Science of Reading, Activated

  1. Students read aloud from text matched to the purpose, whether selected by the assessment, chosen by the student, or aligned to your classroom instruction. Amira listens and analyzes in real time.

  2. Amira analyzes reading down to the phoneme, identifying exactly where a word breaks down and whether the pattern is isolated or recurring.

  3. Amira provides explicit feedback using pre-written prompts from Science of Reading experts.

  4. You receive a clear view of the session, the patterns identified, and recommended next steps. From there, you decide what happens next.

Because the reading is happening live rather than being marked afterwards, a single session captures around ten times the measurement points of a traditional assessment. And to the student, it feels like practice, not a test.

Amira analyzes reading down to the phoneme: which sound inside which word broke down, and whether that same sound has been slipping all week. It separates substitutions, omissions, insertions, and prosody, so an accent or a dialect reads as a voice, never as a deficit. One missed word is a moment. The same sound missed for a week is the thing you actually want to see.

The support is grounded in what the student actually said, not a generic hint that misses the source of the struggle. Each response comes from a carefully designed set of instructional prompts rather than being generated on the spot. The goal is to give the student just enough support to stay in the text: accurate enough to move forward, but challenging enough to keep the thinking and reading work in the student’s hands.

What comes back is more than a report. Amira turns what happened during the session into student groupings, a recommended lesson pathway, and an estimate of the instructional time each student may need to reach mastery. Amira recommends. You decide. Every grouping, lesson, and next step remains in the your hands. Nothing changes in instruction unless the you choose it.

Amira is an extension of you.

Your district chooses which parts of Amira to use. You decide what happens next. See how each part works inside the classroom to give you clearer insight, strengthening your instruction, and more time to teach.

  1. Dynamic Assessment that authentically identifies skills mastery to inform instruction.

    • Screening, diagnostic and progress monitoring happen in one sitting
    • Scored as the student reads, so there is no stack of assessments waiting for you afterward.
    • Early indicators of reading risk, including dyslexia, surfaced as they appear

  2. The evidence becomes a lesson plan that fits the core curriculum already in your classroom.

    • Student groups and instructional next steps come directly from the data
    • Micro-lessons are aligned to the skills and state standards your students need next
    • Knowledge-rich text sets are connected to the curriculum already happening in your classroom

  3. 1:1 practice that reinforces core instruction, with micro-interventions aligned to each student’s learning progression.

    • Practice happens in short bursts, so station rotations stay on time
    • Tiered intervention without a separate schedule to run
    • Available in English or Spanish

Amira ISIP Assess

You've always known which readers need more support. You just never have twenty minutes to prove it, one child at a time. Amira does, listening to a student read aloud, in English, Spanish, or both, and turns those minutes into the clearest picture of that child's reading.

  • Screening, diagnostic and progress monitoring in a single sitting, scored as the child reads, so nothing waits for you to mark it later.
  • Oral reading heard down to the phoneme, so an accent or a dialect is never mistaken for a deficit.
  • Passages that adjust to keep the child in their zone of proximal development: hard enough to reveal the gap, never so hard it becomes discouragement.
  • The early markers of reading risk, including dyslexia, flagged the moment they surface instead of the year they finally can't be ignored
  • Reports you can act on: admin dashboard, progress, standards mastery and student summary.

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Amira Instruct

The hardest part of differentiation is finding the hours to build multiple plans for multiple students.  Amira turns the evidence collected into a plan for you, mapped to the curriculum already open on your desk, so you walk in Monday knowing exactly who needs what.

  • Lesson plans built to your district’s scope, sequence and pacing, and fully editable.
  • Grouping recommended from the evidence and updated as children grow, rather than typed in again.
  • Micro-lessons of four to ten minutes, one skill each, taught explicitly and systematically.
  • Aligned to Scarborough’s Reading Rope and the Active View of Reading.
  • Knowledge-rich text sets tied to your curriculum, so vocabulary and background knowledge build the content you're already teaching.

Amira writes the first draft of the plan.  You stay in control and can change any plan at any time.

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Amira Tutor

A reading struggle is most teachable the moment it happens. You can't be in every reading moment, but Amira can. Amira Tutor is an extension of you. Giving each student one-to-one oral reading practice, in English and Spanish, with help arriving at the moment of struggle.

  • Live diagnosis as the child reads: fluency, decoding, vocabulary and comprehension, session by session.
  • Coaching at the exact moment of struggle, matched to needs across all tiers.
  • Passages tied to your curriculum’s themes, scope and sequence, so practice reinforces your classroom instead of competing with it.
  • Real Socratic dialogue: inference, inference, summarizing, meaning-making, the way your best small-group instruction sounds.
  • Progress monitored through every session, not just at the checkpoints, so you see the climb, not just the snapshots.

No software can replace what you know about your students, and Amira was never meant to. Amira gives you back time to notice when a student needs more support.

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Whatever parts of Amira your district uses, the data stays connected, so you never have to piece it together yourself. Less time managing the work. More time doing what only you can do: teach.

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For me as a teacher, what I like about Amira is that when I go into the reports or I go to do their progress monitoring the work that they've done all week with their reading, it gives me a detailed report on where they're struggling.
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Know the reader. Understand the need. Take the next step.

While assessments tell you a score, actively listening to students reading aloud tells you which sound needs work, in which word, for which student, and how to correct it. 

Need help explaining Amira to families? Here is what we tell them
Amira Assess Amira Instruct Amira Tutor
See reading challenges that traditional assessments can miss.
Amira listens for the early indicators of reading difficulties, including dyslexia risk, giving you deeper insight into where students struggle and the evidence to support earlier intervention.
Understand every reader, in English and Spanish.
Assess students in the language they are learning to read, with insights that reflect the unique structures of English and Spanish. Turn those insights into targeted instruction and practice that meets students where they are.
Differentiate for every reader. Stay connected to your core.
Amira aligns assessment insights, instructional recommendations, and targeted practice to what you're already teaching, making it easier to meet individual student needs while keeping everyone connected to the core.

30 minutes a week. Nothing more.

  • Fits your literacy block. Not another program. Tiered intervention that reinforces your core curriculum, without adding more to your day.
  • Students read. Amira does the scoring. Automatic assessment and actionable insights, without the paperwork or extra steps.
  • From reading data to ready-to-teach. Student groups, targeted recommendations, and next steps aligned to your curriculum. No starting from scratch.

what happensnext?You DECIDE

Amira brings the intelligence. You bring the expertise.Amira connects reading evidence to curriculum-aligned recommendations, giving you the clarity to make the right instructional moves. Every recommendation is yours to use, adapt, or refine. Because the best instructional decisions are always teacher-led.

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…and introducing a new guided workspace: Amira Studio

Amira Studio

Make Your Own HQIM

Amira Studio gives you a guided workspace for creating instructional and assessment resources that stay connected to your standards, curriculum, and students. This is not a general-purpose AI. This space is built purposefully for you to create resources that are coherent, intentional, and ready for real instruction.

  • Coherent with what you already teach
  • Grounded in learning science
  • Shaped to the students in front of you
Grounded in Learning Science
Create resources that uncover what students understand, where they are getting stuck, and what they are ready to learn next.
Coherent with what you already teach
Turn that insight into targeted instruction and practice, with resources you can use in print or as interactive learning experiences.
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I listen to your students read and provide feedback in the moment so you can individualize instruction and practice for every student

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