UDL Editions by CAST

25 Oct 18

C Reed

26 Jun 18

erindula

With this resource you can select a text such as The Gettysburg Address and choose the level of support. Interactive questions on key points and immediate feedback for the learner can be provided. You can choose minimal, moderate, or maximum support level to create deeper comprehension. I really like how students can click on vocabulary terms. There is a limited selection of texts however, so I may try to incorporate some of this strategies myself. I already create thoughtful questions for texts, but I like the idea of stopping periodically throughout the reading for this. This would make the reading more interactive and engaging. This could make difficult primary sources in my World History class more readable. I think that this resource could be useful for students with reading disabilities and ELL students because it slows the pace and allows for deeper comprehension. I would like if there was a way have the word's definition to pop up in Spanish when you click on it.

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20 Jun 18

kevinfire80

Very supported for EL and learning impaired students. It represents information in multiple formats and media; it provides multiple pathways for students' strategies and expression; it provides multiple ways to engage students' interest and motivation, and gives the user to choice of difficulty level.

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27 Feb 18

allienuttall

Publicized by Google around the world, UDL Editions is a model for presenting classic texts from world literature in a flexible online interface with just-in-time, individualized supports for struggling and expert readers alike.

Social Studies

13 Apr 17

zinebchehaima

Books read aloud to students, highlights information, gives you options how you want the book read. Has accommodations for different students.

11 Apr 17

mbram1

I love this! It's a site that allows you to read interactive books, and learn about different parts of the books. it also allows students to highlight, and hear the book read out loud.

27 Jan 17

mrslawrence23

27 Oct 16

majimen

13 Oct 16

Jen Green

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14 Jul 16

Susan Saunders

"UDL Editions take advantage of the flexibility of digital media to reach and engage all learners. Leveled supports and the Texthelp Toolbar balance challenge and support for each learner, ages 10 and up. Select your book to get started!"

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04 May 16

raemeechevy

UDL Editions take advantage of the flexibility of digital media to reach and engage all learners. Leveled supports and the Texthelp Toolbar balance challenge and support for each learner, ages 10 and up. Select your book to get started!

Why UDL?
The text-to-speech feature in UDL Editions is an excellent example providing options for visual information. Press "play" in the toolbar to hear the story read aloud. This feature not only benefits students who are blind or visually impaired, but students who are struggling readers or who are English Language Learners as well.

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20 Apr 16

moodyfvs

28 Feb 16

Steven Knight

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24 Feb 16

cecepyles

ebooks, tools for enhanced reading materials

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brianne_white

Students explore 7 books at a fourth grade level. Based on the text the level of difficulty of response questions changes, individualizes student learning. Helps to identify different literary techniques that are used throughout the text. Also, the tool provides pictures to help define vocabulary, which is helpful for low or ELL students.

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ali_cummings

UDL Editions is a free resource tool for teachers that turns regular texts and books into digital text with interactive tools and cognitive coaches to meet the various needs of the reader.

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23 Feb 16

tsullivan3

Great website for reading and writing. Also provides resources for ELL and lower level learners. Has many resources to aid comprehension and strategies when reading.

Reading_LA

17 Oct 15

teachergreg

This is a very helpful tool for reading difficult material. It lets you select the amount of assistance it provides while you read the material on the screen. As you read though the material, items are clickable to obtain more information. Instead of going to a different source for assistance, it is is on the same screen. It helps with items such as vocabulary definitions and literary elements. I see this having value for all students. If a student is reading difficult material like Shakespeare, they can easily click on items to find more information. If an ELL student is using this tool, they can easily look up a word to find the meaning and continue to stay on track with the assignment. Overall this tool will keep the students engaged and focused on the material.

Example:
As mentioned above this can be used with teaching Shakespeare. The tool could be used to help students remain focused on their assignments and not frustrated. If I were to assign a poem such as Sonnet XVIII by William Shakespeare, this tool could be valuable. The students could slowly read each line and click for help if they need it. ELL students can click on the feature for the maximum amount of help and students strong in Shakespeare writing can use the feature with less assistance. This tool will even the playing field for the diverse range of students in my class.

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14 Oct 15

Jay Callanan

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13 Oct 15

Bryandra Bell

This resource found on the UDL guidelines website. It has functions that all for stories to be read aloud. It was chosen because of its capabilities to help students with reading. I can use it to help my ELL students with their English and develop in their comprehension skills.

