 download)

Kaufmann, Walter - Lectures on Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Sartre (1960)

Lessig, Lawrence - Free Culture

Lincoln, Abraham - Gettysburg Address (mp3 download)
Also see version read by Johnny Cash (YouTube)

Macauley, Thomas - History of England (Librivox)

Machiavelli, The Prince (mp3 download)

Marx, Karl - The Communist Manifesto (full zip download)

McCleod, Ken - Wake Up to Your Life: Discovering the Buddhist Path of Attention (Spotify)

McLuhan, Marshall - The Medium is The Massage (Spotify)

Mill, John Stuart - Utilitarianism (mp3 download full zip file)

Morrison, Toni - Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1993 (YouTube)

Nietzsche, Friedrich - Ecce Homo (full zip file)

Nietzsche, Friedrich - Beyond Good and Evil (mp3 download)

Nietzsche, Friedrich - Thus Spoke Zarathustra (full mp3 download)

Nietzsche, Friedrich - Twilight of the Idols (full zip)

Nin, Anais - The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol 1: A 60 minute reading by the author (YouTube)

Paine, Thomas - Common Sense (mp3 download)

Plato - The Apology of Socrates (stream/download)

Roosevelt, Theodore - Spanish-American War: The Rough Riders in Tampa (mp3 download)

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques - A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind (full zip file)

Russell, Bertrand - ABC of Relativity: Understanding Einstein (read by Derek Jacobi)

Russell, Bertrand - Why I Am Not a Christian (read by Terrence Hardiman)

Sedaris, David - Santaland Diaries (read by David Sedaris)

The Senate Intelligence Committee - The Senate Intelligence Committee Summary Report on Torture (Read by Annette Bening, Jon Hamm, Matthew Rhys and Maura Tierney)

Steinbeck, John - Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1962 (YouTube)

Strathern, Paul - Nietzsche in 90 Minutes (YouTube Stream)

Sun-tzu - The Art of War (mp3 download)

Thoreau, Henry David - Walden (mp3 download)

Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War (mp3 download)

Various - The Federalist Papers Rss Feed

Various - The US Constitution Stream

Voltaire - Candide (mp3 download)

Vonnegut, Kurt - Anti-Censorship Letter Sent to School, read by Benedict Cumberbatch (YouTube)

Wiesel, Elie - Night (a marathon community reading with Dr. Ruth, Itzhak Perlman & more)

Wilde, Oscar - De Profundis (read by Patti Smith)

Wittgenstein, Ludwig - Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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Page 2: How Do I Get My Child Ready To Learn?

Maybe your child is learning virtually this year. Maybe she is learning at school on certain days and at home the rest of the week. Or, as has become increasingly common, maybe your child has been learning at school but is now transitioning to virtual learning as COVID rates in your area rise. Regardless of the number of days your child is learning at home, creating a learning space will make things easier, and more sustainable. Read on to learn more about how to do this.

Create a Learning Space

If possible, create a place where your child can work, or if you have more than one child, where each child can work. For example, one child can work at the kitchen table and another in the living room. If your child already had a place to do homework, he or she can use that place to learn at home. Having a space can help your child stay focused on learning. This space should be quiet and free of clutter and other distractions.

Tip: Limit Common Distractions

Below are some common challenges for setting up a learning space. Click on each for ideas.

If you have supported your child's learning at home anytime over the course of the pandemic, you've probably already learned a lot about what worked and what didn't. Perhaps a shared learning space was too small for multiple children to use. Maybe a family member interrupted "class" by watching TV with the volume turned way up. Maybe an older sibling turned out to be better at explaining 4th-grade math than you did. Think about what worked and what didn't and use that information to plan for a better situation as you move forward.

Depending on your family dynamics, consider having a series of family meetings to discuss these issues. Brainstorming together might result in more creative ideas. When everyone is able to contribute, they also might be more willing to abide by the solutions.

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This compilation of reading assigned to students everywhere will expand your horizons - and your bookshelves.

In the US, most students are required to read To Kill a Mockingbird during their school years. This classic novel combines a moving coming-of-age story with big issues like racism and criminal injustice. Reading Mockingbird is such an integral part of the American educational experience that we wondered: What classic books are assigned to students elsewhere?

We posed this question to our TED-Ed Innovative Educators and members of the TED-Ed community. People all over the globe responded, and we curated our list to focus on local authors. Many respondents made it clear in their countries, as in the US, few books are absolutely mandatory. Take a look at what students in countries from Ireland to Iran, Ghana to Germany, are asked to read and why:

Afghanistan

What it's about: The revelations of God as told to the prophet Muhammad, this is the central religious text of Islam and remains one of the major works of Arabic literature.
Why it's taught: "Overall, there is no culture of reading novels in my country, which is sad," says Farokh Attah. "The only book that must be read in school is the holy Quran, and everyone is encouraged to read it starting from childhood."

Albania

(1971) by Ismail Kadare
What it's about: Known in English as Chronicle in Stone, this novel is told through the eyes of a child and shows how different conquering forces - Italian fascist, Greek and Nazi - ravage a small Albanian city during World War II.
Why it's taught: Kadare is one of the most critically acclaimed Albanian writers, and was nominated several times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. This book "helps you understand vividly what World War II meant for the people who lived through those events," says Vaitson Çumaku. "Because it's from the perspective of a child, it also shows you that there can be optimism during hard times."

Australia

Tomorrow, When the War Began (1993) by John Marsden
What it's about: A teenage girl and her friends return from a camping trip to find that an unidentified foreign military force has invaded Australia.
Why it's taught: This book "speaks to our fear of invasion and our fighting spirit," says Beth James Waters. It also "beautifully portrays the vastness of and abundant natural dangers in our land."

Austria

Bosnia; Serbia

(1945) by Ivo Andrić
What it's about: Known in English as The Bridge on the Drina, this novel sweeps through 300 years in a small town near the Mehmed Pasha Sokolović bridge. Its story begins in the 16th-century Ottoman Empire, when the bridge was built, to World War I, when it was partially destroyed.
Why it's taught: Andrić received a Nobel Prize, and so far he has been the only Nobel Prize winner from Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia. "It is truly a timeless book," says Martin Kondža. "Its themes and stories also apply to humanity today. The bridge acts as a dumb witness to empires being born and crushed, human lives reaching their peaks and depths, and countries being established and destroyed."

Brazil

Morte e vida Severina (1955) by João Cabral de Melo Neto
What it's about: Known in English as The Death of a Severino, this play in verse is about the arduous journey of a man who is fleeing the drought- and poverty-stricken northeastern region of Brazil in search of a better situation and the city.
Why it's taught: "It shows the dual conditions that the country has always presented and still presents - poor lives, inequality, ignorance, and silent people, versus a city population, with all its advantages - and the distance between these two groups," says Andrea Rodrigues.

Bulgaria

(1894) by Ivan Vazov
What it's about: This novel looks at a Bulgarian village under Ottoman rule and depicts a failed insurrection in the 1870s that helped trigger the country's eventual breakaway. The large cast of characters includes villagers on both sides of the rebellion.
Why it's taught: For one thing, Vazov is seen as the father of Bulgarian literature. But, adds Kristine O'Malley, "Being enslaved by the Ottoman Empire and the struggle for independence have shaped the national identity of Bulgarians," making this book a perennially popular read.

Canada

(1977) by Timothy Findley
What it's about: Robert Ross, a 19-year-old Canadian, tries to cope with the death of his sister by enlisting to fight in World War I. Beset by his own demons, he travels to France where he fights in the trenches and sees the worst of warfare - and of humanity.
Why it's taught: "It's an iconic Canadian novel. It's so brutally honest in its depiction of war, sorrow, and coming to terms with an uncaring world in one's own way," says Karen Goepen-Wee.

Chile

China

Colombia

(1967) by Gabriel García Márquez
What it's about: This pioneering fictional work of magical realism - known to English-language readers as 100 Years of Solitude - traces the rise and fall of a fictional Colombian town through five generations of the Buendía family, starting in the early 19th century.
Why it's taught: Márquez is considered one of the most important writers in the Spanish language, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. This novel depicts the violence that has plagued Colombia for decades, and "shows how much corruption and suffering Colombians have endured," says Daniela Ramirez Barreto. "Yet there is something about us that refuses to give up."

Cyprus

The Murderess (1903) by Alexandros Papadiamantis
What it's about: This novella is about an old woman named Hadoula who lives on the island of Skiathos. She murders poor young girls as a kind of mercy killing, since she views their future prospects to be limited and bleak.
Why it's taught: "It sheds light on the role of women and on gender roles within marriage; these are of great importance in Cyprus and Greece," says Evanthia Poyiatzi. "And it makes students decide whether the woman's behavior is ethical or unethical."

Egypt

The Days (1935) by Taha Hussein
What it's about: This book is the autobiography of intellectual and writer Hussein, who lived from 1889 to 1973. He became blind at the age of 3 but grew up to be the minister of education in his country and is one of the most influential figures in Egyptian literature.
Why it's taught: The book teaches students "the importance of gathering knowledge, the need to rebel against traditions and the negative effects of ignorance upon individuals in a society," says Mahmoud Attalla.

Finland

Seitsemän veljestä (1870) by Aleksis Kivi
What it's about: Known in English as Seven Brothers, this book is about a quarrelsome family of seven brothers and their struggles in rural Finland. They eventually grow and mature into decent members of society.
Why it's taught: It is believed to be the first truly Finnish novel by a Finnish author in the Finnish language about ordinary people. "It's considered the national novel of Finland," says Jaani Länsiö. "It's about Finnish stubbornness."

Germany

Tagebuch der Anne Frank (1947)
What it's about: Known in English as The Diary of Anne Frank, this journal was kept by a Jewish girl named Anne Frank as she lived with her family in hiding in Amsterdam under Nazi occupation.
Why it's taught: "We should never forget what horrors were unleashed by narrow-thinking people," says Charlotte Böhm.

Ghana; Nigeria

(1958) by Chinua Achebe
What it's about: Set in Nigeria in the 1900s, this novel follows Okonkwo, an Igbo leader and village wrestling champion, his journey to power and glory, and his eventual fall when he fights back against white colonialists.
Why it's taught: "On the surface, it's a celebration of African traditionalism and how those ideals were washed away with the coming of the missionaries," says Ama Y Adi-Dako. "At the heart of it, though, it is a critical look at the concept and drawbacks of African and tribal masculinity."

Indonesia

(2005) by Andrea Hirata
What it's about: Known in English as Rainbow Troops, this novel is based on a true story about ten students from a remote village in Indonesia who, with the help of a pair of inspiring teachers. learn to stand up for themselves and their community.
Why it's taught: It teaches "sacrifice, dedication, hard work, passion, brotherhood, friendship, optimism and perseverance in the face of challenges," says Mahrukh Bashir.

