Google Read and Write
Boost reading and writing confidence. Offer support for Google Docs/web to all students - especially those with learning difficulties, or ELL/ESL. Read&Write for Google™ offers a range of powerful support tools to help students gain confidence with reading and writing, including:
- Taken from Google Chrome Store description
- Hear words, passages, or whole documents read aloud with easy-to-follow dual colour highlighting
- See the meaning of words explained with text and picture dictionaries
- Hear text translated into other languages
- Get suggestions for the current or next word as you type
- Turn words into text as you speak
- Highlight text in documents or the web and collect for use in other documents
- Simplify and summarize text on web pages
- Taken from Google Chrome Store description
Installing the extension to your Google accountEverything you need to know about Google Read & Write |
Looking for instructions to show you how to download an extension from the Chrome Store? This is a good visual explanation.
HPCDSB quick information page is another useful resource! This video is a great video which outlines the tools in Read and Write. If you would like to learn about a specific tool you can skip directly to it by choosing the bookmark at the beginning of the video. |