Improving Story Choice in a Reading Tutor that Listens
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This abstract summarizes how we improved task choice – picking a story to read – in successive versions of a Reading Tutor that listens to elementary students read aloud. We wanted to motivate children to spend time on the Reading Tutor by giving them some choice in what to read, without spending too much time picking stories. We also wanted them to read plenty of new text, so as to build vocabulary and decoding
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