Gengras Motor Car Grant: Students Gain Confidence with Read & Write for Google
- School Year: 2017-2018
- Applicants: Lynnette Kaschke, Lead Teacher
- School: STRIVE
- Subjects: Visual Arts, Music, Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, Technology, World Language, Other
Students at several schools across the district will be offered Read&Write for Google. Read&Write for Google is a license attached to a Google account. West Hartford Public Schools offers Google accounts to all students grades 3-12 and the alternative education classrooms. This program will be offered to those students who have qualifying specified learning disabilities (in the above mentioned grades/programs) and have an Individual Education Plan or 504 Plan. 250 annual licenses of Google Read&Write will be purchased and allocated, and training and on-going supports will be offered by the district's Assistive Technology Specialists.Read&Write for Google Chrome offers a wide range of powerful support tools to help students gain confidence with reading, writing, studying and research. They can hear words, passages, or whole documents read aloud with easy-to-follow dual color highlighting. Using the dictionaries they can see the meaning of words explained with text and pictures. They can hear text translated into other languages.