Boost reading and writing confidence for ALL students. Offer support for Google Docs/web to students
with learning difficulties, dyslexia or ESL.
Read&Write for Google Chrome is an extension that provides a range of useful support tools to help students gain confidence with reading, writing, and research. Once this feature is added to Chrome students will be able to:
- Hear words, passages, or whole documents read aloud with the words highlighted as they are read.
- Have the meaning of words explained with text and picture dictionaries.
- Have text translated into different languages (great for ESL and foreign language teachers).
- Turn words into text as they speak.
- Highlight text in documents or the web and collect for use in other documents.
- Create and listen to voice notes directly inside of Google Docs.
- Simplify and summarize text on web pages.
The district has purchased this extension, so all staff and students will have full access to this great tool. To begin
using Read&Write you will need to install the extension on your Google Chrome browser. If you need help with
adding apps and extensions a video tutorial has been created to guide you through this process [click here to watch].
If you would like to know the difference between Apps, Extensions, and Themes a short article has been put
together to help you make sense of it all [click here to read].
The Read&Write extension has already been pushed out to student Google accounts, so it should be available to
them once they login with their account to a Chromebook or into a Chrome browser.
Be watching for an opportunity to come see a demonstration of all the features of Read&Write in an upcoming
training.
