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Tools for Struggling Students

Technology tools for struggling students are essential. Give struggling students strategies to maximize their learning potential.

There are struggling students in every classroom.

There is also limited time and resources, so why not make the most of what we do have?

Integrate educational technology tools that provide support in your classroom.

Teacher Planning and Technology Tools

Helping teachers meet the needs of the students in their classroom is a priority.

By integrating technology in the classroom we can better support our struggling students.

I have started using Teacher Tacklebox and you have to try it.

All you do is choose your subject, then it continues to give you choices from a drop down menu until you are presented with a list of interactive online activities to use in your lesson planning!

There are a number of ways we can begin to easily implement using technology into our planning. Not everything has to be tried at once.

42eXplore
Thematic pathfinders for teaching all age levels.

Internet 4 Classrooms
A free web portal that provides assistance with finding high-quality internet resources for teachers.

netTrekker
Connects teachers to curriculum aligned resources and activities.

Technology for Special Needs Students

Students that have difficulty remembering things and staying organized are at a distinct disadvantage in our educational system.

Many of our special needs students have specific deficits in these areas. Educators need to provide a variety of organizational technology tools for struggling students to explore and use.

Backpack
Available from any computer, Backpack is a digital organizational tool.

Memo to Me
Free reminder service.

Zoho Notebook
An online note-taker.

Students Who Struggle With Reading

Reading Materials

Tiered reading assignments, allowing students to read to their personal interests, and providing audio support for struggling readers is critical. Many audio support files use talking web browsers, text-to-speech software, and text-to-MP3 files.

News-2-You
This used to be free, but is now available as a subscription. Still, it's a bargain! These special education newspapers are written as a rebus and can be listened to as well.

StarChild
Tiered reading for kids about the solar system. Also available in German, Portuguese and Italian!

Tar Heel Reader
Hundreds of online stories in many areas of interest. All stories can be speech enabled and there are many books available in different languages such as Arabic, Finnish, Swedish and Hebrew. Show the stories as a PowerPoint on the Smartboard!

Starfall
Teaching children to read using phonics. Interactive, reads the words and stories out-loud...your primary students will love this.

Vocabulary Support

How can you help students gain new words, concepts and use them correctly? Try these two sites.

VisuWords
A graphic dictionary and thesaurus - shows how words are derived and inter-relate with each other.

Voycabulary
Makes the words on any web page links for you to look up. Translation dictionaries make any page accessible for your ESOL students!

Students Who Struggle With Writing

These technology tools will help students who struggle with organizing their writing and using the writing process.

Eduplace
Graphic organizers to help students develop their ideas before writing.

ReadWriteThink
This link to the student materials leads to a wealth of tools for struggling students. Online resources for writing drafts and final products, as well as support for other areas of the curriculum.

Engage Struggling Students by Using Computers in the Classroom

Do you need learning activities that provide engagement in core learning tasks? Using the classroom computer is often superior to traditional pencil and paper method, which many struggling students do not produce their best work with.

ThinkFinity
Over 55,000 common core standards-based lessons from Verizon, many which are interactive. Provides engagement and immediate feedback - two things that are absolutely critical for struggling students.

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
Interactive manipulatives for mathematics for students of all ages. One of the best online math tools for struggling students .

SailOn
Subject area interactive Lessons Online. All subject areas, all grade levels.

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