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Reading Assistant acts as a patient, non-judgmental listener for struggling, self-conscious readers and provides the much needed reading practice that benefits all students. Readers are helped by interactive resources, immediate feedback on errors, and private playback. Teachers receive assessment reports as if they had been sitting next to their students, listening.
Students listen to a model fluent reading of the passage, preview vocabulary, and read the passage orally. After reading, students, review problematic words they did not understand, and playback their reading.
Reading Assistant guides students through a comprehensive sequence of instructions to maximise fluency, vocabulary and comprehension growth. Quizzes assess comprehension.
Readers are encouraged to re-visit unfamiliar text and re-read selections to build fluency and master each selection.
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Reading Assistant software provides reporting features to help teachers continuously monitor student progress, customize instruction, and motivate students.
Reading Assistant network version aggregates student data centrally, providing analysis at the, school, class or student level. Network reports enable teachers to predict performance and benchmark student progress against national norms.
Reading Assistant standalone version provides basic reporting tools to assist clinical professionals in private practice in monitoring fluency, comprehension and usage. Data is available only for student reading done on the workstation where the reports are generated. If a student uses Reading Assistant on multiple workstations, their data can not be aggregated. Audio is available for just the most recent reading of a particular selection.
Reading Assistant helps students learn and retain vocabulary word meanings by providing:
Reading Assistant is designed to be used by any student who has attained basic word recognition and decoding skills and is now building his/her vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. This includes students as young as even years old, all the way up to adults.
Reading Assistant has solutions designed to implement with Response to Intervention programs for all student tiers
Reading fluency is the ability to read with sufficient ease and accuracy that one can focus attention on the meaning and message of the text.
Reading Assistant builds fluency by providing:
Reading Assistant ensures reading comprehension by providing:
Question Answering
In Reading Assistant Curriculum Levels 1-5 (692K PDF), comprehension questions are presented at the end of each passage. Students can not take the quiz unless they have read the entire selection.
Comprehension Monitoring
In Reading Assistant Curriculum Levels 5-11 (732K PDF), embedded comprehension questions ensure attention to meaning and comprehension in the course of reading. Students quickly learn to focus their attention on meaning so that they can answer these questions without resorting to time-consuming reviews of the text they have just read. They learn that it is far more efficient and valuable to think while they read than it is to read quickly, but, without thought.
The US 2000 National Reading Panel report lists Question Answering and Comprehension Monitoring as research proven methods for ensuring comprehension.
Yes. According to the report of the US National Reading Panel, "classroom practices that encourage repeated oral reading with feedback and guidance leads to meaningful improvements in reading expertise for students—for good readers as well as those who are experiencing difficulty." With Reading Assistant, the computer becomes the supportive listener that ensures all students can regularly practice oral reading while receiving immediate, individual feedback from Scientific Learning's advanced speech-recognition software.
Yes. The impact of Reading Assistant on fluency growth was evaluated with mainstream students in years 2-5. Half of the classrooms in two schools used the software in thirty-minute sessions, once or twice a week over 17 weeks. Across all four grades, fluency gains were significantly greater for students who used the software than those who did not, averaging 43% (E.S.=0.91) greater than normative expectations over grades. Project sponsored by the Carlisle Foundation and NICHD.
The network version provides teachers and administrators with detailed reports.
While students of all ages independently use the software after just a few sessions, we recommend direct observation of student sessions as well as regular monitoring of the network reports to keep students on task and using their time wisely.
Readers aged 7 years and up, who have attained basic word recognition and decoding skills, will benefit from two to five 30-minute sessions each week with Reading Assistant.
A recommended instructional sequence is included in the Teacher’s Guide, but there is no one right way to use the software. Teachers are encouraged to adapt the instructional sequence to meet the needs of their students.
All of the Reading Assistant texts were originally published in one of the Carus™ family of magazines or by Lerner Publishing™. These Carus magazines include: Appleseeds™, Ladybug™, Spider™, Click!™, Cricket™, Odyssey™, Cobblestone™, Calliope™, and Faces™.
The elementary content is a combination of both fiction and nonfiction selections. The content for grades 5 and up is tied to core units in Social Studies and Science.
The comprehension questions are designed to review main ideas, key concepts, core arguments, and vocabulary from the passage. The question types include inferential and literal comprehension, analysis, prediction, and summary.
Sample quiz questions. The correct answer(s) appears in bold.
Reading Selection: Ah-Choo
Reading Selection: From Smoke Signals to Newspapers
Yes. In addition to the features of Read to Me, Show Vocabulary, Record My Reading, and Play My Reading, Version 4.0 allows the teacher to enable (currently) Spanish language support for a student. When this feature is activated, the glossary will contain an Español button which displays the glossary term in Spanish and plays a Spanish audio file. In addition, the student can click on any word to hear the correct pronunciation of a word
Yes. What does this mean? Among assistive features: a) visual dialog boxes can be displayed whenever you hear an audio message; b) the colors in the application have been selected to accommodate people who are color blind; c) the preferences set by a student on his or her computer for text colors and size take precedence over those already set in Reading Assistant; d) the software will work in conjunction with a single switch device; e) there is high contrast between user interface elements and high rollover contrast for maximum visibility; f) the minimum font size used for all content text throughout the product is 16 point; g) tooltips are provided throughout the product; and h) the user can tab from element to element, and select the element using a key-activated shortcut.
View the Technical Specifications(68k PDF). Note: Adobe Reader (PDF viewer) is needed to view this document.
