Microsoft has rolled out Reading Progress, a free education tool for Teams that gives teachers artificial intelligence (AI) estimations of student performance and errors when reading text. The Teams ...

Corrected: A previous version of this essay misstated the title of the author’s co-authored book. It is called Build Reading Fluency (Shell Education Publishing, 2023). The first post-pandemic ...

Reading can be both a joy and a challenge, especially when you’re trying to improve fluency or tackle a new language. For students, it’s not just about decoding words—it’s about building confidence, ...

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The science of reading has made a much-needed comeback in recent years, with several states enacting policies for educators training on it. However, fluency practice doesn’t have to occur only at ...

Microsoft Teams has introduced Reading Progress app, a free tool that enables students to read aloud, record themselves. Teachers can review recorded clips and track student's progress. The app can be ...

As a society, we have become consumed by standardized tests. When I was growing up, high school was my first exposure to the famous scantron sheet. I was so particular about precisely filling in those ...

Researchers at IIT-Bombay developed a mobile app, TARA, to assess students' reading fluency using speech processing and machine learning. The app, currently available in English and Hindi, offers real ...

Even parents who lack second-language skills can help their kids in the PSLE mother tongue oral exam. Read more at ...