Read&Write Review
July 01, 2025

Read&Write Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Read&Write

We have a district wide license for Read&Write and it helps us address necessary accommodations for students per their 504s and IEPs as well as reaches general ed students who may benefit from the tools as well. We started with a license for SPED only and increased to district wide a few years ago.

Pros

  • The text-to-speech is very easy to use, customizable and works everywhere our students need it.
  • The addition of Co:Writer word prediction has been excellent and the topic dictionaries are very helpful.
  • The ability to customize the toolbar is very helpful, especially being able to modify the number of tools shown at a time for students who get overwhelmed.
  • I love the built-in dictionaries.

Cons

  • I wish Rewordify showed the approximate grade level of the text it was reading.
  • I think it would be great to be able to see real pictures in the picture dictionary instead of just colored drawings.
  • This has had a huge impact on increasing access and independence for my students.
  • Giving ALL of our students access to this is extremely beneficial because there are a lot of unidentified students who are able to use this for help.
  • This increased independence allows staff to focus more on additional needs of other students.
It directly affects my work because we use it as a tier one solution (for everyone) which means the students don't have to be referred to me, and assessed, before being given access. This is a huge timesaver for me and increases overall use of the tool.
I had a 7th grade student who was reading at a kindergarten level. He was able to use Read&Write's speech-to-text to dictate his work and then the text-to-speech to hear it read back. He was able to complete his work and even edit.
I love that all of these tools have merged into such a powerful, single, toolbar.

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

Yes

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

Yes

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

Yes

Did implementation of Read&Write go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Read&Write again?

Yes

It works well for my students who are not reading at grade level but need a way to access their electronic material independently. Often times my secondary students don't want a paraeducator sitting with them reading aloud. It's also great for my students who have difficulty composing text via handwriting or typing because this allows them to use their voice instead. Regarding less appropriate, I really haven't run into that yet for the students I've assessed.

Read&Write Feature Ratings

Writing and Proofreading
Not Rated
Spelling and grammar check
Not Rated
Machine translation
Not Rated
Integrations
Not Rated
Browser extension
Not Rated
Text-to-Speech
Not Rated
Speech-to-Text
Not Rated
Screen masking
Not Rated
Picture Dictionary
Not Rated
Dictionary
Not Rated
Highlighters
Not Rated
Audio maker
Not Rated

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