Read&Write vs. Sapling

Read&Write is especially well-suited to supporting students with reading accommodations during independent work, content-area instruction, and written-response tasks. In my 5th-grade classroom, one of the most effective scenarios is during science and social studies lessons, where students are expected to read complex informational texts independently. There can also be occasional challenges when websites, PDFs, or testing platforms are not fully compatible with all Read&Write features.

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Sapling is a great automated response system that helps you or your company respond to customer questions faster and with a higher level of quality. It is integrated into a number of the top CRMs and messaging platforms and it is easy to set up, train and use. I like that it improves efficiency and customer satisfaction and it serves as a great replacement for some of the more mundane and time-consuming parts of customer support.

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• Creates vocabulary lists for students that include symbols, definitions, and space to add additional notes or images (a staff favorite)
• Intuitive word prediction that supports spelling, grammar, and reduces the number of keystrokes needed
• Text-to-speech on any digital text using the regular reader or screenshot reader, making almost any content accessible

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• It is robust in nature and easy to handle in all terms regarding creating good content.
• Another best feature that I like the most that it easily finds out any possible mistake in my writing easily detects different errors and spelling mistakes within few seconds which is great.
• It is helping me to create best possible professional e-mails, to the point content and best writing experience.

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• I would like to use the practice reading aloud tool more, but the kids that I work with have a hard time understanding the concept. I think that, while there are a lot of tools available, sometimes they are hard for younger students to understand.
• The hover to read function is nice as well, but my students struggle with the fact that if you move the mouse once it starts reading it will start all over in a new area. It's not as smooth as I would like it to be.

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• No Google Slides add-on.

I'm just really impressed with the software and the access it gives to learners who are used to coming up against barriers in education. It's a quick-fix for a learner - something they can access usefully and productively with very little training. I also love that learners can access Read&Write on their devices at home - that really is a game changer.

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I am giving this an 9. Not a perfect score because working on PDFs is better but not yet as easy as I need for it to be. Working with many students who have executive function challenges, I need a smooth simplistic access method. We are not quite there yet for writing on PDFs. Overall the toolbar on Read&Write is super easy to access and I love that the suite includes several tools on the toolbar providing a solution to many accessibility challenges.

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Seems to be available when Internet is working.

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Worked quick and easy, except sometimes with adobe

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The support team at Texthelp is excellent. They're all super helpful and open to feedback and new ideas. Still, more importantly, they are ultimately fully committed to aligning with us and ensuring they help us provide the best education possible. Furthermore, they're open to new features and always communicate this incredibly well.

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I had some issues with loading suggestions on a particular website and I wrote into the team about it. Within a couple of days, they had resolved the problem and pushed a new fix to the Chrome store. Amazing support.

It was easy to learn to use

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It took a solid 2 weeks for R&W to work on our students chromebooks even after reaching out to tech support. The toolbar was greyed out and not accessible to students. Took a long time before tech support helped us solve this problem.

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We are still learning how to use Equatio. I am not a mathematician and therefore I am finding understanding it a bit more difficult. Once I understand how to use it I will be able to cascade it down. My hope is that it will be as useful as Read & Write

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Compared to Grammarly and ProWritingAid, Sapling.ai offers more suggestions as I write emails and articles.

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It worked well with our google accounts, but was difficult with adobe

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• The impact that it has had on the staff supporting students is huge as they have a tool that they can direct students to who are struggling to use the tool and get support to use it in their own individual way. There are currently no numbers for this as we have only started using Read&Write this year for both Exams and SEN support and it will take 2 years for the use to have a clear and measurable impact.

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• Improve content and responce
• Professional emails

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