India

Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth (1927-1929) by Mohandas K. Gandhi
What it's about: The Indian leader's memoir covers his life from his childhood to his early 50s.
Why it's taught: "This book upholds the essence of living a life with dignity, which is possible only through truth and nonviolence," says Bismi Sain.

Iran

Poems by writers such as Hafiz, Sa'Addi, Ferdowsi, Rumi and Khayyam
What they're about: Love, beauty, joy and other themes.
Why they're taught: "In Iran, the novel is a relatively newer form of literature," says Ne Da. "But among our literary classics are abundant poets and poetry. Each poem speaks to a different value."

Ireland

Ice Man: the Adventures of an Irish Antarctic Hero (2010) by Michael Smith
What it's about: It's a biography of Tom Crean, an Irish boy who ran away from home at the age of 15 to join Captain Robert Falcon Scott's Antarctic voyage. He was also a member of Ernest Shackleton's Endurance expedition.
Why it's taught: "It shows that the Irish are ambitious explorers who can triumph over adversity and that through hard work, focus and dedication, everything is possible," says Naoimh Morton.

Italy

(1827) by Alessandro Manzoni
What it's about: Known in English as The Betrothed, this novel takes place in northern Italy in the first half of the 17th century. Italy was not yet a nation, and this book shows the lives of villagers living under repressive Spanish rule as well as the impact of a deadly plague that killed many people.
Why it's taught: " I Promessi Sposi is one of the two pillars of Italian literature," says Sofia Ramundo. "It is considered the blueprint for historical novels," adds Michela Sacchi O'Brien.

Pakistan

The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) by Mohsin Hamid
What it's about: An international bestseller, this novel follows the story of a Pakistani man as he reflects on his time in the United States before and after the events of September 11, 2001.
Why it's taught: "These books touch the unique dilemmas faced by modern Pakistanis who are struggling with fundamental ideals and trying to find their own identity," says Vajiha Atiq.

Philippines

(1887) by Jose Rizal
What it's about: Rizal went on to be a hero of the Philippine revolution, and his novel - the English-language title is Touch Me Not - shows life in the Philippines society under cruel, repressive, arbitrary Spanish Catholic rule.
Why it's taught: By combining a dramatic story with an activist message, this novel has been compared to Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It is taught to help students "appreciate the efforts of our forefathers in shaping our independence," says John Eric Uy.

Russia

US

(1960) by Harper Lee
What it's about: A classic novel about the American South in the 1930s that illustrates how racism, sexism and injustice have shaped US history (and still cause harm today).
Why it's taught: "We're still dealing with racism and systematic prejudice, especially in the legal system in the US," says Shaun McGovern.

Vietnam

(1820) by Nguyễn Du
What it's about: It's an epic narrative poem about a young woman named Thuý Kiều who is driven to sacrifice herself to save her family.
Why it's taught: Known in English as The Tale of Kiều, the poem shows "the humanity and the beauty of my country," says Joy Truong, who adds that she likes its positive qualities, a stark contrast to most other stories and poems which "focus on the difficulties of the Vietnamese."

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Required reading: The books that students read in 28 countries around the world

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In the US, most students are required to read To Kill a Mockingbird during their school years. This classic novel combines a moving coming-of-age story with big issues like racism and criminal injustice. Reading Mockingbird is such an integral part of the American educational experience that we wondered: What classic books are assigned to students elsewhere?

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The Louisiana Accessible Educational Materials programs is a project of the Louisiana Department of Education and the Louisiana Special School District. We are available to help you answer technical questions or address the individual needs of students in Louisiana. If you have questions please email: administrator@ssdla-aem.org .

To request a service from Louisiana AEM please complete .

The following list consists of online resources that you can provide your learner at home who needs additional support. These tools all offer useful features at no cost for the basic plans.

No matter what technology you have at home there are some ways to make content more accessible such as having text read out loud or just making the font bigger so it is easier to read. Below you will find information on some of these tools for each major operating system.

Chromebooks or Chrome Web Browser - (Not Tablets)

- To download useful tools called "extensions" to the Google Chrome browser you need to download them from the Chrome Web Store.
Chrome Extensions for Reading

ReadWrite for Google Chrome - Provides text to speech for written materials online including Google Docs, PDFs and EPUB files. They provide teachers access to the premium features at no cost by filling out .

- BeeLine Reader is a research-backed tool that improves reading ability for students of all ages and skill levels. By displaying text using color gradients that wrap from the end of one line to the beginning of the next, BeeLine facilitates visual tracking and enables the reader to focus on other aspects of reading, such as decoding and comprehension.
Chrome Supports for Writing

- From grammar and spelling to style and tone, Grammarly helps you eliminate writing errors and find the perfect words to express yourself. You'll get suggestions from Grammarly as you write on Gmail, Twitter, LinkedIn, and nearly everywhere else you find yourself writing. Grammarly is a writing assistant that goes deeper than grammar to offer you comprehensive writing feedback. You can be confident that your writing is not only correct, but clear and concise, too. Be sure to register your account to receive a personalized writing report each week to help you track your progress and identify improvement areas.

Voice Typing in Google Docs - Google Docs has a built in dictation function. Once you turn it on users can type out sentences using their voice.

iPhones/iPads

- The ASL App is made by Deaf people for you! Learn conversational ASL right now, on the go, with all phrases and signs organized to make it easy for you to learn.

- Ages 3-5 - Creative Learning game. Play tic-tac-toe with a dragon fly. Carefully avoid bees while picking apples. Complete colorful patterns of buttons and beautiful yarn. You'll even sort bugs from a button factory conveyor belt.

- Features free apps to promote math practice on IOS devices.

Operating System Accessibility Guides

Regardless of which computer/device you have access to there are ways to make content more accessible such as having on screen text read out loud or just making the font bigger so it is easier to read. The guides below will help you provide these accommodations no matter which device you or your student have access to.

Microsoft Accessibility Guide - This page features information on how to use Windows to provide accessible materials. Topics covered include support for vision, hearing, speech, mobility and learning.

Apple MAC - This page is for MAC users (not iPhone/iPad) and contains information on how to make the MAC for accessible for individuals with unique needs.

Text to speech in IOS - Hear text spoken aloud on the iPhone and iPad.

Lock IOS into one app using Guided Access - This is useful when the learner wants to play games on an iPhone/iPad instead of using the device the way they should. This setting will lock the device into one app until the code you select is entered.

- This page is for Android users and contains information on how to make the Android phones/tablets more accessible for individuals with unique needs.

"Books" and Content Available Online

- If your child has an IEP which requires "Accessible Educational Materials" be provided he or she may have access to Bookshare through their school. Ask the special education teacher for the login and if this is the case you can sign in. Bookshare is also opening up resources to teach from home . Use app on your mobile device to read books or access on the web. This is the best way to get books that can be read aloud.

Writing Support

Communication

Blind / Visual Impairment

This article covers establishing a routine, helping around the house, ideas for young children and games.

Other Useful Resources

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Help high school students start their financial lives smart and strong. These lessons cover school loans, saving and investing, balance a budget, and developing strong credit.

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Students can use games to learn money management and financial decision-making.

Game-based learning is an engaging and effective way to teach students, and it can be especially useful for teaching students how to manage money because it empowers them to learn from their own decisions. Here are 10 free, popular games for high school students to learn how to navigate their finances.

1. Payback
Payback nudges students to think about how to succeed in college without taking on excessive student debt. Tony Montgomery, a teacher at an alternative high school in New York City, says, "Payback teaches students that it is very important to have a healthy balance between academics, work, and social activities while continuing to manage your debt." An added incentive is that students can compete for $125,000 in college scholarships provided by Next Gen Personal Finance, who also powered the development of the game.

2. Spent
Spent challenges players to survive the struggle of low-income living. Developed by McKinney to raise money for Urban Ministries of Durham, the game has become a hit in financial literacy classrooms. "Spent allows students to truly understand some of the incredibly hard decisions families, living paycheck to paycheck, have to make on a daily basis," says Courtney Poquette, a business educator from Winooski, Vermont. Some organizations have developed helpful companion handouts to accompany the game.

3. Financial Football/ Financial Soccer
These two fast-paced, sports-themed, interactive games engage students in quiz bowl-style questions to advance players up the field. Both VISA-created games have been recently updated with new questions and graphics and include various levels of difficulty and game lengths to make it easier for teachers to differentiate in the classroom. Players can play against the computer or each other.

4. Shady Sam
Shady Sam demonstrates how loan terms can hurt borrowers who don't pay attention. Players take on the role of a loan shark. The more the customers pay in interest and fees, the higher the score for the game player. Julius Prezelski, a teacher at Mount St. Joseph High School in Maryland, noted that students realize "how the loan game works and how lenders take advantage of consumers."

5. STAX
Amanda Volz, a student at St. Clair High School in Michigan, describes STAX as an "engaging, fast-paced interactive game that allows students to experience 20 years of investing in just 20 minutes... and proves that index investing is always a winner!" This game ignites the emotion that investors often feel while trading during turbulent times. Game players can compete against the computer or against one another.

6. Money Magic
Money Magic is designed to teach basic budgeting principles. The main character, Enzo, represents the human tendency to value short-term gratification. The game challenges students to balance immediate wants with long-term plans. Jacqueline Prester, a Mansfield High School teacher in Massachusetts, loves Money Magic "because it gives my students a fun and competitive way to practice their budgeting skills in a nontraditional environment."

7. The Payoff
In this game, students play the role of a video blogger preparing for a life-changing competition while managing money and unexpected events. The game interface simulates a mobile phone where players can check their bank or open faux websites. The immersive, experiential game requires the user to help their character make smart financial decisions.

8. Hit the Road: A Financial Adventure
This interactive game teaches young people the importance of saving and spending wisely. Students go on a virtual road trip across the country learning how to manage their money wisely. They learn the value of creating a budget, responsible spending, and debt management. I use the game in my special education class because it has straightforward instructions.

9. The Uber Game
In this game, students play the role of a full-time Uber driver-with two kids-who is trying to pay the mortgage. The interactive game, created by the Financial Times, challenges students to face life circumstances of those in the gig economy. Lois Stoll, a veteran Family and Consumer Science teacher from a rural school in Ohio, says, "Seems so easy, right? Just drive a car and earn money in the gig economy! Wait until you try to make the mortgage payment driving an Uber car for a week. Just not as easy as you think!"

10. Credit Clash
Credit Clash is a fun and interactive way to learn about credit scores. Brett Shifrin of the Gould Academy in Maine observed his students learning that when their credit score increased, their future loan payment amounts were reduced because they got loans at lower interest rates. One of his students summarized what he learned, saying, "Taking out multiple loans and being able to pay them all dramatically improves your credit."

