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What is Read&Write?
Read&Write is a literacy support tool that offers help with everyday tasks like reading text out loud, understanding unfamiliar words, researching assignments and proofing written work.
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What is Read&Write?
Read&Write is a set of reading and writing tools that helps anyone who struggles with digital text to excel and achieve more.
In education - Read&Write is a literacy support tool that helps students read, write, understand and express themselves. Giving them choice in how they access and engage with content and helping to improve their reading and comprehension skills. It helps to create independent learners - tools in Read&Write such as highlighters, voicenotes, vocab tools, audiomaker help students to study smarter, more independently and to a high standard. Specific accessibility tools alongside the reading and writing tools, help to create a level playing field for ELL students or those in Special Education.
In the workplace - Read&Write helps to unlock the power of people in businesses. Read&Write supports neurodivergent employees, multi-lingual teams, and anyone who might find everyday literacy tasks a challenge. It's a suite of reading and writing tools to empower all employees to think, learn and work to their full potential. By supporting the whole workforce and aligning with ESG goals, Read&Write advances Diversity, Equity & Inclusion - helping users to attract and retain diverse talent.
In education - Read&Write is a literacy support tool that helps students read, write, understand and express themselves. Giving them choice in how they access and engage with content and helping to improve their reading and comprehension skills. It helps to create independent learners - tools in Read&Write such as highlighters, voicenotes, vocab tools, audiomaker help students to study smarter, more independently and to a high standard. Specific accessibility tools alongside the reading and writing tools, help to create a level playing field for ELL students or those in Special Education.
In the workplace - Read&Write helps to unlock the power of people in businesses. Read&Write supports neurodivergent employees, multi-lingual teams, and anyone who might find everyday literacy tasks a challenge. It's a suite of reading and writing tools to empower all employees to think, learn and work to their full potential. By supporting the whole workforce and aligning with ESG goals, Read&Write advances Diversity, Equity & Inclusion - helping users to attract and retain diverse talent.
Read&Write Features
Writing and Proofreading Features
- Supported: Spelling and grammar check
- Supported: Machine translation
- Supported: Integrations
- Supported: Browser extension
- Supported: Text-to-Speech
- Supported: Speech-to-Text
- Supported: Screen masking
- Supported: Picture Dictionary
- Supported: Dictionary
- Supported: Highlighters
- Supported: Audio maker
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Read&Write Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Languages | English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch |
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Read&Write is a literacy support tool that offers help with everyday tasks like reading text out loud, understanding unfamiliar words, researching assignments and proofing written work.
Reviewers rate Highlighters highest, with a score of 8.2.
The most common users of Read&Write are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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We have been using the Read&Write app for years at the school and works very well. Now that we've moved over to Chromebooks we use the Read&Write/ Orbitnote Extension and this equally works very well. The click to speak feature is a lot easier to use and quicker than the drag to speak feature. Always receive regular emails with any product updates which is helpful. The Orbit Note app is very easy to use and allows students to open PDF's from Google Shared Drives which is also very useful.
- Click to Speak - allows students to use the text to speech element
- Orbit Note app works very well on the Chromebooks
- The settings are easy for the students to adjust the pitch, speed and other aspects of the voices
- The Read&Write toolbar doesn't appear to be fully compatible with touchscreen - would be nice to see that improved
April 29, 2024
Read&Write is improving equitable access!
This product helps our organization provide equitable services and aligns with our vision for Universal Design for Learning. We provide all students with access to Read&Write for Google in the district. This has been a great tool for all students including students receiving special education, English Language Learners, and most other students.
- The screen reading tool is most valuable
- Word prediction is great for kids with limited spelling
- The picture dictionary is used by staff to create visual schedules
- The highlighters are used by our high school students as a study tool
- Make the iPad use more seamless
- Include Orbitnote in Read&Write
- One pagers for teachers would be helpful
April 29, 2024
Read&Write ensures a level playing field
Many students across our school use Read&Write. They may be dyslexic, they may be slower at processing text or require their screen to be an alternative colour. We have 90 exam laptops that all have Read&Write on for when students with Access Arrangements are completing their exams. The students find that the use of Read&Write dramatically improves their grade as they can listen to the questions carefully and repeat them as many times as need be. They can change the speed of the voice as well as the sound of the voice so they can really tailor it towards themself. As per school policy, all PCs across our network have Read&Write installed and all Google accounts have the extension pushed out to them. Therefore, Read&Write is accessible anytime and any place for any member of staff or student.
- Allows an equal playing field for all students of all abilities.
- Has the ability to scan documents in of any condition (OCR).
