Writing Supports Windows

Spelling errors in the text are indicated with a red squiggly liine. You can find the Spelling and Grammar check on the Review ribbon. You will also find the Thesaurus on that Ribbon as well.

Read Aloud can be activated in most Microsoft applications.

• In Word, you find it on the Review ribbon.

• In Outlook, you find it on the message ribbon.

In PowerPoint, you will need to activate Speak. You can add Speak to your Quick Access Toolbar.

A step-by-step tutorial on how to use the Immersive Reader, which is inclusively designed to help all people with reading. Built-in, mainstream, non-stigmatizing and free! The Microsoft Immersive Reader is part of Word, OneNote, Teams, Flipgrid, Forms, Edge, Minecraft, Whiteboard and Office Lens.

Text suggestion is Microsoft's term for word prediction. It is a great tool for students with disabilities.

Use the dictate icon in the toolbar of Microsoft Word. Let students focus on their ideas rather than their typing.

You can easily enable this speech to text feature by pressing the window key and the H key on your keyboard. This works in any field that you can type in like a Google search field, a Google doc, a MS Word Doc, or Outlook.