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| Strategy 24 | Strategy 25 | Strategy 26 |
| Strategy 27 | Strategy 28 | Strategy 29 |
| Strategy 30 | Strategy 31 | Strategy 32 |
| Strategy 33 | Strategy 34 | Strategy 35 |
Strategy 24: Personalizing Keyboards
Sample Tools
- MaxiAids Keyboard Labels
- APH Feel and Peel Stickers
- APH SENSEable Strips
- Chromebook Keyboard Shortcuts
- Microsoft Keyboard Shortcuts
- Apple Keyboard Shortcuts
- Microsoft SwiftKey
Related Resources
- ARTICLE – How to Customize Your Keyboard’s Feel, Look, and Function
- ARTICLE – Laptop Keyboard Stickers
- VIDEO – DIY Keyboard Stickers Decal | MacBook Keyboard | Fun Idea
- PODCAST – A.T.TIPSCAST Episode #56: Typing Tutors, Part 2
Strategy 25: Increasing Efficiency with Keyboard Shortcuts
Related Resources
- WEBSITE – Chromebook Keyboard Shortcuts
- WEBSITE – Keyboard Shortcuts in Office
- WEBSITE – 50 Keyboard Shortcuts That Work Across All Browsers
- WEBSITE – Customize Keyboard Shortcuts
- WEBSITE – Use G Suite Keyboard Shortcuts
Strategy 26: Composing with Onscreen Keyboards
Sample Tools
Related Resources
- ARTICLE – What Is a Virtual Keyboard?
- ARTICLE – A Research on Students’ Preferences for Mobile On-Screen Keyboard
- VIDEO – Unveiling the On-Screen Keyboard: A Digital Typing Revolution
Strategy 27: Developing Keyboard Proficiency with Silly Stories
Sample Tools
Related Resources
- ARTICLE – Keyboarding Skills: When Should They be Taught?
- ARTICLE – Keyboarding for Students with Handwriting Problems: A Literature Review
Strategy 28: Diversifying Output Options
Related Resources
- ARTICLE – Whole class Strategies to Support Students with Fine Motor Difficulties
- VIDEO – Magnetic Letter Tiles
Strategy 29: Generating Text with Alternative Writing Tools
Sample Tools
- Alphabet Eye Gaze boards and Alphabet Flip Charts (UNC Center for Literacy and Disability Studies)
- Maltron Keyboard
Related Resources
- ARTICLE – The SETT Framework: A Model for Selection and Use of Assistive Technology Tools and More
- ARTICLE – Write from the start with an “alternative pencil
- WEBSITE – Literacy for All Instruction: Alternative Pencils
- WEBSITE – Center for Literacy and Disability Studies Alternative Pencils
Strategy 30: Digital Scribbling for Emergent Writers
Sample Tools
Related Resources
- BOOK – Comprehensive Literacy Instruction for All: Teaching Students with Significant Disabilities to Read and Write by Erickson and Koppenhaver
- ARTICLE – The Developmental Writing Scale: A New Progress Monitoring Tool for Beginning Writers
Strategy 31: Converting Handwriting to Typed Digital Text
Sample Tools
- Chrome Onscreen Keyboard
- Apple Scribble
- Microsoft OneNote / Ink to Text
- Google Keep
- Equatio
- Goodnotes
Related Resources
- ARTICLE – The Effects of Handwriting Experience on Functional Brain Development in Pre-Literate Children
- VIDEO – Google Doc Convert Handwritten Notes to a Typed Google Doc – Quick Tip 92
- VIDEO – Transform Your Handwriting to Text, Shape or Math with Microsoft 365
- ARTICLE – Why Writing by Hand is Better for Memory
- ARTICLE – Why Writing by Hand Beats Typing (in 6 Charts)
Strategy 32: Producing Text with Speech
Related Resources
- VIDEO – How To Use Voice Typing In Google Docs
- ARTICLE – Dictation (Speech-to-text) What it is and How it Works.
- ARTICLE – Writing Acquisition and Modality-Effect of Speech-to-Text Technology: An Intervention Study with Students with Dyslexia
- ARTICLE – Technology-based Writing–Qualitiative Study of the Writing Process When Students with Dyslexia use Speech-toText
Strategy 33: Expressing Ideas 💡 with Emojis 🙂 and Abbreviations IRL
Sample Tools
- Emojipedia
- Emoji Copy
- Unicode Emoji Charts
- Emoji Keyboards in Chrome OS
- Internet Matters Texting Dictionary
Related Resources
- ARTICLE – Adolescent Emoji Use in Text-Based Messaging: Focus Group Study
- ARTICLE – How to Use Emojis in Teaching
- VIDEO – The Secret Language of Emojis: Decoding Your Child’s Digital World
Strategy 34: Constructing Text in Virtual Spaces
Sample Tools
Related Resource
- PODCAST – Writers of Worlds: National Writing Project’s Christina Cantrill & Jo Dillon
- ARTICLE – Digital Game-Based Learning Can Develop Students’ Literacy Skills and Meet Learning Standards in the US
- VIDEO – The Dragon Realm MinecraftEDU
Strategy 35: Boosting Output with Word Prediction
Sample Tools
Related Resources
- ARTICLE – How does the Microsoft Swiftkey Prediction Bar Work?
- ARTICLE – How to use Auto-Correction and predictive text on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
- ARTICLE – Word prediction technology: What it is and how it works.
