Type or paste text into box and site will reword it making it easier to understand.
Free online speed reading program. Cut and paste text and it will zap it back at you one word at a time for 300 words per minute.
Free online speed reading software designed to improve reading speed.
Type in the box and the avatar will read it back!
Creates a visual thesaurus for students to see the relationship between word meanings.
Use joliprint to make a website or article easily readable. Paste in the URL and joliprint will remove extraneous pictures and ads and print only text.
The authorative online textual dictionary, which bring words to life through video! Beware the section on how the word is used in Twitter because the language of others may not be appropriate for school. Otherwise a really cool site.
Offers free children's books and reads them aloud while highlighting the words.
This site reads children's books and highlights the words as it goes. Very neat.
This site provides FREE audio books organized by reading level, author, title or subject matter. Download as mp3s or listen on the computer.
Provides free reading and book resources for all US students with qualifying disabilities.
A search engine with a readability guide. Simply search a topic and twurdy will give a reading level for each result.
Tips for parents and teachers of students with disabilities.
Search engine that helps students narrow a search with keywords.
A student interactive resource from ReadWriteThink.
A student interactive outlining tool from ReadWriteThink.
This helpful tool can be run on line to check spelling and grammar, or downloaded and used in conjunction with other applications. While it is not an instructional tool per se, it can certainly help students learn and correct spelling and some other language issues.
Geo-located photos! Just type in a location and see photos and map of that place!
Simply type in a word and it create a visual map of the word. Easy to use with great results. I know, I typed in the word 'portentous'!
A national multimedia project offering information and resources to the parents and educators of struggling adolescent readers and writers.
This is an on-screen virtual keyboard designed for anyone with a disability that prevents him or her from typing on a physical computer keyboard. As long as the physically challenged person can control a mouse, trackball, touch screen or other pointing device, this software keyboard allows you to send keystrokes to virtually any Windows application or DOS application that can run within a window.
A spell and grammar checking specifically for English Language Learners, dyslexics, and all those who just "can't come close enough" for traditional spellcheck to work.
A free Windows text-to-speech plugin for Microsoft Word. It will speak the text of the document and will highlight it as it goes. It contains a talking dictionary and a text-to-mp3 converter.
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