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Read Write Gold now available as Texthelp Web Apps
Texthelp Systems, leading provider of award-winning literacy software solutions, has released their new Suite of Web Apps. The [|**Texthelp Web Apps**] work within browsers (e.g. Internet Explorer, Safari, Chrome, Firefox) and even on mobile devices. The Apps include: Read&Write Web, eBook Reader for Bookshare® eBooks, Speech, and Dictionary.

With the proliferation of iPads and other mobile devices, schools and colleges are looking for Assistive Technology (AT) solutions that allow their students to use these devices at school and at home to access digital content. Read&Write GOLD users can now benefit from access to familiar support features, including Read Aloud with dual color highlighting, Dictionary, Translator, and Study Skills, anywhere, anytime.


 * Texthelp Web Apps include:**
 * **Read&Write Web** - The Read&Write Web toolbar opens within a browser and interacts with web content providing: **Text-to-Speech** to read HTML content aloud with dual color highlighting, **Dictionary** and **Picture Dictionary** to look up unfamiliar words, **Translator** to translate selected words into multiple languages, **Study Skills** to highlight and extract important pieces of information, and **Fact Finder** to research on the web. Users can also control the speed of the reading voice.
 * **eBook Reader** - The innovative eBook Reader for Bookshare eBooks allows a user to log in to Bookshare, search for and open or save a Bookshare eBook and read the book aloud with dual color highlighting. eBook Reader also provides access to the same support tools found in Read&Write Web as well as personalization options for reading and speech.
 * **Speech** - Designed for smaller mobile devices such as iPhones, Speech allows users to read aloud any typed or pasted text with color highlighting.
 * **Dictionary** - Another App meant for smaller devices, the Dictionary App allows users to look up typed or pasted words and get text definitions as well as image representations. Definitions can also be read aloud.

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=Fluency Tutor = Fluency Tutor transforms the way oral reading is developed and assessed. With Fluency Tutor, students can practice their reading, be assessed, and quickly see their progress. Teachers can assess and individualize instruction, and administrators can track students' improvement.

Benefits include:
 * Recorded Audio History - Tracks students' reading progress
 * Automated Running Record - Eliminates the stopwatch
 * Dynamic Data Delivery - Ensures individualized student instruction
 * Easy to Use Tools - Builds confidence and independence
 * Access to Reports and Teacher Feedback - Empowers students to take ownership of their own learning
 * High Interest Content - Engages both elementary and secondary students

Access Anytime, Anywhere!
Fluency Tutor is web-based, so students and teachers can use the software anywhere, anytime! Teachers can listen to saved student recordings and mark assessments at their own convenience. Parents can have greater involvement in their child's reading progress by practicing reading with them at home, as well as hearing their actual recordings and seeing their progress.

Fluency Tutor is great for:
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 * Elementary and Middle School students
 * Struggling Secondary Readers
 * English Language Learners
 * Summer School or After School programs

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Just upload eBooks to the Bookstream cloud and share them. Students get instant access on any device with web access like an iPad, smartphone, or computer. ======

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What is WriteOnline?

WriteOnline is an online word processor for everyone, from budding authors to struggling writers. Because it’s online, you can use WriteOnline anywhere, on any computer – just go to www.LearningGrids.com and log in*. You can also install WriteOnline if you don't have an Internet connection, so you get the best of both worlds. Alongside all the standard tools you’ve used in other word processors, WriteOnline has many educational features that are particularly helpful if you find writing difficult:

• Speech support - the realistic voice can speak any part of your document back to you. In addition, you can right-click (Mac: Ctrl-click) in the prediction list, the Wordbar, the Workspace and the spellchecker to hear the words before you use them.

• Word prediction - our innovative Wordflow™ technology shows a point-andclick list of words that you are likely to want to write next.

• Wordbar - the Wordbar at the bottom of the screen displays topic-related words and phrases organized on tabs to make them easy to find and enter into your document.

• WorkSpace - a powerful graphic organizer tool to help you structure ideas and create logically coherent documents.

• Document Analysis - analyse a document by looking at its history, viewing corrected spellings and discovering which sections were pasted from another source.

All these features can be easily turned on or off, so that you can use just the ones that you need.