Very useful for students who are struggling readers and/or writers, English language learners, and for those with learning challenges such as dyslexia. Also very useful for students who do not struggle with literacy, as this extension offers many features to aid in organization of thoughts, summarization of information, and general study skills.
Read&Write can be installed right into your Chrome web browser to be used in GoogleDocs, PDFs, ePubs, and various webpages.
Speech to text for transcribing
Highlight text to hear it read out loud (pick different voices and speed)
Create vocabulary lists that include definitions and symbols
Voice notes to make audio comments within documents
Annotation tools (typewriter)
Study skill supports (highlighters, dictionary, picture dictionary, translator, fact finder)--> makes for fast and fun research
Screenshot reader allows you to read inaccessible texts
Hover speech (have text read allowed by hovering over words)
Reads foreign words in proper accents
Simplify page (remove clutter from webpages--> adjustable to see more or less information per page)
Font customizations and ability to add bookmarks to ePubs.
Word prediction to help reluctant writers
Coloured highlighters for collecting and summarizing key information