- Extremely customisable, (voices, colours, speeds etc.).
- Exam mode is amazing.
- You can only open PDF reader for a maximum of two documents at a time.
- Documents over 30 pages struggle to scan sometimes and cause the program to crash.
- Struggles to read the periodic table.
April 29, 2024
Read&Write is a great tool to support all learners
We use this across our multi academy trust to support literacy and SEND. This is around 22500 students and 3000 staff. I promote the tool and do training on it for our schools. The key for us is around access to learning. Personally I mainly use the read to me tool when my eyes are tired from the screen.
- Helping to break down words using the dictionaries
- Read to me tool
- Speech to text with the ability to speak in different languages
- Screen mask tool for a whole screen colour or a reading line
- A more human sounding reading tool would be benefit that adapts to certain words better
- Some definitions are not always totally correct and perhaps could benefit from community feedback
- The Google search tool would be better if it kept you in the document rather than opening Google
April 23, 2024
Read&Write for Google is great!
Our school district uses Read&Write in grades 3-12 for all students. We have a subscription that includes Read&Write, Orbit Note, and Equatio and they are all valuable tools. Our special education students benefit from all of the features and rely on many of them to keep up with their peers. Our regular education students report that they love the check it tool as well as the note taking features.
- Checks grammar and spelling
- text to speech feature
- speech to text feature
- highlighting tools
- screen masking
- The Check it tool is not always accurate and often makes recommendations that are not helpful like underlining half of a word or suggesting capitalization when it's not indicated.
- The students would love human voices for text to speech
- It would be helpful for the highlighting tools to collect on the same document from multiple articles/web pages instead of making a new Google Doc for each page with highlights.
April 17, 2024
Support All Our Students
We use Read&Write across our school board to support all our teachers and students. We encourage whole classroom use of the tool to support literacy development. We also subscribe to Orbitnote and Equatio.
- Word prediction
- Speech to text in English
- The highlighting tools!!
- Picture dictionary
- word prediction in French
- I would love to see the ability to have multiple highlights from various webpages merge onto one Google doc
April 17, 2024
Read&Write and how it supports LD users
I teach at a private school for students with learning disabilities. Read&Write allows us to offer a variety of assistive technology tools to our students as well as give teachers and adults the ability to do our own work more efficiently.
- text-to-speech is great. lots of options for voices and speed
- gives both word prediction and talk&type as writing supports
- the fact that it is a toolbar that can be used in native programs is huge for our students because it allows them to be independent in their learning activities
- Read&Write is very intuitive and requires very little training for the text-to-speech tools so it is very easy to train students and staff
- I wish the Check It tool was available on the web (only in GDocs currently)
- I wish the highlighter/collect highlights would collect citation information (kind of a combination of MyBib and highlighters)
- One weird thing with the Reading tools (text-to-speech) is that if you are zoomed in to FIT on a GDoc it does glitchy stuff (skipping or not displaying) vs when you are at 100% zoom
- why isn't Rewordify in Read&Write in a Google Doc? only on web version? Same for Simplify text tool.
April 17, 2024
Read&Write for Education
I use Read&Write as an assistive technology in K-12 classrooms. It is a great equalizer for students who learn differently. It accommodates many different types of learners and is easy to use. The company is responsive to challenges faced by the software and is easy to contact. They truly aim to support their users!
- The reading tools are great.
- I love how the option for multiple languages supports new language learners.
- The picture dictionary is fantastic, extensive and meaningful.
- The word dictionary is too difficult and often doesn't lead to clarification of meaning.
- I would like to see a click to speak on the web toolbar rather than hover speech. Students sometimes have difficulty understanding the hover speech.
- An option in settings to combine the images from the picture dictionary with the translation tool.
- Having a Canadian dictionary, spelling and pronunciations would be great.
April 17, 2024
Longtime user of Read&Write
We use Read&Write to provide oral accommodations to students who would not otherwise have access to having their work read aloud. We are a tiny district and if the aide who normally reads tests aloud for students is pulled to cover a class or assist elsewhere, the teacher cannot leave the students in the classroom to go read in another location. Read&Write allows each student to have the level of reading support they need in real-time in their seat where they are most comfortable. It also allows students to receive help when they need the help, whether after school hours or in another classroom.
- Read aloud selections
- Read aloud papers that the student has generated
- provide highlights for important points
- I would like to see the read feature first in the line up. then the other options further down.
April 17, 2024
Read&Write for Education
We purchase Read&Write for all students and use it as an access support. We have students and teachers with a lot diversity with their needs and wants. The tools provided by Read&Write allow learners to pick what they need when they need it. We have worked to normalize these tools and ensure that they are not viewed as a tier two or three support, but for all.
