Hearing a book read aloud on iBooks

I'm a teacher, trying to help a student who needs to hear a text read aloud to her.
We've got the iPad, and the book is opened up in iBooks.
Where do we go to have the book read aloud?

There is not a speak option within iBooks itself, but speak selection can be enabled on the iPad.
Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Speak Selection - On
Then when you select text in iBooks you can have it read out loud.
Note you can change the Dialect and Speaking rate in that same setting screen.
ivan

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