Connecting Reading & Writing
Hands-on Workshop
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Expect from the Leader
Raising expectations that all students
can develop literacy skills
“No student is too anything to be able to
read and write”
Dr. David Yoder
DJI-AbleNet Literacy Lecture
ISAAC 2000
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Balanced Literacy
Learning
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Word Study Provides
Opportunities 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...
• 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
(Cunningham & Hall)
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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 ...
• 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
(Cunningham & Hall)
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Formula for Literacy
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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 with
Write:OutLoud
• MAC Launching
• PC 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
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• MAC Installation
• PC Installation
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Getting Started with
Start-to-Finish
• MAC Launching
• PC 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
Click on single
words to hear
Table of
Contents
Read All
Quit
Page Forward
Page Back
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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
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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
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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:
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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
• MAC Launching
• PC Launching
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Open an Existing File
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Moving Around
Tab
between
views
Type text &
return for
new topics
Resize outline
& map views
Listen to text
Check spelling
Change order
Click for new items
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Easy Toolbar
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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
Type text &
return for
new topics
Resize views
Listen to text
Check spelling
Click for new items
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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
• MAC Launching
• PC 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
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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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