Reading Tasks

Common barriers to independently, efficiently and effectively reading print based reading materials and even some digital text include fluency issues, decoding difficulties, unfamiliar vocabulary and/or lack of background knowledge. Chrome offers a number of tools to help support these students.

TASK: Accessing print based materials

Chrome reading tools that have built in text to speech functions

Chrome extensions that support reading text aloud

Chrome ePUB readers

Chrome tools to access audio materials

Do you have a web page that you want to convert to an ePUB or Kindle format so that you can read it using a reading tool that uses that format? 

Do you need to convert Bookshare files into PDFs to use with Read & Write for Google?

Some tools to convert file format

Do you need to perform OCR (optical character recognition) on image PDFs so you can select text to be read aloud?

Performing OCR in Chromebooks

TASK: Comprehending what is read

Some tools to support understanding of unfamiliar vocabulary

Some tools to support development of key vocabulary, concepts and pertinent background knowledge

Some tools to modify reading content

Some resources that differentiate reading content

Some web resources to support reading comprehension

Looking for research on evidence based practice for reading instruction/learning?

Some Reading Research Resources