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Skhillz Reading

Reading that meets learners where they are.

Skhillz Insight Reading™ identifies current skills. Skhillz Elevate Reading™ then delivers adaptive K–12 instruction in fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and reading confidence.

K–12Beginning reader through high school
AdaptiveChanges with learner evidence
AccessibleFocus and dyslexia supports
Speech-AwareFluency and pronunciation feedback
ConnectedReports for families and educators
Two connected reading experiences

Assess first. Then personalize instruction.

Insight Reading™ establishes a reliable baseline. Elevate Reading™ turns that evidence into a responsive instructional pathway.

Skhillz Insight Reading™

Understand current reading performance.

Assess the component skills that shape reading success without changing the learner’s official enrolled grade.

  • Decoding and word recognition
  • Oral reading fluency
  • Vocabulary knowledge
  • Literal and inferential comprehension
  • Subject-specific placement and recommendations
Skhillz Elevate Reading™

Deliver adaptive instruction that grows with the learner.

Build from assessment evidence, recent performance, mastery history, and learner goals.

  • Adaptive lessons and practice
  • Blue word-by-word tracking
  • Speech recognition and pronunciation support
  • Comprehension and vocabulary development
  • Mastery tracking and next-step recommendations
The reading foundation

Develop the skills that work together to create strong readers.

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Decoding

Build accurate word recognition, phonics patterns, multisyllabic decoding, and automaticity.

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Fluency

Develop accuracy, appropriate rate, phrasing, expression, and confidence while reading aloud.

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Vocabulary

Strengthen word meaning, context clues, morphology, academic language, and usage.

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Comprehension

Understand main ideas, details, inference, structure, author’s purpose, and evidence.

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Text Complexity

Progress through increasingly complex literary, informational, and subject-area texts.

Reading Confidence

Use responsive support, appropriate challenge, and meaningful celebration to sustain growth.

Fluency intelligence

Measure more than reading speed.

Skhillz examines the components that shape fluent reading so that feedback can be accurate, useful, and instructionally meaningful.

  • Word accuracy and substitution patterns
  • Words correct per minute
  • Phrasing, expression, and pause behavior
  • Repeated-reading improvement
  • Confidence and support needs
Fluency snapshot

Oral reading performance

97%Accuracy
124WCPM
3.6/4Expression
+14%Growth
Comprehension

Help learners think deeply about what they read.

Instruction moves beyond recall to help learners interpret, analyze, synthesize, and support their thinking with evidence.

  • Main idea and supporting details
  • Inference and evidence
  • Text structure and author’s purpose
  • Comparison, synthesis, and evaluation
  • Literary and informational text skills
Comprehension pathway

Current skill recommendations

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Main IdeaMastered
92%
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InferenceIn progress
74%
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EvidencePractice recommended
68%
Vocabulary development

Build the language learners need across every subject.

Vocabulary instruction combines direct teaching, context, word parts, repeated exposure, and active use.

  • Context clues and multiple meanings
  • Prefixes, suffixes, roots, and morphology
  • Academic and domain-specific vocabulary
  • Pronunciation, examples, and visual support
  • Spaced review and meaningful application
Word learning map

Explore the word “transform”

MeaningTo change in form or appearance
Word Partstrans + form
In ContextThe caterpillar will transform.
Relatedtransformation
Oppositeremain
Use ItCreate your own sentence
Speech recognition

Turn oral reading into useful feedback.

Speech-aware reading sessions can identify word-level events, pronunciation patterns, pace, pauses, and repeated-reading growth.

  • Microphone and audio readiness checks
  • Word-by-word reading events
  • Pronunciation and substitution feedback
  • Confidence-building retry options
  • Session-level fluency summaries
Speech session

Live oral reading analysis

Accessibility supports

Help learners focus on the words in front of them.

Reading supports can be applied across assessment and instruction to reduce visual load and strengthen independence.

  • Blue word-by-word tracking
  • Reading ruler and focus-line mode
  • Dyslexia-friendly spacing and passage width
  • Audio, pronunciation, and word-help controls
  • Contrast options and reduced motion

Reading support preview

Blue word tracking
Reading ruler
Dyslexia-friendly spacing
Pronunciation support
Reduced motion
A reading experience that grows with the learner

Balanced for elementary, middle, and high school students.

Early Readers

Foundational word skills, decoding, oral reading, picture support, and confidence-building practice.

  • Short passages
  • High support
  • Immediate encouragement

Elementary

Fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, informational text, and independent reading stamina.

  • Adaptive passages
  • Skill practice
  • Progress celebrations

Middle School

Complex texts, evidence, inference, academic vocabulary, and subject-area comprehension.

  • Age-respectful design
  • Deeper analysis
  • Goal tracking

High School

Advanced comprehension, source analysis, disciplinary literacy, and college or career readiness.

  • Complex source sets
  • Critical reading
  • Independent mastery
Reading reports

Make reading growth visible and understandable.

Families, educators, organizations, schools, and districts receive role-specific views of activity, growth, mastery, and support needs.

Families

Weekly minutes, fluency growth, vocabulary development, achievements, strengths, and next steps.

Educators

Classroom trends, learner profiles, skill evidence, groups, assignments, and intervention priorities.

Leaders

Program engagement, school or district growth, implementation health, utilization, and outcome reporting.

Frequently asked questions

Questions about Skhillz Reading.

Explore assessment, instruction, speech recognition, accessibility, reporting, and grade-level placement.

No. The enrolled school grade remains unchanged. Insight Reading™ separately reports demonstrated reading performance and places the learner at an appropriate instructional starting point.
The currently spoken or targeted word is highlighted in blue while the learner reads, helping maintain place and visual focus.
Approved accessibility and presentation supports can be applied during assessment and instruction so the experience better reflects what the learner knows and can do.
The system should be configured to use confidence thresholds, retry opportunities, and human-review pathways rather than treating uncertain speech as automatic failure.
Yes. Educators can use recommendations, assign targeted skills or passages, create groups, and adjust learning priorities.
Experience Skhillz Reading

Help every learner read with greater confidence and understanding.

Explore Insight Reading™, experience Elevate Reading™, or request a role-specific demonstration for your family, organization, school, or district.