Diverse Learning

Read & Write For Google

This year SCS has bought a site license for every student of the Google extension.- Read & write for Google. All students  Yrs 3-6 will be schooled in its use this term. 

One of the best and most full-featured extensions is Read&Write for Google, created by Texthelp. The extension takes different forms depending on the content with which students are working. For websites, a pop-up toolbar is available with supports, like text-to-speech with synchronised highlighting, a talking dictionary, a picture dictionary, and annotation tools.

For the creation of Google Docs, the toolbar adds functions such as spellcheck, dictation and word prediction. If students are working with PDF documents within Google Drive, the Read&Write extension opens those documents in new tabs that contain text-to-speech tools, as well as various note-taking and annotation tools. Finally, there is an available add-on tool called Snapverter, which performs optical character recognition (OCR) on inaccessible text. By using the Snapverter add-on, students can convert photographs of hard-copy handouts into text that can be read aloud by Read&Write for Google. Snapverter is now part of a suite of tools. Just click on the dotted square.

More details can be found here

In-depth Video for Staff (18 min)

In-depth Explanation of Each Feature

Educators with an education email can get the paid version at no cost by filling out the form at: http://rw.texthelp.com/drive/home/RegisterTeacher                                 

Ms Janelle Schembri | Diverse Learning Coordinator