Practice Reading Aloud

Access

• Student can choose from a variety of material what they want to practice reading

• Student can practice in confidence/on their own time so less intimidating

• Reduces distraction of working with teacher in front of students so students can focus on task

Build

• Can scaffold assignments to get increasingly more difficult as student's reading/speaking improves

• Can practice until they feel they have mastered the passage

Internalize

• Can compare voice recording with past recordings to demonstrate improvement

Access

• Can use web or docs to display content

• Can use simplify page function to select only text

• Hover speech feature highlights words as it reads passage so student can have a model of what the words sound like together in a sentence

Build

• Can use speech to text function to have passage read aloud before practicing

• Can use with vocabulary list features to help with understand more difficult words

Internalize

• Speech to text helps guide information so easier to visualize when students practice reading

Access

• Can record and delete practice as many times as they want

• Uses device microphone, records and saves as audio file and can send via email

Build

• Can use vocabulary tools, speech to text and several other features as aids

• Can practice as often as you want and build fluency with reducing supporting features as fluency improves

Internalize

• Can compare initial recordings with current ones to realize improvement

• Can challenge oneself with more difficult passage once confidence and fluency is built