Read & Write for Google Chrome R&W4GC
Read & Write for Google Chrome R&W4GC
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a literacy support tool that offers help with everyday tasks like reading text out loud, understanding unfamiliar words, researching assignments and proofing written work.
Chrome extension: click "the purple puzzle piece" in your Chrome extensions
Youtube Playlist of features
Graphic above is missing Rewordify and Practice Reading Aloud and the Translator icon is different now.
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Use Read&Write to
Use Read&Write to
- Create more independent learners
- Motivate students to learn
- Help students to study smarter
- Support students with learning disabilities
- help all learners be successful!
Read&Write for Google Chrome - A how to guide for students 2:46
Read&Write for Google Chrome - A how to guide for students 2:46
Great exercise that walks students through using R&W4GC features! Fun, fall literacy resource that can be used by staff with their students (Recommended grade levels 4-6 +/-): 🍁Fall Poetry with Read&Write 🍁
texthelp academy - You’ll find everything from video tours and guides to formal training. If you’re a teacher, these resources will also help you to guide your students with our tools. Scroll down and choose your product, Read & write for Education, from the list to get started.
OrbitNote (the feature that reads PDF) helps to:
OrbitNote (the feature that reads PDF) helps to:
Make PDFs More Accessible and Actionable
Make PDFs More Accessible and Actionable
Teachers can easily convert printed text into a PDF with our one-click OCR scanning technology. OrbitNote then takes care of everything else, ensuring that students have access to the tools they need, such as text to speech, highlighting, vocabulary support and everything they need to succeed - across all class content.
New features Feb 2024! Settings Profiles (save different profiles for different applications)
Added over over 75 new online voices! More on both these new features here
Wonderfully intuitive and easy-to-use, Read&Write for Google Chrome™ provides personalized support to make documents, web pages and common file types in Google Drive (including: Google Docs, PDF & ePub) more accessible. It’s designed to help everyone engage with digital content in a way that suits his/her abilities and learning styles.
Read&Write offers a range of powerful support tools to help you gain confidence with reading, writing, studying and research, including:
Text-to-speech - hear words, passages, or whole documents read aloud with easy-to-follow dual color highlighting
Check-it proof reading
Practice reading aloud - students can record themselves reading, listen back, send to teacher (with the text included). Recordings are automatically saved in google Drive.
Text and picture dictionaries to see the meaning of words explained
With speech-to-text, dictate words to assist with writing, proofreading & studying
Word prediction offers suggestions for the current or next word as you type
Translator
Vocabulary builder - create personalized vocabulary lists
Collect highlights from text in documents or the web for summarizing and research
Create and listen to voice notes directly inside of Google Docs
Simplify and summarize text on web pages to remove ads and other copy that can be distracting
Audio maker - convert text to MP#, listen on the go
Web search - quickly look up a highlighted word or phrase on the web
Talk & type - speech to text
and more!
Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting
You need to grant access the first time you use R&W4GC: Allowing Permissions
The Read&Write for Google Chrome toolbar doesn't open/Granting Access
Some features not appearing on toolbar: Some features depend on the environment you are working in.
Voice Notes only works in Google Docs, Slides and Word Online so it won't show on toolbar in other environments (e.g., websites).
Rewordify and Hover Speech capability are only available on websites so won't be on your toolbar when working in other environments (e.g., Google Docs).
If you don't see OrbitNote in "Open With" in Google Docs PDFs, there may be multiple apps fighting over being the primary/default file viewer to open your PDF(s). Try turning off the option of opening in Kami (and any other apps you have that are set to open PDFs). Here's a Kami article that walks you through How to Enable and Disable Kami as Default File Viewer. Do the first step: un-check the "Automatically load files in Kami" option if you don't want Kami to be the default viewer, which should now allow Orbitnote to appear as an option in 'Open with'.
use OrbitNote’s brand-new math features to:
use OrbitNote’s brand-new math features to:
Write math problems just by speaking them
Transform handwritten math into a digital math problem, automatically
Create and edit equations with ease
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