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Put this book on Yoto

Its chapters become tracks in a playlist in your Yoto account. The first time, Yoto's sign-in page opens in a new tab. Then link the playlist to a blank Make Your Own card in the Yoto app.

Doing it again after the book changes updates the same playlist.

Contents

Note

Ask about this book

Try asking

    For the grown-up

    Practice

    Everything here stays on this device.

    Pattern hunt

    Pick a spelling pattern. Every word in the book with it is underlined, with its letters in bold. Your reader finds each one and taps it to hear it, then reads the page with Read to me.

    Read to a grown-up

    1. Choose a word for them to start on.
    2. Tap Start as they begin reading aloud. Tap any word they miss; tap it again to undo.
    3. Tap Stop when they finish, then tap the last word they read.

    A miss is a word they skip, read as a different word, or can't read after about three seconds.

    Not a miss: repeating a word, fixing a word themselves, or saying it with their own accent, dialect or speech (a stutter, or a sound they can't make yet).

    Stop the timer
    Why these measures?

    Words correct per minute and accuracy are the oral reading fluency check schools use. In the early grades they track overall reading, including understanding, and they rise week to week as reading improves, so they show whether practice is working. Reading aloud to a grown-up who helps with missed words builds fluency too.

    They don't show why reading is hard, and they don't test understanding. Use them with care, alongside accuracy, for a reader who is anxious or reads slowly for other reasons, who stutters, who is learning English, or who is deaf or hard of hearing; school norms may not fit them.

    The studies behind this are listed in ai1y's practice spec, docs/specs/sounds-and-practice.md, under "Evidence and who each mode is for".

    Words to practice

    Missed words from this book will collect here.

      Earlier readings

      None yet.

      Sound it out

      Sleep timer

      When the time is up, Read to me stops and keeps the place, so it carries on from there. The time counts only while it reads.

      Settings

      Kept on this device, for every book.

      Page

      Text size
      Spacing
      Font

      Research hasn't shown that any font makes reading easier for everyone. Pick the one you find most comfortable. Wide spacing has the best evidence so far.

      Code font

      Shows pairs like => and != in code as one symbol, in fonts that have them.

      Colors
      Who is speaking

      Shows each character's name before what they say, in books that know who speaks.

      Listening

      Voice
      Speed
      Title page and publisher lines
      Background sounds

      Sounds and music some books play under the voice. The words are never changed.

      Learning to read

      Tapping a word
      Practice reading aloud

      On adds a Practice button to the top bar, for a pattern hunt or reading a page aloud to a grown-up.

      Summaries

      Show and read summaries of

      A summary is shown and read in place of what it describes. Summaries written by AI say so.

      Notes

      Footnotes and endnotes

      Questions

      Asking questions out loud

      When on, questions asked out loud are sent to an online speech service to be written down.

      Answering questions from

      Offline

      Keep this book on this device to read and hear it with no connection.