Reading Copilot Hybrid Intervention
Reading Copilot (RC) is our school reading intervention system for students aged 8-18. It is a science-of-reading tool that uses empirically-proven techniques based on 20 years of active research.
Every student can become a skilled reader… when you teach the way their brain wants to learn.
Our primary innovation is called trainertext, which allows the student to work out any word phonetically and thus build confidence, fluency, and comprehension.
Students log in for 4 independent 10-minute sessions per week, overseen by a paraprofessional or other team member. On the 5th day, they meet up on screenshare with a Copilot Reading Tutor for a guided session.
Life-Changing
Reading Copilot will transform more than just reading. Listen to teachers from our UK research trials discussing the life-changes the see when literacy is no longer an obstacle.
Age-Appropriate
The content in the Reading Copilot Trainertext Library are optimized for older students. The psychology of learning is very critical. Reading Copilot can work for teenagers and adults just as well as younger students, without anyone feeling patronized or babied by inappropriately young texts.
Hands-Free
The system is designed so that the student can do their daily sessions unassisted.
This is important for their psychology, but also means that a single teaching assistant can monitor a group of 4-5 students doing the daily reading practice in just 15 minutes. Low staff hours makes the intervention affordable both in time and money.
Holistic
Any intervention process must be learner-focused and individualized to be successful. Our baseline assessment pinpoints nine different possible causes of difficulty for a student, to ensure that we have overcome every barrier that they individually face. The assessment process and resulting recommendations are all included in the intervention cost.
Evidence-Based
The trainertext phonics methodology was studied in a randomized control trial done by the Open University here (and shortlisted for a prize for academic excellence). The cohort of 90 children were 2+ years behind and all caught up bar one within 6 months of trainertext intervention.
We have been directly delivering reading intervention since 2008 from our headquarters in Oxford, England and have worked directly with over 15,000 reluctant readers and dyslexics across the English-speaking world.
Supported by Experts
Reading Copilot is guided by an expert Reading Tutor who will identify and track nine potential causes of reading frustration for your students.
They meet directly with your students once per week, and with your staff member any time you need. This vastly accelerates outcomes and removes the need for lengthy training processes. You can get started right away.
What’s Possible
Here are a couple of videos to give you a feel for the sort of transformation that is possible, even after years of frustration.
Cost
We will guarantee the outcome achieved for each student (see below) at a fixed cost.
The cost of support will depend on the challenges faced by the student. So we will need to quote for that individually, after an initial assessment over Zoom. To give you a ballpark, our one-time (lifetime) cost per student ranges from $330-$1000.
We will work with that student until they reach reading proficiency.
The Benefits We Guarantee
Imagine what your teachers can achieve when they are just teaching… without dealing with the difficulties, disruption and disengagement caused by reading frustrations.
This can only be achieved when students overcome their individual reading impairment so that they can re-engage with their education. You probably know that literacy is strongly correlated to good life outcomes, and that our prison system is sadly filled with people who have no functional literacy.
We are not happy with this state of affairs. So we refund-guarantee that any student we take on board will learn to read.
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