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Read&Write 8.1 GOLDRead&Write GOLD

Product Quick StartBrownsville ISD

Presenters: Enriqueta Trevino: entrevino@bisd.us

Noe Granado : ngranado@bisd.us

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Texthelp Team• Nancy Welch – Texthelp’s Valley Rep

• 956-821-1323 nancyw23@aol.com

• Jody Gratz – Regional Sales Director• 512-970-0113 j.gratz@texthelp.com

• Rachel Fresco – National Sales Support• 888-248-0652 r.fresco@texthelp.com

• Mike Ochs – Technical Support Lead• 888-248-0652 m.ochs@texthelp.com

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The RWG Toolbar

• Support for existing curriculum• Docks to sides or top of screen• Option to display icon text labels• Interchangeable toolbar templates• Customizable to student needs

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• Choice of Toolbar Icons

Professional or Fun

• Choice of 6 Different Toolbars

All

Reading

Writing

Research

My Features

Study Skills

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Practice

Click down carrot by TEXTHELP window and look at Current Toolbar

and General Toolbar Options

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Speech Output

• Fundamental support feature

• Web highlighting• Options:

– Adjust voice• English – Male or Female• Spanish – Paulina• Speed or Word Settle

– Highlighting• Red supports ADHD• Blue supports Dyslexia• Yellow is default

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Practice

Click down carrot by Read Button

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Practice

• Participants should open word doc

• Type a short paragraph about yourself

• Type a short paragraph in Spanish

• Practice using the read and stop buttons

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Screenshot Reader

• Select any part of screen and text will be read aloud with highlighting.

• Works with virtually text including images and Flash and locked PDF documents

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Elementary Level Books

• http://en.childrenslibrary.org/

• Search for “Angels Ride Bicycles”

• Play with book format to enlarge text

• Use “Magic Box” to read text aloud

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PDFaloud Toolbar

Plug-in, merges with Adobe Acrobat / Reader

• Click and speak• Hover highlighting• Read within the web

browser

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Practice

• Log into CScope

• Review a lesson specific to your area

• Copy a student PDF to your desktop

• Use PDF reader to open and read doc

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Translator

• English to Spanish• One word at a time• Multiple choices• Build Vocabulary• “Paulina” Voice Option

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Practice

Use within a doc or as a stand alone

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Talking Calculator

• Standard & Scientific• Speech enabled

Blackboard type audit trail• Undo button• 5 memory functions• In document calculations• Value converter

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Practice

Use as a stand alone

Try English and Spanish voices

Look at the converter

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Word Prediction Feature

• Learns user style of writing• Phonetic based predictions• Grammar indicator• Homophone indicator• Dictionary lookup• Speech feedback

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Spell Check Feature

• Speech enabled• Solve complex errors• Audible definitions &

Sample sentences

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Homophone Support

• Highlighted homophones• Definitions • Speech-enabled

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Dictionary

• Basic, Advanced or Web Dictionary

• Sample sentences and descriptions

• Speech enabled• Advanced searches

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Word Wizard

• Similar to a thesaurus• Advanced word search• Parts of speech• Audible definitions and

sample sentences

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Join Texthelp’s Online Learning Network

• www.texthelp.com• Choose the red mouse (middle of page)• Select North American Resources• Create a User Account• Login using your new account• Explore your resources

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Thank you for your attention.

Read&Write GOLD

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