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Even though mother's issues are not front page news,
they touch us all personally, some more than others, and
I believe passionately in the power of grassroots engagement.
- Joan Blades

The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon
folks get to paying more attention to the organization
than to what they're organized for.
- Laura Ingalls Wilder

If children can't learn the way we teach, then
we have to teach the way they learn.
- Robert Buck

In dyslexia, there's not a knowledge gap but rather an action gap.

- Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity

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ReadWorks.org | Solving the Reading Comprehension Crisis

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How to use your FREE ReadWorks account ​to support reading comprehension for hybrid and remote learning. For parents and caregivers, visit this page to see how you can support your child.

​Print and share our remote learning one-pagers that include how to:

Set up a digital class

Assign reading passages and question sets

Do Article-A-Day™

Support your students with offline mode

Do the 40-minute student independent work routine

Access our student tutorials and quick start guides here.

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Free Tools from Leading Education Organizations to help students learn through the COVID-19 Crisis

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In these unprecedented times where change and disruption seem to dominate routine, National Geographic is navigating ways to support, nurture, and care for learners and the educators who reach them. The good news is that there are many engaging and fun ways to learn at home. We invite you to explore these collections of activities that have been curated for educators, parents, and caregivers to implement with K-12 learners.

We hope you and your communities stay safe, healthy, and grow stronger as we learn together.

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The Center for Development and Learning's mission is to improve the life chances of all children, especially those at high risk, by increasing school success.

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Speech Buddies Blog: Speech, Language & Pronunciation Guides

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As parents, you know there are many ways to enrich your child's speech and language skills, including games, books, and language modeling activities. Online speech therapy resources offer your child a way to refine and practice their speech and language skills at home. Sometimes your child needs a little extra speech therapy, whether it is to refine certain skills they are learning on at school, reinforce what they are working on with their SLP, or just an extra resource to help build speech sounds. When looking to enhance your child's speech therapy using online resources, we have located a few favorites that won't take a bite out of your wallet.

Looking for Virtual Speech Therapy?

Speech Buddies Connect is the first online network for parents to find and book appointments with top-quality, certified & local speech professionals. You can filter your search to find Speech-Language Pathologist that offer virtual therapy in your state.

The Best Tools & Games for Speech Practice at Home

Tongue Placement Tools for the R, S, SH, CH, & L Sounds: Speech Buddies Placement Tools are easy to use. They train the tongue to make the correct shape by providing targets that you can feel. They help with lisps and pronunciation. Getting started is simple. Choose the right tools for your child, practice for 10 minutes 3 times a week, and see results. With a little guidance, kids 5 and up can even use them on their own! Each kit includes a customized instruction guide, a special carrying case, and online games. The 30 day guarantee makes trying Speech Buddies
Placement Tools stress-free. 4 out of 5 parents wished they used our tools sooner!

Speech Therapy Practice Cards: Flashcards are a fun way to practice any words as well as the R, S, SH, CH, and L sounds. These cards are specifically designed to tackle tricky sounds at the beginning, middle and end of words. The cute pictures and suggested games will entice any child to practice their speech.

Speech Delay Book Bundle: This Speech Delay Book Bundle encourages first words. Memorable songs and silly questions entice children to express themselves and help speech delay. These books are great for children ages 1 year to 6 years old and are perfect for any child learning to talk.

6 Favorite Online Speech Therapy Websites:

StoryPlace.org: StoryPlace.org is a website that has a number of online stories and interactive activities for preschoolers and elementary-aged students. Each theme includes an online story, online activity, printable "take-home" activities and suggestions for parents. A booklist that corresponds to each theme is also offered.

FunwithSpot.com is a cute website for preschoolers and young children. Children familiar with the Spot book series will love the fun language-based games. There are also parent and teacher resources.

FunBrain.com; This website offers a number of free online games for kids. Games touch upon a variety of topics, including vocabulary, grammar, reading, math and some that are just for fun! Check out Plural Girls, Grammar Gorillas or click on the reading tab for some great language activities.

Scholastic.com: Scholastic.com's Family Playground is a great website for preschool and school-age children and their parents. This website includes a variety of games and activities for children related to popular characters and children's books such as Clifford, Magic School Bus, Walter Wick, and I Spy.

Articulation Games (by Tracy Gefroh Boyd): This is a great site where children plan a variety of games to practice r's, s's, l's, sh's and ch's.

The Tongue Twister Database: A fun collection of tongue twisters to practice speech sounds and giggle at the same time!

Tell us some of your favorites! We'd love to build our collection!

Looking to Put Your New Tablet to Use?

An important part of using online speech therapy tools is to interact with your child while he or she is online. The best online speech therapy sites are not intended to engage your child passively, (think staring at a video game on tv), rather they are to be used as a tool to engage your child and get his brain making connections. Making learning fun is also a crucial component to get your child engaged. Playing online speech therapy games should not feel like homework for your child, rather, a fun activity that you can do together. Here are a few of our favorites, what are some of yours?

Update: The Speech Buddies Team just added some boards to the FREE Bitsboard app! It's easy to download and play speech games today on your iPad or iPhone! Bitsboard is a revolutionary app that allows anyone (educators, education companies like Speech Buddies, and even parents) to customize fun, visually pleasing, and versatile games around a given theme.

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Update 19/3/20: It seems students aren't the only ones getting some Adobe love in these testing times - if you're an existing subscriber of any kind, you can get two months of Creative Cloud access for free thanks to a hidden cancellation offer. Just follow the link below to find out how to unlock it - or carry on reading below to find out about the free home access for students.

Adobe is helping students who are stuck at home because of the Covid-19 outbreak with free, temporary remote access to Creative Cloud apps like Photoshop and InDesign.

In order to get access to the apps your school or college needs to be an education customer and the temporary licenses will only be available until May 2020. But it's a potential lifeline for those who need to continue their Adobe-reliant studies or coursework outside of their school or campus.

So how do you go about getting remote Creative Cloud access? Naturally, it's a fairly rigorous process, with only school IT admins able to request home access via an application form here.

But if you're a student and your school or college isn't aware of the offer, then it could be worth sending the link to your IT department to speed up the process. Adobe says it will evaluate each request, but if your facility is a current Adobe Creative Cloud customer then it should technically qualify for the temporary license.

Today's best creative cloud deals

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Feeling remote

So far, not all schools and campuses have closed their doors due to the Covid-19 outbreak, with most doing so on a case-by-case basis. But it is becoming increasingly common, and with many looking for ways to transition to online learning, Adobe's offer is certainly very welcome.

It also follows Adobe's announcement last week that its Connect web conferencing software would be free to everyone until July 1 2020. Adobe says that many US government agencies have used Connect as an always-open area for their employees to share real-time info, while it's also popular among schools and universities as a platform for remote teaching.

As the knock-on effects of the Covid-19 virus spread, an increasing number of students and employees will be working from home - and fortunately, we live in an era when remote working is relatively straightforward for many people, thanks to video conferencing software and gestures like Adobe's temporary free remote Creative Cloud licenses.

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Imagineering fans, get ready! If you've ever been one of many guests who's visited a Disney theme park and found yourself inspired to dream, build and create, there's a new online program you just can't miss!

' Imagineering in a Box ' is a free online program that brings together the diverse talents of Disney Imagineers around the world for a one-of-a-kind learning experience and is part of Disney's commitment to helping today's youth create the future they imagine.

The series offers 32 videos in which Imagineers share how they use a wide range of skills - from story development and conceptual design, to math, physics and engineering - to create immersive experiences. The online curriculum aims to ignite curiosity, inspire creativity, and encourage innovation in the minds of students and teachers alike, while creating fun and engaging opportunities to explore new concepts.

Modules range from a tutorial on engineering software, to an interactive exercise where learners are encouraged to gather items around them and create something new. The program's hands-on components will allow students to relate new concepts to real-world examples to bring treasured Disney stories to life. Each activity is designed to be scalable, allowing individuals to learn on their own or in a classroom setting.

Click here to get started!

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Walt Disney Imagineering Partners With Khan Academy To Bring You 'Imagineering in a Box'

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There are classes on just about anything you can imagine, from Shakespeare to classical music to Buddhist philosophy, but here's an example of some that might be of particular interest to business owners:

"The Science of Well-Being," Yale

"Introduction to Computer Science," Harvard

"American Capitalism: A History," Cornell

"Introduction to Marketing," University of Pennsylvania

"Economics of Money and Banking," Columbia

"The Computing Technology Inside Your Cell Phone," Cornell

"Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies," Princeton

"Improving Your Business Through a Culture of Health," Harvard

"Viral Marketing and How to Craft Contagious Content," University of Pennsylvania

"Entrepreneurship 1: Developing the Opportunity," University of Pennsylvania

"Machine Learning," Brown

"Networks: Friends, Money, and Bytes," Princeton

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Using paintings and other artworks in lessons can help teachers meet content-area standards connected to promoting student inquiry.

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In No More Telling as Teaching, Cris Tovani and Elizabeth Birr Moje suggest that students often expect teachers to do most of the thinking for them in class. A comfort level exists for both parties when a single narrative removes the messiness of understanding topics beyond the surface level. Yet new content-area standards, such as those informed by the College, Career, and Civic Life Framework, require that students be the ones asking questions, grappling with texts, and drawing their own conclusions about course concepts.

Repurposing instruction to elicit or incorporate students' ideas can seem daunting, especially when teachers must address specific content in their courses. Inquiry and structure do not need to be mutually exclusive, though. In my classes, I frequently ask students to examine common sources using a specific lesson progression, with the understanding that no two individuals will emerge with the same conclusions from that work.

Using Art to Foster Critical Thinking

To that end, I sometimes use works of art as launching points for my lessons. Viewing art can be powerful because each piece reflects the artist's interpretation of his or her world. Likewise, students' interpretations of the art will vary depending on their prior knowledge, observational skills, and interests.

Museum educators use three guiding questions from Visual Thinking Strategies to elicit discussions, and they can help students focus when they view an artwork in the classroom for the first time as well:

1. What's going on in this picture?

2. What do you see that makes you say that?

3. What more can you find?

When I design a lesson around an art piece, I don't simply jump into a discussion using these questions, though-I ask students to spend the first several minutes of the class observing the image independently and writing down their reflections to answer the questions. I write out my reflections with them every time, too, even though I'm familiar with the image, to model that my understanding evolves over time.

In their book , Kelly Gallagher and Penny Kittle share that such extended periods of freewriting help students generate new ideas and communicate first-draft thinking. To further that kind of thinking, I later ask students to revisit and confirm or revise their responses as they encounter additional texts that, in some way, connect to the initial image.

