Nosotros love Google Classroom for its ease of use, blended-learning solutions, and opportunities for collaboration. And then when we heard nearly these Google hacks that make the platform more inclusive for ALL kids—and can help increase reading scores, also—we knew nosotros had to share.

The folks at Don Johnston offer a suite of tools that layer over Google for Education. The goal is to brand Google'due south platform more accessible for students with a wide variety of abilities, including non-good readers and English language language learners.

The flagship tool, Snap&Read, helps students read Any slice of text on the Net.

How? By reading the text aloud, leveling the vocabulary, translating the text into 100+ languages, and removing on-screen distractions. Information technology'south pretty incredible to watch in action.

Information technology also ways that students have access to more complex texts, no thing their reading ability. And that leads to gains in exam scores and student confidence, too. Every bit Carl Bencal, principal of Clarksburg Uncomplicated in Maryland puts it, "[Snap&Read] changed the climate to exist more than inclusive. It'due south a actually difficult feeling to explain, of walking into a classroom and seeing students—ones who typically struggle in isolation—talk and provide their point of view. It's powerful."

In, the following webinar, Carl Bencal shares how three inclusive changes boosted benchmark scores at Clarksburg:

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