Immersive Reader for Education
Have you heard of Microsoft's Immersive Reader?
If a child is a struggling reader, he/she reads slowly and spends a great deal of time decoding words this in turn, leads to poor comprehension.
Jeanne Caudill
Year 1 Teacher and Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert
Help with reading math problems
Students tend to experience focus issues or have dyscalculia, a specific learning disability in maths. Some dyslexic students struggle with maths not because they aren’t good at it, but often because they have difficulty reading maths problems. With Immersive Reader, they have features including read-aloud, line focus and page theme colours.
Improves reading comprehension
Increases fluency for English language learners or readers of other languages.
It helps build confidence in emerging readers learning to read at higher levels.
Offers text decoding solutions to students with learning difficulties such as dyslexia.
Supporting students in their native language with real-time translation
Accessing text in any language is an important area to incorporate. An example might be an English-language learner who is also dyslexic, trying to access content in another language. Using Microsoft Translator adds the ability for anyone to translate a page, word, or sentence into another language, in real-time and inside of the Immersive Reader. The capability supports Read Aloud, Syllables, Parts of Speech and Picture Dictionary.
Picture Dictionary
Multi-sensory processing, which allows individuals to see an image and hear the corresponding word at the same time, is a beneficial technique for enhancing reading and comprehension skills.
With the Picture Dictionary, students can easily access a related picture by clicking on a word and utilising the "Read Aloud" feature as many times as needed to fully grasp the concept.
Custom colours for parts of speech
The ability to allow customisation of the colours used for nouns, verbs or adjectives. This allows students to use colours in a way that’s represented in books or methods they’re already used to, and gives colour-blind students the ability to adjust to patterns that suit them best.
Using OneNote and Immersive Reader to teach reading fluency
It is easy. Simply open OneNote and select a new tab. Name the tab. Then type each word (one per line). Select “Immersive Reader.” Use the play button to listen to the words. Repeat as necessary.
It is fast. Type 6 to 8 words in less than a minute.
It is time saving. Instead of sitting one-by-one with each student and using flash cards, You can send them to the Surface Pro 4 with headphones, and they control how many times they practice reading and listening to the words.
It is repetitive. Sight words need repetition for students to learn to automaticity.
It is research-based. Why is this important? Over 50 percent of the words used in print today are the 125 sight words from the primary school curriculum. Think about that for a minute. If a child masters sight word reading, he or she will have a firm foundation for a lifetime of reading.
Immersive Reader is available on the below platforms:
Outlook
Outlook Online
Outlook Desktop
OneNote
OneNote Online
OneNote Universal App
One Note for Mac and IPad
OneNote Desktop as a free add in.
Word
Word Online
Word Desktop
Word for Mac, IPad and IPhone
Microsoft Teams
Office Lens App
Microsoft Edge
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education/products/learning-tools
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