The Home-school Mom’s Secret Weapon:
Why Your Students Will Love Immersive Reader

Maybe there is a little bit of a “reading struggle” with your home-school child. Maybe you are hearing about Immersive Reader for the very first time.  Here are the Top 3 Benefits of using Immersive Reader as part of the way your child learns:

• Instant Independence: It allows your child to tackle complex texts solo, freeing you up to focus on other siblings, or planning, or other tasks. Part of home-schooling can be self-motivation and direction. Immersive Reader naturally supports this.

• Customized Comfort: Everyone’s brain is different. This learning accelerator tool lets anyone to “redesign” the page with colors and spacing that make letters stop jumping around.

• Mastering Fluency: By hearing words read aloud while seeing them highlighted, your child builds the “sight-word” confidence they need to become a fluid reader.

The biggest game-changer is the independence your child gains. Have you ever been in the middle of a science experiment or a math problem with one child when another asks you to read a long paragraph for their history assignment? With Immersive Reader, they can simply click a button to have the text read aloud to them at a speed they can actually follow. This means they aren’t waiting on you to “unlock” the information; they have the key themselves. And the learning is done as a natural flow, not stop-and-start.

Beyond just hearing the words, the visual customization is a lifesaver for home-schoolers who feel overwhelmed by a wall of black-and-white text. They can instantly change the background to a soft “sepia” or “night mode” to reduce eye strain, or increase the line spacing so they can focus on one sentence at a time. It even includes a “Picture Dictionary” where they can click a word they don’t know and see an image of it, which is absolute magic for visual learners.

As your child listens to the high-quality narration, the tool highlights each word as it’s spoken, which is vital for building fluency. This synchronized “see and hear” approach helps bridge the gap for kids who struggle with decoding or those who have learning differences like dyslexia. It’s like having a patient reading tutor sitting next to them who never gets tired of repeating the same sentence until it finally clicks.

The best part? Immersive Reader isn’t just a “one-off” disconnected tool. It just one of a whole family of Learning Accelerators within Microsoft 365 for Education, working together as tools and within apps. For example, it works hand-in-hand with Reading Progress, where your child can record themselves reading and see their own growth; or Dictate, which lets them write their thoughts using their voice. It is a connected ecosystem designed to catch your child where they are and propel them forward.

Adding “tech” to your home-school can sometimes feel like you are disconnecting you student from learning.  Microsoft 365 for Education is different. Microsoft has spent tens of millions of dollars apps over more than a dozen years to make everything run seamlessly. Best of all, as a home-schooler.com member you get the Office 365 apps and the Microsoft 365 for Education apps at no extra charge. Whether you’re using Word for essays or OneNote for digital binders, these tools are built right in to help your student shine without adding a line item to your curriculum budget.

Some people think tools like Immersive Reader are just for those with learning challenges. While this provides a tremendous boost to those with some form of learning challenge the truth is everyone can and will benefit from Immersive Reader.

Sign up for your home-schooler.com account right now and put the power of Immersive Reader to work.