Books for Early Readers

Samuel SennottNova Southeastern Universitysamuel.sennott@gmail.com

http://alltogether.wordpress.com

GoalsDefine and explain three types of texts useful to beginning readers.

Demonstrate two powerful ways to access texts with AAC users:

Accessible Book Collection

Tar Heel Reader

ResourcesThe Beginning Literacy Framework www.donjohnston.com/research/beg_lit_framework.pdf

Accessible Book Collection www.accessiblebookcollection.org

Accessible Book Collection Wiki http://accessiblebookcollection.wikispaces.com

Reading A-Z www.readinga-z.com/free

alltogether.wordpress.com

Tar Heel Reader: http://gb-cs.cs.unc.edu/TarHeelReader/

Three Types of Texts

Enrichment: Builds background knowledge.

Transitional: Feeling like a real reader.

Conventional: Actually need to decode words.

Enrichment ElementsDevelop Language

Good for building background knowledge

Concepts of Print

You can sit back and enjoy

More authentic texts

Almost always read to the student

Transitional Elements

Repetitive lines.

You can memorize it.

You can guess words from the pictures.

Gets students attending to the text.

Helps them feel like readers.

Conventional Elements

Remove predictability so student use word attack skills.

Still controlled sets of words.

Repetition of individual words.

Usually has consistent sentence structures.

The Accessible Book Collection

780 Books, mostly in an html format.

Intellipics and Clicker 5 Formatted Picture Books

$50 a year subscription

Launcher/Bookshelf

Switch Accessible and Text to Speech

Software

My Own Bookshelf http://www.softtouch.com

Intellitools Classroom Suite

Clicker 5

Adobe Reader, Read Outloud, Kurzweil 3000, Read and Write Gold

Tar Heel ReaderCombine Flickr Images with Text

Online Text to Speech

Switch Accessibility

Others

www.bookshare.org

Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org

CAST’s Bookbuilder: http://bookbuilder.cast.org/

Make at Least One Book

Use the Tar Heel Reader: Literacy! is the code.

Create a Transitional or Conventional Text

Think of a target student.

Use words from the Dolch list. Don’t feel you have to stay there though.

Email me the link to your book.

High Frequency Lists

Prentke Romich’s Unity Core Word Set

Blink-Twice’s Tango Core Words

Dynavox’s Gateway Core Words

Dolch: http://literacyconnections.com/Dolch1.html

Fry: http://www.amazon.com/Vocabulary-Teachers-Book-Lists-J-B/dp/0787971014