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Read&Write from Everway (formerly Texthelp) is available to all staff and students in TVDSB. It contains a number of tools to help support reading, writing, editing, and research. Everway has provided a number of updated Read & Write video resources, which we have linked in the sections below, for your consideration.
By creating multiple profiles in Read&Write, students can adjust their settings once, and then quickly toggle from one profile to another in only a couple of clicks.
This may be especially helpful for students in French Immersion or working in multiple languages.
Text to speech tools used to listen to text on the page, either in a pre-created text, or as playback to review student writing.
Speech to text tool which turns your voice into text on the page.
Predicts the words being typed.
Allows any text on the screen to be selected and read aloud.
Checks your spelling, grammar and punctuation.
Dictionary gives definitions and picture dictionary shows a picture or symbol to explain the word.
Translates words, sentences, and paragraphs into another language.
Highlight words or phrases and then collect them into a Google Doc.
Build a list of highlighted words, definitions and picture definitions in a Google Doc.
Blocks distractions while you read by highlighting a small band of text.
Performs a Google Search on the highlighted word.
Record a short audio file (1 min or less) and insert in a Google Doc as a comment.
Allows you to select text and create an mP3 audio file.
This tool can be used to de-clutter webpages and simplify text.