For example, I focus a ninth-grade Modern World History lesson related to the French Wars of Religion around a painting of the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre by François Dubois. So much is happening in the painting, and students almost always ask questions about why people are being thrown from windows, who the different groups represent, and what caused the conflict in the first place. Students write down their initial thoughts using the freewriting technique described above, and volunteers then share their comments through whole-class discussion.

The "investigation" part of the lesson comes when I ask students to work in pairs to read a short textbook segment related to the subject of the painting. I typically use an interactive reading guide inspired by Doug Buehl's Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning that prompts students to read chunks of text, summarize the main ideas, and make connections to their written responses to the painting. Students first discuss this content with their partners and later have the opportunity to share any new insights with other classmates before moving to the next short segment. With this approach, students are not reading the textbook simply to learn content-they're reading to construct meaning around the questions that they found important as they initially attempted to understand the painting.

In another lesson from the same unit, I use a variety of sources in addition to the textbook to help students draw conclusions about the reign of Elizabeth I of England. The lesson is framed around her Armada Portrait, which generates many interesting questions from students: Why are there two different views out the windows? Why is her hand on the globe? Does the crown that's set on the table in the background symbolize anything?

For this lesson, students travel around the classroom to three centers, each of which includes a source that provides some context for the painting: a brief biography of Elizabeth I, the text of her speech to her troops concerning the Spanish Armada, and a short video that highlights her accomplishments as queen. Students discuss each source in small groups and then individually write out short reflections that help them process ideas related to their earlier questions.

At the conclusion of both of these lessons, I ask students to revise their freewrites with specific evidence from their learning. Ideally, they'll be able to answer their initial questions, support their inferences, and fill in any knowledge gaps that they identified at the beginning of class. Posing new questions is fine, too, since the inquiry process is cyclical.

The artist Frida Kahlo once said, "I paint flowers so they will not die." Building on that idea, art allows students to visually access historical content that might otherwise seem foreign or irrelevant. Think about one of your upcoming lessons and how a work of art might serve as an entry point. You will be amazed by the questions your students develop and the deep learning that happens as a result.

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There's good news for all the New York City-based e-bookworms out there. The New York Public Library has an app that allows anyone with a library card (and an iOS or Android phone) to "borrow" any of the 300,000 e-books in the collection.

It's called SimplyE and will allow you to read books on your phone, but beware, there might be a wait list for some popular titles, including the Game of Thrones series. (Check out the Harry Potter books, quick!)

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To gain access, NYPL'sfree e-reader app, SimplyE, can be downloaded for iPhoneor Android.

There isa limit of three books that you can borrow because there has been a surge in the app's usage now that we're all at home, according to the library.

You can also search the library's collection of 800,000 digitized items, including historic prints, photographs, maps, and manuscripts and check out Mango Languagesand Career Cruising with your New York City library card.

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Exploring the world is something that's always been a bit of a luxury for those who can afford to travel, but technology is changing that. With VR and 360-degree videos, you can now immerse yourself in virtual environments that give you a real sense of what a place is like, without actually being there. Google has been taking advantage of things like VR field trips and virtual reality to transport students to distant lands, but today it's releasing a way to explore scenic wonders closer to home: the U.S. National Parks.

The Hidden Worlds of the National Parks is a new Google Arts & Culture exhibit and interactive documentary, timed to launch in celebration of this month's NPS Centennial.

The exhibit allows you to take 360-degree tours of some of the most remote and beautiful U.S. National Parks. Instead of featuring much-documented vistas like Yosemite or the Grand Canyon, for example, the exhibit instead focuses on a selection of parks you may not have traveled to yet (or may never see), including the Kenai Fjords in Alaska, Hawaiian volcanoes, New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns, Utah's Bryce Canyon, and Florida's Dry Tortugas - the latter which was reviewed this month in a New York Times travel piece which called it an "under the radar" national park.

In the video experience, a local ranger will guide you through each park, allowing you to do things like fly over the active volcanoes in Hawaii, snorkel the coral reefs in the Dry Tortugas, or kayak through Alaska's fjords, among other things.

The virtual tours are available both online, in the Google Arts & Culture App on iOS and Android, as well as in the Google Expeditions app for use in the classroom.

Expeditions, available here on Google Play, is Google's virtual reality teaching tool that lets students travel the world with their teacher acting as the guide. The app offers 360 degree and 3D imagery of over 200 places around the world, and allows for a VR experience when used with the Google Cardboard viewer.

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31 hands-on field activities to connect art, science, math, and critical thinking, while encouraging students and mentors alike to recognize and record the wonder and beauty in the natural world.

Expanding on the philosophy and methods of my last book, The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling, I teamed up with experienced curriculum developer and educator, Emilie Lygren, to develop this unparalleled and comprehensive guide to using nature journaling as a tool to engage young people with the outdoors. This teacher-friendly book combines curriculum plans, practical advice, and in-the-field experience so that educators of all stripes can bring journaling to their students or families. Full-color illustrations and sample journal pages from notable naturalists and novices show how to put each lesson into practice.

Best of all, it encourages the things we need most at this moment: routines and rituals, creative expression, observation and concentration, engagement with nature, and connection with each other (even if from a distance!).

Are green spaces near you closed or inaccessible? Nature journaling can happen anywhere, from a kitchen window to a neighborhood stroll. With the right tools and ways of observing, you can document the bird sitting on a telephone wire, the beans in your pantry, the flower blooming in your neighbor's front yard, the weed pushing through the cracks in the sidewalk, or the vine creeping up the side of your apartment building.

Learn How to:

give students step-by-step strategies for effective nature journaling

manage student groups in the outdoors

encourage participation from all learners

modify instructions to meet your students' needs

teach drawing, math, writing, and scientific thinking

connect journaling to educational standards

incorporate journaling into longer lessons

Can be used with:

5E Instructional Model

Charlotte Mason-Inspired Education

Common Core State Standards

Next Generation Science Standards

Waldorf Education, Forest Schools, Outdoor Education, and more

A great way to get started is to watch this video workshop from a class I gave on how to teach Nature Journaling.

Free download! You can download the book today. If you like the book, consider also buying the full version and making a donation to directly support Heyday, our amazing non-profit publisher. You may download the book for use in your home, classroom or at your institution. You may not reproduce any part of the book for sale.

Praise for How to Teach Nature Journaling

"From the beginning of time, we have been connected to nature, but for the first time in history, that connection threatens to be broken for most of an entire generation and perhaps generations to come. In this book and this work, I find hope. Laws and Lygren have created a powerful and practical resource for teachers to help children and adults discover, explore, love, and protect the natural world around them. Nature is magic, and everyone needs it."

-Robert Bateman, artist, naturalist, and founder of the Bateman Foundation

"Here is a natural way for parents and teachers to integrate the beauty and mystery of nature into the lives of children. The book itself is a work of art."

-Richard Louv, author of Our Wild Calling and Last Child in the Woods

"This book beautifully demonstrates how nature journaling is a valuable, multidimensional approach to science. Through this work, students build neural pathways that enable different brain regions to communicate with each other, resulting in more flexible thinking and creative problem-solving in all areas of life. This approach to nature journaling also offers students an excellent way to learn and practice a growth mindset through nature and science."

-Jo Boaler, Professor of Education and Equity, Stanford University; founder and faculty director of youcubed.org; author of Mathematical Mindsets and Limitless Mind

"The writing, the illustrations, the demonstration of an intentional, informative, and wonderfully educational approach to nature journal writing-it's all here. From field activities with clear examples to an inquiry-based approach to learning, this book is a gem for educators, first-time journalers, and for the experienced naturalist as well. It's art, it's writing, it's education, it's science, naturally so."

-José González, Founder of Latino Outdoors

"Engaging students in learning about nature is a compelling need in these turbulent times. Just as important is communicating clearly, precisely, and truthfully. Naturalists and educators John Muir Laws and Emilie Lygren help teachers achieve these goals with How to Teach Nature Journaling. This is a wonderful response to educators' request for meaningful ways to implement contemporary standards. The book is useful, full of activities, and manageable for classroom teachers."

-Rodger W. Bybee, Executive Director, BSCS Science Learning (Retired)

"Imagine if every teacher taught nature journaling, every student spent enough time outside to fill a journal each year, and our kids were becoming writers, artists, and scientists all at once. I'd send my kid to that school. Thanks to Emilie Lygren and Jack Laws, we now have the vision and the tools to make this our reality."

-Craig Strang, Associate Director, Lawrence Hall of Science

"Nature journaling is the single most valuable tool and skill a teacher can possess and use to move the Next Generation Science Standards and environmental literacy forward in their school. You need to do this!"

-Rob Wade, Science & Outdoor Education Coordinator, Plumas Unified School District/Plumas County of Education

About the Authors

John Muir Laws is an award-winning scientist, educator, artist, and author of The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling and The Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada, among other titles. For a wealth of nature journaling resources, visit johnmuirlaws.com.

Facilitator, author, educator, and poet Emilie Lygren has co-written dozens of outdoor science publications with the award-winning BEETLES Project and has published poems in a range of literary journals.

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Dissections. Does the word make you cringe? Feel a little sick to your stomach? Fill you with dread? For many reasons dissections can cause concerns for educators, but they are a very important part of a child's education. Understanding how things work from the inside, is vital to developing a strong understanding of biology, physiology and anatomy. Thankfully there are many solutions available. So save yourself the mess and the stress in your lessons and labs with these options for virtual dissections.

EXPLORING OPTIONS FOR VIRTUAL DISSECTIONS
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As a child I grew up in the country, doing animal rescue, breeding horses, and having a big sister who was a vet assistant (and eventually married a vet). Animals were my life. I entertained the idea of being a vet, a breeder, running a rescue or animal sanctuary. In the end, I enrolled in university into the bachelor of environmental sciences program, specializing in wildlife conservation. I wanted to protect endangered animals and their habitats.

However, two years into the program I was diagnosed with health issues that forced me to make some changes. I was loving my psychology programs, so I stayed in the sciences faculty, but moved over to the psychology department.

Now through all of that, the key was that I always worked with animals and had deep passion for biology and animals. Even in psychology, I specialized in the research field, and many of our labs worked with animals. But long before that, I started learning about what was under the skin from our vets, my sister and reading. I wanted to take the best care of my animals that I possibly could, so I was voracious in my search for information and knowledge.
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With that came doing dissections, but also working on live animals. I've assisted on surgeries and so many medical procedures, it's too many to count. Learning in such a hands on way gave me a deep appreciation and understanding of anatomy, physiology and biology.

As much as I've learned from dissections, I totally get that they aren't for everyone. Some people struggle with the ethics, others the mess and smell, for others it's the cost, and sometimes it's simply a matter of logistics. Thankfully, there are a number of virtual dissection options available. Here are a few that I found.

