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Microsoft Reading Coach & Reading Progress

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Evidence: Quasi-experimental Top 8% 73/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

Free AI literacy tools in Microsoft Teams that give students personalised reading practice and teachers fluency data; a trial showed readers gaining 22.4 words/min vs 10.5 for the control over eight weeks.

22.4 words/min
Reading rate improvement (Reading Progress group) (8 weeks)
10.5 words/min
Reading rate improvement (control group) (8 weeks)
Microsoft Reading Coach & Reading Progress

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Promoter
Microsoft Education
Keywords
AI feedback, Accessibility & inclusion, accessibility, literacy, reading fluency

Context

Reading Progress and Reading Coach are free AI literacy tools within Microsoft Teams' Learning Accelerators, letting students practise reading aloud with AI feedback while giving teachers fluency dashboards (accuracy, words-per-minute, mispronunciations).

Results

An eight-week trial found students using Reading Progress improved reading rate by 22.4 words per minute versus 10.5 wpm for a control group; the tools hold Digital Promise research-based design certifications.

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