Read&Write 8.1 GOLD

1. Read&Write GOLD Product Quick Start Brownsville ISD Presenters: Enriqueta Trevino: entrevino@bisd.us Noe Granado : ngranado@bisd.us Read&Write 8.1 GOLD

2. 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

3. 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

4. Choice of Toolbar Icons Professional or Fun • Choice of 6 Different Toolbars All Reading Writing Research My Features Study Skills

5. Practice Click down carrot by TEXTHELP window and look at Current Toolbar and General Toolbar Options

6. 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

7. Practice Click down carrot by Read Button

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. PDFaloud Toolbar • Plug-in, merges with Adobe Acrobat / Reader • Click and speak • Hover highlighting • Read within the web browser

12. 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

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

14. Practice Use within a doc or as a stand alone

15. Talking Calculator • Standard & Scientific • Speech enabled Blackboard type audit trail • Undo button • 5 memory functions • In document calculations • Value converter

16. Practice Use as a stand alone Try English and Spanish voices Look at the converter

17. Word Prediction Feature • Learns user style of writing • Phonetic based predictions • Grammar indicator • Homophone indicator • Dictionary lookup • Speech feedback

18. Spell Check Feature • Speech enabled • Solve complex errors • Audible definitions & Sample sentences

19. Homophone Support • Highlighted homophones • Definitions • Speech-enabled

20. Dictionary • Basic, Advanced or Web Dictionary • Sample sentences and descriptions • Speech enabled • Advanced searches

21. Word Wizard • Similar to a thesaurus • Advanced word search • Parts of speech • Audible definitions and sample sentences

22. 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

23. Thank you for your attention. Read&Write GOLD For technical support email: support@texthelp.com