Early Literacy
PixWriter 3.2 by: Slater Software. Emergent Writers build literacy skills - writing with text and pictures. Teachers easily create word banks simply by typing a word and hitting the spacebar. Choose a 4, 16, 36, or 64 button word bank. The computer highlights words as they are read aloud. Graphic library has been updated, with addition of over 3000 more Literacy-Support Pictures making making a total library of over 9000 high-resolution pictures. Now includes two switch step scanning. PixWriter 3.2 1 - 4 Licenses $189.95 each
PixWriter Lab Pack of 5: $ 829.95 
Picture It by: Slater Software. Create curriculum activities - add pictures to text with ease to adapt curriculoum. Includes over 6,000 Literacy Support Symbols - black and white and color versions. You can also import your own photos. Picture It 5 - 9 Licenses $239.95 each
 Bailey's
Book House Ver. 4 School Edition by: Houghton Mifflin.
Students build a foundation for reading by exploringletters, words, rhyming and sentence building. Improved interface and updated characters. Expanded explore & discover and question & answer modes. 9 engaging activities. Built-in universal access and pacing options.  News–2-You by
News-2-You. Online current events weekly newspaper universally designed
for all readers. A subscription includes 4 levels of reading
comprehension: simplified, regular,higher and advanced editions. Simplified and regular levels use Symbolstix to support text. Includes Spanish versions. Standards/IEP oriented. Includes news, activities, computer games and storybooks Speaking versions of all 3 newspapers are available or print from your computer.  News-2-You cannot be purchased online. Please contact LAB Resources to place order or fax order to LAB Resources (262-695-2504) Phone: 800-691-3476 Fax: 262-695-2504 Clicker 6 by Crick Software. New! Literacy tool for students of all abilities to develop their reading and writing skills. Easy to navigate, motivating environment can be tailored to a student’s individual needs. Simtech Early Literacy Bundle by: Marblesoft-Simtech. New! Includes Simtech’s 3 early literacy programs: I Hate Peas, Everybody Has Feet, and Sharon Won’t Share. 2 modes. Sing-A-Long mode features enjoyable music and student learns to start and stop music while singing along. Explore-A-Story mode allows story to be read aloud word-by-word or line-by-line. Stories can be played using text or Picture Communication Symbols. Each story includes printable PDF story books, coloring books and sheet music. Works with mouse, touch screen or up to 3 switches. Mac/Win CD.
Word Track by: Tool Factory. Students practice spelling words in the context of 180 sentences. These 180 sentences are arranged in order of increasing phonemic complexity. A sentence is initially presented visually and auditorily and then disappears. After the sentence disappears, the student must reassemble it from a string of words and add punctuation. Clear audio support and fully configurable teacher options. This program helps students develop visual discrimination and proofreading skills. Switch accessible. Mac/Win CD. 
Spell Track by: Tool Factory. Provides spelling practice from a large bank of word lists. After a student listens to a word and sees its printed form, he or she will click on the appropriate letters in a line of randomly selected letters to track the word he just saw and heard one letter at a time. Once a student has tracked a word, he is asked to type the entire word. Audio recording may be replayed as many times as necessary. Switch accessible. Mac/Win CD.  Story Builder by
Judy Lynn
Software. New! Build a story, write a story, and read a story, all in
one fun and easy program. Students write their stories by assembling
prewritten pages related to a specific topic—that they choose—such as
“The Class Trip”. A student can control the path the story takes. Comes
with a collection of over 25 different story templates covering a wide
range of topics. Additional story templates can be downloaded for free
on the Judy Lynn website. Data is collected for each student that can
be viewed in a spreadsheet or text format. The program can also be used
to create personalized photo albums. Windows CD.
The Sentence Master by: Laureate Learning Systems. This program is designed to help students who are at risk of failing to learn to read due to difficulties in phonics and oral language. It focuses on the 150 commonly used non-content words in the English language, which make up almost half of the text on any page and are major determiners of meaning. By teaching these words, the Sentence Master gives the learner control over half of any page he or she will ever encounter. The Sentence Master is divided into 4 levels. At each level, sentence structures and stories become more complex. Each level of The Sentence Master contains: 40 to 70 new words; 8 animated computer stories; 8 story booklets with writing and comprehnsion exercises. If you're a non-reader, start with Level 1 and continue through Levels 2, 3 and 4.
Kidspiration 3 by: Inspiration Software. Designed for students grades K-5 to support emergent writers. Kidspiration helps young stgudents connect visual thought to expression. The new version includes Symbol Maker for drawing, unlimited Super Grouper images, a Venn diagram option, and symbols displayed net to corresponding words in writing view. Now includes 7 ready-made activities.
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