A review of an educational tool that supports Reading and Writing from multiple sources on multiple platforms from the company Text Help.
I have been using this tool for a few months and find that it is easy to use and navigate. Using the highlight tool coupled with the reader is particularly good. You can pick one of 4 highlighters or use each in turn for different themes. Then you can collect them to export to Microsoft word with the reference of the document. Instant notes for your research project.
Below is a short video introduction about the program and how it supports students.
Once the the Read Write program has been uploaded to the onto the PC, Tablet or laptop and has been logged into, the ribbon below, can be used to read documents to you from a word doc, web page and PDF. It can also read scanned documents, such as book pages, with the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of the text once you open in a text box.
At a glance these are the features
- Improves reading comprehension: hear web pages and documents read aloud with a choice of natural voices
- Improves accuracy of written work with spelling and verb checkers
- Helps students understand unfamiliar words with text and picture dictionaries
- Develops writing skills and confidence with word prediction and a grammar, spelling and confusable words checker
- Supports homework and independent research with study skills tools
- Turns documents and web pages into MP3 files for easy listening on the move
- Assists English Language Learners and pupils with English as a Second Language
- Accessibility features like screen tint give extra support to students with dyslexia and other literacy challenges
You can try all the great features of Read&Write here absolutely free for 30 days. After this trial period continue using basic features like text-to-speech at no cost – or subscribe for unrestricted access to all the help.
Reference
Read & Write (2019) Text Help. [Online] Available at
https://www.texthelp.com/en-gb/readwriteforedu/#