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Books for Early Readers
Samuel SennottNova Southeastern [email protected]
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
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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
