Immersive Reader is an Azure Cognitive Service for developers who want to embed inclusive capabilities into their apps for enhancing text reading and comprehension for users regardless of age or ability. Students can color code and label words to indicate their part of speech, user read the text aloud feature, translate words and more.

The technology was proven to improve learning of ESL students. According to Microsoft:

“The analysis indicated that the students who used Learning Tools (Immersive Reader) had significantly more growth in reading comprehension compared to the historical cohort, after controlling for variables known to be related to reading comprehension”.

Through proprietary artificial intelligence software,  JAAS Foundation created an online portal that delivers a variety of educational games, learning videos and reading materials to underprivileged students primarily directed at teaching English. Schools and teachers can tailor the portal to meet the unique needs of their students or even create their own games.

Integrating Immercieve Reading capabilities into DTML.org seemed like a natural fit. DTML.org is ReactJS website which is connected to MVC.NET APIs hosted on Azure with Azure SQL backend. While immersive Reader has comprehensive documentation, the tutorials on Microsoft site does not cover using Immersive reader in ReactJS websites.

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