Read and Write for Google – Boosting Accessibility for Students in the Google Environment

Do you want to increase supports for struggling readers, struggling writers, students with learning disabilities and English language Learners in the Google Environment? Check out Read & Write for Google.

Read & Write for Google is a Chrome add-on that provides reading, writing, studying, and organizational support tools for the web and files in Google Drive. Some supports include:

• Hear text read aloud with dual color highlighting

• Have words explained with text and picture dictionaries and translated into other languages

• Get suggestions for the current or next word as you type with Word Prediction

• Turn speech to text in Google Docs

• Highlight and collect text; build vocabulary lists

• Simplify and summarize text on web pages

• Annotations, including typewriter tool

• Convert printed documents and inaccessible files into classroom files with Snapverter!

Check out the video's below to see the tool in action.