Use Immersive Reader for OneNote

Immersive Reader in OneNote provides a full screen reading experience to increase readability of content in OneNote documents. It's designed to support students with dyslexia and dysgraphia in the classroom but can support anyone who wants to make reading on their device easier.

How to use this with students: help any student learn to open Immersive Reader on a page they're reading. They can have it read aloud, change line spacing, or translate the text — useful for newcomer English learners, students with reading differences, or anyone previewing material before a discussion. No special setup or permission is needed.

To use Immersive Reader in OneNote, open OneNote and select View > Immersive Reader.
To hear the paragraphs read out loud, select Play.
To start listening from a specific point on your page, click on the word where you want to begin.

Immersive Reader offers several options to make reading easier.

Text options

The Text options menu lets you:

Text options in Immersive Reader.

Parts of speech

Parts of Speech controls grammar highlighting and helps readers understand complex sentences. Learn more: Highlight parts of speech.

Grammar options in Immersive Reader

Reading preferences

Use Line Focus, Picture Dictionary, Translate, and Reading Coach for better focus and reading comprehension!

Screenshot of the reading preferences pane of immersive reader, showing options for line focus, picture dictionary, translation, and Reading Coach.

Line Focus enables readers to narrow the focus of their reading experience by highlighting sets of one, three, or five lines within their chosen material in Immersive Reader. Learn more: Turn on Line Focus

This feature is currently available in OneNote for Windows 10, OneNote for the web, Word for the web, and Outlook Online.

Picture Dictionary lets you select any word, hear it read out loud, and see an image depicting the word.

Translate lets you change the text you're reading from one language to another.

Reading Coach allows you to practice reading out loud, provides a report on your reading speed and accuracy, then identifies the five words you struggled with most and provides a supported opportunity to practice the words again.

screenshot of the student view of reading coach showing the 5 words a student was most challenged by with the cursor hovering over the word "carefully"

screenshot of data from a reading Coach session, accuracy, time spent reading, correct words per minute, and the number of words to practice is shown.