Decoding/Fluency/Automaticity

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App/Price

Description

Speak Selection

iOS Feature

Settings > General > Accessibility > Speak Selection > On, Highlight Words > On

(adjust Speaking Rate)

VoiceDream

$9.99

“With high quality text-to-speech and a configurable user interface, Voice Dream Reader makes written text accessible to everyone.

Listen to Text:

• Personal pronunciation dictionary
• Customizable font including OpenDyslexia font
• Focused Reading Mode with reduced text area and auto-scrolling
• Play-Pause with gesture or remote control
• Navigation by sentence, paragraph, page, chapter, highlights
• Remembers speech and visual location where you stopped
• Sleep timer
• Change reading speed (50-700 words per minute) on the fly
• Change voice on the fly
• Remembers the voice and speech rate used for each article or book
• Playlist
• Continues reading when you lock the screen”

VoiceDream

Lite

free

Reads up to 300 characters at a time and has the features of VoiceDream.

Read2Go

$19.99

“From within Read2Go, you can browse, search, download, and read books directly from Bookshare using your Bookshare membership, as well as read DAISY books from other sources. The app gives you full control over visual choices for font size and color, background and highlighting color, and text-to-speech preferences. Read2Go features word-by-word highlighting for multi-modal reading.”

 Learning Ally

Free for students who have a  qualifying print disability

“Over 75,000 audiobooks, audio textbooks, and other recorded books to help anyone who experiences difficulty in reading print material succeed. Learning Ally Membership is required to use this app.

 AudioBooks

Free

Listen to 5,533 classic, public domain, professionally narrated audiobooks

ClaroPDF Pro

$ .99

“ClaroPDF is an accessible, professional and user-friendly PDF Viewer, Reader and Annotator.”

Interacting with the Text

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App/Price

Description

iBooks

Free

• “Highlight your favorite passages and add notes with the built-in bookmarking features
• Share quotes, or thoughts about your favorite book
• Find a word, character, or phrase anywhere in your book with the built-in search feature
•  Use iBooks with Speak Selection Feature
• Print PDF documents and notes you've written in iBooks using AirPrint”

Subtext

Free

“ENGAGE YOUR CLASS IN ANY EBOOK, PDF, OR ARTICLE-

Teachers can embed instruction right in the pages of nearly any digital text. Because notes are linked to a specific passage, there’s a natural emphasis on close reading, citing text evidence, and supporting claims.”

ClaroPDF Pro

$ .99

“ClaroPDF is an accessible, professional and user-friendly PDF Viewer, Reader and Annotator.”

VoiceDream

$9.99

Interact with Text

• Synchronized word and line highlighting
• Export full text, highlights, and notes
• Bookmarking, text highlighting and note taking
• Full-text search
• Built-in dictionary

Notability

$1.99

Advanced note taker, annotation and word processing app. Multiple features.

Paperport Notes

Free

“PaperPort Notes is a digital note taking tool that converts scanned documents from the camera or photo album into editable text using the Nuance OmniPage Cloud service

Leverage powerful annotative tools to quickly mark up documents

Never miss another detail by adding audio page by page within your notes”

CamScanner Lite

Free

Prizmo

$9.99

Scanning, OCR (optical character recognition) and text to speech. Optimized for iPhone 5 and iPad 3 +

Educreations

Free

Free Screencasting app; multiple uses

Examples:

Making Inferences screencast

Summarizing Screencast

Analyzing Plot

Explain Everything

$2.99

Full featured screencasting app, includes ability to import video

Comic Life

$4.99

Photo comic creation app with speech or thought bubbles; allows for perspective taking, making inferences

Beta.socrative.

com

Online tool. App should be available by the end of the year.

Assessing Understanding

Speech Recognition

Built into the iPad 3 +

Recordium

Free

Voice Recorder, note taker and audio annotation tool.

Inspiration Lite

Free

Graphic Organizer with built-in templates or make your own.

Popplet Lite

Free

Graphic organizer/mind map/prewriting tool

SimpleMind +

Free

“Mind mapping tool that turns your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch into a brainstorming, idea collection and thought structuring device.”

Tools4Students

$ .99

“Tools 4 Students offers 25 graphic organizers supporting common comprehension skills like main idea and detail, sequencing, compare and contrast etc. Each organizer can be used again and again and be emailed, drop boxed, or saved as a PDF.”

30 Hands

Free

“30hands Mobile is a fun and innovative storytelling app that allows students, teachers and anyone with creativity to easily create stories or presentations based on photos, images or slides using an iPad, iPhone or iPod. “