Virtual Dissections

We love using Outschool. Outschool is a virtual classroom that is kind of like an Air B&B of education. There are teachers from around the world teaching classes on pretty much every subject you can imagine, including dissection. Some of the classes are live, which also allows for a level of interaction, which my kids particularly enjoy. However, be aware that not all classes are live. Make sure you read the descriptions and talk to the teachers if you have questions. If you sign up from this link you will get a bonus $20 off your first Outschool Class. Simply search "dissection" to find current offerings on virtual dissections. Or look for any other subject you want to cover.

Last year my kids took a shark course through Next Level and part of the course includes doing a shark dissection. Although you are given the information on how to order one to do your own dissection along with the instructor, you also have the option of just watching her do the dissection in the very educational videos.

This site offers many virtual dissection lessons and labs featuring a number of different dissections. They include worksheets and a quiz for some of their labs, however there are no videos. Reading and photography only. However, it is free.

This is a lending library that specializes in learning options that remove the need for actual animals in dissections and labs. They have so many options, for all levels of education, including books, models, posters, and more. This is US only, so I have no experience with them, but the program was recommended to me by some American homeschoolers.

This program is part of the educational publishing group MacMillian Learning. There is a cost to students, but you can watch a demo lesson here.

Free Printable Dissection

If you are looking for a printable dissection activity pack, STEAM Powered Family has created a printable PDF package that covers dissections of a worm, frog, crayfish and pig.

You can purchase the whole package through Teachers Paying Teachers.

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There are also many models, puzzles and coloring books that you can use as part of your unit studies. I especially love using these to supplement our lessons.

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Looking for ways to make your math learning a little more interesting? Grab a few decks of playing cards and introduce some of these math card games to your class. Your students will have fun in spades!

1. Try for a total of 10.

Play this math card game alone or as a team. Lay out 20 cards on the table (leave out face cards or change them to equal 0, while aces equal 1). Kids remove sets of cards that add up to 10, ultimately trying to remove all the cards from the table. It's harder than you think!

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2. Declare a fraction war.

War is one of the original math card games, but this version adds a fraction aspect. Students deal two cards, a numerator and denominator, then determine whose fraction is the largest. The winner keeps all four cards, and play continues until the cards are gone. ( Click here for more fun and free fraction games.)

Learn more: Mrs. Weigand's Mathematics Resources

3. Learn numbers with card bingo.

Remove the face cards and have each student lay out a 4 x 4 playing "board" of cards. Remaining cards (or another deck) are placed face down, and a caller flips over a card. Any player who has that number on their board turns the card face down. Play continues until one player has a row flipped over horizontally, vertically, or diagonally and calls "Bingo!"

Learn more: Top Notch Teaching

4. Find a way to make 10 (or 15, or 20 ... )

One of the terrific things about math card games is that many of them can be customized for various concepts and skill levels. The original goal of this game was to look at the cards you're dealt to find ones that add up to 10, but it can be changed to 15, 20, or any number you choose. You can also add to the difficulty by allowing addition and subtraction (for example, you could use 8+4=12 or 12-2=10). Get the rules and free printable mats at the link below.

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5. Practice number sequencing with builder's paradise.

Simple math card games can help kids learn how to put numbers in order. To play builder's paradise, discard the face cards and lay out the 4 sevens in a deck side by side. In each round, players work to add the next higher or lower number in each suit, trying to be the first to get rid of all their cards. Get the full how-to at the link below.

Learn more: Math Geek Mama

6. Do some basic fast facts practice.

Give your flash cards a rest and practice facts with math card games instead. Simply lay down two cards from the deck (remove the face cards first) and add, subtract, or multiply them. Kids can work on this alone, or you can make it a contest to see who can call out the correct answer first.

Learn more: Top Notch Teaching

7. Play pyramid solitaire alone or in teams.

Some versions of solitaire are really just sneaky math card games, and pyramid is one of them. Try to find cards that add up to 10 as you clear your pyramid row by row. Learn how to play at the link below.

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8. Go fishing for pairs that make 10.

Your students probably already know how to play Go Fish, but in this version, they're fishing for pairs that add up to 10. Have them ask: "I have a 2. Do you have an 8 to make 10?" Change aces to 1 for this game and leave face cards out entirely.

Learn more: Mrs. Weigand's Mathematics Resources

9. Challenge them to beat the teacher.

Practice place value by drawing cards and trying to build the largest number possible. Kids play against the teacher to see who wins! Get the rules at the link below. ( Find more fun place value activities here.)

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10. Use Close Call to practice two-digit addition or subtraction.

The best math card games are simple at heart. To play Close Call, each player deals themselves four cards then determines how to arrange them so they make two two-digit numbers that add up close to 100 without going over. For a subtraction version, work to get as close to zero as possible. Learn how to play at the link.

Learn more: Math Geek Mama

11. Use order of operations to get to 24.

Math card games aren't just for little kids; even adults will find this one a bit tricky. Each player is dealt four cards, then uses the order-of-operations rules to try to make a number as close to 24 as possible. Simple but challenging!

Learn more: Learn With Math Games

12. Let card color indicate negative or positive.

In this game, red cards are negative integers while black cards are positive. Students attempt to play pairs of cards that total 6 or -6. You can change the goal number as needed.

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13. Take a trip around the card spiral to practice math facts.

You'll need a pair of dice for this math card game. Lay cards out randomly in a spiral formation as shown, and set a marker for each player on the center card. Player one rolls the dice then moves their piece that number of spaces shown. They then must multiply (or add or subtract, depending on preferences) the card number by the number on the dice. If they get the answer correct, they stay where they are. If not, they return to their original card. Play continues until one player reaches the end.

14. Be the fastest in the race to pi.

In this game, kids work to lay out the digits of pi in order. It's a simple draw-and-play game, but will help familiarize students with this important number. You can write out the digits first or see who knows them from memory. Find out how to play at the link below.

Learn more: Math Geek Mama

15. Take a gamble with triple-digit dare.

Each player gets three cards and privately determines the highest three-digit number they can make (you can use decimals or not, depending on age). Then, each player has a turn to stick with the cards they have, swap with one from the deck, or steal one of the other player's. All players then lay down their best number to see who wins. See more at the link below.

Learn more: Math Coach's Corner

16. Try reading minds to figure out the correct numbers.

Two students draw a card from the deck without looking and hold it up to their forehead facing out. A third student mentally multiplies the numbers and gives them the product. The students then must figure out what number each is holding. You can do this with addition and subtraction too. You'll find this game along with dozens of other math card games in the free printable book at the link below.
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There is no greater mission for educators than ensuring all students are successful, joyful readers. In recent months and years, the science of reading is finally getting the attention it deserves. Schools across the U.S. are having serious conversations about how to align early reading instruction to the large body of evidence about reading-the most studied aspect of human learning.

To examine the "why," "what," and "how" of this important topic, watch the three parts of The Science of Reading webinar series -featuring Laura Stewart-on demand.

PART 2: What Works in Early
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There is no greater mission for educators than ensuring all students are successful, joyful readers. In recent months and years, the science of reading is finally getting the attention it deserves. Schools across the U.S. are having serious conversations about how to align early reading instruction to the large body of evidence about reading-the most studied aspect of human learning.

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National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled (NLS) | Library of Congress

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National Library Service (NLS) is a free braille and talking book library service for people with temporary or permanent low vision, blindness, or a physical disability that prevents them from reading or holding the printed page. Through a national network of cooperating libraries, NLS circulates books and magazines in braille or audio formats, delivered by postage-free mail or instantly downloadable.

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TacTilesApp is an Engaging, Highly Customizable, Orton Gillingham inspired, tool that will enhance ANY Spelling, Phonics or Reading program !

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Nikon has made its entire curriculum of online photography classes free until the end of April.

Now through April 30th, all 10 classes available at the Nikon School can be streamed for free. The classes are normally priced anywhere between $15 to $50 each.

Each class is taught by a professional photographer and provides in-depth lessons to help you get better at taking photos. Some courses cover Nikon-specific products, but many of them teach you the fundamentals of photography, such as a course that teaches you how to photograph your children or pets or the basics of making a music video. So even if you don't own a Nikon camera, many of these classes might still be worth a watch.

If you're interested in streaming the courses, you can do so by going to Nikon's official website. You will need to sign up by entering your name and email address before you can view the classes, but you can opt out of receiving marketing emails.

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Premium subscriptions for schools and districts interested in priority technical support, additional reporting, and support from Quill's professional learning team--plus an option for individual teachers

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It's time to improve literacy skills during social studies instruction and ensure that readers of all abilities have what they need to access grade-level social studies concepts.

Join us on Thursday, December 7 for a look at scaffolded materials that provide extra literacy support while building key social studies concepts and skills.

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Content Aligned To National & State Standard, Flexible To Support Relevant Curriculum. Find the Perfect Piece Of Content For Lessons. Go beyond the book.

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Making flashy video slideshow presentations with Animoto is simple. First, select Create a Project, and the site walks you through each step. Choose a theme, and then upload short video clips and your own images or images from a Creative Commons site such as Flickr. Then, upload your own songs or songs from the site, and add text if you'd like. Like magic, the site creates a video and publishes it to your Animoto account. The finished product is a modern and engaging presentation that's appealing for kids and adults.

Once a video is published, users can share the link, grab an embed code, export it to other video sites including YouTube, or download a version to the desktop. New themes for projects and new music tracks, sorted by genre, are added regularly, so there's always something new.

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The best place to start would be converting one of your existing PowerPoint or Google Slides presentations into a Pear Deck presentation or copying one of the example decks on the site. It's some work up front, but the payoff in your students' engagement will most likely be worth it. Begin a lesson with a slide using the Classroom Climate add-on to gauge your students' feelings about a topic or just as a check-in. Then move to a poll question and discuss the results briefly before moving on to an open-ended question, such as "What would school be like without the arts?" Ask kids to draw or type their responses, and share some of the more creative ones on a whiteboard as a basis for teachable moments -- or just to give a shout-out to students who think outside the box. Finally, consider using the Flashcard Factory feature to let students work in tandem to create a set of classroom flash cards for export into Quizlet.

As you teach new concepts, be sure to balance the ratio of questions to informational slides. For review lessons, it's OK to lean more heavily on objective questions, but kids will be more drawn in by the creative components. Regardless of the purpose, mix up the question types you're using to keep your lessons lively and fresh. Your students' responses should help you differentiate future lessons to target areas for growth.

