Supportive Resources

Type

Examples

Presentational

• Text presented in ways that meet individual student needs
• Choice of font style and size, background color, amount of text

Navigational

• Easy movement from one part of the document to the other
• Intertextual links (links to specific location in another document)

Transitional

• All text can be spoken aloud
• Definitions for unfamiliar words
• Translations for unfamiliar words or dialects.

Illustrative

• Photographs (people, items, places, documents),diagrams, maps

Summarizing

• Condensed way of viewing the some aspect of the document
• Provides overview of the document content from a different perspective

Enrichment

• Elaborated Pictures
• Alternative versions of the same event

Instructional

• Prompts for

Notational

• Historian's Notebook

Collaborative

• Student Forum