Etext562resources

**I. Technologies used to enhance traditional early reading/literacy skills (involving printed texts)**
Evidence Base: (Download a longer Powerpoint show and companion references from http://coiropreschool.wikispaces.com/)
 * Software-Based Supports for Preschool Students**
 * Early Literacy Skills and Software Supports
 * Oral Language Development
 * Concepts of print and phonological awareness
 * Vocabulary and background knowledge
 * Logic, critical thinking, and problem solving
 * Social interaction with others
 * Connecting reading and writing

Explore each online resource and consider the types of “printed” early literacy skills each seeks to support/enhance for students in Grades K-3 (Consider areas such as...Developing Concepts of Print, Phonological Awareness and Phonics, Vocabulary, Reading Comprehension, Strategy Use, Reading Response, Language and Motivation)
 * Activity 1: Online Supports to Scaffold Literacy Development for Students in Grades K-3**
 * [|Starfall]
 * [|PBS Between the Lions] (explore the stories)
 * [|Into the Book]
 * [|Little Explorers Dictionary] from Enchanted Learning
 * [|Kidspiration Software] (Examples to Preview)
 * [|Read, Write, Think Student Materials]
 * [|Reale Books]
 * [|International Children’s Digital Library]
 * [|Susan Silverman's Telecollaborative Projects]
 * [|Usborne Quicklinks]

**Evidence Base and Related Links**

 * [|National Center for Supported eText]
 * [|Supported Etexts Bookmarks Database]
 * [|TechMatrix] - 46 electronic reading environments with 11 features

**Supported eText Options**

 * **Presentational** - customize the look & feel: [|Accessibar]
 * **Translational** - change level or language: [|Scholastic Word Wizard]; [|Map My Word] ; [|Visual Thesaurus]; [|No Fear Shakespeare]
 * **Explanatory** - clarify and interpret
 * **Illustrative** - represent visually or in movie: [|BrainPop]
 * **Navigational** - tools to move within the text: [|Hyperhistory Online]; [|CAST UDL]
 * **Notational** - tools for marking/taking notes
 * **Summarizing** - condensed version: [|IBreadcrumbs] (combines notational and summarizing)
 * **Enrichment** - provide background or supplemental information
 * **Instructional** - offer prompt or question: [|On the Run]; [|Literary Study Web Texts]
 * **Collaborative** - tools for working together or sharing ideas: [|Google Docs]
 * **Evaluational** - assess learning from text: [|Quia Shared Activities for Reading]

Activity 2: Explore the online resources below and notice the different etext support systems
Identify particular etext options that are now being embedded into online reading resources for middle and high school readers > >
 * [|Content Area Learning Comes to Life]: Using Interactive Online Texts to Engage Adolescents (Julie Coiro, IRA Conference, 2008)

Background: Universal Design Principles

 * Teaching Every Student (Rose & Meyer) http://www.cast.org/teachingeverystudent/
 * Originated in architecture (sidewalk curbs, ramps, TV captioning) > How can we apply this to how we conceptualize and implement curriculum and instruction?
 * The most effective learning environments are those that consider the needs and interests of the broadest spectrum of learners from the outset (rather than adapt materials for students with special needs

**Examples to Explore**

 * Thinking Reader: [|Online Video] at Tom Snyder’s Website and [|Reading Online Article] About Thinking Reader
 * [|UDL Editions] by CAST
 * [|Strategy Tutor]
 * [|Book Builder]
 * [|iStart] (mentioned in Dalton & Rose, 2008)

**IV. Products to Know About**

 * F.A.S.T. Forword http://www.scilearn.com/our-approach/the-fast-forword-program/brain-science-video/index.php
 * Earobics http://www.earobics.com/
 * Scholastic Wiggleworks PreK-3 http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/wiggleworks/index.htm
 * Don Johnston Software Collection http://www.donjohnston.com/products/
 * Mayer-Johnson Assistive Technologies Collection http://www.mayer-johnson.com/