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Interactive Reading Passages

Interactive Reading Passages offer rich, culturally insightful content with quick word meanings, pronunciation help, and the ability to save words for later. It’s an engaging way to build confidence, expand your vocabulary, and get ready for real conversations.

Interactive Reading Passages on a Laptop

Available for Spanish and French!

Our Interactive Reading Passages are carefully crafted to be just challenging enough to foster growth in your language skills, while giving you the tools to learn words just outside of your comfort zone. By understanding the language in written form, you’re better equipped to recognize and use similar structures and vocabulary in spoken language.

Build Your Word Power, Effortlessly
Expand your vocabulary naturally as you read, with instant meanings and pronunciation help.

Master Real-Life Sentence Flow
See how sentences are structured in the real world, helping you speak more fluidly and naturally.

Fine-Tune Pronunciation, Even Silently
While reading, your brain practices how words sound, and you can listen to audio to hear the correct pronunciation.

Accelerate Progress with Comprehensible Input
Get the right mix of challenge and familiarity, so you’re always learning new words just above your level.

Think Quicker, Speak Smoother
Reading sharpens your mental reflexes, helping you recall words faster and speak more fluently.

Save Words for Later
Save words to your Vocabulary System as you read, so you can review and practice them whenever you’re ready.

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Build Your Word Power, Effortlessly

Expand your vocabulary naturally as you read, with instant meanings and pronunciation help.

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Master Real-Life Sentence Flow

See how sentences are structured in the real world, helping you speak more fluidly and naturally.

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Fine-Tune Pronunciation, Even Silently

While reading, your brain practices how words sound, and you can listen to audio to hear the correct pronunciation.

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Accelerate Progress with Comprehensible Input

Get the right mix of challenge and familiarity, so you’re always learning new words just above your level.

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Think Quicker, Speak Smoother

Reading sharpens your mental reflexes, helping you recall words faster and speak more fluently.

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Save Words for Later

Save words to your Vocabulary System as you read, so you can review and practice them whenever you’re ready.

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Just-Right Difficulty

Each passage is designed to challenge you at the right level, helping you build your language skills without feeling overwhelmed.

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Instant Help

Quickly see the meaning of any word or phrase you don’t know, so you can keep reading smoothly without getting stuck.

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Clear Explanations

Understand tricky phrases and sentence structures with easy-to-follow explanations, so you get the full meaning of what you’re reading.

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Engaging Content

The passages are carefully selected to be both interesting and helpful for your language learning journey.

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Efficient Learning

Everything you need—translations, explanations, and vocabulary tools—is integrated, making your learning experience seamless and productive.

Get a glimpse of Interactive Reading Passages in action.

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How It Works:

Choose from an ever-growing catalog.

These passages include a wide range of content and genres (e.g., articles, blogs, stories, songs, podcasts, videos, etc.) that satisfy different interests and personalities, learners can quickly and easily find target language content that is personally meaningful and engaging to them.

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Expand your vocabulary with context.

As you encounter new words and phrases within the passages, you’ll learn them in context. This helps you understand not just the meanings, but also how they’re used in real conversations, making it easier to recall and use them when speaking. This feature also highlights and explains idiomatic expressions and phrases, which are often challenging for language learners.

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Reinforce grammar and sentence structure.

As you read and interact with the content, you’ll see how sentences are structured and how grammar rules are applied in real-life language use. This repeated exposure helps solidify your understanding, so you can apply it more confidently in conversations.

 
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Save words and phrases to review later.

While reading or listening to content, learners can discover new vocabulary, identify word groupings, and record new words and phrases into their vocabulary system with a single click.

 
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Curious about the finer details?

Interactive Reading Passages were designed with the goal of applying Krashen's theory of comprehensible input and creating a tool that maps out the most direct, efficient, and enjoyable path to language acquisition. For detailed information, check out our whitepaper.