Literacy

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.

Phone: 800-691-3476

Fax: 262-695-2504

Unique 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.

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

Phone: 800-691-3476

Fax: 262-695-2504

My 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

Clicker 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.

Clicker 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Limited Time Offer!

Buy one, Get one free – Buy one of the On Track Series titles and get a free CD-ROM of another in the series.

Offer valid until December 31, 2011

$ 65.95

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.

Inspiration 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.

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.

IRISCan 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

The 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.

The 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!

Write: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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