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This video will share how your students, your own children, or maybe even yourself
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can improve their reading skills using Microsoft Word Online. The first thing
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you'll need to do is to open Word Online. Now this does have to be the online
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version of Word. Next you'll need to have a script to practice reading. I have a
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poem here that I'm going to practice and after you have your text we're going to
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go up to the top where it says view and we are going to select immersive reader
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If you've never seen the immersive reader before it's an excellent tool and
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a great way for you to listen to the text before you read it. I'm just going
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to go ahead and push the play button. The road not taken by Robert Frost two roads
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diverged in a yet. So a great way for students to listen the text before they
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practice reading it. So now let's go ahead and practice. We're going to select
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our settings or our preferences up at the top and we are going to enable
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what's called reading coach. I'm going to turn that on and when I click this
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microphone it's going to give me the option to record. I'm going to give this
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permission to use my microphone and as you can see on the screen these are the
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directions you can read for up to 10 minutes. Hit the stop button and then
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we're going to get some feedback and practice steps. Let me read just the
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beginning of this. So I just finished and now reading coach is going to give me some statistics
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based on my recording. I read this passage with 95% accuracy. It took a
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little over a minute to read. 117 words per minute and the really nice feature
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is right over here. Any words that I misread I now have the option to
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practice. So I'm going to click practice words and it will give me some words
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that I read wrong. So here's a great example of one. Let me listen to the word
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first. Okay now if I want a picture I can click on this button and I
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can practice reading it. And then of course I can go through and read all of the other
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words. And again if I wanted to go through and reread this after
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practicing those words I could do it again and compare my two reading reports
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So a great way to practice reading. I think this can be especially beneficial
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for students or any struggling readers that you may come across. So thank you so
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much for watching this video. If you have any questions leave them in the comment section below
