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Students with dyslexia have learning differences which can be supported with a variety of appropriate technological support tools improving their overall performance. Read&Write tools allow students with dyslexia to be equal participants in learning experiences. QP texthelp" Read&Write for Google Chrome™ read&write Support Tools for Students with Dyslexia 519 Read&Write for Google Chrome Support Tools What the tool does How it can help Text to Speech Reads text aloud with dual color highlighting and choice of several natural-sounding voices. Settings let you customize the speed of text reader. Hearing and seeing the words read aloud offers students with dyslexia independent exposure to vocabulary and more complex text. Comprehension increases for this reason as students are not struggling with decoding. Adjustable reading rate benefits learners. Hover Speech Reads text on websites in Chrome without highlighting. Hovering over the text will initiate the reader. Can be set to read one sentence at a time. In order to have words, phases, or linked article titles read aloud without accidentally hyperlinking, providing more options of what can be read aloud on web pages. Click to Speak 4 Reads one sentence at a time within a PDF aloud one sentence at a time by clicking on it. Students have more control of how much text is read without highlighting the text to be read within a PDF document. Talking Dictionary |j m Provides definitions to improve comprehension and word choice with writing. For support during reading, each and every definition can be speech enabled. Picture Dictionary * Displays images from Widgit® Symbols to help support word identification, fluency and understanding. For quick help with word identification, pictures can also help with recognizing words, especially those with multiple meanings. Screen Masking | e Provides customizable ways to tint your whole screen using a reading light line that follows your mouse pointer, use a color overlay, use a color overline or underline. Customizable colored overlays, remedy visual processing impairments when reading, especially if they experience 'swimming' words: the surrounding sea of text will be less distracting. Line guides improve focus while reading. 1

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Students with dyslexia have learning differences which can be supported with a variety of appropriate technological support tools improving their overall performance. Read&Write tools allow students with dyslexia to be equal participants in learning experiences.

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Read&Write for Google Chrome Support Tools

What the tool does How it can help

Text to Speech ► Reads text aloud with dual color highlighting and choice of several natural-sounding voices. Settings let you customize the speed of text reader.

Hearing and seeing the words read aloud offers students with dyslexia independent exposure to vocabulary and more complex text. Comprehension increases for this reason as students are not struggling with decoding. Adjustable reading rate benefits learners.

Hover Speech Reads text on websites in Chrome without highlighting. Hovering over the text will initiate the reader. Can be set to read one sentence at a time.

In order to have words, phases, or linked article titles read aloud without accidentally hyperlinking, providing more options of what can be read aloud on web pages.

Click to Speak 4 Reads one sentence at a time within a PDF aloud one sentence at a time by clicking on it.

Students have more control of how much text is read without highlighting the text to be read within a PDF document.

Talking Dictionary |jm Provides definitions to improve comprehension and word choice with writing.

For support during reading, each and every definition can be speech enabled.

Picture Dictionary * Displays images from Widgit® Symbols to help support word identification, fluency and understanding.

For quick help with word identification, pictures can also help with recognizing words, especially those with multiple meanings.

Screen Masking |e Provides customizable ways to tint your whole screen using a reading light line that follows your mouse pointer, use a color overlay, use a color overline or underline.

Customizable colored overlays, remedy visual processing impairments when reading, especially if they experience 'swimming' words: the surrounding sea of text will be less distracting. Line guides improve focus while reading.

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Practice Reading Aloud

ft Allows students to practice reading aloud and record themselves reading text they select from Google Doc or webpage, use support tools, listen to their recordings, and send one to their teacher.

Students need to practice the ability to read text with sufficient speed and accuracy to support comprehension including prosody. Students can practice as many times as needed to feel comfortable.

Screenshot Reader p ™ ™ ■Lli Converts text embedded in pictures, diagrams, tables,

charts, maps, graphs, ads online, into accessible text through OCR, allowing for reading aloud.

This tool will allow almost anything to be read aloud for students but especially helpful for inaccessible PDF's and other "pictures containing text."

