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News 2 YouNews–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.



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News-2-You cannot be purchased online. Please contact LAB Resources to place order. 

Phone: 800-691-3476

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Unique Learning SystemUnique Learning System by News-2-You. Online curriculum designed for students with special needs. 4
special grade bands so you can teach age-appropriate material geared to the ability level of your students: elementary, intermediate, middle and high school. All lessons are aligned to content standards and include
differentiated tasks and progress monitoring standards. Over 25 activities are available for you to download immediately—with access to new materials and subjects each month.

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Unique Learning System cannot be purchased online. Please contact LAB Resources to place order. 

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My Own BookshelfMy Own Bookshelf by: SoftTouch, Inc. This is an easy-to-use software program that lets educators create their own electronic books. Students can have their own bookshelves with the books they would like to read on the computer. Easy steps walk you through creating a book, putting books on bookshelves and selecting books for the students to read. Collects data on each student's reading experience. Mac/Win CD

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The Magic BookshelvesThe Magic Bookshelves by: Learning Magic.  18 books created using My Own Bookshelf.  Students watch a parade, a buffalo round-up, beekeepers at work, and a hot air balloon launch.  Includes photos and movies.  Books can be modified or edited in My Own Bookshelf.  Choose Macintosh or Windows CD. Mac/Win CD.



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Intellitools Classroom Suite 4Classroom Suite 4.2 by: Intellitools. Reading, Writing, and Math activities and templates. Designed for grades Pre-K to 5. Reading instruction is aligned with national standards. Math instruction targets number sense and automaticity. Writing templates across many genres. Creativity tools for whole class instruction and student presentations. Early Learning activities for emergent learners. Authoring your own activities is now quick and easy. Easy assignment of activities and progress monitoring. Report data and student portfolios. Accessible by mouse, IntelliKeys and switch. Includes built-in onscreen keyboards (abc and QWERTY layouts), word prediction and auditory feedback. 

To view our training materials on this software, see LAB Learning Series.

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Adventures in Reading
by: Learning Magic. Grades K-8. Contains stories that run in Classroom Suite in which the reader becomes an active participant in each adventure as he or she makes choices that determine the course or outcome of the story. Students can read or hear the text read to them. Stories are switch accessible and a custom overlay for IntelliKeys is included. Also includes 2 templates to create more stories with your own graphics and content. Requires Classroom Suite 3 or 4. Mac/Win CD.     

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The Writing Bin I by: Learning Magic. Collection of 7 easy-to-use and flexible templates and 30 ready-to-go activities for Classroom Suite. Use templates to quickly develop guided reading and self-selected writing activities for students. Student selects a picture and then writes with full scaffolding; with words or with Pictures. IntelliKeys overlay is included. Requires Classroom Suite 3 or 4. The Writing Bin II contains 30 new activities. Choose Macintosh or Windows.      

        
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Balanced LiteracyBalanced Literacy by: IntelliTools. Covers first grade reading skills with each unit introducing reading essentials. Nine units feature different animal themes. Each unit includes 16 sequenced lessons. Skills build from unit to unit. Units include guided reading, writing and phonics. Customizable options for different learners. Accessible for mouse, IntelliKeys and switch users. Teacher's Guide provides daily lessons and extension activities. Student tracking system monitors progress. Mac/Win CD.

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Clicker 5Clicker 5 by Crick Software. One great program that meets many needs! Students can write with whole words, phrases, or pictures - as well as with letters. Create pop-up grids, talking books, classifying activities, labeling activities and word banks. New Clicker Explorer and new editing mode. Realistic speech. New picture library. Supports MP3 files.
To view our training materials on this software, see LAB Learning Series.


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Clicker PaintClicker Paint by: Crick Software. Integrates with Clicker 5 allowing students to illustrate their talking books. Also works as a child-friendly graphics stand alone program. Designed as an educational tool to be used in the classrooms.

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Clicker Animations
Clicker Animations
by: Crick Software. Moving pictures to illustrate verbs. Requires Clicker 5.

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The Wonders and Magic of Nature by: Learning Magic. Eight educational units focusing on Earth and Life Science run in Clicker: Coral Reef, Desert, Oceans, Rain Forest, Savannah, Taiga, Tundra, and Wetlands. Each unit is composed of multiple Clicker 5 gridsets. Each unit has an anchor book with additional activities for reading and writing. Requires Clicker 5. Windows.

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A to Z photo collectionA to Z Photo Collection by:  Learning Magic.  Collection of over 4,000 original high-quality photographs can be used in any multi-media product of your choosing or printed out as classroom resource materials. The photographs are organized in folders and subfolders for your easy use. Folders include:  Animals; Backgrounds & Scenes; Community Things; Feelings & Emotions; Flowers; Plants & Trees; Food &  Beverage: Household & Household Items; Money; People; School & School Supplies; Sports & Recreation; Traffic Signs; Transportation; and Weather. 