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Whizzimo.com | Orton-Gillingham | Phonics | Digital Teaching Platform

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Although I was familiar with Orton Gillingham as a phonics-based program, I had no idea how it worked or how helpful it would be, not only for struggling readers, but also as a means to teach general education students. The process is simple and fun to learn and David Katz is a wonderful teacher. I took a bright, six year old child who could only read the letters I and M and the number 5 to knowing each letter, its sounds and reading simple 3 letter words in just a few months. Her self-esteem, which had suffered, has sky-rocketed! To this end I am ever grateful I took this course. It will save many childrens' lives who would otherwise drown in a sea of letters. David Katz is the most dedicated educator I have ever met.

- Christine Cuthbertson, M.Ed., LDT-C

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What It Does

Our research shows that every child needs different amounts of different types of literacy instruction when learning to read. Home Literacy Coach balances the amount and type of instruction to ensure a customized plan for each child.

Home Literacy Coach breaks down literacy activities into four areas.

Adult and Child Phonics, Spelling and Fluency

These activities help students decode letters and sounds into speech to "crack the code" of reading.

Activities include: Teaching students the recommended activities, identifying sounds and letters, sounding out words, and spelling.

Independent Practice: Phonics, Spelling and Fluency

Student should spend time practicing these skills independently.

Activities include: Completing the recommended activities after adult instruction, matching letters and sounds, playing word games or practicing spelling.

Adult and Child Vocabulary, Comprehension, and Writing

These activities help students understand the content of what is being read and build their language, vocabulary, writing and comprehension skills.

Activites include: Teaching students the recommended activities, reading to students, discussing the meaning of new words and summarizing books they read.

Independent Practice: Vocabulary, Comprehension, and Writing

Student should spend time practicing these skills independently.

Activities include: Completing the recommended activities after adult instruction, reading books either aloud or on their own, illustrating stories they've read, writing, or summarizing stories.

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Our research shows that every child needs different amounts of different types of literacy instruction when learning to read. Home Literacy Coach balances the amount and type of instruction to ensure a customized plan for each child. Home Literacy Coach breaks down literacy activities into four areas.

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On-Demand Webinars

During this unprecedented time, Really Great Reading increased our remote webinar schedule and have now made them available on-demand. We are offering webinars on Continuing Phonics Suite Instruction and Assessing students in Distance Learning Environments, Erasing the Misery of Reading and Spelling Multisyllabic Words, Bringing the Science of Reading to Life in the Classroom, Grouping Matrix Advanced Exploration, as well as advanced Implementation trainings on Countdown, Blast, HD Word and Boost/Blitz. Please spread the word and feel free to register for any and all of our FREE webinars.

Distance Learning

Diagnose & Group Students

Why use the Diagnostic Decoding Surveys?

In just 5-7 minutes, answer these key questions: Which students are struggling with decoding? What types of words are they struggling with? What is the source of the underlying confusion?

Kindergarten Foundational Skills Surveys & the Grouping Matrix - a detailed look at how to assess Kindergarteners, group them based on their pre-decoding/decoding skills, and measure their progress.

1st Grade Foundational Skills Surveys & the Grouping Matrix - a detailed look at how to assess 1st Grade students, group them based on their decoding skills, and measure their progress during this critical year.

2nd-12th Diagnostic Decoding Surveys & the Grouping Matrix - a detailed look at how to assess 2-12th grade students, group them based on their decoding skills, and measure their progress as they progress through the grade(s).

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During this unprecedented time, Really Great Reading increased our remote webinar schedule and have now made them available on-demand. We are offering webinars on Continuing Phonics Suite Instruction and Assessing students in Distance Learning Environments, Erasing the Misery of Reading and Spelling Multisyllabic Words, Bringing the Science of Reading to Life in the Classroom, Grouping Matrix Advanced Exploration, as well as advanced Implementation trainings on Countdown, Blast, HD Word and Boost/Blitz.

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Hire a Tutor

Before you hire a tutor, watch this video:

To receive a list of Certified Barton tutors in your area, just click here.

If none are close to you, ask for our list of Remote Certified Barton tutors. They can provide tutoring over the internet.

Tutoring Fees

Every tutor is an independent business person, so each sets their own hourly rate.

Tutors trained in an Orton-Gillingham-based system, like the Barton System, are rare. So their hourly rates can be quite high.

The hourly rate will be higher in metropolitan areas, and lower in more rural areas.

The hourly rate will be higher if the tutor is certified than if the tutor is not.

To find out the hourly rate in your area, call some tutors and ask. I recommend you ask all of the following questions.

Questions to ask a tutor BEFORE you hire them

If you know or suspect your child has dyslexia, one of the most important decisions you will make is hiring the right tutor for your child.

Having spent years as a professional tutor of dyslexic children, Susan Barton highly recommends holding a telephone interview with a potential tutor and asking the following questions. No professional tutor will be offended by them, and you'll learn quite a bit.

The following checklist was inspired by the list in the book Straight Talk About Reading by Susan Hall and Louisa Moats.

Please describe your background and training.

Do you specialize in children with dyslexia? (If not, think twice about hiring them.)

Do you use an Orton-Gillingham system? (If they don't know what that means, do NOT hire them.) Which one? Are you certified in that system? How long have you used it?

Do you spend any of the session helping the student with homework, or do you concentrate only on teaching reading and spelling?

Will I be expected to work with my child at home between sessions?

Will you interact with my child's school?

How often will you provide feedback to me on my child's progress, and in what format?

What is your hourly fee? What happens if my child has to miss a session?

How many sessions per weeks do you recommend? (Twice a week is MINIMUM for a dyslexic child.)

Would you give me the name and telephone number of several parents of students you are currently tutoring?

If I like what I hear from those parents, could we schedule a free consultation so that my child and I can meet you and see your office?

Parents Who Hired Barton Tutors Say

To see hundreds of more comments, click here.

Tutoring alone is not enough. Watch this video in which Susan Barton shares what else a parent should do.

Become a Tutor

If you can't find or afford a private tutor, or you would prefer to tutor your own child, or if you love the idea of teaching students in a one-on-one setting, consider becoming a tutor yourself.

Becoming a Barton tutor does not require a college degree or even a high school diploma. You do not have to have any teaching experience - as long as you can pass our five-minute Tutor Screening.

In fact, we designed the Barton System to be clear and easy enough for people with no experience. We designed it for:

Yet, it is complete enough for professionals, such as:

Learning Specialists at private schools

Reading & Resource Specialists

Educational Therapists

Speech-Language Therapists

Tutors in private practice

Plus, we offer free unlimited support to everyone using the Barton System.

Not everyone can be a Barton tutor

You don't have to be a great reader or speller. In fact, many of our tutors are dyslexic themselves. They love tutoring with the Barton System because their own spelling improves as they teach this system. That's because the best way to learn something is to teach it.

But you DO have to be able to hear sounds extremely well.

Why? You're going to be teaching a system based on sounds to a student who is not very sensitive to sounds. You must hear sounds well enough to catch their mistakes - so that you can correct them. To find out, take our 5-minute Tutor Screening.

Take our Five-Minute Tutor Screening

How do you know if you hear sounds well enough to be a tutor?

Just take our Tutor Screening online. To do that, just click below.

Take Tutor Screening Now

If you did well on both parts of our tutor screening, congratulations. You can become a Barton tutor.

If not, you can improve your ability to hear sounds by hiring a Barton tutor and going through the first three levels of the Barton System as a student. Then watch the Tutor Screening again. At that point, you should be able to pass it.

Or, find someone else who is willing to tutor your child, such as a neighbor, a friend, or a relative. Have that person go through our Tutor Screening. If that person can pass it, buy the Barton System for them, and let that person tutor your child.

Now Test Your Student

Most people with dyslexia are ready for an Orton-Gillingham-based system like the Barton System. But a few are not - because their auditory processing issues are too severe.

If students are not ready for the Barton System, they will fail - even though the tutor passed the tutor screening, and the Barton System is excellent. Don't let that happen.

To prevent failure, be sure to give each potential student the Barton Student Screening BEFORE you begin tutoring them.

If they can pass our Student Screening, they're ready for the Barton System.

To give the Student Screening, click here.

Professional Tutors Say

Former Teachers & Parents
Now Professional Tutors

To see many more comments, click here.

How to get started

If you can pass the Tutor Screening, and your student can pass the Student Screening, you're ready to start tutoring.

Just order Level 1.

Watch this short video: What is a Level?

We keep everything in stock and ship the same day we receive your order. To order, click here or call 408-559-3652.

When you receive the Barton System, spend an afternoon watching the Tutor Training DVDs that are included inside each level. Then start tutoring the very next day.

In fact, you no longer have to wait for UPS. You can start watching our tutor training videos over the internet before your Barton level even arrives. To learn more about that option, click here.

When your student gets toward the end of Level 1, then order Level 2.

What if I Get Stuck?

We offer free unlimited support to everyone using the Barton System.

If you need help, just call (408) 559-3652 or click here and send us an email.

Or you can check our Tutor Support webpage or post a question on our 24/7 online Barton Tutor Chat Group.

Where to Start a Student

Most students need to start at Level 1 - no matter how old they are.

Our level numbers indicate the teaching sequence, not a grade level. Nothing in level 1 will offend an older student. Students must master the material in Level 1 before moving on to Level 2.

That's because research proves that what's stopping them from mastering reading is their lack of phonemic awareness. Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear and manipulate each sound in a word in your head - without letters.

In fact, research shows there are seven essential phonemic awareness skills a student must have before letters will start to make sense. We teach all seven of those skills in Level 1.

We actually start teaching them how to spell and read - by sounding out - right in Level 1.

So unless a student has already had recent and intense tutoring with some other Orton-Gillingham-based system, start the student in level 1. If it proves to be too easy, we will exchange it - for FREE - for Level 2.

If your student has had recent and intense Orton-Gillingham-based tutoring, let us know. We will then send you the post-tests for our first few levels so you can determine the right starting point for that student.

Tutoring Basics

The Barton System was designed for one-on-one tutoring. That means one tutor works with just one student at a time.

If you are an experienced teacher, you can use the Barton System with up to 3 students at a time. For tips on working with more than one student at a time, click here.

A dyslexic student must get at least 2 hours of one-on-one tutoring each week in order to close the skills gap. More than 2 hours a week is fine, but less than that will not work.

A tutoring session should not last longer than an hour. But instead of 2 one-hour sessions, you could do 3 45-minute sessions or even 4 30-minute sessions.

Watch this short video: How long does it take?

For more detailed information on tutoring, read the Tutoring FAQs.

Finding Students

Dyslexia affects 20% of people in the United States to some degree, ranging from mild all the way up to profound. So one in five people struggle with spelling, writing, or reading.

That means it should not be hard to find students who need your services.

Setting Up a Private Practice

Before you begin tutoring on a part-time or full-time basis, you may want to know more about tutoring contracts, insurance, business licenses, accounting and taxes, what to charge, how to set parent expectations, and more.