- text to speech (like the settings with this)
- speech to text (sometimes it has issues, but seems to be getting better)
- Picture dictionary (love that these are click and drag)
- Please continue to improve translation tools, whole doc and read aloud
- Please keep improving speech to text...sometimes updates seem to make this tough
- Please continue to work on Orbit Note, this tool has had quite a few login issues
April 17, 2024
Read&Write for Education
I am a trainer for a school district. I train students and staff in the appropriate use of Read&Write. Depending on the needs I might focus on using speech to text and playback to write and edit simple sentences. Or, I might focus on using Read&Write online to do research more efficiently and take notes. Then we would use the tools to re-write the notes and possibly write the final version using prediction or speech to text. For staff I might demonstrate how to use Read&Write to create lesson plans and resources more quickly and efficiently while also having them support students who need to use Read&Write to access the curriculum.
- It is a game changer for working online and removing ads and simplifying pages.
- Having the ability to create user profiles for different languages is amazing
- The prediction tool along with the dictionaries/translation tool really help English Language Learners access the learning
- Speech to text and playback are a great combination for writing and editing documents efficiently
- Sometimes the tools are laggy. Especially the playback button. This causes students to stop using it.
- Whenever Google updates chrome, Read&Write tends to develop more glitches. It would be great if more open communication between TextHelp and Google was started to avoid the weeks of disruption to student learning
- The simplify page tool is often glitchy when used on online articles. This has been the case since a major Google upgrade about 18 months ago. About 50% of the time the article is not simplified...only the comments from the article appear on the simplified page.
April 17, 2024
Read&Write for Student Independence
I am the Assistive Technology Teacher. I use Read&Write for reading and writing with students that haved an IEP. LD, etc. We use the tools for reading, writing, research, presentations etc.
- Word Prediction
- Dictionary
- Simplify Page
- The voice to text can be tricky for students that do not have developed, age level speech.
- At times, word prediction varies in use depending on the application. Glitchy with Google Forms.
April 17, 2024
Read&Write supports both staff and students
Read&Write is used to provide universal design for learning for all students in my school district. In addition, for students who need more specialized support, such as word prediction or picture dictionary, the students and teachers have the support at their fingertips to explore and try to determine if the specialized support is required. School district staff and students easily navigate the tools. Customizations such as voice and speed adjustments make Read&Write a successful tool for a variety of needs.
- word prediction
- read aloud (web and google platforms)
- highlight collections
- vocab builder- enter the words individually rather than collecting highlighted words
April 17, 2024
Read&Write is where it's at!
I begin teaching students the tools in grade 3 for composition, editing, and reading. I teach every 3rd grader and then remind all the grade 3-6 teachers to include my videos and resources in their Google Classrooms. I'm the point person to find glitches in our district as well, and have worked with your team to get to the bottom of such glitches. Unfortunately, after 16 years the budget has cut my position in district. I'm unsure how the software will continue to be utilized without an integration specialists helping teachers and students. I feel like I've been the biggest advocate for the software and now am worried that it will go underutilized. I've created, taught, and integrated TextHelp products into the very fabric of our curriculum. I hope it's enough. Please reach out to me for more. I've done the most work around your software than any other.
- Helps students compose.
- Helps students edit.
- Helps students read comfortably.
- When a tool doesn't work as intended, it can tank the whole lesson. At times, it's a ton of back and forth with Text help to alleviate the issues.
- The tools are amazing, but I had to figure out the best way to teach students to use them in both reading and writing, and by age group.
April 17, 2024
Awesome Product
District wide accommodations for Special Education and 504. Used for reading and writing. Easy to use and the company offers continual training at various dates and times. Customer service is also great. Teacher and students like the product once they learn how to install the tool bar on the chrome books.
- Read text
- Text to Speech
- Reread text
- Highlighting
- Be able to use program directly on statewide assessments
- Lower the price for Education
- Offer onsite training
April 17, 2024
Read&Write
I am a teacher and use it on a daily basis for myself and also teach my students how to utilize the features on their chrome books.
- Dictation for simplifying writing
- Vocabulary lists for students who struggle with new vocabulary words
- Highlighting tools for research
- It is not compatible with every website
- possibly update the picture dictionary to include real pictures
March 29, 2024
Terrific TextHelp
Read & Write is used with many of the dyslexic students. The cost of the software does limit the widespread use to all that actually need it.
