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Smart reading comprehension strategy: Use an “insert comment” tool to restate and remember the main concepts while reading online text.

Learn how to create a graphic organizers in Google Drawings or chose from a list of graphic organizer templates.

Creating an outline from your reading material can help you comprehend the content by pulling out the details and organizing the information.

Learn how to use digital highlighters to selectively highlight key information to improve your reading comprehension.

Improve reading comprehension by chunking text with a digital reading window. Try the free Line Focus tool or free web browser extensions.

The free apps, Microsoft Lens and Google Keep, use optical character recognition (OCR) technology. Take a picture of text have it read aloud.

Learn how to use free text-to-speech technology in Microsoft and Google applications to hear text spoken aloud.

Eliminate the frustration of losing your place while reading online by using a free text-to-speech tool with highlighting.

Do you prefer to learn by listening? If so, consider using a text-to-speech tool to increase your engagement in reading.