Bookshare

Bookshare makes reading easier. People with dyslexia, blindness, cerebral palsy, and other reading barriers can customize their experience to suit their learning style and find virtually any book they need for school, work, or the joy of reading. Reach out to the Director of Special Ed to get more info.

BrainPoP ELL

All BrainPoP products are available via our Clever portal. BP ELL has extensive lessons for English Learners best suited for 3rd grade and above. It includes quizzes and activities and tracks student progress. For younger learners, see BP Jr.

Chromebook Accessibility Features

There are several accessibility features built into Chromebooks including:

• Text-to-speech: Turn on the screen reader or Select-to-speak.
• Display: Turn on high contrast mode or screen magnifier, or change screen resolution or text size.
• Keyboard: Turn on sticky keys, on-screen keyboard, highlighting, keyboard repeat rate, word prediction. Learn how to type with your voice.
• Mouse and touchpad: Turn on automatic clicking, tap dragging, cursor highlighting, or change the cursor's size.
• Language

To find and turn on these tools, follow these simple steps:

Step 1: Find accessibility features

1. At the bottom right, select the time. Or press Alt + Shift + s.
2. Click Settings.
3. At the bottom, click Advanced.
4. In the "Accessibility" section, click Manage accessibility features.
5. Step 2: Turn on a feature

Step 2: Turn on a feature

Choose the accessibility features you'd like to use:

• Text-to-speech: Turn on the screen reader or Select-to-speak.
• Display: Turn on high contrast mode or screen magnifier, or change screen resolution or text size.
• Keyboard: Turn on sticky keys, on-screen keyboard, highlighting, keyboard repeat rate, word prediction. Learn how to type with your voice.
• Mouse and touchpad: Turn on automatic clicking, tap dragging, cursor highlighting, or change the cursor's size.

To change the language on the device:

• At the bottom right, select the time.
• Select Settings. Advanced.
• In the "Languages and input" section, select Language.
• Find the language you want to use.
• Optional: If you don't see the language you want, click Add languages. ...
• Next to the language you want, select More.
• Choose how you want to use this language:
• Show menus in this language: Select Show system text in this language, then select Restart. The next time you sign in, menus will show in the language you chose.

Turn translation on or off

By default, Chrome offers to translate pages written in a language you don't understand.

You can control whether Chrome will offer to translate web pages in a specific language.

1. On your computer, open Chrome.
2. At the top right, click More Settings.
3. At the bottom, click Advanced.
4. Under "Languages," click Language.
5. Next to the language you'd like to use, click More .
   • If the language isn't listed, add it by clicking Add languages.
6. Turn Offer to translate pages in this language on or off.

Keyboard Language Settings

1. At the bottom right, select the time.
2. Select Settings Advanced.
3. Optional: To add another keyboard language, select Language Add languages. Choose your language(s) and select Add.
4. In the "Languages and input" section, select Input method Manage input methods.
5. Check the boxes next to the keyboard languages you'd like to use.
6. Select Back .
7. Select the keyboard language you want to use. You’ll see "Enabled" listed under the current keyboard.
8. Optional: To see all your keyboard language options on your desktop, turn on Show input options in the shelf.

Switch between keyboard languages

If you have more than one keyboard language turned on, you’ll see the language you’re using next to your account photo.

1. At the bottom right, select the time.
2. Select your keyboard language .
3. Choose the keyboard language you want to use.

Note: You can also switch your language by pressing Ctrl + Shift + Space until you see the language you want. To switch back, press Ctrl + Space.

Set your spell check language

1. At the bottom right, select the time.
2. Select Settings Advanced.
3. In the "Languages and input" section, select Spell check.
4. Choose the languages you want to use for spell check.

Read more about Chromebook accessibility

Dreambox Math

DreamBox will track student progress and adapt to their learning needs.

Teachers should be using Dreambox data to create small groups and inform instruction. See META Level 3 of Dreambox to learn about using Dreambox data.

Epic! Online Books for Kids

Epic is an online library of e-books, videos and audio books that is excellent for supporting K-6 readers. Teachers will have to set up a free account to use it. Be sure to create an EDUCATOR account by using the Educator Account Page.

Note that Epic is only free at school. In order to use it at home, Epic asks families to purchase a monthly subscription. You can share that info with parents if you like.

Learn all about Epic in META

Libby

Libby is an audio and ebook app that gives you access to 1000s of books free through the public library. You must have a library card and have to abide by library return rules.

Go to https://meet.libbyapp.com/ to get information.

MindMup mind mapping

NewsELA

Moraga School District provides NewsELA Pro subscriptions to teachers and students in grades 3rd-8th.

NewsELA is adaptive. Over time, NewsELA creates customized reading levels for each student and presents them with articles at their current reading level.

Learn all about NewsELA in META

Quizlet for Red Words

RAZ Kids

Moraga School District provides Raz-Kids for all K-3 students. It provides leveled eBooks at 29 different levels of reading difficulty allowing students to listen, read and record themselves reading. Students access Raz via the iPad app or online.

Students then take a corresponding eQuiz to test comprehension and determine future instruction needs. Once a child has read ten or more of the leveled eBooks and passed each of the corresponding eQuizzes, they advance on to the next reading level where they have access to lengthier and more difficult text.

Contact Curriculum and Instruction for Raz Kids account info.

Read&Write extension for Chrome

Read & Write is a powerful but easy-to-use floating toolbar that provides text to speech, speech to text typing, a picture dictionary, an audio maker, word prediction and many other literacy support tools to help with reading and writing. It has tools that work in Google Docs, websites and PDFs.

Learn all about Read&Write in META

There is no set up needed, simply click the pencil in the upper left corner to select a narration language. Then the student can select a book to listen to in both their native language and English. When a student has finished a book, a simple activity might be to draw a picture of one thing from the book and label things in the drawing with English words learned in the story.

Voice Typing in Google Docs