Help+for+struggling+learners

Please post applications and websites below with a short description of what they contain below:

[] Literacy apps for struggling learners

[] FlipSide HD - Creates flash cards that can be shuffled and worked from front to back or back to front.

[] - iHomework app is a digital agenda book that helps keep students organized

[] Long list of iPad/iPhone apps that can be used for Special Education

[] Literacy apps for struggling learners

[] FlipSide HD - Creates flash cards that can be shuffled and worked from front to back or back to front.

[] List of apps for students with special needs

This is a place where you can buy book sets to help struggling learners through the project zero effort at Havard: []

Here's an image of different ways of student learning. [|Differentiated Instruction Continuum]

Specific Examples of ways to encourage all students to participate in different lessons involving reading/writing/group discussion ect. [|Disabilities Studies for Teachers]

Layered Curriculum: http://www.help4teachers.com/articles.htm

Article on Universal Design (closer to the bottom of the page, though): http://aim.cast.org/learn/historyarchive/backgroundpapers/differentiated_instruction_udl

So many cool resources here! On the right of the screen, under the Navigator, click on "Literacy Resources"...ta da!: http://toolsfordifferentiation.pbworks.com/w/page/22360094/FrontPage

Visuwords:

A graphic dictionary and thesaurus - shows how words are derived and inter-relate with each other.

http://www.visuwords.com/

Tar Heel Reader:

Hundreds of online stories in many areas of interest. All stories can be speech enabled and there are many books available in different languages such as Arabic, Finnish, Swedish and Hebrew. Show the stories as a PowerPoint on the Smartboard!

http://tarheelreader.org/

Voycabulary:

Makes the words on any web page links for you to look up. Translation dictionaries make any page accessible for your ESOL students!

http://www.voycabulary.com/

Eduplace:

Graphic organizers to help students develop their ideas before writing.

http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/

http://www.disabilitystudiesforteachers.org/index.php?id=Differentiated%20Instruction This has ideas for ways to differentiate instruction specific to reading, writing, group discussions, and general. They seem pretty easy to implement.

 [|http://www.esllaunchpad.com/ English LaunchPad] — Especially useful for teaching ESL English LaunchPad is packed full of useful tools and information to help launch your English learning experience: Flash cards, Grammar structure examples, whiteboard, lesson plans, translator, practice exercises, quiz generator, student roster, student tracking.

http://www.brighthub.com/education/special/articles/48793.aspx Article on helping students with special needs write.

USING CELL PHONES TO VOTE ANONYMOUSLY: http://nhfledtech.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/poll-everywhere-text-online-audience-voting/

http://www.wordle.net/ This website allows you to type in text (or copy and paste), and the most common words are the biggest in the word cloud.This would be great for themes in literature!

Article about how students with disabilities see their classrooms [|What Are Classrooms Like for Students with Learning Disabilities?]

iBooks Author: create your own e-textbooks for students. Save paper. Save weight in their backpacks. http://www.apple.com/ibooks-author/

IPad 2 apps: TASUC SCHEDULE is particularly cool []