[CASL-L] Free tools for PDF reader

[Donna Mingrone]

Hi, Kami can read pdfs with their text-to-speech function. So can Fluency
Tutor for Google, which is by the TextHelp company that sells Read & Write.
We pay for both but there are also free products that you can try. If you
have to buy ithem, they are both well worth it and not that expensive. Both
are Chrome extensions.

Donna

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> Subject: [CASL-L] Spine label question
> I am wondering if anyone has a great spine label for fictional books that
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> The 57 Bus by Daskha Slater
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> Subject: [CASL-L] DVD Regions
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> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2021 08:49:03 -0500
> Subject: [CASL-L] Free tools for pdf readers
> Good morning!  Happy Friday!
> I have a special ed teacher who is looking for a way to make pdf into
> "read to me" texts.  Her students are in grades 2-4.  In order to assist
> with access to nonfiction texts for research, she was thinking she could
> create a pdf of the page in a book, add it to a slide, and use a tech tool
> to have it read to the student.  We are a google based school, so the
> extensions we are currently using [Read&Write] do not work for pdf or
> screen reading.
> Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
> Thank you!!
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> <https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bitmoji/bfgdeiadkckfbkeigkoncpdieiiefpig>
> *~ Heidi DeFlippo*
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> Subject: Re: [CASL-L] Free tools for pdf readers
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> Researchitct.org has this read aloud function available on many of their
> database resources. Perhaps she could find the content she needs there and
> then she'll already have the option to have it read aloud to the kids. Good
> Luck!
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> Keely Norton
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> Good morning!  Happy Friday!
> I have a special ed teacher who is looking for a way to make pdf into
> "read to me" texts.  Her students are in grades 2-4.  In order to assist
> with access to nonfiction texts for research, she was thinking she could
> create a pdf of the page in a book, add it to a slide, and use a tech tool
> to have it read to the student.  We are a google based school, so the
> extensions we are currently using [Read&Write] do not work for pdf or
> screen reading.
> Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
> Thank you!!
>
> <https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bitmoji/bfgdeiadkckfbkeigkoncpdieiiefpig>
> *~ Heidi DeFlippo*
> *     Library Media Specialist*
> *        East Farms School*
> *      Website:  East Farms Library Media Center
> <https://sites.google.com/fpsct.org/eflmc-home/home?authuser=0>*
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