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Boost your child’s reading proficiency to
ensure future academic success 

Known to improve reading fluency in SA schools, the AMIRA AI reading tutor is now available directly to parents from CHASE READING ACADEMY to accelerate your child’s reading growth.

 

Using a device and headphones, the Amira avatar listens to your child’s reading, correcting their errors and providing targeted help based on their unique reading performance. With frequent tutoring from Amira, learners have progressed by more than 4x the normal rate of learning! Automated assessments help you and your child’s teachers, tutors, or therapists understand your child’s reading proficiency and screens for reading risks to identify support needs.

Help your struggling reader to grow in reading fluency, comprehension, and confidence

Pricing Options available to you 

A R295 Enrolment Fee plus…

(select one of the following options) 

  • Monthly Subscription

  • R150/mo

    • Monthly subscription for 12 months
    • Unlimited personalised reading tutoring
    • Additional designated contacts
    • Scheduled Assessments
    • Gamified Progress Badges

  • Annual Subscription

  • R1495/YEAR

    • Annual subscription for 12 months
    • Unlimited personalised reading tutoring
    • Additional designated contacts
    • Scheduled Assessments
    • Gamified Progress Badges

What your Subscription includes…

Your child will benefit from:

  • Unlimited personalised reading tutoring that automatically levels to their reading ability
  • Scheduled assessments to track progress on multiple metrics versus international benchmarks
  • Gamified progress badges for encouragement and recognition of achievement.

You will gain access to:

  • Training
  • Additional access for your child’s tutors, teachers and therapists at no extra cost
  • Access to app support
  • Access to detailed assessment data and recommendations
  • Community engagement
  • Extra free printable resources to reinforce learning

South African children reading frequently with AMIRA can improve their reading fluency by more than 4x the normal rate of learning

What others have to say about
Chase Reading Academy

  • It's really beneficial for educators to have that complete breakdwown. We can get individual reports on each child and share that with the parents too.

    -Caronne Vermaak - Principal & Parent

FAQs

Oral Reading Fluency (Words Correct Per minute), Vocabulary size, Sight Recognition, Phonics Knowledge, Phonemic Awareness, and Language Comprehension; Percentile rankings by grade for each of these; dyslexia risk

Amira has already been exposed to 100s of South African children reading passages and has learned to recognise their accents with the same level of accuracy as a human tutor. She is continuously learning and improving.

Amira offers guided onboarding, hands-on training for teachers, interventionists, and administrators, and role-specific implementation resources.

Yes. Amira provides ready-to-use family communication templates and guides to help keep parents informed and engaged in their child’s reading journey.

Ensure students read to Amira at least 3 sessions per week. We recommend students read 2-4 stories each session (which can take 5-15min). Why? Research by Carnegie Mellon University shows 30 minutes every week on Amira dramatically accelerates reading growth over the course of the year. The key is small and frequent doses every week as opposed to fatiguing students with long periods on the program. Common times include: whole-group, stations/centers, pull-out intervention, & homework.

The key is small and frequent doses every week, as opposed to fatiguing students with long periods on the program. Common times include: whole-group, stations/centers, pull-out intervention, & homework. We recommend using Amira for guided reading practice (“we do”). The goal is to get students reading productively — with the right level text, with the right help at the right time.

The Amira System Requirements below list system and device requirements to run Amira, including:

  • Device and Browser Versions
  • Headsets
  • Browser Settings
  • Network Requirements
  • Firewall and Content Filter Requirements

 

Device and Browser Versions‍

To use Amira, you need to use an up-to-date web browser.  When using Chromebooks, use Chrome as your browser, and when using iPads, only use Safari as your browser.

 

Amira supports the latest two versions of all major browsers, unless otherwise noted. If your browser displays a message that you need to update your browser, then update your browser by following the prompts on the screen. If the message is still displayed after you update the browser, try clearing your browser cache and cookies.

 

Click here for more information about devices, specs, operating systems, browser info, and device setup.

68% Faster Reading Growth

Among students who consistently practice with Amira

30 Minutes

Just 30 minutes of weekly reading with Amira leads to reading growth

30+ Years

Built on Decades of Scientific Research

68% Faster Reading Growth

Among students who consistently practice with Amira

30 Minutes

Just 30 minutes of weekly reading with Amira leads to reading growth

30+ Years

Built on Decades of Scientific Research

FAQs

Oral Reading Fluency (Words Correct Per minute), Vocabulary size, Sight Recognition, Phonics Knowledge, Phonemic Awareness, and Language Comprehension; Percentile rankings by grade for each of these; dyslexia risk

Amira offers guided onboarding, hands-on training for teachers, interventionists, and administrators, and role-specific implementation resources.

Amira has already been exposed to 100s of South African children reading passages and has learned to recognise their accents with the same level of accuracy as a human tutor. She is continuously learning and improving.

Yes. Amira provides ready-to-use family communication templates and guides to help keep parents informed and engaged in their child’s reading journey.

Ensure students read to Amira at least 3 sessions per week. We recommend students read 2-4 stories each session (which can take 5-15min). Why? Research by Carnegie Mellon University shows 30 minutes every week on Amira dramatically accelerates reading growth over the course of the year. The key is small and frequent doses every week as opposed to fatiguing students with long periods on the program. Common times include: whole-group, stations/centers, pull-out intervention, & homework.

The key is small and frequent doses every week, as opposed to fatiguing students with long periods on the program. Common times include: whole-group, stations/centers, pull-out intervention, & homework. We recommend using Amira for guided reading practice (“we do”). The goal is to get students reading productively — with the right level text, with the right help at the right time.