Overall Good Things
June 25, 2025

Overall Good Things

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Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Read&Write

We use it for students to help them access their education and support their IEP goals. Breaks barriers such as spelling challenges, , understanding, decoding and access to translation and allows students to show what they know. There is an easy admin side to Read&Write and they are constantly improving.

Pros

  • Listening to user feedback
  • Streamlining tools to integrate with Google Suite
  • Customization for students

Cons

  • Since merging with Don Johnston missing the pop out outline support with citation support was so important
  • Topic dictionaries for word prediction not working as well
  • Company might be too big now and not as responsive hoping that changes through the transition
  • Hoping for the data that Don Johnston used to provide on the admin side
  • The translation on Read&Write is only doing single words whereas with snap and read I was able to translate whole texts or by sentence.
  • Improved inclusion
  • Student confidence and work production increase
  • Increased engagement
Nice that it can be accessed anywhere with a chrome browser ie. Home, school, library, for consistent access, practice and accessibility across settings.
A specific instance where Google Read&Write made an impact is where I have had students who were not writing because of low confidence and this tool gave them the access they needed so they did not have the spelling barrier. They could use word prediction to find a word or use speech to text and it would not interfere with their writing flow. And as a result there was more writing and more smiles.
Cowriter, Snap and Read, Clicker, Kurzweil None of those popped up. I know of the merger but I would say some of the big things that made me choose CoWriter or Snap and Read over Read&Write for students still haven’t moved over and I’m hoping that will happen with time. Things like the pop out outline support, topic dictionaries and the ability to create topics from text or web pages, and the ability to translate more than one word. Other than that I think it has a lot of nice features and some that they have moved over.

Do you think Read&Write delivers good value for the price?

No

Are you happy with Read&Write's feature set?

No

Did Read&Write live up to sales and marketing promises?

No

Did implementation of Read&Write go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Read&Write again?

Yes

It is appropriate for students that will use it to support their literacy tasks and goals appropriately without relying on things such as the word prediction for all of their writing. It also is not appropriate for students who still haven’t grasped sentence structure, typing, or need more guidance or word banks. Still might be less perfect for an English language learner but now it is pretty much the only tool. Hoping the merging of products means the features will all eventually be there

Read&Write Feature Ratings

Writing and Proofreading
7.8
Spelling and grammar check
7
Machine translation
7
Integrations
9
Browser extension
8
Text-to-Speech
7
Speech-to-Text
8
Screen masking
10
Picture Dictionary
8
Dictionary
8
Highlighters
9
Audio maker
5

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