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jperry18

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11 Oct 15

shariry

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08 Oct 15

mkolinich

UDL CAST includes books and guiding questions to for learners.

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Angie Faraci

Reading books interactive

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06 Oct 15

Michael Oquendo

SDR-online books that provide much support.

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01 Jul 15

David Holt

UDL Editions take advantage of the flexibility of digital media to reach and engage all learners. Leveled supports and the Texthelp Toolbar balance challenge and support for each learner, ages 10 and up. Select your book to get started!

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19 Mar 15

dtaylormedia

UDL Editions take advantage of the flexibility of digital media to reach and engage all learners. Leveled supports and the Texthelp Toolbar balance challenge and support for each learner, ages 10 and up. CAST is a non-profit research and development organization dedicated to Universal Design for Learning (UDL). UDL research demonstrates that the challenge of diversity can and must be met by making curriculum flexible and responsive to learner differences.

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11 Feb 15

Kristin Fiori

This website brings UDL into the classroom. It reminds me of a website that my school already uses - Razz Kids. On this website there are multiple books that students can be independently reading. Each student, no matter what reading level they are on, can be reading the same text. This website offers 3 levels of support ranging from maximum, moderate, and minimal support. Students who have more trouble with reading will not be standing out as reading an easier text to their classmates. These texts seem to be leveled somewhat high so it would be better for students who are 4th grade or higher. It would not work with my younger students. This website also focuses on comprehension rather than fluency. It does not promote students to use strategies for "word attack" when they come to a word that they don't know. Students can be assigned to use this tool at home for a homework assignment.

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31 Jan 15

kellidgegroup

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29 Jan 15

Andrea Damato

"UDL Editions take advantage of the flexibility of digital media to reach and engage all learners. Leveled supports and the Texthelp Toolbar balance challenge and support for each learner, ages 10 and up. Select your book to get started!"

UDL Assistive Technology

08 Dec 14

Mary Lee Xenos

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01 Dec 14

KRISTA WYMAN

The UDL Editions by CAST is a site that helps support learners of all abilities and backgrounds. Each resource has built in links, highlighting,

This site is extremely helpful for all learners. It gives students access to rigorous texts with excellent supports. This would benefit students who qualify for gifted services that are also ELL students or dually diagnosed

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UDL Editions take advantage of the flexibility of digital media to reach and engage all learners. Leveled supports and the Texthelp Toolbar balance challenge and support for each learner, ages 10 and up. Select your book to get started!

16 Nov 14

Kim N

The site is UDL-focused, and increases literacy. Users choose an ebook from the site and then slect the level of reading support that they need. The site reinforces reading strategies. Thre is also a toolbar that students can use to accommodate the text (example-highlighting words in different colors). The site is targeted toward students age 10 and older.

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28 Oct 14

Jennifer Jones

17 Oct 14

Erin Zerba

This is an online tool to help with literacy by providing text-to -speech options and comprehension prompts for different levels of readers.

12 Oct 14

Dane Swanson

Reading with varying scaffolded prompts to help learners with disabilities.

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10 Oct 14

Dane Swanson

Reading with varying scaffolded prompts to help learners with disabilities.

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06 Aug 14

Norah Connolly

This UDL CAST resource has a collection of books available for students to hear read aloud allowing material to be more accessible to different types of learning needs.

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22 Jun 14

sharihumphrey

After going through the site I found that it has different levels for the level of the student. It also had links for defining words and phrases that an ELL or lower leveled student would need for clarification. This site would engage the students in their learning and it has the flexibility for the teacher to have different formats of the media.

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18 Jun 14

Devi Venugopal

Shared by Devi Venugopal. Though I did not see many books available on the site, the site would be a great tool to use with the students to teach them different techniques of reading which include predicting, questioning, summarizing, and visualizing. The level of support needed can be customized. Students can choose to read, highlight, have the document read to them and look up the meanings of underlined words. Teachers can also use this site to try and model some of their lessons the same way.

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kellicjones

his site was very neat in that it allowed to have as much or as little help needed per the students comfort level. They have words underlined that they could click to see the definition. Stop and think cues to help make sure they were understanding what they were reading. I would like to use this in my classroom and could see it helping those whos vocabulary and comprehension skills are low.

