News-2-You Newspaper

News-2-You is a fun, weekly, online, interactive newspaper for beginning readers that is available from the district's Assistive Technology web site.

There are three levels of information:

• Simplified Edition: 6-8 pages including 2 pages of text with pictures/symbols and simplified activity pages.
• Regular Edition: 16-22 pages including 8-12 pages covering a current event, a recipe, a joke, activity pages and more.
• Higher Edition: 18-25 pages done in paragraph format with no symbols and more activity pages at a higher ability level.

Check it out! http://dww.madison.k12.wi.us/es/SpecEd/at/index.htm (Intranet link)

Read & Write Gold

Read & Write Gold is a software program that supports reading and writing skills. It has the ability to read text — on screen, from the Internet, scanned materials, etc. It has word prediction, a talking dictionary, a talking calculator, as well as a Spanish translator.

This is available to any student in the MMSD through the district server. It can be installed on computers at your school through a work order submitted to Technical Services.

Two manuals as well as six head sets are available in each school's LMC. There also is a short video tour after each icon on the toolbar.

Detailed information is available at the following websites: http://dww.madison.k12.wi.us/es/SpecEd/at/index.htm (Intranet link) or http://www.texthelp.com.