            

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ClozePro

ClozePro by: Crick Software. Easily create cloze activities from any text in seconds when you type or past in some text and choose the words you want to remove. Appropriate for all ages -- you can use pictures and speech to support younger or struggling readers or create age-appropriate multiple-choice tests for older learners. ClozePro tracks everything the student does and you can easily create reports.

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Everybody Has Feet

Everybody Has Feet by: Marblesoft-Simtech. Sing-a-long story. Uses PCS symbols. 2 modes. Explore-A-Story mode allows story to be read aloud word-by-word or line-by-line. Sing-a-Long mode features enjoyable music that can be controlled using a switch or the spacebar. Keyboard and switch accessible. Mac/Win CD. 

  

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Word Track

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.

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Spell Track

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.

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Story BuilderStory 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.

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The Sentence Master

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.

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InspirationInspiration by: Inspiration Software. Students who struggle with writing may need help visually organizing their ideas, thoughts and facts. Diagram view creates a concept map showing how ideas relate. Outline view takes concepts and sets up a hierarchical structure. Outlines can be exported to your word processing program. Mac/ Win CD.

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Kidspiration 2

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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IRIScannerIRISCan Express 2 Scanner By: Iris. Portable color scanner is
lightweight and compact – a good choice when portability is
important. Scans a single page at a time (does not scan books
unless they are broken down into single pages). Works well with
ClaroRead Plus. $125.95

                                                                           

Bundle: ClaroRead Plus 2008 + Dragon NaturallySpeaking + IrisScan Express 2 $619.95

                                                                           



The FusionThe Fusion by: Advanced Keyboard Technologies. The Fusion is a portable keyboard with text-to-speech capability. Large LCD Display. Word Prediction can be added to the keyboard. Students hear what they have typed when they press the speak key. Words are highlighted as they are read aloud. Word prediction can be added and is also easy to access, a student just needs to press the Word Prediction key to activate the prediction library. Students can choose to hear each word predicted. The Fusion also includes: Spell Check, Thesaurus, Cut/Copy/Paste, Dictionary, Wireless Infrared Send, Keyboard Instruction, and Writing Prompts.

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The WriterThe Writer by: Advanced Keyboard Technologies. New Updated—Smaller and Lighter! Portable keyboard combines ease of use with powerful array of teacher and student centered
features. Password protected student work folders. On-board writing prompts, spelling program, advanced spell check, and daily journal. On-board keyboard instructor with 116 pre-programmed lessons. Special Education Package includes Writer, Infrared Receiver, Word Prediction and Carrying Case.

Feature List:

• Creative Writing Prompts
• Daily Journal
• Spell Check
• Word Prediction
• 1 Key Wireless Send to Mac/PC
• Spanish to English dictionary
and more!

The Writer Special Education Package $164.95
(includes Writer, infrared receiver, word prediction and carrying case)                                                                                    
                                                                      

Claro Read

ClaroRead Plus By: Claro Software, Ltd. Easy-to-use floating toolbar sits on top of Microsoft Word (as well as other Windows applications) and provides high quality text to speech capabilities, plus talking spell checker, homophone feedback, and word prediction. Works with a scanner to convert handouts, documents and books into Word documents. Easy to customize character, line and paragraph spacing. Compatible with Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8 and 9. A unique feature allows ClaroRead Plus to echo
back words and phrases dictated using Dragon NaturallySpeaking.

ClaroRead Plus $229.00        
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Bundle: ClaroRead Plus + Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional + LAB Lessons Tutorial + Look & Learn Video for Dragon: This bundle includes ClaroRead Plus 2008, Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred 10, LAB Lessons Tutorial for Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 and iPod/Media File Training video. Dictate text with echo feedback of words and phrases. Tutorial and training video will help you get up and running quickly with Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Look & Learn Video runs on iPod or computer and links to tutorial. Windows only.

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ClaroRead Premium

ClaroRead Premium By: Claro Software, Ltd. Run ClaroRead Plus directly from USB memory stick. Does not install any files on the PC. $289.00

                                                                           


WriteOnlineWrite:Online by: Crick Software. WriteOnline is an online word processor which has built-in tools for writing support. Students can use its integrated speech, word prediction, word banks, and writing frames to help them write - at home and at school.
Students can save documents online. Clear, realistic speech. Word banks. Integrated word prediction.


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Flip Automatic Page TurnerFlip Automatic Page Turner by: AbleNet. User presses a button or a switch to turn a page. Move forward and backward through  book with pause option. Single-Switch automatic scanning or two-switch direct selection. Dwell time can be set to turn pages continuously. Easy to set up - in less than 2 minutes a book can be installed and page turning can begin at the user's page. Flip accepts a full range of book and magazine sizes, up to 1.18" thick. Portable.

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Writing with Symbols 2000
Writing with Symbols 2000
by: Mayer-Johnson Co. This program is a creativity tool for teachers and parents. Just by typing, you can create the following: picture stories for emerging readers, picture strips to use with reading books, everyday class curriculum to help with the inclusion of a special student, picture directions, picture recipes, and picture schedules. Over 3800 picture symbols (each in black and white or color). Windows CD

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