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12 Jun 14

hannajohanlin

05 Jun 14

Kim McCoy-Parker

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13 May 14

Jennifer Earl

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12 May 14

tkonto1

lexibility of digital media to reach and engage all learners. Leveled supports and the Texthelp Toolbar balance challenge and support for each learner, ages 10 and up. Select your book to get started!
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23 Apr 14

Lesley Reilly

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16 Apr 14

Robin Pelt

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13 Apr 14

Laura Tardivo

UDL Editions is a small library of audiobooks with a "texthelp" toolbar. The toolbar allows for access to text to speech, easy playback, ability to start and stop the text reader at any point, Spanish translations, click and search to look up parts of the text through google, a definition button and highlighters in multiple colors.

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27 Mar 14

george zwick

Strength:
a few books with pictures definitions, and activities.
Weakness:
Not many books and more of a digital cope of a book.
Use:
If you need to find a book children can read this has a small selection

Literacy XEDU-10005

23 Feb 14

Roberta Gentry

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08 Feb 14

Elsa Perez

How it could be used in the classroom: Children will read books using this webpage. This website has the option to read the text out loud. As it does so, each word is being highlighted. Students can read this story individually, as a group, and with or without teacher assistance. Then, teacher and students will discuss the story, the characters, and the different characteristics of it.
Illinois Learning Standards: 2.A.ECa engage in book-sharing experiences with purpose and understanding, 2.A.ECb look at books independently, pretending to read, 2.B.ECc with teacher assistance, identify main characters of the story
NETS standards: Demonstrate the ability to navigate in virtual environments such as electronic books,
simulation software, and Web sites. (6)

22 Jan 14

Karen Vitek

" UDL Editions take advantage of the flexibility of digital media to reach and engage all learners. Leveled supports and the Texthelp Toolbar balance challenge and support for each learner, ages 10 and up. Select your book to get started! "

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15 Dec 13

Mac Jackson

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Tracy Mitropoulos

ULD in action! I had this link in my Diigo from my Brown Bag presentation. I thought some may find it helpful, so I am sharing it here.

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Rosalind Forber

This collection is far from a vast library, but does serve as an example of what can be done with books to make them accessible for all learners. Portions of text can be selected to be read aloud (synthetic voice), and clicking on underlined vocabulary words takes the reader to an online glossary. The book about coyotes would have been very useful to us during our animal projects, and I will add that it to the list of resources for next year.

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04 Dec 13

Daniel Waldo

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25 Oct 13

Erin Lowry

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16 Oct 13

Todd Schaefer

UDL Editions provides readings that are supported based on reading ability. Supports include: reading strategies for comprehension, vocabulary, background and context, links to more information. Limited selection only!

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UDL Editions take advantage of the flexibility of digital media to reach and engage all learners. Leveled supports and the Texthelp Toolbar balance challenge and support for each learner, ages 10 and up.

09 Oct 13

Richard Liuzzi

UDL and David Rose are the shit

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20 Sep 13

Patti Porto

"UDL Editions take advantage of the flexibility of digital media to reach and engage all learners. Leveled supports and the Texthelp Toolbar balance challenge and support for each learner, ages 10 and up. Select your book to get started!"

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22 Aug 13

Sara Frey

each and engage all learners. Leveled supports and the Texthelp Toolbar balance challenge and support for each learner

15 Aug 13

Ms. Wells

This UDL site offers online texts that can be differentiated. Students choose between three levels of support as they read and interact with the text. It is a wonderful resource for multiple forms of expression, but it actually is a great resource for multiple means of representation too. There is a multimedia dictionary that if you click on a word you can read the definition, you can click text to speech and it can be read for you, and visual representations of the word are also provided. It does a wonderful job clarifying vocabulary using all forms of representation. I also liked that students could highlight the text as they are reading since there is so much emphasis on students highlighting specific parts of text to justify their thinking as part of preparation for MCAS. I think I would share with classroom teachers and MSN’s in my building. It would be a great, interactive, more engaging way of doing some MCAS prep that would meet the needs of all learners.

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01 Aug 13

Ben Pressley

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16 Jul 13

Chris Sloan

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30 May 13

Filip Goc

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22 Apr 13

Cheryl Wyatt

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13 Apr 13

Maria DeCicco

UDL audiobooks reach and engage all learners. Interesting leveled text that I can use for independent reading and assessing students' fluency.

