Read&Write for Google Chrome™ Quick Reference Guide 02.16
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Read&Write for Google Chrome™ Quick Reference Guide 0 2.16 Helpful videos: h ttp://bit.ly/RWGoogleVideos Tech Support Questions: h ttp://support.texthelp.com Docs Tools Description Symbol User Notes Text to Reads text aloud with dual color Place your cursor (or highlight) where Speech highlighting using natural-sounding you wish the text to be spoken. Click male and female voices. this Play button to hear it read aloud. Talking Provides definitions which can be Highlight a word to look up in the Dictionary speech enabled to improve dictionary and click on this icon. Click comprehension and writing. on the definition to have it read. Picture Displays images from Widgit® Click on the Picture Dictionary icon Dictionary Symbols for selected words to help and then select a word or vice versa. support fluency & understanding. An image of the word will be displayed. Word Predicts the word being typed and Click icon to open or close prediction Prediction the next word to be typed. Develops window. As you type, words will be writing skills and helps construct predicted. Hover over word to hear sentences easily. aloud. Click on word or press ctrl + the number next to the word you would like to insert. Fact Finder Helps users to research information Highlight a word or phrase, then click quickly by searching the web for the Fact Finder icon to do a quick relevant information about a topic. Google web search to find background info while reading. Translator Allows single words to be translated Click this button to open the into Spanish, French or Portuguese translator, and select a word to have it and spoken in that language. translated or vice versa. Select language in Settings. Highlighters Users can highlight and extract text Highlight the word or text desired and to a new Google document. These then choose color by clicking on tools facilitate summarizing, corresponding highlight color icon. categorizing and higher order skills. Docs Tools Description Symbol User Notes Collect and Extract highlighted information Highlight information to be collected. Clear made on Google documents. When Click on circular arrow icon to collect Highlights finished, clear by selecting by color or position in document. All highlights and clicking broom icon. will open in a new Google doc. Vocabulary Builds vocabulary lists by Select words in a Google doc desired List Builder highlighting words in a Google for a Vocabulary List by highlighting document. A new Google doc will be words with any of 4 colors. Click on created with the words, dictionary this icon to create your List in a new definitions, and images from Widgit Google doc. Lists become study guides Symbols. or reinforce instructional routines for ELL, RTI, SPED, and others Settings Customize speech options, There are multiple voices to choose continuous reading, translation from in dropdown menu, four speed voice, language settings and word choices and various languages for prediction display. translation and toolbar features. Speech Input Turns the spoken word into text in a To have speech typed on a Google Google Doc. Doc, click on the icon, and speak clearly and distinctly into microphone. Click icon again to turn off. Voice Notes Records a short audio file (one Highlight the text where voice note minute or less) of your voice, and will be inserted. Click voice note icon, inserts it into a Google Doc as a and then click on microphone at top comment. of screen to record. Click stop when finished and insert. Screenshot Allows for inaccessible text to run Click this button and drag the mouse Reader through OCR for reading aloud on drawing a box around any demand. inaccessible text. A play button in lower right-hand corner will allow for replay without redrawing box. Help Click this button to access help Basic FAQ information on installation, using the software. setup and functions is found here. Web Toolbar Web Tools Description Symbol User Notes Word Predicts the word being typed and the Click icon to open or close prediction Prediction next word to be typed in Google window. As you type, words will be Forms, search boxes, most comment predicted. Hover over word to hear boxes, and search bars. aloud. Click on word or press ctrl + the number next to the word you would like to insert. Hover Reads text on websites in Chrome Click on this icon and hover over the Speech without highlighting, simply hover. text you would like read. Click again to turn off. Talking Provides definitions which can be Highlight a word to look up in the Dictionary speech enabled to improve dictionary and click on this icon. Click comprehension and writing. on picture of the speaker to have definition read aloud. Picture Displays images from Widgit® Click on the Picture Dictionary icon Dictionary Symbols for selected words and then select a word or vice versa. supporting fluency & understanding. An image of the word will be displayed. Text to Reads text aloud with dual color Highlight the text you wish to be Speech highlighting using natural-sounding spoken aloud. Click this Play button to male and female voices. hear it read. Fact Finder Helps users to research information Highlight a word or phrase, then click quickly by searching the web for the Fact Finder icon to do a quick relevant information about a topic. Google web search to find background info while reading. Translator Allows single words to be translated Click this button to open the into Spanish, French or Portuguese. translator, and select a word to have it All translations can be spoken. translated or vice versa. Select language in Settings. Web Tools Description Symbol User Notes Simplify Removes clutter from webpages and With webpage displayed, click on places the text from website in a new Simplify icon and new tab with web page. uncluttered version of text will open. Change amount of text displayed using + and – icons. Highlighters Users can highlight and extract text to Highlight the word or text desired and a new Google document. These tools then choose color by clicking on facilitate summarizing, categorizing corresponding icon. and higher order skills. Collect and Extract highlighted information made Highlight information to be collected. Clear on Google documents. When Click on circular arrow icon to collect Highlights finished, clear by selecting highlights by color or position in document. All and click broom icon. will open in a new Google doc. Vocabulary Builds vocabulary lists by highlighting Select words on a webpage desired List Builder words on a webpage. A new Google for a Vocabulary List by highlighting doc will be created with the words, words with any of 4 colors. Click on dictionary definitions, and images this icon to create your List in a new from Widgit Symbols. Google Doc. Lists become study guides or reinforce instructional routines for ELL, RTI, SPED, and others. Speech Turns the spoken word into text in To have speech typed on a webpage, Input Google Forms, common text boxes, click on the icon, and speak clearly search fields and more. and distinctly into microphone. Click icon again to turn off. Screenshot Allows for inaccessible text to run Click this button and drag the mouse Reader through OCR for reading aloud on drawing a box around any demand. inaccessible text. A play button in lower right-hand corner will allow for replay without redrawing box. Settings Set how you use speech options, There are multiple voices to choose continuous reading, translation voice, from in dropdown menu, four speed language settings and word prediction choices, and various languages for display. translation and toolbar features. Help Click this button to access help using Basic FAQ information on installation, the software. setup and functions is found here. PDF and ePUB PDF Tools Description Symbol User Notes Text to Reads text aloud with dual color Highlight text you wish to be spoken. Speech highlighting using natural-sounding Click this Play button to hear it read male and female voices. aloud. Click and Reads text on command with clicking Click on the icon and a red background Speak on line of text to be read without will illuminate indicating you may click highlighting. on an area of text you wish to have read. Word Predicts the word being typed and the When typing in a Typewriter Annotation, Prediction next word to be typed inside of click this icon and a red background will Typewriter Annotations. illuminate indicating Word Prediction is on. As you type, words will be predicted. Hover over words to hear them aloud. Speech Input Turns spoken word into text inside of When typing in a Typewriter Annotation, Typewriter Annotations. click this icon below the annotation, and then speak clearly and distinctly into your microphone. Click icon again to turn off. Study Skills This menu appears when text and the Click on the icon of the pen and square Enable/ icon to the right are selected. speech bubble and the menu of Disable dictionary, fact finder, translator, picture dictionary, and 4 highlighter colors appears. When this icon has an X in the square speech box, this menu will not appear. Bookmark This icon will allow you to mark the Click this icon to add a bookmark to *ePub only place you last left off or any places to places for later referral. The bookmark which you wish to refer later. itself contains a place to note where you left off and can be erased by clicking on icon. Talking Provides definitions to improve Highlight a word to look up in the Dictionary comprehension and support the dictionary and click on this icon. Click user’s writing.