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Immersive Reader

A free Microsoft tool https://youtu.be/3_mL2Gk2oGs Can be used to help children who have difficulty reading to develop their skills. Example would be a child with excellent numeracy skills who can’t access the level of work to match their ability because of reading weaknesses. Top Tips and Links Top Tip We’ve got a space here. Send […]

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Flipgrid

A free tool available on Chrome https://youtu.be/lfB4c701Pj8 Flipgrid allows students to record simple videos or audio explaining their understanding. Teachers can give private feedback or public peer feedback is also an option. Top Tips and Links Top Tip Use the mixtape option to create a highlight reel of great examples Download & Learn More Click

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WriQ

A Literacy Tool https://youtu.be/vRxjFqBxhaE WriQ is a tool designed to achieve one thing – to improve writing. It helps by motivating, encouraging students to write and rewarding them when they do. For teachers it provides a fast and easy way to mark written work and provide better feedback. Plus, it does something nothing else can

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BeeLine Reader

A Chrome Extension https://youtu.be/AAnS89AfgCs The BeeLine Reader chrome extension improves reading speed and reading ability for readers of all ages and skill levels. It is particularly helpful for readers with dyslexia, ADD, or vision impairments—some readers are able to read over 50% faster with BeeLine. With this extension, instead of using plain black text, Beeline

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Alpha Text

A Chrome Extension https://youtu.be/B24mV2P6CEQ Alpha Text is an extension that is great for websites that have hard to read text because of the size or style of the font. With Alphatext, you can change the font of the content and make it bigger or smaller depending on your preferences. You are also able to change

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Visor

A Chrome Extension https://youtu.be/JfB3UtolQe0 Visor is a screen dimmer and reading aid meant to help you reduce eye-strain as well as increase your concentration while reading. This extension also gives you the ability to set how you would like your page to be tinted, with red geen and blue options Top Tips and Links Top

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High Contrast

A Chrome Extension https://youtu.be/uIFdKV3_NU8 High Contrast is really useful for anyone that has difficulties with the readability of web pages or who would like to reduce strain on their eyes. With this extension you can change or invert the colour schemes of the web pages to aid in the ease of reading text.For example. instead

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Substital

A Chrome Extension https://youtu.be/3s6vgTbMOUU Substital is a solution to play subtitles on videos online, whether it is for entertainment, language-learning, or to make the videos accessible to those with hearing impairments. It is fully integrated with Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, YouTube, Dailymotion, and Vimeo, as well as other smaller platforms. Once the extension has detected

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Read & Write

A Chrome Extension https://youtu.be/RTBnFZJM860 Read&Write offers a range of support tools to help students gain confidence with reading, writing, studying and research. This includes features like text-to-speech that allows students to hear words, passages, or whole documents read aloud with easy-to-follow dual colour highlighting. Text and picture dictionaries help users to see the meaning of

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Dualless

A Chrome Extension https://youtu.be/82VWWySpJu0 For users not able to have dual monitors available, Dualless is the extension solution that’ll support a user with their interaction and productivity. When added to chrome, Dualless is able to split your browser windows into two by just 2 clicks, whenever needed. It is really simple to choose the ratio

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