One of the common issues Penda Learning staff come across with schools using Penda, is how to better support lower quartile students who often are struggling readers. The fact is, these students struggle to read which hinders their level of text comprehension, and directly impacts their ability to carry out computational tasks. As a workaround, there are lots of free 'Text to Speech' (or TTS for short) websites where the text is copied and pasted into the site and it's as simple as clicking play!
If this is something you've come across, we recommend using Penda in tandem with one of these sites TTS sites: