Use GLEN Learn and GLEN Books to Enhance Reading Skills
The age of information has created all kinds of opportunities for advancing childhood literacy. Using the internet, reading apps, and mobile devices, it’s possible to carry a whole library of books in your pocket. In addition, literacy resources are also plentiful, making it easy and fun for children to develop their reading and language skills. However, considering how many reading apps are available, it can be difficult to determine which are best for you or your children.
GLEN World has developed a series of educational reading apps designed to help children strengthen their language skills. Our reading apps have been developed with English learners in mind, helping students build on existing language skills. These apps are research-driven, using proven methods to strengthen reading, writing, and speaking skills.
Our flagship app, GLEN Learn offers guided lessons on reading, writing, vocabulary, and other language skills. These lessons can be used by children with or without supervision, making GLEN Learn a useful tool for either parents or educators. We introduce children to the magic of reading through the GLEN Books app, which contains illustrated children’s stories with narration in English and Spanish. Finally, our GLEN Rhymes app provides illustrated rhymes to playfully engage children in vocabulary and phonics. Give our free reading apps a try by visiting our content page. Click here to learn more about our methodology.
About GLEN World
GLEN World is a nonprofit organization on a mission to scale early English literacy so that every child has access to the educational and economic opportunities it unlocks.
GLEN World has developed GLEN Learn, a research-based personalized learning app for early English literacy, designed to help children develop reading skills via a series of guided exercises, engaging stories, and rhymes. GLEN Learn’s content design is based on Instructed Second Language Acquisition research, targeting the fundamental skills required for literacy: vocabulary knowledge, recognition of sounds, and recognition of spelling. GLEN Learn’s learning modules reinforce each other as they target these fundamental skills. GLEN World also offers GLEN Books, a mobile app with a rich collection of beautifully illustrated and warmly narrated storybooks that foster a love for reading in children.
GLEN World is experimenting with safe and scalable ways to leverage generative AI to create learning content that promotes curiosity and engagement in young learners. Our first two experiments in AI-generated learning content are AI Explain and AI Tails. GLEN World’s YouTube channel features the AI Explain playlist with educational videos on the origin of important inventions and discoveries. The AI Tails playlist includes AI-generated illustrated audiobooks on topics that we hope will interest young children.
Our team includes seasoned educators, authors, animators, established graphic artists, and engineers. A unique strength is our connection with two premier research universities, the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), with the close involvement of faculty with expertise spanning second language acquisition, education, cognition, engineering, and machine learning. Learn more by visiting our website.
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