Dyslexia Awareness Month Resources
Dyslexia Awareness Month Resources
Bear Essential News (website)
Bear Essential News (website)
Reading Rockets (website)
Reading Rockets (website)
Go BACK
Go BACK
Poetry 4 Kids (website)
Poetry 4 Kids (website)
Lots of funny poems for kids, classic children’s poems, games, poetry lessons and activities, plus a rhyming dictionary, videos, and lots more.
Lots of funny poems for kids, classic children’s poems, games, poetry lessons and activities, plus a rhyming dictionary, videos, and lots more.
CEC HLP #12 (PD)
CEC HLP #12 (PD)
Systematically Design Instruction Toward a Specific Learning Goal.
Systematically Design Instruction Toward a Specific Learning Goal.
CVI-Friendly Books (VIDEOS)
CVI-Friendly Books (VIDEOS)
CVI-friendly videos for children with cortical visual impairment using bubble words, solid black backgrounds with reduced visual complexity, movement, and other adaptations of familiar songs and stories.
CVI-friendly videos for children with cortical visual impairment using bubble words, solid black backgrounds with reduced visual complexity, movement, and other adaptations of familiar songs and stories.
Rewordify (tool)
Rewordify (tool)
A powerful, free, online software that improves reading, learning, and teaching.
A powerful, free, online software that improves reading, learning, and teaching.
Text Compactor (tool)
Text Compactor (tool)
A free online summarization tool created to help struggling readers process overwhelming amounts of information.
A free online summarization tool created to help struggling readers process overwhelming amounts of information.
Read Aloud (tool)
Read Aloud (tool)
Read Aloud is a free Chrome extension that uses text-to-speech technology to convert webpage text to audio.
Read Aloud is a free Chrome extension that uses text-to-speech technology to convert webpage text to audio.
Storyline Online
Storyline Online
Storyline Online streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books.
Storyline Online streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books.
Tar Heel Reader (website + tool)
Tar Heel Reader (website + tool)
A collection of free, easy-to-read, and accessible books. Each book can be speech-enabled and accessed using multiple interfaces.
A collection of free, easy-to-read, and accessible books. Each book can be speech-enabled and accessed using multiple interfaces.
SnapType (tool)
SnapType (tool)
A simple way to complete any school worksheet on your iPad or Tablet.
A simple way to complete any school worksheet on your iPad or Tablet.
Google Voice Typing (tool)
Google Voice Typing (tool)
A feature in the Chrome browser that allows you to type and edit by speaking in Google Docs.
A feature in the Chrome browser that allows you to type and edit by speaking in Google Docs.
MindMeister (tool)
MindMeister (tool)
MindMeister is digital graphic organizer. It’s a helpful organization tool, as kids can use it to organize ideas with visual mind maps, diagrams, and pictures.
MindMeister is digital graphic organizer. It’s a helpful organization tool, as kids can use it to organize ideas with visual mind maps, diagrams, and pictures.
Read & Write (tool)
Read & Write (tool)
A toolbar that helps students create and access content with the literacy support features needed to engage with a personalized learning experience.
A toolbar that helps students create and access content with the literacy support features needed to engage with a personalized learning experience.
Really Great Reading Free Resources
Really Great Reading Free Resources
(Free until May 30)
(Free until May 30)
Bookshare
Bookshare
Accessible Online Library for students with print barriers including LD, low vision/blindness, and/or physical disabilities ALWAYS FREE for eligible students.
Accessible Online Library for students with print barriers including LD, low vision/blindness, and/or physical disabilities ALWAYS FREE for eligible students.
Kindergarten-First Grade
Kindergarten-First Grade
Student Center Activities for use in kindergarten through fifth grade classrooms. Accompanying these Student Center Activities is a Teacher Resource Guide that offers important insights on differentiated instruction and how to use the Student Center materials.
Student Center Activities for use in kindergarten through fifth grade classrooms. Accompanying these Student Center Activities is a Teacher Resource Guide that offers important insights on differentiated instruction and how to use the Student Center materials.
Second and Third Grade
Second and Third Grade
Student Center Activities for use in kindergarten through fifth grade classrooms. Accompanying these Student Center Activities is a Teacher Resource Guide that offers important insights on differentiated instruction and how to use the Student Center materials.
Student Center Activities for use in kindergarten through fifth grade classrooms. Accompanying these Student Center Activities is a Teacher Resource Guide that offers important insights on differentiated instruction and how to use the Student Center materials.
Fourth and Fifth Grade
Fourth and Fifth Grade
Student Center Activities for use in kindergarten through fifth grade classrooms. Accompanying these Student Center Activities is a Teacher Resource Guide that offers important insights on differentiated instruction and how to use the Student Center materials.
Student Center Activities for use in kindergarten through fifth grade classrooms. Accompanying these Student Center Activities is a Teacher Resource Guide that offers important insights on differentiated instruction and how to use the Student Center materials.
We Are Teachers 27 Awesome Free (or Low-Cost) Websites for Practicing Reading
We Are Teachers 27 Awesome Free (or Low-Cost) Websites for Practicing Reading
It takes just 15 minutes of reading practice to substantially increase reading ability. Why not use this time away from school to do just that? We dug through all the best reading websites out there to find ones that are intuitive and fun for practicing reading.