If so, take Susan Barton's on-line course called the Nuts & Bolts of Private Practice.

Certification

You can tutors students for years with out becoming a Certified Barton Tutor. But parents prefer to hire a Certified Barton Tutor, and parents will be more confident if the Barton provider at their child's school is Certified in the Barton System.

We only include Certified Barton Tutors on our referral list - because our certification testing process is how we determine if someone is doing the Barton System with fidelity (which means "as designed").

Watch this short video: How To Become Certified

You must have already tutored at least 2 students in the Barton System all the way through Levels 1, 2, and 3 before you can sign up for our eight-hour Tutor Certification Testing day.

Certification sessions are held at various spots across the nation. To see a list of the sessions scheduled for the next 3 months, click here.

The maximum number of people allowed at a Certification Testing day is 10.

During that day, each of you will take turns tutoring Susan Barton herself (the developer of the system) while everyone else watches. Susan will be checking to find out if you properly perform each procedure in our lesson plans. She will start out as an easy student, then she will begin to make mistakes - to find out if you notice mistakes when they happen, and if you know how to handle those mistakes. These are the very same mistakes that were demonstrated on our Tutor Training DVD's.

Also, you will have to explain each of the spelling rules that you have taught in Level 3, and identify which words on a long list use each of those rules.

You will also be asked to demonstrate the procedures for teaching Sight Words - both for reading and for spelling.

At that point, IF you have proven that you are doing the Barton procedures correctly, you notice and handle mistakes well, you know how to do Sight Words the Barton way, and you can explain our spelling rules, you will have earned the title of Certified Barton Tutor.

If you pass, we will add you to our Tutor Referral list, which we send to parents and teachers who are searching for tutors to hire.

We only include Certified Barton tutors on our referral lists because the certification testing process is our quality control checkpoint.

We offer three types of certification:

Certification at the Beginning Level
You've completed the testing for Levels 1, 2, and 3

Certification at the Advanced Level
You've completed the testing for Levels 4, 5, and 6

Certification at the Masters Level
You've completed the testing for Levels 7, 8, 9 and 10

For dates, locations, and details on our Certification Testing Days, click here.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Does a student need a diagnosis of dyslexia before starting the Barton System?

A: No. But you should suspect dyslexia.

It should be extremely hard for that student to master their weekly spelling list from school, they probably cannot retain their spelling words from one week to the next, and their spelling should be pretty bad when they write sentences and stories.

Also, although that student can read, he is probably slow and inaccurate. And when he comes to a word he does not recognize, he cannot easily sound it out - despite years of phonics instruction.

Those are classic warning signs of dyslexia. Dyslexia is the most common reason a child with at least average intelligence will struggle with spelling, reading, or writing. Dyslexia affects 20% of people in the United States, some mildly, others severely.

But before you start with that new student, find out if he or she can pass our Barton Student Screening.

Q: Will it hurt people who are struggling for some other reason to go through the Barton System?

A: No, as long as the student meets all 4 of these requirements:

Q: Does a student always have to start at Level 1?

A: Yes. Most students need to start at Level 1 - no matter how old they are.

Our level numbers refers to our teaching sequence, not grade level. Nothing in level 1 will offend an older student. They must master the material in Level 1 before moving on to Level 2.

That's because research proves that what's stopping them from mastering reading is their lack of phonemic awareness. Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear and manipulate each sound in a word - in your head, without letters.

In fact, research shows there are seven essential phonemic awareness skills a student must have before letters will start to make sense. We teach all seven of those skills in Level 1.

We actually start teaching students to read and spell - by sounding out - right in Level 1.

By the way, if you should buy Level 1 and discover that it's too easy for your student, (which means he completes all of the lessons and the posttest, easily and with at least 95% accuracy, in just 2 to 3 hours), we will exchange it for the next level - for free.

But if a student has had recent and intense tutoring with a different Orton-Gillingham-based system, or a Lindamood-Bell program, and that student can pass our 10-minute Student Screening, then use our post-tests as a placement test to determine exactly where the student should start.

Start by giving the student the post-test for Level 1. If the student can pass all parts of it easily and with at least 95% accuracy, then give the student the post-test for Level 2. If the student can pass all parts of it easily and accurately,then give them the post-test for Level 3, and so on.

Q: How often do I have to tutor a student?

A: Once a week is not enough. Do not start the Barton System if you can only tutor once a week. That is not frequent or intense enough for it "to stick."

You must provide at least 2 hours of one-on-one tutoring each and every week. But a tutoring session should not last for more than an hour. So that means you must provide at least two tutoring sessions a week.

Three times a week is better than twice.

Tutoring every day is ideal, which is why the Barton System is so popular with homeschool parents. They can tutor their own children every day.

Q: How long does a lesson take?

A: A tutoring session should never last more than an hour.

For younger students, or those with significant focusing difficulty, a tutoring session may only last for 40 minutes.

But a Barton student must receive at least 2 hours of one-on-one tutoring each and every week in order for it to be frequent and intense enough "to stick."

Some students can complete an entire lesson in a one-hour session. Others can only complete half the lesson in an hour.

A good tutor will pace the lesson to match the student. A student must master the new skill taught in that lesson, and be able to apply to both reading and spelling, easily and with about 95% accuracy, before moving on to the next lesson.

How long that takes depends upon the student. You cannot rush a student with dyslexia. If you move on before the student has mastered a new skill, the student will eventually hit a wall.

Q: Does tutoring have to be one-on-one?

A: One-on-one is the ideal setting.

That's because no two students with dyslexia learn at exactly the same pace. When tutoring one-on-one, a tutor can present the material at exactly the right pace for each student.

Also, it is much less embarrassing to make a mistake when only the tutor sees it - not other students.Only if you are an experienced teacher, and already have good group management skills, should you attempt to tutor 2 or 3 students at a time (in a group).

3 students is the maximum group size for the Barton System.

Please be aware you will not save any time tutoring in a group. That is because each student in that group must receive the equivalent intensity of 2 hours of 1-on-1 tutoring per week. The intensity in 3-on-1 tutoring is not the same as 1-on-1 tutoring.To get the same intensity, you must tutor a group of 3 students for 6 hours each week.

Also, the more students in a group, the longer it will take to complete the Barton System. That's because you have to pace the lesson for the slowest student. And you cannot present new material if any one of the students is absent.

Q: What extra supplies would I need if I were going to tutor three-on-one?

A: You may wish to purchase extra tiles, so that each student has their own set.

You may purchase up to 3 extra sets of tiles for Barton Levels that you purchased directly from us.

To order extra tiles on our secure estore, click here.

Or to download our Tiles Only order form, click here.

Q: Can I tutor someone before I am certified?

A: Yes. In fact, you must tutor at least two students through Levels 1, 2, and 3 before you can sign up for our Certification Testing Day.

Q: Can I charge a fee for tutoring before I am certified?

A: Yes. But you won't be able to charge top rates until you are certified.

Q: How do I find my students? Do you help me find students?

A: Once you become a Certified Barton tutor, we will add you to our referral list, which we send to parents and teachers who are looking for tutors they can hire.

Until then, you are responsible for finding your own students.

To learn effective marketing techniques that you can use now - even though you are not yet certified, watch Session #2 of the following on-line course.

Susan Barton recently converted her most in-demand all-day workshop, the Nuts & Bolts of Private Practice, into 3 shorter on-line sessions.

Any Barton tutor, certified or not, can watch these sessions for a small fee, over the internet 24/7.

The three sessions are:

Setting up a private practice, the nitty gritty - 1 hour

What to charge and how to market effectively - 2 hours

Set parent expectations with a tutoring agreement and a road map - 2 hours

To learn what is covered in each session, or to register, go to: Nuts & Bolts of Private Practice

Q: What if I get stuck when using the Barton System?

Homeschool Advice

Watch Susan Barton's advice for homeschool parents who use the Barton System (or for parents who are thinking about homeschooling.

Homeschool parents can get a used Barton level, sell it to someone else once their child has finished it, and use those funds to get the next level - used. If you do it that way, it does not cost much to tutor your child using the Barton System. To learn how to find used Barton levels, click here.

Nuts & Bolts of Private Practice Course

Susan Barton converted one of her most in-demand all-day workshops, the Nuts & Bolts of Private Practice, into 3 shorter on-line sessions.

Now Barton tutors, certified or not, can watch any of these sessions - as many times as you wish - for a small fee, over the internet 24/7.

The three sessions are:

Setting up a private practice, the nitty gritty - 1 hour

What to charge and how to market effectively - 2 hours

Set parent expectations with a tutoring agreement and a road map - 2 hours

To learn what is covered in each session, or to register, go to: Nuts & Bolts of Private Practice

Tutor Support

We offer free unlimited support to everyone using the Barton System.

If you need help, just call (408) 559-3652 or click here and send us an email.

Or you can check our Tutor Support webpage or post a question on our 24/7 online Barton Tutor Chat Group.

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Identification and Assessment of Dyslexia Online
June 22 - 23 or July 9 - 10
This online interactive course covers universal screening tools for dyslexia, testing and assessment of students with characteristics of dyslexia, and an overview of appropriate interventions at the school level.

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Identification and Assessment of Dyslexia Online June 22 - 23 or July 9 - 10 This online interactive course covers universal screening tools for dyslexia, testing and assessment of students with characteristics of dyslexia, and an overview of appropriate interventions at the school level.

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Services What We Do Our Mission Help For Children INSTRUCTIONAL APPROACH TRAINING COURSES OUTREACH / RESEARCH Our Mission Our dedicated educators make a difference in the lives of children with dyslexia every day through their work. The mission of each Dyslexia Center has three components: student education & support Provide the highest quality, state-of the ...

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Here you will find recordings of our free webinars, with pdf slides.

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Teacher Professional Learning | Literacy, Math | MTSS

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The course is divided into seven modules:

1. Module 1 - Orientation

2. Module 2 - The Structure of Language

3. Module 3 - Phonemic Awareness, Explicit Phonics Instruction and Irregular Word Reading

4. Module 4 - Multisyllabic Word Reading and Fluency

5. Module 5 - Vocabulary

6. Module 6 - Comprehension

7. Module 7 - Reading Assessment for Effective Instruction

At the end of the course, participants will be able to:

Articulate the research on the essential components of reading instruction

Gain clear and explicit models of instruction immediately applicable to the classroom

Identify the best practices and explicit methods to develop phonemic awareness, phonics and irregular and multisyllabic word knowledge, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and literary and informational text knowledge

Understand the structure of the English and Spanish language system

Identify and use techniques to support academic language development for English learners

Understand how to use informal diagnostic measures of phonological awareness, decoding, fluency vocabulary and comprehension as a basis for instructional decisions

Read an evaluation of the Online Elementary Reading Academy. Read why CORE's professional learning and reading academies are so effective.
Who should attend

This course is for individuals or teams of elementary educators who want to learn effective standards-aligned and scientifically research-based reading practices for all learners. Participants are expected to have regular access to computers with an Internet connection and proficiency with email and current Internet browsers.

