Item
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Standard
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PixWriter Support
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Price
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1 Unit
Windows
SL-PITW
Macintosh
SL-PITM
5 Units
Windows
SL-PITLW
Macintosh
SL-PITLM
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Students learn to read independently.
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Picture It documents provide support and opportunities for
multiple readings of the same material.
Picture-supported text allows students to participate in choral
readings.
Easy-reading materials can be created which increase fluency and
reading levels.
The extensive graphic library includes line drawings for all
curricular areas.
Adapted materials provide a scaffold for emergent and struggling
readers.
The easy-reading level can be determined for those students who
are struggling with print, so they can begin to see themselves as
readers and experience success.
Silent reading time increases as students gain independence in
reading.
Behavior plans and social stories are meaningful to students
struggling with language and print.
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Students read a wide range of texts in a variety of genres and
for different purposes.
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All forms of print can be adapted using Picture It. Therefore,
students can read folk tales, fiction, poems, nonfiction, and
content-area passages.
Select Reader Mode so students can listen as the computer reads
the adapted literature.
Picture-supported text removes the fear of reading.
Visual supports help students communicate for a specific purpose
to a specific audience.
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Students learn vocabulary through picture support, text, and
speech.
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Graphic symbols reinforce and solidify word meaning,
word boundaries, and vocabulary expansion.
Picture support helps expand vocabularies for
synonyms.
The visual modality is important for some students
when learning new material, following directions, or
understanding concepts.
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Student comprehension increases.
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The graphics help students understand concepts.
Adapting materials using Picture It means that students read and
comprehend age-appropriate content.
Cloze activities can be created to assess comprehension.
Importing photographs, internet images, your own illustration, or
clip art to improve comprehension and reinforce important teaching
points.
By removing the barriers to reading, students increase fluency.
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Students gain fluency skills.
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Color coding phrases and parts of speech helps students chunk
word groups together.
Flashcards can be made for common sight words to be used in drills
and activities.
Documents can be reread in Reader Mode.
When stories are read by the computer, the words are highlighted.
Shared reading and partner reading activities are possible.
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Students increase word-recognition skills.
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Reading connected text helps students use context
clues to decode new words.
Sight-words are learned through multiple modalities--
voice-output, text, and graphics.
As word-recognition skills increase, students are
able to transfer that knowledge to their writing
assignments.
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