Assistive Technology Reading Supports

 Bookshare digital library for students with reading disabilities

Read and Write For Google Chrome: Read and Write for Google is a reading, writing and study skills extension.   It also provides text-to-speech for google docs, slides, forms and websites.

Orbit Note: converts printed documents and inaccessible digital files into readable PDF files for easy sharing and reading aloud in Google Drive. 

Screen Masking tints your screen and provides a reading light that follows your mouse pointer, to  help improve focus.  It is also helpful for those students that may have ocular motor deficits. 

Vocabulary Support:  Read and Write for Google Chrome provides vocabulary support through the picture and talking dictionaries features.  They Provide both text and picture definitions to  improve comprehension.  A vocabulary List can also be created from both websites and google docs.

Raz Plus   is a web-based site that delivers a Personalized Blended Learning Approach to Literacy. It provides leveled Books and Other Resources in Printable, Projectable, and Digital Formats. Every eBook is available in online and mobile formats, and allows students to listen to, read at their own pace, and record themselves reading. 

Newsela  is a website that posts a variety of articles at five different reading levels. This means each article can be read by students with a range of reading abilities. It is the same article, but the vocabulary changes to increase or decrease the reading level. Some of the articles have short quizzes to check for student understanding. These quizzes have the Common Core standard associated with the question listed.