Read & Write Literacy Software

Given the diverse population of students that we work with it’s important to rely on a differentiated approach to instruction. Many of our students benefit from accommodations through technology where they can access programs like text-to-speech software to organizational programs like Read and Write for Google Chrome.

One of our goals in Learning Services is to promote greater student engagement and we recognize the need to incorporate the use of technology when addressing the needs of our identified students. One way to achieve this is through the delivery of web based literacy support tools like Read and Write for Google.

Read&Write for Google Chrome™ offers a range of powerful support tools to help students gain confidence with reading, writing, studying and research, including:

• Hear words, passages, or whole documents read aloud with easy-to-follow dual color 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

• Create and listen to voice notes directly inside of Google Docs

• Simplify and summarize text on web pages