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Connecting Reading & Writing Hands-on Workshop

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Expect from the LeaderRaising expectations that all students

can develop literacy skills

“No student is too anything to be able to read and write”

Dr. David YoderDJI-AbleNet Literacy LectureISAAC 2000

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Balanced Literacy Learning

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Word Study ProvidesOpportunities to...

• Build sight word vocabulary

• Develop decoding skills

• Increase analogic phonics abilities

• Expand meaning vocabulary

(Cunningham & Hall)

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Self-Selected Reading Provides Opportunities

for...

(Cunningham & Hall)

• Students to have daily opportunities to read easy books that they select and become better readers

• 95% reading accuracy with selected materials

• Students to enjoy reading more when they can talk about and share the books they read

• Teachers to guide students as needed on book selection

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Guided Reading Comprehension Provides

Opportunities to...• Encourage strategic

reading of text• Encourage reflective

reading• Emphasize that reading is

thinking• Apply skills to many types

of books and printed materials

(Cunningham & Hall)

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Daily Writing Provides Opportunities for

Students to ...

(Cunningham & Hall)

• Write to become better readers

• Focus on content when have models of forms as guide

• See others write for real reasons

• Have frequent opportunities to write without standards

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Formula for Literacy

• Daily experiences• Learn to read by reading • Learn to write by writing• Learn to read by writing• Practice, practice, practice!• Authentic work

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Objectives for today...Demonstrate benefits of product

Provide opportunities for hands on experience with: Reading through a Start-to-Finish Book Creating a template of the Start-to-Finish Book read Completing a book report using Write:OutLoud Using Co:Writer 4000 as a writing support Integrating core products – connecting reading and writing Exploring various Start-to-Finish Books Creating a story in BuildAbility Sharing and viewing others’ activities

• Share ideas for classroom/curriculum integration

Provide opportunities for self-assessment

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Products that Support Balanced Literacy

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Features:• Easy to use talking word processor• Provides correlation between oral and written words• Supports multiple standard formats• Inserts pictures• Includes Franklin Spell Checker and dictionary• Includes choice of voices• Reads any electronic text

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Getting Started withWrite:OutLoud

• PC Launching• MAC Launching

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Writing with Write:OutLoud

• Reads back what you type

• Speaks by letter, word, sentence, paragraph

• Change speech type with voice settings

• Spell Check

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Reading with Write:OutLoud

• Easy Toolbar for moving through text

• Highlight word by word option– On for single word

support

– Off for fluent reading

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Easy Toolbar

• Color options

• Spell checker

– Visual cueing

– Auditory cueing

• Dictionary

• Graphic library

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Self-paced Feature Tutorial

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Sample Documents Across Curriculum and Age Groups

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Break Time

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Support Struggling Readers

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An Example:The Story of Rosa Parks

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Features:• Interesting and content-relative texts• Auditory support • Written for Success Formula• Links to the curriculum• Fluency and comprehension checks• Student activities and writing supports

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Self-selected Reading

• Paperback books• Audiocassettes• Computer books

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Installing Start-to-Finish

• PC Installation• MAC Installation

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Getting Started with Start-to-Finish

• PC Launching• MAC Launching

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The Sign-in Screen

• Click on New to add your name

• Type your name• Click on your name in

the list• Click Yes

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Choose Your Chapter

• The highlight indicates where you are in the story

• You can go to any chapter

• Read the end first if you like!

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Page Basics

Graphic Full View

Table of Contents

Read All

Page ForwardPage Back

Quit

Click on single words to hear

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Guided Reading Comprehension

• Electronic end of chapter comprehension quizzes

• Black line masters– Place & Character names

for review

– Key Words for review

– Idioms & Expressions for review

– Cloze Passage quiz

– Multiple Choice quiz

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End of Chapter Quiz

2 Types of Quizzes• Comprehension• Cloze Passage

(fluency)

Click to start timer

Click on lines to view choices

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Student Feedback

• Graph• Student Specific• Dated• Percentage Correct• Printable for Portfolio

Record

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Teacher Options

• Individual student record keeping

• Reading options• Quiz options• Access options• View and print

reports

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Off-computer Supports

• Teacher Materials– Words for review

– Cloze comprehension

– Multiple choice

– Sentence completion

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Written for Success Formula

Examples from 50 guidelines:

