AI Tools to Support Literacy


AI is breaking down barriers, making literacy accessible to students with diverse needs. Text-to-speech and speech-to-text capabilities enable visually impaired or dyslexic learners to engage with written content effortlessly. This is already in use and has been for a long time, now these options are on any device for anyone to use, promoting inclusivity and fostering a passion for reading and writing.

Bard is Google's experimental, conversational, AI chat service. It is meant to function similarly to ChatGPT, with the biggest difference being that Google's service will pull its information from the web. 

Like most AI chatbots, Bard can code, answer math problems, and help with writing needs. 

Grammarly is a writing assistant that students can use to proofread and edit their documents. It checks for spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors, and it enhances vocabulary usage.
Hemingway App makes students'  writing bold and clear. The app highlights lengthy, complex sentences and common errors; if a student sees a 'yellow' sentence, they can shorten or split it. If they see a 'red' highlight, their sentence is so dense and complicated that their readers will get lost trying to follow its meaning.

Students can utilise a shorter word in place of a 'purple' one. They can move their mouse over them to get hints.


Adverbs and weakening phrases are helpfully shown in 'blue'. Students can delete them and pick better choices.


Phrases in green have been marked to show passive voice.


Students can format their text using the toolbar.


Students can also copy & paste something they are working on and edit away. Or, click the 'write' button and compose something new.

Magic School AI is an AI-powered education platform which aims to make teaching that little bit easier. 

Magic School AI promises to help educators save time, by automating the task of lesson planning. 

The powerful tool is already seeing use in real classrooms, with powerful grading functionality, and adaptive feedback for individual learning needs. It also offers educators AI-powered tools to proof read and summarise text using generative AI, similar to ChatGPT.