Reading Difficulty
Power Tools

It is like having a language teaching assistant in your class!

This Google Docs extension gives you the tools to really help EAL students and any student with a smaller vocabulary. The tools include:

  • Low Frequency Word Highlighter - See which words are likely to be difficult

  • Type of Speech Highlighter - See different parts of speech

  • Difficulty Guide - This tool analyses the text in your doc and gives you a guide to reading time, difficulty, reading age and sentence complexity.

  • Low Frequency Table - This will add a table of low frequency words to your doc to enable you to add notes and for students to look them up in the dictionary.

  • Create a Google Sheet of low frequency Words - This tool will enable you to add these words to your planning, pre-teach key vocabulary and give handouts.

English, SEN & EAL teachers have told me that this could save you up to 30 hours of planning per year! So it's well worth spending a little time getting to know RDPT.

Pressing Open the Beta will make a copy of the doc including its scripts for you to use in your Google Drive.

Privacy Policy

You are in full control of all the data. The script is only accessing data you yourself have access to. No data is sent anywhere, except between you and Google. No matter if you create a copy of my doc or my scripts, I will never gain access to any of your data. All data reading and writing is done by you on your own account.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.