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Remember, extensions are mini programs installed in the Google Chrome browser to give you added features and abilities. Extensions can easily be accessed using a button next to the address bar, which enhances the current website being viewed.
Chrome Extensions for ELLs
Chrome Extensions for ELLs
This is great text-to-speech tool that students can use to help them while reading websites. This free Chrome Extension can read text in more than 50 languages. This does not translate the text but reads it aloud as if it was a native speaker from that language. Options allow you to slow the speech and change the voice.
How to use:
- Visit a website of your choosing.
- Select the text you want it to read.
- Then click the icon to start listening.
- When it is ready to read, the number of sentences is shown on the icon.
- To stop listening at any time click pause.
Students can click on any word displayed within the Chrome browser and instantly open a dictionary as well as hear a pronunciation. Options allow for language translations instead of definitions. This is extremely helpful for students struggling to decode words or comprehend complex passages.
Oxford Picture Dictionary is a Chrome extension that enables users to right-click on a word and quickly find an image that is representative of that word. To use the Image Dictionary extension just highlight a word on a webpage, right-click, and select "image search." The images that are shown come from Wikipedia. Image Dictionary is a handy extension for students to find an image to represent a plant, animal, or perhaps a broad topic.
The Free version is a Chrome Extension for Google Docs. It includes text-to-speech tools and translator that allow you to read Google documents aloud with dual-color highlighting, choose text-to-speech voice, change voice speed, translate words, and change translation language. There is a paid premium version that includes more neat features such as a picture dictionary, a talking dictionary, voice input and more. Teachers can get Read & Write for Google for free by registering and visiting https://rwchrome.texthelp.com/drive/Home/RegisterTeacher
This url shortener is an extension which allows you to shorten the current website URL with the URL Shortener right on the spot. It also allows you to make QR codes quickly and easily so you can display for students to see and access.
This provides a better way to read online, turning any web page into a comfortable reading view right in your web browser. It eliminates ads and other information that can be confusing for a student.
Have you’ve ever wondered how to hide YouTube comments? Then, this extension is for you! Just download it, enable it, and voila–the comments magically disappear. Note: You cannot turn the comment-hiding functionality off (but you can uninstall the extension through Chrome menu => Tools => Extensions, or use the Incognito mode).
Screencastify gives users the ability to record Screen videos using Chrome browser. Teachers can make tutorials for their class. Students can also use Screencastify to produce digital presentations. With ScreenCastify installed in Chrome users can record anything happening in a tab in the Chrome browser. Voice overs are supported and a pointer is included by default. Completed recordings can be saved to your computer or uploaded directly to YouTube.
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