Desire: Comprehend and remember text based information
Online strategies
- Chunk text using a digital reading window
- Highlight key information with a digital highlighter
- Insert comments to restate and remember the main concepts
- Create an outline of the reading material
- Use graphic organizers to make connections
- Text summary tools and text simplification tools
Offline strategies
- Chunk text using a paper cutout or reading window
- Highlight key information with a highlighter or removable highlighter tape
- Annotate the text on transparent sticky notes
- Create an outline of the reading material
- Use paper graphic organizers to make connections
- Read high interest, low readability books (publisher list, list of books for adults)
Challenge: Reading is difficult or fatiguing
Online strategies
- Text-to-speech technology
- Optical character recognition (OCR) paired with text-to-speech
Offline strategies
- Audiobooks
- Take turns reading paragraphs with a partner
Desire: Keep your place while reading
Online strategies
Offline strategies
- Use your finger to track
- Place a ruler or bookmark under the line of text
- Isolate text using a paper cutout or reading window
Desire: Maintain engagement in reading
Online strategies
- Page simplification to remove distracting online elements
- Quiet notifications setting
- Text-to-speech technology
- Digital reading window
Offline strategies
- Distraction free environment
- Use a do not disturb sign
- Take turns reading aloud with a partner
- Audiobooks
Desire: Understand vocabulary
Online strategies
- Digital dictionary
- Picture dictionary
- Web search tool for images and information
- Syllables and parts of speech feature
- Translation tool
- Pronunciation tool
Offline strategies
- Dictionary or thesaurus
- Picture/visual dictionary
- Use pictures and visuals around text to support comprehension
- Translation dictionary
Desire: See text clearly
Online strategies
- Increase spacing between words, lines, or letters
- Personalize font type and size
- High contrast theme, dark mode, or different background color
- Zoom tool
- Magnification tools
- Adjust screen brightness
Offline strategies
- Large print books
- Color transparencies
- Page magnifier
