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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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- Highlighters (36)8.282%
- Dictionary (36)8.181%
- Speech-to-Text (35)7.676%
- Spelling and grammar check (36)7.171%
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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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May 01, 2024
Read&Write for students
We use Read&Write as an assitive technology option for staff and students. It is available across all networked computers. it was obtained specifically to support students with SpLDs, in particular it is used by students in exams in place of a human reader. However it ia also useful for students where english is a second language.
- provides an easy option or students who require specific adjustments to things like screen colour, font size etc
- allows easier access to long academic documents.
- makes online reseacrh easier
- I'd like to be able to see how many of our students are using the software
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 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 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 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
Read&Write 4GC is an invaluable Tool
We are an educational institution and we use the Read&Write 4GC tools with all of our staff and students to support literacy and numeracy.
- OrbitNote for PDF annotation
- Text-to-speech with customized settings
- rewordifying text on websites
- math tools
- I would like word prediction to be able to be set to default so that it opens automatically for certain students
- To be able to access the OrbitNote on iPads
- I don't like losing the option of the OCR tool with Snapverter-I like the use of the snapverter app with students
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 all
I work in a school district. We use Read&Write district wide to support all learners but especially those that need speech to text, word prediction, text to speech. Staff have found dictionary and picture dictionary to be very useful. We try to encourage the use for all students and staff.
- Text to speech
- Dictionary
- Picture dictionary
- Audio notes
- Speech to text
- Highlighters
- Vocabulary list
- Word prediction
- Speech to text different languages (type in English)
- Translation
- Support for research-outline tools
- Features in word bank universal
- Ability to move word prediction toolbar to bottom of screen
- Read aloud to act like fluency tutor
- Writing support like wriQ to make better writers
March 05, 2024
Read&Write Review
Currently, my district uses Read&Write to support special education students' IEP needs. I think Read&Write is very robust, but I would love to see some of the features of Cowriter & Snap and Read embedded into it. Some of these features include topic dictionary when using word prediction, customization of highlighting when use Text to speech reader, translation of text to speech and speech to text into a different language. I would also be great if an app was created for OrbitNote so it could be used on an ipad, similar to Snap&Read. I would love to get a district license, but the admin will not approve due to cost.
- Easy of use.
- Learning academy is a great resource for learning about how to use the tools.
- Many different features to meet different students learning needs.
- Use on ipad.
- Additional features to meet more students' needs (topic dictionary for word prediction, translation of TTS and STT, word prediction in different languages, customizing how text is highlighted using TTS reading tools.
March 05, 2024
Read and Write
Score 8 out of 10
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Using to support students requiring a reader for exams
- Being able to be used independently
- Being able to be used for English Language exams
- Being able to be used by all users
- IT often struggle with the set up between exams and class use
- time consuming on exams days setting up
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!
March 04, 2024
Texthelp Supports Those Who Need It
Texthelp is a great resource in our schools. Teachers utilize it with their students in a wide variety of ways. Students who struggle with getting thoughts to paper find this resource extremely useful. It allows struggling learners those with individual education plans and 504s assistance when a teacher may not be available to assist. It is also a great resource for ELL as it provides assistance for them to share their thoughts and ideas. Teachers can utilize this tool as well to assist them in accomplishing everyday tasks more productively.
- Allows students to be successful in the classroom
- Provides assistance to all learners
- Allows teachers to see the full potential in all students work
- Language translation to better assist ELL
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...