Frequently Asked Questions

You get all the functionality features of the website: Text to Speech Conversion, Speech Recognition, and Reporting. With a limit in class size of 250 students, and storage space up to 50 MB.

As with any learning strategy, consistency is key. By signing up for our year subscription, you will see significant progress in your students' oral reading fluency, pronunciation, and spelling!

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elLiteracy is a yearly based subscription service. You can cancel anytime to stop automatic subscription renewal, however there are no returns or refunds. elLiteracy allows you to try out our features for one full month for free!

• Struggling readers
• Students with learning disabilities
• English Language Learners
• Other Language Learners (Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, French, and German)
• Adult Language Learners
• Parents of beginning or struggling readers

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Our program is web based, and works only with Google Chrome. You will need a high speed internet connection, a desktop, laptop or chromebook and headphones with a microphone.

No. Currently, elLiteracy does not work on tablets, iPads or Smartphones.

Not yet. However, a way to get around this is to simply copy and paste the link elLiteracy.com and students should be able to sign in automatically with their Google accounts.

Our oral reading levels are a relative measure designed to approximate U.S. grade school levels. As it should be with any assessment, student scores provided in our site, are to be used as general guides, whereas parents and teachers should serve as the ultimate judges of student's reading and language skills and ability levels. elLiteracy offers teachers the autonomy to manually input students' IRL, in case of a discrepancy in the scoring.

Our program uses Google's AI speech recognition technology, which is rated as one of the best. As highlighted by Mary Meeker's Internet Trends Presentation at the 2017 Code Conference in Terranea Resort, California, Google's machine learning-backed voice recognition, has achieved a 95% word accuracy rate for the English Language, which also happens to be the threshold for human accuracy. Similarly, Google continues to improve its speech recognition technology in more than 100 languages already enabled in Google. To ensure accuracy, make sure words are enunciated well, particularly word endings.

As of right now, our Text-to-Speech and Speech Recognition Technology is compatible with the following languages:

• English (USA, ENGLAND, AUSTRALIA)
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• French
• German

Yes! In My Library you will find 84 passages ranging from 1st grade level up to 8th grade level. 24 of those passages are designated as ORF Tests and the other 60 passages are to be used as ORF Practice passages. However, we also offer you the ability to upload any texts you are currently using in your instruction!

Yes, with the exception of ORF Tests. ORF Tests are designed based on research in literacy development in the English Language. Hence, its use with other languages in the program, is disabled.

Research in literacy development supports the strong correlation between decoding (reading) and encoding (spelling), and recommends the explicit instruction of spelling along with reading instruction, to provide students with opportunities to identify and apply common patterns.

For Language Learners, one of the most intimidating experiences is to produce spoken language. Providing students with the opportunity to practice from the privacy of their own space, will help them build confidence and improve their pronunciation at a much faster pace.

Oral Reading Fluency is broadly defined as the ability to read with automaticity, accuracy and prosody. And as concluded by the National Reading Panel, guided and repeated oral reading sessions, where students hear model reading, read aloud and receive immediate feedback, has a significant and positive impact on word recognition, fluency, and comprehension.

ORF Tests are one of the widely used curriculum-based measures for oral reading fluency, which helps teachers identify students who might need intervention in reading, based on the number of correct words read per minute. Several publishers have created standardized ORF assessments and compiled their own norms to be used with their commercially available materials. Our ORF Test scoring system compares student's oral reading fluency to the mid year fluency rates falling between the 50th and 75th percentile, based on the norms presented by researchers Dr. Jan Hasbrouck and Dr. Gerald Tindal. The results of their study are published in a technical report entitled, "Oral Reading Fluency: 90 Years of Measurement," Hasbrouck, J. & Tindal, G. A. (2006).

For this feature to work properly, you must first create a List in the My Library. Type up a list of words, sentences or short definitions for students to review. No more than 20 items is recommended. Next, go to Add Assignment and click on Dictation. Students will listen to the list and type what they hear. elLiteracy will score their answers and provide them with immediate input on their spelling.

For this feature to work properly, you must first create a List in the My Library. Type up a list of words, sentences or short definitions for students to review. No more than 20 items is recommended. Next, go to Add Assignment and click Reading List. Students read the list aloud, word by word or sentence by sentence. elLiteracy will score their answers and provide them with immediate input on their decoding or pronunciation.

For this feature to work properly, you must first create a Passage in the My Library. Upload, type, or copy and paste any text you choose. No more than 200 words is recommended. Next, go to Add Assignment and click on Read Along. Students will be able to listen to the passage as they follow the print on the screen.

For this feature to work properly, you must first create a Passage in the My Library. Upload, type, or copy and paste any text you choose. No more than 200 words is recommended. Next, go to Add Assignment and click on Read Aloud. Students will be able to listen to the passage and practice reading aloud to the program. While reading aloud, if the student struggles with a word, they can click on it to hear it pronounced correctly. elLiteracy will give them the number of words read correctly over the total number of words in the passage, along with the time they spent reading. Additionally, our program will provide them with the specific words they mispronounced and will allow them to hear those words read correctly again. Students can also listen to their own recording and so can their teachers!

An ORF Practice is a repeated, guided, and timed reading of a passage. Students listen to model reading first and then record themselves reading for one minute. While reading, students can click on unknown words for correct pronunciation. elLiteracy will track their errors: mispronounced or substituted words, omissions or clicked on words. Repetitions, dialect differences or insertions are not considered errors. At the end of each session, the program will give students the number of words read correctly and the list of missed words, for them to review pronunciation. Students can also listen to their own recording and so can their teachers! Once the student has read the same passage five times (five different days), the assignment will be marked as complete.

ORF Practices can be assigned manually, or you can set the program to do it automatically. For this automation to work, you must create an ORF Practice assignment for each IRL below your students' Grade designation, BEFORE they take the ORF Test. When doing this, DO NOT assign it to any classes or individual students. elLiteracy will automatically select a passage from the pool of ORF Practice assignments, that matches the Instructional Reading Level indicated by the ORF Test.

Once your students have taken the ORF Test, create as many ORF Practice assignments as you would like, based on their IRL scores. elLiteracy will assign new passages on the same IRL, when students complete the five repeated readings. These automated ORF Practices will appear in their My Assignments screen.

ORF Tests are recommended for students in grades 6th through 8th. For emergent readers or ELLs in grades 9-12, you may assign them an 8th grade level passage as a benchmark, or you can upload the respective grade level passage of your choice. Go to Add Assignment and click on ORF Test. Select the grade level, season of the year, and specific class or student name, with publish and due date.

When students are ready to take the test, they start with a reading passage at the GRADE benchmark level selected. If a student reads 126 words per minute with or no more than 20% of errors, the student's Instructional Reading Level matches their Grade level and the student is done with testing. They won't need further ORF Practice sessions. If a student reads less than 126 words per minute or has more than 20% of errors, the program will assign them the corresponding progress monitor reading passage. The student might need to read a third passage for the program to accurately identify the student's Instructional Reading Level. During the reading, elLiteracy will track their errors: mispronounced or substituted words, omissions or words the student has clicked on to figure out the pronunciation. Repetitions, dialect differences or insertions are not considered errors. At the end of the ORF Test, the program will give the student their IRL, the number of correct words, the list of words they missed and the opportunity to hear the correct pronunciation of those words. Students can also listen to their own recording and so can their teachers!