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Scholastic and SoapBox Labs, the Award-Winning Speech Recognition Technology Company, Announce New Partnership to Enhance Efficacy and Equity of Literacy Instructional Programs
Scholastic Launches Ready4Reading, a Systematic, Grounded in Science Curriculum for Phonics Instruction, as the Company's First Voice-Enabled Product
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[{"type":"text","content":" Scholastic Launches Ready4Reading, a Systematic, Grounded in Science Curriculum for Phonics Instruction, as the Company's First Voice-Enabled Product Leveraging SoapBox Technology \nNEW YORK, Feb. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Scholastic, the global children's publishing, education and media company, announced a multi-year, strategic partnership to voice enable its future reading products with SoapBox Labs' award-winning, AI-based speech engine, built to accurately recognize children's voices and diagnose reading fluency and disfluencies, regardless of race, background, age or ethnicity. Ready4Reading, a new foundational skills curriculum, is Scholastic's first reading product to leverage SoapBox technology and will be available initially to U.S. schools and districts this summer.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \nGrounded in evidence-based practices and structured literacy to drive equity and opportunity in learning, Ready4Reading is a supplemental print and digital K-3 phonics system that can be used flexibly in classrooms. Ready4Reading empowers young learners with the essential literacy skills they need to learn to read and read to learn. Uniting explicit and systematic foundational skills instruction with engaging and authentic reading and writing text experiences, Ready4Reading leverages a unique four-part instructional framework: Teach, Practice, Apply, Prove. The system features SoapBox's child-specific speech technology, offering kids opportunities to solidify learning through motivating, targeted practice and feedback, while providing teachers with the skills-level reporting they want to fine tune and differentiate lessons with ease.\nFor more information, visit: www.scholastic.com/ready4reading\n\"SoapBox has developed a unique speech engine and shares the same values as Scholastic, including a deep commitment to designing equitable technology that serves all children. We both understand the challenge educators face supporting the literacy development of every child. We're eager to unlock the power of voice in early reading instruction with the launch of SoapBox powered Ready4Reading, and many more programs to come,\" said Rose Else-Mitchell, President, Scholastic Education Solutions.\nSoapBox designed its [patented] technology to accurately recognize and diagnose a child's speech regardless of race, background, age, or et...