Elevate Reading

Bolds word starts and colours word types (Beta) on web pages and PDFs, for IELTS and English learners. Read aloud.

Elevate Reading is an optional reading comfort aid for English text, built by Elevate Academy for IELTS and English learners. It works in Chrome and Edge, on web pages and in PDFs. BOLD THE START OF WORDS • Makes the first part of each English word bold. Turn it on or off from the toolbar icon. • Choose Light, Medium or Strong. • Set "Always on" or "Never on" for any site. COLOUR WORD TYPES (BETA, OFF BY DEFAULT) • Shows what kind of word each word is: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and phrasal verbs, plus linking words (prepositions, conjunctions and interjections). Two example words sit next to each type. • Main words have their own colours, and some also have a second sign (dotted underline, italics), so you can tell them apart without relying on colour. Linking words share one quiet grey with a different underline for each type. • Choose which types to colour. • Optional word card: turn on "Explain words when clicked", then click or tap a coloured word to see its type. • Word colours are in Beta. In running text they are mostly right; in headings and other title-case lines they are wrong more often. You can report a wrong colour from the menu. FOCUS VIEW • Open the article on the page you are reading in a clean Focus view ("Open in Focus view"). • Open a PDF in the built-in viewer. Page view shows the original PDF; Focus view shows its text in one clean column. • Choose the font (including Atkinson Hyperlegible), text size, line spacing, column width and colour theme. All of this is in the Settings panel, with four tabs: Look, Focus, Words and Voice. The toolbar, the panel and the Read aloud bar take on the theme you choose. • Line focus: the lines you are reading stay clear and the rest of the text is dimmed. READ ALOUD • Listen to a PDF or article in Focus view, to text you select, or to a whole page. The sentence being read is highlighted. Right-click "Read aloud from here" to start anywhere. Choose a UK or US English accent. The same Voice menu appears in the extension menu, the Settings panel and the Read aloud bar. • Natural voices are used by default: the text being read is sent to Microsoft or Google to create the speech. Switch to device voices to keep everything on your computer. What stays the same Text you type, code, headings, buttons, and menus don't change. Arabic text is never changed. When you copy text, the words are unchanged. Privacy We don't collect your data. Your settings stay in your browser. If browser sync is on, your appearance settings sync through your browser account. No account, no ads, no analytics. Word types are worked out on your device; no text is sent anywhere for this. Focus view for web pages uses only the page you already have open, and only when you click. The extension itself makes one kind of network request: downloading a PDF you chose to open from the website it is on. In the Focus view for a web page, the article's images load from the original website. When Images is turned off, Elevate Reading does not request article images. The Images and Line focus settings sync through your browser account, like the appearance settings. Menus and guide in English and Arabic. Made by Elevate Academy (elevateielts.com). IELTS is a registered trademark of the IELTS Partners (British Council, IDP IELTS and Cambridge University Press & Assessment). Elevate Reading is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.