Read&Write for Google:
What the app does:
Read&Write for Google offers a range of support tools to help learners gain confidence with reading and writing, such as:
- Hear words and passages read aloud with easy to follow along color highlighting.
- See the definition of words explained and with picture dictionaries
- Hear text translated into other languages
- Provides suggestions for the next or current word as you type.
- Turns words into text as you speak
- Highlights text in documents or the internet and collects the information to use in other documents
- Simplifies and summarizes text on web pages
How this tool could be used in education:
Read&Write for Google could be used in the classroom to help new readers and writers by boosting their confidence and offering them support in areas they struggle with. The tool has a feature that suggests words that students can use while writing to make their work flow smoothly and make sense. Students who struggle with writing or are slow writers can use the words to text feature, they read a passage to the app and the app converts what it heard to text. Students what are beginning readers and are struggling to pronounce a word can use the read aloud feature and have the word they are unfamiliar with read aloud to them so they can grasp the pronunciation, they can also use the definition feature to learn the meaning of that word so they can apply it in future contexts. In addition, this web tool has the ability to highlight words while it reads them aloud so students can follow along with the reader. ESL students of ELL students can use the app to translate English words that they are unfamiliar with to their native language so they can understand the meaning of the word and make a connection to the new word to a word in their own language that they are familiar with.
How this tool could remove or reduce barriers for certain learners:
As I said previously this tool can reduce barriers for ESL or ELL learners because it has the ability to translate words in English that they are unfamiliar with into words in their native language so they can form connections between the two words. This tool can also support inexperienced readers or even dyslexics by using the read-aloud feature to correct their reading miscues and help them with pronunciation. The tool can also assist slow writers by utilizing the words to text feature, students just need to read a passage to the app and the app turns into text. The app assists new writers by suggesting words for the student to use.
Read&Write for Google does not have a required age for users.
Read&Write for Google:
What the app does:
Read&Write for Google offers a range of support tools to help learners gain confidence with reading and writing, such as:
- Hear words and passages read aloud with easy to follow along color highlighting.
- See the definition of words explained and with picture dictionaries
- Hear text translated into other languages
- Provides suggestions for the next or current word as you type.
- Turns words into text as you speak
- Highlights text in documents or the internet and collects the information to use in other documents
- Simplifies and summarizes text on web pages
How this tool could be used in education:
Read&Write for Google could be used in the classroom to help new readers and writers by boosting their confidence and offering them support in areas they struggle with. The tool has a feature that suggests words that students can use while writing to make their work flow smoothly and make sense. Students who struggle with writing or are slow writers can use the words to text feature, they read a passage to the app and the app converts what it heard to text. Students what are beginning readers and are struggling to pronounce a word can use the read aloud feature and have the word they are unfamiliar with read aloud to them so they can grasp the pronunciation, they can also use the definition feature to learn the meaning of that word so they can apply it in future contexts. In addition, this web tool has the ability to highlight words while it reads them aloud so students can follow along with the reader. ESL students of ELL students can use the app to translate English words that they are unfamiliar with to their native language so they can understand the meaning of the word and make a connection to the new word to a word in their own language that they are familiar with.
How this tool could remove or reduce barriers for certain learners:
As I said previously this tool can reduce barriers for ESL or ELL learners because it has the ability to translate words in English that they are unfamiliar with into words in their native language so they can form connections between the two words. This tool can also support inexperienced readers or even dyslexics by using the read-aloud feature to correct their reading miscues and help them with pronunciation. The tool can also assist slow writers by utilizing the words to text feature, students just need to read a passage to the app and the app turns into text. The app assists new writers by suggesting words for the student to use.
Read&Write for Google does not have a required age for users.
