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1 | Company | Youngest Grade Level | Oldest Grade Level | Description | Free Service Offered | Login Info | Multilingual Use | Other Important Notes | |
2 | Autism and Coronovirus: Helping Students Understand | Autism and Corona | Social Stories for children with Autism and developmental disabilities -- communication boards attached | Social Stories | |||||
3 | The Austism Educator, "What is the Coronavirus?" PDF | Social Stories with communication boards. This resource helps to explain what the Coronavirus is. | Social Stories for children with Autism and developmental disabilities -- communication boards attached | Social Stories | |||||
4 | Two Way Street, COVID-19: Chat Board | Covid 19 Picture supported chat boards | Social Stories for children with Autism and developmental disabilities -- communication boards attached | Social Stories | |||||
5 | Bookshare | PreK | 12 | A repository of over 778,328 accessible books for persons that qualify. The UDL team trains on the use of this tool. | Free for students who qualify for this service | ||||
6 | Co:Writer | PreK | 12 | Co:Writer Universal: uses grammar- and vocabulary-smart word prediction, translation support, and speech recognition to help students who struggle with ideas and spelling when writing. Available to All APS students | Available to All APS students | ||||
7 | Dogo books | The largest website for book reviews by-and-for kids. It is where kids discover, review and share their thoughts about books. All reviews are moderated and books are available for purchase through our affiliate partners. | |||||||
8 | Dogo news | It is the leading source for current events, news, and non-fictional content for Common Core ELA, Science and Social Studies. This site contains thousands of news articles and new original content added daily for students, teachers and schools. | |||||||
9 | Gutenberg.org | K | 12 | Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Choose from among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. | |||||
10 | i-Ready | K | 8 | APS opened i-Ready up for all students. FYI: There are downloaded lessons on this site too for parents. | Free for all students in APS | ||||
11 | NewsELA | K | 12 | Newsela is a database of current events stories tailor-made for classroom use. Indexed by broad theme (e.g. War and Peace, Arts, Science, Health, Law, Money), stories are both student-friendly and can be accessed in different formats by reading level. Use Newsela to differentiate nonfiction reading. | |||||
12 | ReadWorks | K | 12 | ReadWorks is a resource for reading passages and lesson plans for K-12 teachers. | |||||
13 | Snap & Read | PreK | 12 | Reading and Text Annotation tool for Google Chrome, iPad that can cover the most diverse reading needs. It reads both accessible and inaccessible text aloud, levels vocabulary, translates text, and includes outline note-taking and research assistance. Available to All APS students | Available to All APS students | ||||
14 | Tarheel Reader | This is a good resource for emergent readers. It is a collection of free, easy-to-read, and accessible books on a wide range of topics. Each book can be speech enabled and accessed using multiple interfaces, including touch screens, the IntelliKeys with custom overlays, and 1 to 3 switches. | |||||||
15 | Tween Tribune | K | 12 | Kid-friendly news articles for K-12 available at 4 different lexile levels. This site also includes lesson plans to use with the articles. | |||||
16 | Unite for Literacy | An online ebook library with books at a Kindergarten or 1st grade reading level that include colorful pictures and options for the text in multiple languages other than English. | |||||||
17 | Wonderopolis | Wonderopolis is a digital learning platform where natural curiosity and imagination lead to exploration and discovery for more than one million visitors each month. | |||||||
18 | Writable | 3 | 12 | Writable powers virtual and in-person writing instruction across disciplines. It works with your tech (Google Classroom/LMSs & Docs), includes 600+ assignments (or create your own), guides feedback/peer review, and monitors writing growth to best help personalize learning. | Our entire program is free to all schools until the end of the school year. |