- automatically populates to screen
- highlights words as it reads a passage
- online dictionary
- Cost is too prohibitive
- I'm going to miss Fluency Tutor
- downsize the pop up menu/bar
March 05, 2024
Accessibility for All with Texthelp!
Texthelp is used all across our school district, primarily with Read and Write. We use this tool with students to individually focus on and help support their reading and writing. In special education, the tools available especially assist with the specific needs of students. The Read and Write Chrome extension is great for our Chromebook 1:1 in the district, providing tools like text-to-speech, highlighting, and simplifying the task of reading. EquatIo has also been a newly adopted math tool that has been great in our district, especially with our 1:1 program.
- The highlighting feature has been loved by our staff and allows students to identify items as they go along and read.
- Text-to-speech has been an important tool in our special education classes and allows differentiation in general ed as needed.
- EquatIo has replaced a tool that no longer exists, allowing our students to created equations and formulas in Google Docs.
- There have been a few bugs when launching EquatIo that just need to be cleaned up to remove frustrations from staff while using.
- Nothing else, it's a really simple to use tools that enhance learning and teaching!
February 28, 2024
Read&Write
I used to Read&Write to train staff members. Most use is to support reading long documents, having them read to you, and then supporting checking documents before sending them.
- OCR screen reader.
- PDF Reader.
- Audio maker.
- Homophones on/off.
- Be able to move the icons around on the toolbar.
- Pop ups for EVERYTHING! Too much.
- Check it, opens a pointless pop up before checking document.
February 26, 2024
If you don't know, get to know!
We use read and write for our SEN provision in our secondary schools. Students have commented how much they like the software and how easy it is to use. They also note that they feel they stand more of a chance now they have this on their Chromebooks. <br><br>Our SENDCO is thrilled about using Read&Write and our staff were blown away when shown just some of the capabilities of the product.
- Enable accessibility to every student
- Personalise students learning experiences
- Transform the way our SEN students access work
- We need the translation feature to be better for MFL lessons. So writing in Spanish converted to English and back the other way. Or a way to have the Spanish read in Spanish without lots of setting change.
- A controlled assessment solution is hugely missing in the UK market... With the option to turn on and off internet access
- A little clunky at the moment on Chromebook needs refreshing often...
February 22, 2024
Great Supports for Kids.
We use R&W with all students in our district from K-12. I am not on the business end of this, so I am unaware of any business issues. I support students and staff in using these supports to help increase independence and success in the classroom.
- wide range of literacy supports/tools that are equally developed and helpful.
- I particularly appreciate the highlight and collect highlight tools. They help with a variety of needs.
- The ease of use is amazing, along with the integration with Google environment.
- These powerful supports are embedded so well that students who like to look like their typical peers don't mind using them in the classroom.
- The text-to-speech option sometimes gets glitchy. The sound doesn't always match up to the visual feedback.
- When creating lists of vocabulary, it is often difficult to highlight single words. Also, when using word lists, the last word is often left off.
March 27, 2019
Texthelp for schools
We use Texthelp with students who have special needs. Teachers use it to leave audio feedback for students.
- I like being able to leave audio comments in Google Docs.
- Texthelp has good tools for students with special needs like a picture dictionary.
- Texthelp is easy to deploy inside a school district.
- Adding options to help those who are dyslexic would be nice.
January 19, 2019
All-in-one Assistive Technology Tool
Texthelp is currently being used throughout our school district to help students personalize the learning experience by tailoring it to their individual needs. For teachers, Texthelp's Read and Write chrome extension is a tremendous tool to differentiate the classroom, affording students a simple way to highlight online texts, use text-to-speech, and simplify the reading of a page. Students often need ways to assist them with reading online texts, and students with disabilities are always in need of a variety of tools to assist them with their learning. Texthelp Read and Write helps address a number of their specific needs, taking advantage of 1:1 technology in schools.
- The online text-to-speech reader within the Read and Write chrome extension works really well. Having used it a number of times with students, the reader works quickly and efficiently, highlighting the words it reads as it goes along. Users can also highlight the text or paragraphs they want the program to read.
- There is an integrated talk and type feature that is simple to activate and easily listens to the user's speech to type into online documents or text fields. The program is quick, and offers students with physical disabilities another way to complete an assignment requiring written text.
- I really enjoy the highlighters. Close reading and analysis is often a difficult skill to master, especially online. Texthelp's extension offers a way for students to highlight online texts, then collect all of the highlights into a new google document that they can edit. This is great during research assignments.
- The text-to-speech works well, but could use a more humanistic voice. It is quite robotic. As well, as a feature to increase the read speed.
- A feature to clean up the page for easier reading and printing would be a nice addition.