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Karaton is an online educational adventure game, with multiple levels and different learning techniques It is made to motivate children to practise reading and writing daily and make the practice process more enjoyable. Therefore, exercises are perfectly integrated into the game. Children collect materials by solving exercises in the form of mini-games. They can then use these materials to build their own paradise. The academic part of Karaton was built in cooperation with the universities of Leuven and Prague. All reading techniques are scientifically based.
Klankkr8 is a serious game to learn and practice the mappings between speech sounds and letters in order to build the foundational skills needed for the development of fluent reading (and spelling). Klankkr8 has a dashboard that provides the teacher with a clear insight of the child’s progress and personal challenges. The game has additional paper materials and interactive whiteboard practice to promote blended learning in which individual gaming sessions can be integrated with classroom teaching. Klankkr8 can be used as a prevention tool and as support for struggling young readers.
Klankkr8 aims to build connections between letters, speech sounds, articulation, and graphomotoric writing skills in order to develop a strong brain network that functions as a solid basis for the acquisition of fluent reading skills. Mere knowledge of mappings between letters and speech sounds is not enough, but intensive exposure is needed to convert knowledge into automated, fluent skills. For this purpose gamification is well-suited, as it provides learners with an enjoyable, safe and motivating environment for practice that is fine-tuned to their individual challenges and learning trajectories.
Microsoft Immersive Reader is a free and highly customisable screen reading tool that allows access to digital content across a wide range of Microsoft applications and documents (official) and across Google Chrome-based resources (unofficial).
Microsoft Reading Progress is a free resource that is built-in to Microsoft Teams Assignments and allows educators to upload reading fluency passages to learners at different levels. Students read their passages aloud and their attempts are recorded within sound and/or video files that can be subjected to AI-assisted reading analysis to check their progress, current levels of skill and areas for development