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07 Apr 13

Vallory Darting

This is a site that offers flexible, digital media that can reach and engage all learners through scaffolded lessons (adjustable leveled supports) and a toolbar that can be used is much as need be. It also offers ways for teachers to build lessons using these supports and scaffolds when designing a unit or lesson.

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25 Feb 13

Ashley Hancock

16 Feb 13

Scott Hawk

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24 Jan 13

keloverton

UDL Editions take advantage of the flexibility of digital media to reach and engage all learners. Leveled supports and the Texthelp Toolbar balance challenge and support for each learner, ages 10 and up.

+Leveled supports for reading strategies
+Context-specific multimedia glossary
+Enrichment activities
+Multimedia resources for background information
+Texthelp Toolbar for text-to-speech, highlight and gather, dictionary and encyclopedia links, and translations between English and Spanish

sample texts:
~cultural non-fiction, folktake, "How Coyote Stole Fire"
~non-fiction article, "About Coyotes"
~fiction, selection from novella, "Call of the Wild"
~fiction, short story, "The Tell-Tale Heart"
~rhetorical non-fiction, a speech, "The Gettysburg Address"
~expressive non-fiction, poetry, "Sonnet XVII"

CAST is a non-profit research and development organization dedicated to Universal Design for Learning (UDL). UDL research demonstrates that the challenge of diversity can and must be met by making curriculum flexible and responsive to learner differences.

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23 Dec 12

Antoinette Przytulski

When here you are able to choose a book that is offered. While reading the book the program offers you the chance to click on vocabulary and get the definition. They will also give you reading lessons like on similes when used inside the text. Also, you can hit the stop and think and answer a question about what is happening in the story.

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17 Oct 12

Tracy Robinson

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14 Oct 12

Teresa Dubovsky

"UDL Editions take advantage of the flexibility of digital media to reach and engage all learners. Leveled supports and the Texthelp Toolbar balance challenge and support for each learner, ages 10 and up. Select your book to get started!"

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20 Sep 12

Beka Leaman

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20 Aug 12

Jennifer Crick

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25 Jun 12

Robert Wagner

UDL Editions take advantage of the flexibility of digital media to reach and engage all learners. Leveled supports and the Texthelp Toolbar balance challenge and support for each learner, ages 10 and up.

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06 Jun 12

Ann Baum (Johnston)

"UDL Editions take advantage of the flexibility of digital media to reach and engage all learners. Leveled supports and the Texthelp Toolbar balance challenge and support for each learner, ages 10 and up. Select your book to get started!"

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04 Jun 12

Craig Leach

Books, stories and research broken down into UDL scaffolding

UDL CAST

23 May 12

Susan Harari

eBooks reading literature

07 Apr 12

Kim George

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04 Apr 12

Cyndie Menard

eBooks

16 Mar 12

Katie Rector

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18 Feb 12

Lisa Thomas

31 Jan 12

Bruce Gramlich

CAST UDL reading literature assistive technology

02 Jan 12

Bruce Fryer

This website provides books that are ready for student exploration. The Texthelp Toolbar balance challenge and support for each learner. The website is designed for ages 10 and up.

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27 Dec 11

Cynde Snider

UDL books

07 Dec 11

Elizabeth Tabian-Sosin

presents classic texts from world literature in a flexible online interface with just-in-time, individualized supports for struggling and expert readers.

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03 Nov 11

Karen Hesse

Reading

01 Nov 11

Valerie Wilson

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29 Oct 11

Sandra Poto

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12 Aug 11

SSHS Resource Centre

Online books with text tools, glossary & other aids for the reluctant reader

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26 Jul 11

Maryann Molishus

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08 Jun 11

Megan Armstrong

Reading is not a one-way street! Great readers use strategic skills to pursue meaning in a text. Use the strategies here to help you understand and enjoy what you read. The more you practice using strategies while you read, the more rewarding your reading

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23 May 11

Brad Beck

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26 Apr 11

Christine Southard

CAST is a non-profit research and development organization dedicated to Universal Design for Learning (UDL). UDL research demonstrates that the challenge of diversity can and must be met by making curriculum flexible and responsive to learner differences.

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19 Apr 11

Virginia Glatzer

UDL Editions take advantage of the flexibility of digital media to reach and engage all learners. Leveled supports and the Texthelp Toolbar balance challenge and support for each learner, ages 10 and up. Select your book to get started!

12 Apr 11