Text-to-speech allows users to hear text read aloud. This is useful for anyone learning to decode text, improve comprehension of text, and expand vocabulary. Text-to-speech allows for learners to read with their eyes and/or their ears. Read&Write for Google Chrome is an extension for the Chrome browser available for anyone in LCPS to use. The Play and Hover Speech feature allows text to be read aloud with highlighting.
Category Archives: Writing
Supports for Writing
Adjust screen brightness or color based on time of day
The brightness or whiteness of a screen can impact how easy it is to experience content including text. Many devices, including student Chromebooks, have a setting which allows for automatically adjusting colors based on different factors, including time of day.
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- How To Use The Night Light Feature of ChromeOS
- How To Adjust Color and Text Display in iOS
- How to Adjust Color Display in Android
Night Light feature in ChromeOS
Listen to text on your mobile device
Some mobile devices have a feature that allow you to listen to text displayed on the screen. Whenever you need or want, choose to have text read aloud.
How to Use Spoken Content on an iOS Device
How To Use Select To Speak on an Android Device
Spoken Content Screen in iOS Accessibility
Learners at Algonkian Elementary Install Literacy Support Extensions
LCPS returned to 100% distance learning on December 15th, 2020. Just prior, educators at Algonkian Elementary School worked to ensure that students installed the literacy support extensions of Read&Write for Google Chrome, Texthelp PDF Reader, and Texthelp Screenshot Reader. Thanks to the joint efforts of the Instructional Facilitator for Technology, Specialized Instructional Facilitator – Assistive Technology, and the Specialized Instructional Facilitator – Reading, learners also participated in experiences where they practiced how to use the tools to support their own learning. These extensions are available to anyone in LCPS! Install and use them today!
Way to go Algonkian learners and educators!
Text to Speech & The Purple Puzzle Piece
Text to speech is a function of technology that allows users to hear accessible digital text. Learners can listen to content with a click of a button. Text to speech allows users to experience text with their ears in addition to their eyes, and provides a way to edit their own written work in a way that allows their ears to catch the mistakes their eyes miss. Text to speech allows users to learn words they might otherwise have trouble decoding and experience curricular content regardless of reading ability.
Text to speech is a feature of the Read&Write for Google Chrome extension available to any person in LCPS. Go to the Chrome Web Store and do a search for Read&Write for Google Chrome. Then press “Add to Chrome” to add the extension to your Chrome browser. A purple puzzle piece will appear to the right of the URL bar. Click on it and follow the onscreen instructions to enable the extension. Then, start exploring the toolbar including the text to speech tool.