Reluctant Readers

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As a teaser, here are a few of the Apps for Reluctant Readers our group outlines in our beautiful iTunesU course!! For more, visit the link or insert the course code above.

Reading - changing or enhancing text Liz
- NaviDys ($2.99)
Web browsing App for students with LD and visual impairments. Student can browse in a window that will look like everyone else's except they can adjust features like letter spacing, line spacing, font size as well as font style ( can be changed into dyslexia). This is an excellent and affordable app that can be used by a student at any grade level.
How To: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EPK_YjT87y4

- VoiceDreamReader (free Lite or $9.99)
Text reader program that is excellent for student who have an LD, visual impairment or dyslexia as well as students who struggle with attention. This App allows for adjustment of reading rate, change of voice, change font size, inverted text, text editing, distraction free reading, and highlighting with different colours.
How To: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WGNYsGVAL4g

Reading - Liz
- ReadIris (free Lite or $10.99)
This is a text scanner that educators can use to digitize text for completely accessible documents for all students (reluctant readers included). The documents created by this App are best used in ClaroPDF (detailed below). This App is an inexpensive replacement for Kurzweil.
How To:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4VH8aUcT32Q

- ClaroPDF (free Lite or $2.99)
This is a text reader and editor that allows the user to zoom, highlight text, annotate, use sticky notes, adjust the rate of speech, adjust the background colour, insert images, translate into some other languages and email or save the created file.
How To:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dho8Gfkfoos

- Prizmo ($9.99)
This is another Text reader that allows for multiple ways to interact with a text (similar to ClaroPDF) and is also allows for extensive language translations. This would be useful especially for the reluctant readers who come from a household that speaks languages other than English.
How To: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-kM1SO_6BfQ

- Qwiki (free)
This is a free search engine that is useful for reluctant readers, the visually impaired and anyone who would benefit from a more interactive way to research. The App creates a visual presentation and it reads information about the searched topic aloud.
How To: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x1NbfAi-J2Y