Patent ID: 8500450

Claim:
A method of performing reading fluency training via a computer having a visual display and a user interface, comprising: presenting to a user, on the visual display, structured reading lessons of multiple formats including a multi-line reading format and a single-line reading format, wherein each of the structured reading lessons includes a set of reading-comprehension questions; capturing, by the computer, reading rate data for segments of the structured reading lessons presented in multi-line reading format and for segments of the structured reading lessons presented in single-line reading format; collecting, via the user interface, answers to each set of reading-comprehension questions provided by the user; using the answers to each set of reading comprehension questions to obtain at least one reading comprehension measure; continually assessing, via the computer, reading proficiency of the user as a function of the at least one reading comprehension measure and the reading rate data; and dynamically controlling selection of reading lesson presentation format from among the multiple formats based on, at differing times, one, the other, or both, of the reading rate data and the at least one reading comprehension measure; wherein said presenting of the structure reading lessons of multiple formats includes: automatedly varying segmentation of ones of the structured reading lessons in a manner that tends to sustain attention by the user based on the at least one reading comprehension measure; and varying the structured reading lessons between a first format having a first number of text segments and reading comprehension questions interspersed among the first number of text segments and a second format having a second number of text segments and reading comprehension questions following only the second number of text segments; wherein the second number is different from the first number.