Teachers

Reading specialists

Principals/assistant principals

Reading instructional coaches

Pre-service teachers or classes

Fees

$325 per participant. Fees include digital copies of the acclaimed Teaching Reading Sourcebook and A ssessing Reading: Multiple Measures textbooks and all other materials. Discounts will be offered to course participants on the hard copy textbooks when they are available to ship.

Class section minimum of 12, not to exceed 30.

Custom cohorts:

If you would like to host your own district-specific cohort of 15 or more people, please contact events@corelearn.com or call (510) 540-4200 ext. 4. With a custom cohort, you will choose your own dates and the length of the course. You will also receive a dedicated instructor.

College credit option:

College Credit Option 1: Participants may receive three (3) graduate level semester extension units for an additional cost of $300. These units are typically used for salary advancement. There are no additional requirements beyond successful completion of the course for a total of 45 hours.

College Credit Option 2: Participants may receive three (3) graduate credits for an additional cost of $650. These units are typically used towards a graduate degree. Requirements include successful completion of the course and completion of additional assignments for a total of 135 hours.
Contact gradcredit@corelearn.com for more information - Subject Line - OERA College Credit
Refund information:

A full refund of registration fees is available if cancelled 30 days or more prior to the course start date. A 50% refund available if less than 30 days but more than 14 days prior to course start date.

Call 510-540-4200 ext. 4 to cancel a registration 14 or more days prior to course start date.

No refunds are available 13 days or less prior to course start date or anytime on or after course start date.

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Module 1 - Orientation Module 2 - The Structure of Language Module 3 - Phonemic Awareness, Explicit Phonics Instruction and Irregular Word Reading Module 4 - Multisyllabic Word Reading and Fluency Module 5 - Vocabulary Module 6 - Comprehension Module 7 - Reading Assessment for Effective Instruction Articulate the research

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I've just written 30 pages of new word sequences/word chains for learners to build using my moveable alphabet. These cover the sound-spelling relationships that lend themselves to this type of word-building from my Workbook 3.

They cost $1.40 now everything in the Spelfabet shop is 30% off (use the COVID-19 coupon code. Sorry I can't make everything free).

Sequences/word chains like these build phonemic awareness and sound-spelling knowledge, and are especially useful with kids who find handwriting difficult. They are hard to make up on the fly without tripping over words that don't follow the pattern you're trying to target.

First you make a word using the moveable alphabet, read it aloud, and then ask your learner to change it into a different word. They must consider the identity, order and number of sounds in the words, work out how and where the words differ, and make the relevant spelling change.

Having ready-made sequences allows you to present this activity at a fast pace, get through a lot of words in a short time, and not inadvertently confuse anyone with too many patterns at once.

Many of the readers of this blog probably already use the earlier, free sequences, so these ones probably don't need lots of further explanation. I'll just put a snippet here of what they look like, to give you the idea:

If you are getting them, don't forget to put in the code "COVID-19" to get the 30% discount.

These sequences took me absolutely ages to make, so I hope you like them, and please send me any feedback you have on them. Stay well!

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I've just written 30 pages of new word sequences/word chains for learners to build using my moveable alphabet. These cover the sound-spelling relationships that lend themselves to this type of word-building from my Workbook 3. They cost $1.40 now everything in the Spelfabet shop is 30% off (use the COVID-19 coupon code.

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Rebecca Loveless | Powered by Six Giraffes

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Structured Word Inquiry (SWI) Introductory Class

​Learn how to teach your students reading and spelling skills through morphology (meaning and structure), etymology (history of the base word) and phonology (sound).

Teach your students spelling patterns via affixes and base words along with spelling conventions --NO exceptions to rules!

Teach your students how the entire English language system works, strengthening their reading & spelling skills.

Through SWI, your students will also build critical thinking skills!!

​ it is a transformative journey for both the student and the teacher.

class details

This class is for beginners to help you gain an understanding of what SWI is, get started with using SWI to enhance your current lessons or to begin a journey to developing a whole new approach to teaching literacy skills.

Each of the 4 Intro to SWI class dates are 1.5 hours in length.will help you convert to your time zone. or via

All times posted are on Eastern Time (ET) based on Detroit, MI/New York, NY time zone.
​ This link Please note : MIchigan observes Daylight in May &
Savings time lease keep this in mind as you make plans especially if your area does not observe daylight savings time. November we turn our clocks back/forward 1 hour -P
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Cost for the class is $80.00 paid through Paypal at this link: Zelle using my email address: seethebeautyindyslexia@gmail.com paypal.me/Lbarnett4

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If dates offered do not work for you, please email with your best dates and times.

Minimum class sizes: 3 participants

In honor of the experts in this field, after you've taken the Intro class, you are welcome to sit in on a future Intro session free of charge as space is available. There is always something new that occurs in each class that we can learn from "You can't step into the same river twice." The depth of this statement continues to grow.

Contact email: empowerlc.lisa@gmail.com

How to Pay for a class

classes/COACHING

CLASS
Introduction to SWI

Sept 2019 session Forming NOW
3 episodes/class;

approx 2 hours each day

Introductory SWI Class Dates/times Please register at: https://forms.gle/jutnrwjZeo7garCh8 : Please register at:
https://forms.gle/whECQqiZWrYafmDJ9
All times are in Eastern Time, online, live format

Episode 1: Sept 7, 2019 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Episode 2: Sept 8, 2019 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Episode 3: Sept 11, 2019 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Cape town South Africa time: 18:00 - 20:00
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Join this South Africa group by Friday, Sept 6th by registering below.

COACHING
Coaching Sessions offered for people who have introductory knowledge and want to learn more about putting this into practice.
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BEYOND the Intro Coaching
opportunities
Now you know it, what do you do with it? These sessions offer 2 types of coaching: individual and/or group sessions. Sign up for a combination if you like!
We will investigate your words, graphemes, phonemes, questions, problems your class/student ran into, discuss lessons that went super (as well as those that did not), give each other ideas. brainstorm best practices, etc.
Whatever you need, we'll help!

are available but limited and offer flexible options of 60 ($70 /session) or 30 minutes ($35/session) Times available: PUNCH CARDS offered -- buy 5 get one free! First punch will occur when you register with the punch card system, which is optional (separate and in addition to Coaching Registration form):
Individual sessions
email to set up times/dates
August 19 - Sept 30, 2019
​ https://api.digipunchcard.com/online?t=BITYRB4 Mondays: 9:00 pm - 9:50 pm

Group coaching sessions available at a specified time weekly -- meet for 50 min

This link will help you convert to your time zone.

All times are listed in
ET (MI time zone)
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Grab some friends and start a class, request
your own dates and time!!
Or.... join in a session already set up.

In this beginner's class, we will spend some time on Pete Bower's book, Teaching How the Written Word Works . In it, he provides lessons for the student(-s) as well as foundational information needed for the teacher.

Pete has granted me permission to copy and sell his book. He receives payment for each book, I charge for the cost of copies, postage, mailing envelope, etc. Order includes a black and white copy of the book (colored cover pages and Big Suffix checker page), 3-hole punched, ready for placement in your own binder or choice of filing. The binder is NOT included. If you are interested in purchasing this book through me, here are the details:

Send $37.00 via Paypal to me via paypal.me/Lbarnett4

Check that your address is accurate in your Paypal account.

If your Paypal account has a different name than the one you communicate with me, please let me know. It gets a bit confusing when business names or nicknames are used either with me or through Paypal.

If you are outside of the continental US, please send a note so I can determine the additional postage.

You are not required to take the class in order to purchase the book nor is the book required with the class but it is strongly suggested.

Book orders will be filled and mailed on Saturdays as available, please pay by Friday or your order may be delayed until the following week/next shipment.

Please contact me if you need other arrangements

Thank you so much for these sessions. So much helpful and clear information packed into just a few hours. You have certainly helped me feel more confident as I embark upon my own journey with this knowledge.
--KM, Tutor, Australia
Lisa, your class was the best intro to the world of online classes for me! Your style was very easy to relate with, to listen to, and the information shared was just excellent. I'm still a bit (well maybe a lot) overwhelmed, but as you say, it's a journey... Looking forward to learning more on this journey.
Thank you so very much!
--MC, Teacher, Canada
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I very much enjoyed the class. I have included a bit of SWI in my current sessions with kids, but I knew that I needed some training. I know this is just the beginning, and I am eager to do more with my students, and learn much more as we go. Thank you for your help and I know that your students are very blessed. I am sure we will keep in touch.
​ --RB, Educational Therapist

Thanks again for hosting this class! I am still swimming in the new information, but find myself getting more comfortable with it. I plan on watching the link you sent for the HW from last week, with Pete teaching. I appreciate all of your hard work preparing for our class!
--JG, Teacher, Tutor

. ...And thank you Lisa. Not only has this page taught me so much but your class has been awesome as well.I just wanted to take a minute and thank you for your always positive attitude and the affirmation you spread around on this site. Your generous encouragement extended to everyone is inspiring and motivating. I am sure your students are abundantly blessed by having you as a teacher. Thank you for being you, as well as for all you do.
--JN, Tutor

--KP, Educator

I just wanted to post a comment about the SWI Class you did in the beginning of the summer. For years I have been curious about SWI but didn't know where to go to stick my toe, not even my foot, in. I had already ordered Pete's book a few years ago but didn't remember and ordered one from you as well but the loose leaf is easier and more practical for classwork. I definitely have a great respect for SWI, thanks to you, and am hungry to learn more. Your class was like the appetizer that I am still enjoying and not quiet ready for the feast that follows. Savoring all you taught us and have made my first word sum with my sixth grade student and he loved it. Will sign up for the next course soon.
--Carolyn --Educational Therapist, Early Intervention Therapist
Great class that will help clarify questions that may arise as you begin a journey into SWI. Thank you Lisa for offering this class.
--DM, Title I

I thought tonight was great. Very informative. SWI makes a lot of sense to me. This whole journey has been interesting to me. SWI seems like something my boys will be interested in and answers many of the questions that couldn't be answered before. All the rules and exceptions that kids struggle with. I am really excited to dive in!
--SC, parent, Tutor

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Structured Word Inquiry (SWI) Introductory Class ​Learn how to teach your students reading and spelling skills through morphology (meaning and structure), etymology (history of the base word) and phonology (sound). Teach your students spelling patterns via affixes and base words along with spelling conventions --NO exceptions to rules!