Reading Coach – Personalized AI reading learning coach launched by Microsoft | AI toolset

Reading Coach is a free AI reading coach launched by Microsoft that aims to help learners improve their reading skills through personalized and engaging reading exercises. This reading aid uses artificial intelligence technology, combined with ReadWorks’ graded reading material library, to provide learners with a reading environment that matches their level ability. The launch of Reading Coach provides students and educators with a powerful tool that not only improves reading skills, but also stimulates learner interest and engagement through personalized learning experiences.

Main functions of Reading Coach

• Three reading modes: Provides three modes of creating stories, reading from the library and adding your own stories to meet the needs of different learners.
• Personalized story content: Learners can participate in the story creation process, choosing characters, backgrounds and reading levels, making the stories created unique each time.
• Reading Fluency Analysis: Through speech-to-text artificial intelligence technology, it analyzes learners’ reading fluency, identifies challenging words, and records reading accuracy, speed, and time.
• Targeted exercises: After each reading exercise, targeted word exercises are provided to help learners overcome difficulties in reading.
• Achievements and progression system: Learners can earn badge achievements through hard work and unlock new characters and backgrounds, motivating them to keep reading.
• inclusive design: An immersive reader specially designed to support emerging readers with dyslexia and help them build reading confidence.
• Safe and responsible artificial intelligence: All generated Stories content is reviewed by Microsoft’s Responsible AI Guidelines to ensure content quality, safety, and age appropriateness.

How to use Reading Coach

1. Visit the official website of Reading Coach (coach.microsoft.com), log in to your Microsoft account, and click Get Started to start using it.
2. Select reading mode, take creating a story as an example, click Create a story
3. Choose a main character in the story, such as an animal, fantasy or science fiction character
4. Then select the location and reading level of the story and wait for the story to be generated
5. Allow microphone permission, click Start Reading to start reading
6. After reading is completed, Reading Coach will display the analysis of reading results.

Application scenarios of Reading Coach

• Classroom auxiliary teaching: In a school setting, teachers can use Reading Coach to provide students with personalized reading materials to help them practice their reading skills and improve their reading comprehension.
• home study: Parents can use Reading Coach to tutor their children at home, stimulate their children’s interest in reading through interesting stories and interactive exercises, and at the same time track their children’s learning progress.
• special needs learners: For students with dyslexia or learning difficulties, Reading Coach’s inclusive design and personalized exercises can help them overcome barriers and gradually improve their reading skills.
• second language learning: For learners learning a second language, Reading Coach’s graded reading materials and fluency analysis functions can help them better master the language and improve the accuracy and fluency of language use.
• educational research: Educators and researchers can use Reading Coach to collect data and study the effectiveness of reading teaching methods, as well as the application of artificial intelligence in education.

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