Developing English Oral Language Skills using Speech Recognition

Reading Assistant Expanded Edition

Reading Assistant - Your source for Oral English Proficiency

• Accent/pronunciation coaching

• English vocabulary development

• Oral English Fluency

• Practice reading longer texts

• Assessment of oral English skills

Reading Assistant ImplementationTeachers provide instruction

Practice reading orally in Reading Assistant for 20-30 minutes 3 to 5 times per week

Reading Assistant listens carefully, intervening with support when students struggle or make errors

Complete interactive vocabulary system

Quiz questions to develop comprehension

Why is RA Expanded Edition so Fabulous?• Expanded Content:

– There is almost twice as much!– Passages will now be arranged and sold

in 4 grade bands: K-3, 4-5, 6-8 and 9-12– Each grade band includes a range of

readability levels• Expanded Insights:

– We’re in RPI/Progress Tracker/Gateway!• Expanded Learning:

– Students will work with a stricter instructional sequence

Elementary Curriculum 90 passages

Secondary Curriculum 150 passages

NEW CONTENT

K-3, 43 parts

4-5, 134 parts

6-8, 152 parts

9-12, 141 parts

RPI/Progress Tracker/Gateway

• RPI can place students in the RA Expanded Edition content

• Reading Assistant reports will only be available through Progress Tracker

• Students will log on through Gateway

Instructional SequenceEach content selection is broken up into 3 student

activities:• Preview and Read Silently including guided

reading questions• Record My Reading in fluency parts

– Students must read each fluency part a minimum of 2 times and 3 times if the goal is not reached

• Quiz• In the default mode, students work in the

content from the easiest to the hardest content

An Extra 10 Minutes

Cunningham & Stanovich. (1998) What reading does for the mind. American Educator, Spring/Summer, pp. 8-15. From Anderson,Wilson,& Fileding (1988). Growth in reading and how children spend their time outside of school.RRQ,23,285-303.

Marilyn Jager Adams

Students Love it!"I love [Reading Assistant]

because “no one judges me while I read. My classmates don't know about the mistakes I make, and I have a chance to correct them all on my own.” – a student from Daphne Elementary, AL

“Reading [Assistant] helps me learn better, it helps me listen better, it helps me read better, it helps me get my fluency up.” - Maggie Calderon, Rosemont Elementary, FL

Listening' computer revs up reading skillsThe interactive Soliloquy Reading Assistant boosts confidence and test scores.By Stacy Teicher Khadaroo August 2, 2007 e CSM

Press and Broadcast Recognition!

• Meet David • 5th grade • Berkeley Charter

School, Polk County Florida

Second Reading- January, 2006

First Reading- September, 2005

It works!

Expected gain based on per-grade average of national norms collected by Hasbrouck & Tindal (1992) and Edformation (www.edformation.com).

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Average 43% increase in fluency gain over national norms

Average 23% increase in fluency gain over control group

Research Validation

Adult TABE Gains

TABE GAINS - Feb to April 2007

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English Language Learning and Improvement

Pronunciation Professional narration Speech recognition

Vocabulary Context-related glossary

Reading Speech recognitionAssessment Closed-loop cycle

American test content

Reading Assistant Options

EnglishForeign Language Acquisition

Academic Improvement

Accent Correction and Pronunciation

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Reading Practice ● ●Vocabulary Development

● ●Comprehension Training

● ●Assessment ●

Reading Assistant Bundles

• Licensed network by site

• Mac OS X

• Windows 2000+

• Noise-Canceling Headset

Reading Assistant

The solution to advanced Language Skill Development