Parents' Page
To be responsive to the interests of parents, HIAT has created a Parents Page. Here you will find PowerPoint slides of prior Parent TIPS trainings, as well as a variety of links to strategies to support reading, writing and organizational/study skills.
Presentations
- E-Books and Audio Books (1.96mb pdf)
Presented January 28, 2010 - Digital Reading at Home (1.46mb pdf)
Presented October 13, 2008 - Internet Resources for Parents (632K pdf)
Presented November 11, 2008 - Prewriting Using Graphic Organizers (565K pdf)
Presented December 9, 2008 - Helping Students Revise and Edit Using MS Word (842K pdf)
Presented February 10, 2009
UDL
- A UDL Introduction (764K pdf)
A slide show explaining the basics of UDL - Podcast with Denise DeCoste
- UDL Tool Finder
Helps you find appropriate AT tools to support a variety of needs - Examples of Putting UDL into Practice
Reading Resources
- Methods and Materials to Support Reading (175K pdf)
- What are text readers?
- Natural Reader - a free text reader
- Websites that have online books
Places to get digital text
Using Bookshare.org at home
- Registering Your Child to Use Bookshare at Home (101K pdf)
- Training webinars for parents
- Using Read:OutLoud Bookshare Edition
Writing Resources
- Methods and Materials to Support Writing Traits (199K pdf)
- Methods and Materials to Support Spelling (175K pdf)
- Methods and Materials to Support Handwriting (181K pdf)
Writing Strategies
- Quillsoft offers a free trial of WordQ word prediction software and SpeakQ speech to text software
- Summarizing Text Using Word (92K pdf)
- Guided Notes Using Word (96K pdf)
- Using the Internet to Find and Save E-Text (181K pdf)
- Graphic Organizer Diagrams in Word (49K pdf)
- Rocket Graphs (40K pdf) to encourage kids to write more and track their progress
- Sticky notes pre writing strategy (40K pdf) to help kids learn to organize their ideas before writing
Keyboarding
- Handwriting Speeds (49K pdf) to help determine if keyboarding is a functional alternative to handwriting
- Keyboarding Speed Log (230K pdf) to track progress with keyboarding
- Keyboarding Practice Log (168K doc) to track practice sessions
- Type to Learn 3 software (244K pdf) to build keyboarding skills
- Keyboarding websites comparison chart (228K doc)
Organization and Study Skills
- Methods and Materials to Support Learning and Study Skills (178K pdf)
- Simple Assignment Sheet (56K Word) A simple chart to organize assignments with a picture for each subject area.
- Detailed Assignment Sheet (24K Word) An organizer to help older students keep track of assignments.