A Deeper Look: How Technology Can Enhance Written Communication Skills
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One of the first areas addressed in special education was writing. How excited we were to provide our student with word processors and eventually spell checkers! But it is time to take another look and determine just how technologies can help us help students develop real and vital components of written literacy. Some of these tools students will use: others we will use to create specialized lessons to help them learn or develop skills. This demonstration workshop will feature an organized presentation and discussion of low to high tech tools and strategies for creating lessons that develop written discourse. WeŽll look at composing sentences, handwriting that is legible, brainstorming and organizing, elaborating, expanding vocabulary use, using word banks when writing, spelling and spell checkers, mechanics, grammar basics, rubrics that work, and more. If technology can help teach the skill, weŽll find a way to make it work for you and your students in creative ways.
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