Over at the Control Alt Achieve blog, Eric Curts has a terrific post on Self-Editing Tools for Student Writing in Google Docs. Here is a quick summary with links to the tools. I highly recommend you read the full post if you’re interested in sharing tools with your students that can help them with their writing process. Eric’s post has excellent screenshots and easy to follow instructions for using each tool.

1. Speech-to-text

   Allows students to have their spoken words typed directly into their document.

   • Google Docs Voice Typing feature

2. Text-to-speech

   Allows students to listen as their typed document is read back to them.

   • Read&Write Chrome extension

3. Grammar checking

   Scans documents and provides feedback.

   • WriQ Add-On for Google Docs
   • SAS Writing Reviser Add-On for Google Docs
   • Hemingway App website
   • Analyze My Writing website
   • Slick Write website (unique feature: identifies weasel words)

4. Thesaurus tools

   Helps students add variety to their writing vocabulary.

   • Google Docs Define feature (lists synonyms beneath the definition)
   • Writefull Thesaurus Add-On for Google Docs