Lumos Reading Buddy Maximizes Your Student’s Reading Superpowers
Developed by seasoned educators, Lumos Reading Buddy is a cutting-edge oral reading fluency program that elevates elementary students’ core fluency skills: accuracy, speed, and expression.
What makes it stand out? Reading Buddy seamlessly blends the science of reading with advances in speech recognition technology, delivering actionable insights for a more personalized support, while efficiently saving teachers valuable time.
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Empowered by Running Records Assessment
Lumos Reading Buddy seamlessly integrates running records assessment, offering invaluable insights into your students’ fluency levels. Pinpoint areas for improvement and establish personalized goals guided by insightful reading proficiency reports.
Compare cold and hot reading activities, summarizing accuracy, performance, and fluency rate.
Identify areas for prosodic or expressive reading skill development.
Highlight word-level articulation and phonological errors, including prolonging, rapid reading, substitutions, insertions, repetitions, omissions, text comparison, and interjections.
How Lumos Reading Buddy Works
Reading Buddy introduces a systematic framework grounded in research-driven methodologies like teacher modeling and repeated reading. This approach empowers students to engage in sustained, ongoing practice, fostering continuous improvement in oral reading fluency skills.
The Reading Buddy student portal boasts an interactive Guided Practice feature, fueled by the Lumos AI Assistant. This tool enables students to independently navigate through six dynamic reading activities within a supportive instructional environment.
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Why Choose Lumos Reading Buddy?
Encourage
Students To Practice Reading
Engage students in practicing captivating stories and passages tailored to their independent reading level. This approach builds interest, fostering improved confidence and achievement in reading.
Improve
Students’ Overall Reading Ability
Experience proven research-based methodologies like independent reading, teacher modeling, and repeated reading. Picture a student effortlessly navigating through engaging activities, steadily enhancing core fluency skills – accuracy, speed, and expression.
Track
Students’ Oral Fluency Progress
Utilize rich and accessible automated reading proficiency reports. Gain valuable insights with visualizations that make monitoring and measuring progress a breeze.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about Lumos Reading Buddy
- Selection of a Text: The teacher chooses a passage or text appropriate for the student’s reading level.
- Oral Reading: The student reads the selected passage aloud while the teacher listens and makes notes.
- Recording Errors: The teacher records any errors made by the student during the reading, including substitutions, omissions, insertions, and repetitions.
- Timing: The teacher notes the time taken by the student to complete the reading, providing insights into reading speed.
- Analysis: After the reading, the teacher analyzes the recorded data to assess accuracy, fluency, comprehension, and other aspects of the student’s reading performance.
- Assessment Integration: Lumos Reading Buddy begins with a diagnostic assessment that includes running records.
- Performance Monitoring: The platform continuously monitors students’ oral reading fluency through various activities.
- Automated Data Collection: Lumos Reading Buddy automatically collects data during student interactions with the platform.
- Reading Proficiency Reports: The system generates comprehensive reading proficiency reports based on the running records data.
- Personalized Feedback: Educators receive actionable insights into each student’s reading proficiency.