Universal Design for Learning - Supports for Reading

Chrome Browser Add-Ins to make online text more accessible

• Evernote Clearly - Makes website text easier to read
• Evernote Webclipper - Clip websites, URL and highlighted text to your Evernote Notebook
• Text-to-Speech - with Read&Write
• Speak It - reads full page text

If you are in Kent County - use Premiere TTS tools for free 

Other ways to make text more accessible

Recording using Audacity

Posting to Soundcloud

Recording a book and posting to YouTube

Linking to text from website, blog, wiki

Grade Leveled Texts - http://www.raz-kids.com/

ReadWorks.org: This website is free and provides access to nonfiction passages organized by grade level, skill or strategy, and keywords.
Scholastic Action magazine’s Differentiated Articles: This is an intervention magazine for grades 6 to 12, and the link offers differentiated articles at three Lexile levels so you can differentiate in your classroom.

• Action (Grades 6-12 – Intervention)
• Scope (Grades 6-8)
• Storyworks (Grades 3-6)
• ART (Grades 7-12 Fine Art)
• The NYTimes UpFront (Grades 9-12)
• Choices (Grades 7-12 – Social Skills/Life Choices)