Audience: Teachers with Seesaw Instruction & Insights
Teachers can scaffold and support emerging readers with passages that can be read aloud to them with word-by-word highlighting - allowing students to make powerful connections between spoken and written words. Using AI transcription, audio recordings are converted to text and analyzed to automatically sync the recording and word-by-word highlighting timing. For more information on Seesaw's use of AI, view our AI Philosophy.Want this feature? Speak to your Admin about upgrading to SI&I!
How to create a Read-with-Me Activity
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Tap the green +Add button.
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Tap Create Activity or Assessment.
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Tap the Creative Canvas button.
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Tap the Teacher Toolkit checkmark.
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Tap Read-with-Me.
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Type or paste your Reading passage in the Label Text box.
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Once your passage is entered, either Record your voice reading the passage or Upload an audio file. There is a 2-minute time limit per passage.
- Tap Add.
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Once your audio is transcribed the passage will automatically be added to the canvas.
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Design your canvas and complete the activity creation flow.
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Assign the activity to students.
Read-with-Me FAQs
Will students be able create their own “Read-with-Me’s” ?
Not at this time. This tool will only be available to teachers to record their voices and create Read-with-Me’s.
Can any text passage be used with the Read-with-Me tool?
Read-with-Me will create a synchronised voice with highlighting of any text that has been added to a Seesaw activity using the Seesaw text label tool (the T tool on the top left of Creative Tools). It will work for text/voice recorded in English or Spanish.
Can the entire sentence be highlighted when reading?
No. At this time, only one word at a time will be highlighted.
Can the teacher adjust the speed at which something is read to the student?
No. At this time, the teacher will not be able to adjust the reading speed.
Can the read to me tool be any text?
Read-with-Me will create a synchronised voice with highlighting of any text that has been added to a Seesaw activity using the Seesaw text label tool (the T tool on the top left of Creative Tools).
What happens if an Activity with Read-with-Me is shared with a teacher who doesn't have Seesaw Instruction and Insights?
In this scenario, the Activities sent to a teacher without SI&I can be viewed and assigned, but not edited.