Have you seen the words that appear above the iPad keyboard to help you and your students type faster? That’s called word prediction!
Did you know you can customize several features in your iPad settings to make word prediction even more helpful for your students, like having the iPad read the suggested words aloud before selecting one?
Explore this and other powerful word prediction options below to better support your students' writing!
Hold to Speak Predictions
Open the Settings app on iPad and navigate through the following settings:
Settings > Accessibility > Spoken Content > Typing Feedback > Hold to Speak Predictions > Turn on Speak Words > Turn on
This feature will allow the student to press a word in the prediction bar and hear it out loud. It will also say each word out loud when the student types. Many students have shared that this keeps their attention on their writing task and also helps them catch errors while writing.
Change the Predictions to Grammatical Predictions with Additional Choices
Settings > Accessibility > Touch > Assistive Touch > [scroll all the way down] Extended Predictions
Alternate Add-on Keyboard - Co:Writer
Do you have a student who needs a keyboard with additional choices and phonetic spelling support? Check out the Co:Writer add-on keyboard! Click here for directions and see the video demo below!
Please reach out to me if you have any questions or need additional support!
kkey@barrington220.org
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