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formerly read it later. save webpages to save and read on your devices

ChromeVis is a Google Chrome extension designed to make it easier for people with vision impairments to read the content of webpages. When installed ChromeVis allows you to highlight the text on any webpage and have it enlarged and placed on an easy-to-read background. Your highlighted text appears in a pop-up box over the original page so that you can quickly go back to the original source if you want to. ChromeVis can be adjusted to meet your text size and text color preferences.

Newsela - Daily News Articles Customized at 5 Different Reading Levels.  there is a free and pro version available.  It looks interesting as a way of modifying readability of articles.  Cons:  only works with articles they have chosen. 

reding comprehsnion resource for K-4 students and teachers. basd on the categoris of reading comprehension. videos, text to speech,

A new reading device being devloped from MIT

9. Skimzee - Summarize The Web Skimzee is a Chrome extension we should have covered earlier because it could have given your online reading a boost. It tackles information overload by combining web page summarization with social media search and web feed aggregation. You can control the level of summarization in Skimzee with a slider on the app's interface. The extra information from other sources can help to give the material you are reading more context.

audiobooks which sink to the text of the book. The audiobooks are read by individuals. Most of the classic audiobooks are either free or very inexpensive. The recording is quite good and it synchronizes very nicely with text. It does not highlight the words as it reads but it will automatically turn pages when you get to the end of the page.

Add text note, take picture, import text message, add bookmarks to your library * Organize text note, picture, bookmarks etc into lists * Sync data with diigo.com * Mark webpages as "read later" in desktop browsers, then read it on the phone

Here's a great Language Arts and ESL site called MightyBook that contains a wonderful collection of read-along activities. The story illustrations are wonderful and the words are even highlighted as they are being read.

Balablolka is a Text-To-Speech (TTS) program. All computer voices installed on your system are available to Balabolka. The on-screen text can be saved as a WAV, MP3, MP4, OGG or WMA file. The program can read the clipboard content, view the text from AZW, CHM, DjVu, DOC, EPUB, FB2, HTML, LIT, MOBI, ODT, PRC, PDF and RTF files, customize font and background colour, control reading from the system tray or by the global hotkeys.

Read me Stories app is free and comes with some books. you then can pay $1.99 to buy more libraries. Text to speech with ebooks

create word clouds prior to reading, post reading, for editing purposes

free capture and save web pages, change to text view strips out ads and only displays article, archive for later reading, read from ipad, kindle, iphone, computer or download and print

Read & Write Gold tools find the appropriate accommodations.  Should be applicable to any text to speech program. 

BookShare Go Read app for Android

information about Read2go app for Bookshare

Turns any web page into a clean view for reading now or later on your computer, smartphone or tablet. does not work on explorer

type text into a box and an avatar, either woman or man will read it.

Lexington School District Instructional Power Points, math, reading, language arts

My Own Books 2 go,  you can create, read and share books on web or mobile devices