Let us help you make the most of your student’s Bookshare account by providing resources for implementing Bookshare.
K through 12 educators and administrators:
Tips for successfully implementing Bookshare in your district
Learn how top Bookshare using districts incorporate these best practices to ensure more students have access to, and actively use Bookshare
Bookshare and the UDL Framework:
Bookshare is aligned with Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles. Learn more about how Bookshare fits into the UDL Model (PDF).
Reading Strategies:
Literacy strategies are essential for educators to engage learners and can be broken into three categories; before reading, during reading, and after reading. Pre-reading, or before reading, strategies are a way to prepare students to engage with the text and provides a purpose for reading. These strategies activate students’ knowledge, stimulate interest, and establish a purpose to maintain engagement. During reading strategies guide students in their search for meaning as they make connections, ask questions, and allow teachers to monitor their comprehension. Finally, after reading strategies help deepen, reinforce, and extend students’ learning.
Below are examples strategies that will help engage students in Bookshare books, and can be used across all content areas.
Before Reading:
- Vocabulary Development: (i.e., Trading Cards, Flip Books, Quick Draw, Pictionary)
- Build background knowledge
- Book Walk
- Setting a reading purpose
- For additional information, access our Before Reading Strategies Guide
During Reading:
- Graphic organizers
- Thinking maps
- Questioning stems
- Note taking
- Think-Pair-Share activities
- For additional information, access our During Reading Strategies Guide
After Reading:
- Writing reflections
- Questioning
- Graffiti boards
- Exit tickets
- For additional information, access our After Reading Strategies Guide
Partner Reading Tools:
Bookshare books can be read in a variety of ways and on a variety of devices.
Check out our Partner Reading Tools!
Professional Development Resources for Educators:
- Accessible Educational Materials and Bookshare through edWeb:
Bookshare teamed up with EALA to create a webinar about Making Accessible Educational Materials Available to Students Who Need Them. Join edWeb, it’s free, and you can earn CE certificates that are accepted for PD hours and teacher license renewal in 44 states
- Bookshare: Providing Accessible Materials for Students with Print Disability:
Bookshare teamed up with the IRIS Center at Vanderbilt University to create a PD module titled Bookshare: Providing Accessible Materials for Students with Print Disabilities. Create a free log-in and earn PD credits through the Iris Center.
- Navigating Accessible Educational Materials
The module Navigating Accessible Educational Materials from OCALI provides foundational information about AEM and procedural guidance for providing accessible formats as required by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). A micro credential is available through AT Forward.
The AEM Navigator facilitates the process of decision-making around accessible formats of educational materials for individual students. It assists teams in making informed, accurate, and multi-step decisions related to determining a student’s need for accessible formats, selecting the format(s) needed, acquiring materials, and determining the supports needed by the student, family, and school staff.
K through 12 families:
Check out this video for parents to get started with Bookshare:
Check out this short video with implementation strategies for you to use with your students at home.