Read&Write

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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 proofreading written work.

 

List of features:

Text-to-speech
Read text on screen, including individual words, passages, or whole documents, aloud with easy-to-follow dual-color highlighting.

Highlighters
Gather text highlights from documents or the web for research summaries and bibliography creation.  Highlights can be extracted to Google Docs for easy collection of sources, quotes, and notes.

Text & Picture Dictionaries
Get definitions and display images to help with word comprehension.

Vocabulary List
It creates a list instantly into a new doc, including selected words, dictionary definitions, images from Symbols, and an editable notes column.

Check what you write
Review writing for incorrect grammar, spelling (phonetic), capitalization, punctuation, verb tense and more.

Audio Maker
Converts selected text into an audio file, and automatically downloads.

Talk&Type
Turns the spoken word into text (unavailable for Read&Write for Mac users).

Rewordify:
simplifies the readability of text without changing the meaning. (Only available for Read&Write for Google Chrome)

Frequently Asked Questions

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  • Read & Write can be installed as an extension for Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. To do so, please follow . 

    If you need further assistance, please contact assistivetech@csueastbay.edu.

  • Some features on the toolbar do require internet access. While Read&Write for Google Chrome is a browser extension that requires the internet for most features, text to speech can still be used offline. In the case of using the desktop versions of Read&Write for Windows and Mac, only a few features require the internet.

  • Read&Write works best on websites with a lot of text, emails, Canvas, Google Docs, etc. For PDFs, we recommend you use OrbitNote.

  • Yes, Read&Write does read ePubs. 

    However, to use Read&Write with ePub files, you will need to use the website:  while using your Read&Write Google Chrome Extension.

    how you can install the ePub tool to your school Google Drive.

    If you need further support, please reach out to our office at assistivetech@csueastbay.edu or (510) 885-4366.

  • Contact us at assistivetech@csueastbay.edu or (510) 885-4366 if you would like training or troubleshooting support.

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