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Stories Navigation Menu Students have a new, less stressful way to improve their reading — and it’s easier for teachers, too By Susanna Ray Andres Villegas is a serious, quiet 11-year-old who has loved to read since he was 4 — especially Harry Potter and science fiction. But whenever he was asked to read aloud, his palms would get sweaty and he’d skip or mispronounce words, even ones he knew. Then his fifth-grade teacher found a new program that lets students practice their verbal reading skills. Soon Andres was reading out loud to a computer that was invisibly evaluating his literacy, instead of having a teacher mark down mistakes on paper, and discovered it was “actually kind of relaxing,” he says. “In front of the camera, I don’t feel that stressed out. I feel like I’m less distracted, and I’m reading better — more clearly and not that slow — and I feel much more confident.â€�

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