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Tool Name Category Link Button Description Extension, App, Site

Snap and Read has many uses but the biggest use is as a powerful
Dyslexia,
text to speech tool. Snap and Read works on both Macs and
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Chromebooks. It will highlight the text as it reads it out loud. Text to
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Snap&Read Snap&Read speech tools have shown to help struggling readers comprehend text Extension
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that they would not be able to do as well without the tool. This works on
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almost every site or document you have on your computer thanks to
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the tool options included.
Dyslexia,
ELL, Google Keep and Drive have a built in OCR tool to pull text off of
Google Reading images https://donovanscience.com/2018/03/03/ocr-functionality-in-
Google Drive OCR Google App
Drive OCR Issues, google-keep-and-drive/ Now also works with handwritten text as long
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Dyslexia,
ELL, Google Keep and Drive have a built in OCR tool to pull text off of
Google Reading images https://donovanscience.com/2018/03/03/ocr-functionality-in-
Google Keep OCR Google App
Keep OCR Issues, google-keep-and-drive/ Now also works with handwritten text as long
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Dyslexia,
ELL, Grammarly is a Chrome Extension that brings in a lot of writing tools
Grammarly
Reading including a better spell check and grammar suggestions. It is in Beta
(In Google Grammarly (In Google Docs) Extension, Site
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Dyslexia,
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Newsela Newsela Can change lexile level of nonfiction literacy and current events text. Site
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Dyslexia,
Google Docs ELL, Built into Google Docs is the ability for students to use their voice to
Speech to Reading write. While not perfect, it can allow them to easily get their thoughts
Google Docs Speech to Text (Voic… Google App
Text (Voice Issues, onto the document and then go back to fix the format and any word
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Dyslexia,
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Tool Name Reading
Category Link Button A Chrome Extension that allows you to highlight and annotate
Description Extension, App, Site
Scrible Scrible Extension
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Dyslexia,
ELL,
A Chrome Extension that will cause a popup to appear when you
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Google Dictionary highlight words that you may not understand or are unclear what they Extension
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mean. Great for helping with difficult texts.
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Dyslexia,
ELL,
Reading Will show word by word the selected text on a website. Appears to
Readline Readline Extension
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Dyslexia,
ELL, Speed reading tool that can be slowed down to show one word at a
Reading time. Great for students with low vision acuity or a reading issue where
Spreed Spreed Extension
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