Publications and Training Resources

1. Put Reading First from the National Reading Panel - What the research says about effective reading instruction.
2. Put Reading First for Parents from the National Reading Panel - Ideas for parents to support reading.
3. Cool Tools from Project Central - Reading assessment tools.
4. America Reads - A guide to train classroom volunteers and paraprofessionals in basic reading instruction.
5. Reading for Students Who are Deaf - A guide to reading instruction and students who are deaf.
6. Reading & Learning Disabilities from NICHCY - A brief on the affects of learning disabilities on reading.
7. Comprehension Strategies from Scholastic.
8. Active Reading Strategies from Savvy Knowledge. Download the manual to check out the strategies.
9. Accommodations - A book on accommodations by Marty Beech.
10. LoTTIE Kit Presentation - Accommodations presentation by FDLRS Gulfcoast.
11. Multiphasic Reading - A strategy for highlighting text to support reading comprehension.
12. What Works in the Classroom - A book on instructional strategies to support learning.
13. FDLRS/TECH Resource Kit 2007 - A website with resources and ideas on supporting learning. Includes reading resources.
14. BookBuilder from CAST - Create online books and learn about Universal Design for Learning principles and reading research at the same time. Great resource.

Intellitools Classroom Suite Reading Activities (compiled by Razia Pullen, Broward District) You will need Classroom Suite to run these activities. Download a 45 day trial version (this is a very large download).

1. Activities for Grades K-2
2. Activities for Grades 3-5
3. Activities for Grades 6-12

Read Aloud Books

1. Travel the World with Timmy - Read and print books from Riverdeep. Look on the Riverdeep website for these downloads.
   
2. BookBox - Great read aloud books in a wide variety of languages.
3. TumbleBooks - Wide selection of read aloud books.

Graphic Enhanced Reading

1. News 2 You : Samples: Regular / High / Spanish - Subscribe to "newspapers" that are graphic enhanced to support highly challenged readers.
2. Communicate: In Print 2 - A desk top publishing tool for creating graphic enhanced reading material.

Project Gutenburg Examples - Files you can use to explore text to speech and visual enhancement tools with.

1. Alice in Wonderland - HTML / TXT
2. Anne of Green Gables - HTML / TXT
3. Hares and the Frogs - HTML / TXT
4. Hart and the Hunter - HTML / TXT
5. Fox and the Crow - HTML / TXT
6. Ant and the Grasshopper - HTML / TXT
7. Frog and the Ox - HTML / TXT
8. Town and Country Mouse - HTML / TXT
9. Peter Rabbit - HTML / TXT
10. Flopsy Bunnies - HTML / TXT
11. Ginger and Pickles - HTML / TXT
12. Benjamin Bunny - HTML / TXT
13. Mr. Tod - HTML / TXT

eLibraries

1. StoryPlace
2. Internet Public Library
3. Florida Online Library
4. Questia

Text to Speech and Digital Text Tools

1. ReadPlease (Win) from ReadPlease - A basic free talking word processor with a commercial upgrade for more features. You get the free version and the 30 day trial of the commercial version.
2. ReadingBar (Win) from ReadPlease - Adds text to speech with word highlighting in Internet Explorer. Also includes page enlargement.
3. GhostReader (Mac) from Convenienceware - A free text to speech tool for the Macintosh.
4. Natural Reader (Win) from Natural Readers - A free text to speech tool for Windows.
5. Speaking Notepad (Win) from Qwerty Studios - An inexpensive talking word processor.
6. Nisus Express (Mac) from Nisus - A word processor with highlighting and other comprehension support tools.

Visual Organization Tools for Digital Text

1. Skim (Mac) from SourceForge - An alternative to Adobe Reader with highlighting and commenting tools.
2. FoxitReader (Win) from FoxitSoftware - An alternative Adobe Reader.
3. WordMenu (Win . MacX) From Write Brothers Referenceware - Visual organization of words by subject matter. Trial version.
4. i-lighter (Win) - A tool for highlighting text on web pages and saving the references.
5. Wizlite - An online tool for highlighting text on web page and saving the references.

Graphic Organizers

1. Printable Graphic Organizers - An online resource of printable graphic organizers. Excellent resource.
2. bubbl.us - A basic online mind mapping tool.
3. Mindomo - Another online mind mapping tool with graphics.
4. Gliffy - An online mind mapping tool.
5. FreeMind - A free mind mapping software program.
6. Inspiration (Win . MacX) / Kidspiration (Win . MacX) from Inspiration - Excellent commercial graphic organizers with templates and reading comprehension support. Trial versions

Resource CD developed compliments of FDLRS/TECH. All materials on this CD remain the property of their developers and inclusion on this CD does not reflect any product recommendation from the FLDOE.