• Complex sentence structure broken into simpler pieces

• Reduced dependence upon background knowledge

• Uncommon words and misleading idioms are rewritten

• Relationships between ideas is overtly expressed

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Book Options

• Series:– Classic Adventures

– Classic Literature

– Nick Ford Mysteries

– A Step into History

– Sports Biographies

– Natural Disasters

– Sherlock Holmes Mysteries

– Famous Short Stories

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Take a Gallery Walk

• View titles on different computers

• Listen for a variety of voices

• Try a chapter end quiz• Try to see something

from each series

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Break Time

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Supporting Writing

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Features:• Created specifically for the struggling writer and reader• Scaffolds the writing process to help students produce

authentic writing• Outlining and mapping for linear and visual organization• Organizing notes for writing• Aids synthesis of information• Assistance for manipulating reference materials• Speech feedback throughout the process

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Developed with Research

• Developed in partnership with Education Development Center Inc.

• Grant

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3 Easy Steps to Building a First Draft

1. Outlining and Mapping

2. Taking Notes

3. Building a Draft

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Draft:Builder Basics

• Template files• Outline & Map

view together• Note view• Draft view

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Getting Started with Draft:Builder

• PC Launching• MAC Launching

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Open an Existing File

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Moving Around

Click for new items

Listen to text

Check spelling

Type text & return for new topics Resize outline

& map views

Tab betweenviews

Change order

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Easy Toolbar

• Speak items• Talking spell checker• Move items in outline• Create new items• Delete unwanted items• Zoom in views• Export to Write:OutLoud• Print

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Taking Notes Supports

• Notes organized by topic items

• Spelling support• Speech feedback• Add to bibliography as

notes are entered

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Starting a New File

Click for new items

Listen to text

Check spelling

Type text & return for new topics Resize views

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Self-paced Feature Tutorial

Pages 3-74

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Importing Drafts to a Word Processor

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Self-paced Feature Tutorial

Pages 75-78

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Templates to Support Reading Solutions

• Comprehension follow-up after reading the Start-to-Finish books

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Open Templates

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Break Time

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Features:

• Grammatically correct word prediction

• Phonetically flexible spelling prediction

• Provides speech feedback during writing

• Speaks word choices

• Topic Dictionaries

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Getting Started with Co:Writer 4000

• PC Launching• MAC Launching

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Writing with Co:Writer 4000

• Reads back what you type

• Speaks by letter, word, sentence, paragraph

• Change speech type with voice settings

• Reads selections

• Sends to any text based application

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Prediction Options

• Visual options– Colors

– Number of Guesses

– Arrangement

• Grammar smart • Syntax smart• Flexible spelling

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Topic Dictionaries

• Use text files or lists• Import from any sources

– Informational CD

– Internet

– Electronic text file

– choose US history

• Multiple dictionaries can be used at same time• Topic Dictionary toolkit

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Self-paced Feature Tutorial

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Use in Combination with other Writing

Solutions

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Importing into Write:OutLoud &

Co:Writer 4000

Examples:

• Encyclopedia CD

• Scanned documents

• Internet downloads

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Break Time

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Literacy Activity

Reading and Writing a Report About a Sports Hero

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Take a Gallery Walk through the Reports

• Move around the room and view the different participant stations

• Try to see examples from each participant to get more ideas

Literacy Activity

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Connect Reading and Writing

When struggling students have opportunities to build and practice reading and writing skills together, rather than in isolation,

they make greater progress in both areas faster. Each area of literacy supports the

development of the other.

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Benefits:

• Critical elements to writing and revising• Voices can be motivating• Typing reduces the mechanical issues of

writing allowing concentration on cognitive tasks

• Provides auditory correlation to visual word• Auditory proof-reading

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Benefits:• Support in gaining content information in

subject areas• Self-paced reading• Re-reading easy and motivating• Comprehension checks along the way

rather than just at very end• Variety of titles to choose from

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Benefits:

• Structured and sequential

• Color-coded topics and subtopics

• Simple menus

• Easy to reorder (automatically creates web view and updates as changes are made)

• Export to any word processor

• Spelling support

• Speech feedback

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Benefits:

• Spelling doesn’t have to interfere with writing

• Written vocabulary can increase

• Speech can be added to prediction in any text-based application

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