Voice Note Records a short audio file (one minute or less) of your voice, and inserts it into a Google Doc as a comment. Multiple Voice Notes can be made per document.

This gives students a way to immediately record their thoughts, questions, connections, etc. without keyboarding. Voice recorded notes can be shared with others.

Word Prediction Provides word suggestions as you type and will suggest the next word you may wish as well. Support for the words suggested can be enhanced if using the Picture Dictionary at the same time.

Develops writing skills and helps construct error-free sentences more easily. Each word suggested is said aloud upon mousing over for better word recognition and self-correcting.

Talk&Type (Speech Recognition) O Turns the spoken word into text by dictating into a

microphone. Recognized a variety of languages and dialects.

Speech to text empowers students to get their thoughts down in writing, allowing for the use ofText to Speech and Check It to help catch errors.

Web Search P* Highlight a word, phrase, or topic and click the icon, and a Google search will open in a new tab.

Facilitates finding additional information or images by doing a Google search on a topic without having to open Google, copy and paste topic or accurately type desired text into search bar.

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Highlighters &&& Allows users to highlight and color code sections of text on a page, to facilitate summarizing, categorizing

Using a color-coding system can facilitate organizing and collection of key information to be used to

& and higher order skills. answer questions, create a study guide or support for writing.

Collect Highlights Collects your highlights into a new Google Doc.

Click on the icon and select which colors to collect, as well as how to sort them.

This organizational tool can be so helpful for gathering or isolating information for specific reasons. This makes text analysis and other higher level skills much easier.

Vocabulary List Builder

Builds a four-column table of selected vocabulary words in a Google Doc, including selected words, dictionary definitions, images from Widgit Symbols, and a column for notes.

Students can self-select new or difficult terms to create their list. Once it is built, additional columns and categories can be added/modified to contain the most helpful information for each learner.

Audio Maker Converts selected text into an audio file, e.g. MP3, which will be automatically downloaded and can then be saved or shared in Google Drive.

Recordings of reading assignments can increase background knowledge and comprehension of assigned texts in one of the easiest ways for students with dyslexia. This is of particular benefit to auditory learners.

Check It(Spelling Check+more) 0 A proofreading tool that checks for spelling errors,

grammar and confusable word errors, and making suggestions that can be. Check it suggestions use a phonetic map so spelling by sounding the word out will likely find the word they are looking for.

Spelling is especially challenging for students with dyslexia. Having a tool that will not only check for spelling phonetically, but also alert students to homophones, some punctuation and capitalization errors can promote independence with writing.

Simplify Removes clutter from web pages and places the simplified text into a new tab. Change the amount of text displayed.

Removes distractions of advertisements, photos, diagrams, maps, etc. allowing for better focus on the text. Contrast controls are also available.

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Push PinAnnotation ¥

Allows you to insert notes, instructions or helpful hints on your PDF. Leaves a red pushpin icon wherever the annotation was made.

For organization, a pushpin can be used as a bookmark, a place to make notes about the reading, or reminders.

TypewriterAnnotations T Allows you to type text directly on your PDF. Use the

additional options to change font size or color, save, delete, reposition or play back your annotation.

Great for note-taking and completing worksheets and easy to use with Talk&Type and Word Prediction to help.

PDF Comment © Allows you to comment on your PDF just as you can do on a Google doc. Use the Play button to hear comments read aloud.

To eliminate typing, students can use Talk&Type or Voice Notes. If they choose to type, Word Prediction is available for support. A link to an image or link to an additional website can be placed in yourComment.

Freehand Drawing 6 Allows you to draw or freehand annotate on yourPDF. Use the additional options provided to customize the color and thickness of the line.

Further allowing students to interact with text by drawing and marking up information allowing for color choices to help remember information or indicate importance.

Shapes Drawing + —*

* —*Allows you to draw squares, circles and lines on your PDF. Use the additional options provided to customize the line color, fill color and border line thickness.

Another tool to interact with text by using shapes to answer question, diagram information, or indicate importance.

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