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Screen Mask: Create a focus window
Screen Mask is a simple free Chrome extension that darkens the page except for a bright bar that you move up and down the page with the computer mouse.
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KOBI helps your child learn to read
KOBI is an eReader app for children with dyslexia, ADHD and children who want to improve their reading skills.
KOBI lets your child:
- create stories in a few steps (with the help of our AI);
- read words with colored letters (which help decoding); …
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Chromebook extensions and apps for students with dyslexia
An overview of clickable apps, divided by category:
- reading support,
- text to speech,
- reading aid,
- working with pdfs,
- write support,
- Take notes,
- organization.
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If I have a student with reading difficulties. What could help him?
An English infographic with tips and advice to help students with reading difficulties:
- physical adjustments,
- digital books,
- adapted techniques when reading digital books,
- text to speech,
- audiobooks,
- ...
Each tip includes examples of tools.
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John Milton: Paradise Lost
On this website you will find the complete annotated Dutch translation that Jules Grandgagnage made of John Milton's Paradise Lost (1674 edition in twelve books and approximately 10,000 lines of verse).
Published in 2023, this is the most recent …
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Read&Write for Google Chrome
This extension for Chrome is a text-to-speech app that can be used during modern language lessons or for students with a learning disability such as dyslexia. All kinds of texts can be read in the tool. With the extension, markings can also be …
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The Teacher's Corner: Generate worksheets and game sheets
Via this site you can generate and download various exercises:
- money bills,
- clock reading,
- crossword puzzle,
- domino,
- a calendar of a given month in a given year,
- ...
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Mouse Tooltip Translator: Example
This video shows how Mouse Tooltip Translator works, a free extension for Microsoft Edge. Point to a sentence with the mouse pointer and you will hear it pronounced in an excellent computer voice: French, English, German ... and Belgian-Dutch. The …
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Reading monitor: Research into reading, reading promotion and literature education
Leesmonitor strives to translate the available knowledge to a wide audience. The studies are summarized in Dutch and described in context.
The data on Leesmonitor comes from scientific research (for example into the effects of reading aloud), …
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Learning Tools in Word
In Word, use the Learning Tools tool to help students with reading disabilities read texts fluently.
Thanks to the tool you can split words into syllables, have texts read aloud, you can automatically adjust the column width of the text and you can …
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Storybird: Creative writing
Storybird is a website where you can write stories with your students. The site contains various databases with images (per theme or per artist). You can drag these images into your book and you can immediately come up with a text. You can manage …
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Accessibility tools for Chromebook
This English-language infographic gives you an overview of built-in tools that can support students with visual problems or reading difficulties:
- screen reader,
- text-to-speech,
- speech-to-text,
- magnification function.
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