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Microsoft Word

How may Word be helpful to Totally Literate scholars?

There are a few ways:

  1. Multilinguals (stories) can be pasted on a Word document.

  2. On a Word document, multilinguals can be translated from English into a number of other languages and compared with one another side by side.

  3. Multilinguals and the translations thereof can each be read aloud by "native" TTS speakers. 

  4. Word can change the look of text in numerous ways to make it easier and perhaps more fun for some.

  5. On a Word document, the Immersive Reader can be toggled on and off,​

  6. To "Read Aloud," click Review then the "A" icon.

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Read Aloud Icon

  • The photo below shows a Word document with all six Immersive Reader tools; namely, Column Width, Page Color, Line Focus, Text Spacing, and Read Aloud. To access them, first click View, then Immersive Reader.

Immersive Reader accessed in Word

An example of a multilingual translated into Italian and Portuguese.

With Word, Story 115 in English

English

With Word, Story 115 in Itallian

Italian

With Word, Story 115 in Portuguese

Portuguese

Sample Backgrounds on Word

Word, gray background
Word, light blue background
Word, navy blue background
Word, light green background

The Document below shows how to Read Aloud and Change Languages on Word.

To practice, Story 1: Nabbed is included.

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