It takes just 15 minutes of reading practice to substantially increase reading ability. Why not use this time away from school to do just that? We dug through all the best reading websites out there to find ones that are intuitive and fun for practicing reading.
Two Free Thematic Units from Readtopia by Don Johnston
Two Free Thematic Units from Readtopia by Don Johnston
One for late elementary and the other for middle and high school (each with at least a month of materials). Free Units include:
One for late elementary and the other for middle and high school (each with at least a month of materials). Free Units include:
Videos
Graphic Novels (at seven levels)
Word Study & Phonics Activities
Math Lessons
Informational Text (at four levels) for close reading instruction
Content Writing Lessons
Instructional Guide
Free Access to Fluency tutor by Texthelp (tool)
Free Access to Fluency tutor by Texthelp (tool)
Fluency Tutor for Google is a Chrome app designed to help students improve reading fluency while saving busy teachers valuable time. And because it's web-based it's great for remote learning.
Fluency Tutor for Google is a Chrome app designed to help students improve reading fluency while saving busy teachers valuable time. And because it's web-based it's great for remote learning.
Newsela (website with tools)
Newsela (website with tools)
Up-to-date, high-interest articles with adjustable lexile levels.
Up-to-date, high-interest articles with adjustable lexile levels.
Tween Tribune (website with tools)
Tween Tribune (website with tools)
Daily news articles
Lexile® leveled for K-12
Weekly lesson plans
Weekly video
Weekend "Monday Morning Ready" newsletter as prep for the week ahead
Natural Reader (tool)
Natural Reader (tool)
Holt Interactive Graphic Organizers (tool)
Holt Interactive Graphic Organizers (tool)
Lots of graphic organizers that can be filled out online or printed out. Each GO includes Teaching Notes with lessons and tips on how to use graphic organizers in the classroom.
Lots of graphic organizers that can be filled out online or printed out. Each GO includes Teaching Notes with lessons and tips on how to use graphic organizers in the classroom.
Unite for Literacy (website or App)
Unite for Literacy (website or App)
Unite Books are short, colorful, and easy to understand with picture/text format and narration in many languages, including American Sign Language. Read online or download the app.
Unite Books are short, colorful, and easy to understand with picture/text format and narration in many languages, including American Sign Language. Read online or download the app.
Center for Literacy and Deafness (videos)
Center for Literacy and Deafness (videos)
The short stories in American Sign Language (ASL) revolve around the daily activities of Miss Giggle and her students, while the songs teach vocabulary in a fun context.
The short stories in American Sign Language (ASL) revolve around the daily activities of Miss Giggle and her students, while the songs teach vocabulary in a fun context.
Teach Your Monster to Read
Teach Your Monster to Read
Covers everything from letters and sounds to reading full sentences. Designed in collaboration with leading academics. Complements all synthetic phonics programs used in schools. Computer version is 100% free.
Covers everything from letters and sounds to reading full sentences. Designed in collaboration with leading academics. Complements all synthetic phonics programs used in schools. Computer version is 100% free.
UFLI Virtual Teaching Resource Hub
UFLI Virtual Teaching Resource Hub
This site has tools for reading instruction and intervention with children in the elementary grades.
This site has tools for reading instruction and intervention with children in the elementary grades.
The materials here are designed to be used with videoconferencing platforms for distance education and with interactive whiteboards in the classroom. The activities can also be used if you are creating video lessons for asynchronous lessons.
The materials here are designed to be used with videoconferencing platforms for distance education and with interactive whiteboards in the classroom. The activities can also be used if you are creating video lessons for asynchronous lessons.
The Transforming Power of Reading Aloud
The Transforming Power of Reading Aloud
The International Literacy Association
The International Literacy Association
ASL Nook
ASL Nook
Lots of videos teaching ASL for categories like around the home, dogs, playing and more.
Lots of videos teaching ASL for categories like around the home, dogs, playing and more.
Tar Heel Shared Reader
Tar Heel Shared Reader
Shared reading is an evidence-based intervention that can help improve language, communication, and interaction skills while building understanding of print concepts.
Shared reading is an evidence-based intervention that can help improve language, communication, and interaction skills while building understanding of print concepts.
Use Immersive Reader on Websites [unofficial]
Use Immersive Reader on Websites [unofficial]
Readworks.org (website)
Readworks.org (website)
"Reading Comprehension Instruction That Works" High-impact instructional materials and tools that are designed for immediate use.
"Reading Comprehension Instruction That Works" High-impact instructional materials and tools that are designed for immediate use.
PIC-LITS (website)
PIC-LITS (website)
Free online writing tool with drag and drop word banks to describe beautiful photos.
Free online writing tool with drag and drop word banks to describe beautiful photos.
Read Write Think Help a Child Write a Book Review (website)
Read Write Think Help a Child Write a Book Review (website)
Typeatone keyboard
Typeatone keyboard
Each key plays a musical tone.
Each key plays a musical tone.