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For Microsoft Users:

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Digital Learning Tools | Microsoft Education

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Empower every student with digital learning tools from Microsoft Education. Microsoft learning tools include math and writing apps, Immersive Reader, and more.

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Web-based version for non-Microsoft users

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Your Reading, Writing & Accessibility Assistant

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Discover Helperbird, the all-in-one browser extension designed to make the web more accessible and boost your productivity. Helperbird offers powerful tools for dyslexia support and accessibility, including dyslexia-friendly fonts, text-to-speech, overlays, a dyslexia ruler, AI text summarizing, immersive reader, Reading Mode, and more. Whether you’re reading, writing, or browsing, Helperbird is here to meet your needs.

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Immersive reader is an extension, tool bar, or web browser that allows teachers,students, and parents to make text more accessible for readers.  Microsoft Edge web browser, Google Chrome extension, and Helperbird are just a few ways to access Immersive Reader tools.

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Immersive Reader allows readers to modify text and websites to remove distracting ads, highlight and change text (font, size, color, etc.), text-to-speech, translate into other languages, dyslexic ruler to track text, and many more useful tools.

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Immersive Reader is an unbelievably amazing tool to assist readers in so many ways. It is idea for making text and websites more accessible and adapted for a variety of reading difficulties. It is the ultimate UDL adaptive tool!

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Bookshare | An Accessible Online Library for people with print disabilities

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Bookshare makes reading easier. People with dyslexia, blindness, cerebral palsy, and other reading barriers can customize their experience to suit their learning style and find virtually any book they need for school, work, or the joy of reading.

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Bookshare is a free, online library of books available for students with a documented print disability. It can be accessed by schools for specific students, by students at home, and by adults globally. Documentation is needed to show a print disability (dyslexia, low vision, blindness, certain physical disabilities, etc.)

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Provides free adaptable book access to people with print disabilities. The curated collection contains popular, current books and has a search feature if you need a specific book.

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Like the Immersive Reader features, Bookshare provides many options to adapt books to meet readers' needs. Text to speech, font, overlay,vocabulary/dictionary, etc.

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This video shows how to use the accessible library. It also shows several of the features provided to assist the reader.

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Helperbird is another version of Immersive Reader. It has similar features in an easy to navigate, web-based format.

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Unite for Literacy provides free digital access to picture books, narrated in many languages. Literacy is at the core of a healthy community, so we unite with partners to enable all families to read with their young children.

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Rivet is a free app that provides access to over 3,500 online books. It is similar to Epic.

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Unite for Literacy is an organization that supports literacy, culture, and language.  Unite offers access to FREE e-books, available on the website or on the app.

The mission of Unite, as stated on their website:
"We picture a world where all families have access to an abundance of  books that celebrate their languages and cultures and cultivate a  lifelong love of reading."

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The goal of the organization is to reduce book deserts and offer access to print and digital books for early readers.
The free e-books are colorful, engaging, and a mix of fiction and nonfiction.
Books are available in English and in Spanish text.  Readers can choose narration in English and in a second language.

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Watch this video for an overview of Helper Bird

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There are built-in reader supports on each page of text.  These supports will assist the reader in a variety of ways as needed throughout the text.

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Early readers can read on their own, choose English narration, or translate into their home language.
The colorful illustrations match the text and offer additional support to emerging readers.

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This will be incredibly beneficial to teachers, reading specialists, and parents during a remote learning situation.
Rivet can be used on a variety of devices: iphones and ipads, Android tablets and smartphones, chrome books, kindle fire, laptops. This will make accessing texts much easier for students in a remote learning situation.

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There are so many ways to use this resource with early readers!
English Language Learners (and their families)can enjoy books read aloud in their home language as well as in English.  It can serve as a bridge between languages.
Reading Intervention students will benefit from the clear text, large font, simple sentence structure, and illustrations to support the text.
All emergent readers can easily navigate these books. The photographs and illustrations are inclusive and showcase diversity.

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The possibilities are virtually endless! This tool is a game changer!
*make web page text more accessible
*content area reading
*minimize visual distractions on websites
*text-to-speech
*make text more visually accessible by increasing font size, changing font, changing color, colored overlays, mask text to aid in visual tracking
*so much more!!!

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The translate feature on Helperbird makes it extremely helpful for EL students and families. Helperbird will translate both the text and the speech to another language. This will help parents and students that may speak another language fluently, but may not be fully literate in that language. It will help to bridge the gap between written and spoken language.

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Click below to take a look at an e-book at Unite for Literacy. In this short video, I demonstrate a few of the tools that are available.

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Take a look at a Unite for Literacy book

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Free Google Chrome extension version of Immersive Reader

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Boost reading and writing confidence across all types of content and devices, in class, at work, and at home.

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So easy!  Once you download the free browser extension, simply highlight the text you want to modify, right click, and choose the Helperbird tool you'd like to use.

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Read&Write for Google is a free Chrome extension version of Immersive Reader.

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So much!!!  Text to speech, simplify screen, filter ads and distractions, dictionary and picture dictionary, change font size/spacing/color, and more!

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Watch this video of Helperbird in action where I demonstrate some of the features.

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Watch this video of me demonstrating how to use this Chrome extension and a few of my favorite features.

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A quick peek at Read&Write for Google in action