Decodable Reading Practice.
Immediate Oral Feedback.
Aligned to Your Phonics Curriculum.

ROYO is the AI-powered reading software that generates personalized decodable books matched to your structured literacy curriculum, delivers real-time feedback on oral reading fluency and accuracy, and surfaces actionable decoding error data for every student — without adding a single task to your teachers' plates.

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Real-Time, Automated Feedback on Every Oral Reading Session

As students read aloud, ROYO's speech recognition engine listens, detects errors, and delivers immediate corrective feedback — identifying the specific decoding mistake and prompting the student to try again.

  • Students self-correct in the moment rather than practicing errors repeatedly and reinforcing them.
  • Every independent reading session functions as a supported decoding practice — not unsupervised page-turning.
  • Teachers receive a record of each session's error patterns, fluency rate, and accuracy score without needing to be present.
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Data on Exactly Where Decoding Is Breaking Down

ROYO's teacher dashboard shows more than a fluency score. It shows which phonics patterns each student is missing, how growth is trending over time, which students are ready to advance to the next pattern, and which need additional practice before moving on.

For instructional coaches and school leaders, the dashboard aggregates this data at the classroom, grade, and school level.

Automatic Differentiation by Spelling Pattern — No Custom Lessons Required
  • ROYO continuously tracks each student's phonics mastery across the full scope and sequence
  • A student who has mastered short vowels and blends but is still developing vowel team patterns will receive stories built around vowel team practice — including specific patterns like ou, ow, oi, and oy — without a teacher manually assigning a differentiated group or creating a separate lesson.
  • Check out why decodables are NOT just for intervention!
Decodable Text Students Actually Want to Read

Decodable texts are notoriously difficult to make engaging. ROYO solves this by generating stories where the student is the main character — with their name, interests, cultural identity, and aspirations embedded in every book.  

Higher completion means more practice repetitions per week, which directly accelerates phonics mastery.

Check out this blog on decodables for older students!

Works Within Your Structured Literacy Block
  • Independent reading time during class
  • Literacy centers, using existing classrooms routines
  • At home, especially for students who might not have an adult available to read to them
Frequently Asked Questions
Does ROYO integrate with existing phonics curricula and scope and sequence documents?

Yes. During onboarding, ROYO maps its decodable story content to your school or district's existing phonics scope and sequence. ROYO does not require you to adopt a new curriculum — it functions as the independent decodable practice layer within the structured literacy program you have already implemented, including programs such as CKLA, Amplify, Really Great Reading, and custom district sequences.

How does ROYO provide automated feedback on oral reading?

ROYO uses AI-powered speech recognition to listen to students as they read decodable stories aloud. When a student makes a decoding error, the system identifies the specific mistake in real time and delivers corrective feedback immediately — prompting the student to self-correct without waiting for teacher intervention. Each session generates a record of error types, fluency rate, and accuracy score that is available to teachers in their dashboard.

What data does ROYO give teachers on student decoding errors?

ROYO's teacher dashboard shows phonics pattern-level accuracy data for each student — identifying which specific spelling patterns a student is mastering and where decoding is breaking down. Teachers can view individual student error trends, class-wide pattern gaps, and fluency trajectories over time. This data updates in real time, so teachers do not need to wait for a benchmark window to identify which students need targeted support.

Can ROYO differentiate reading practice by specific phonics patterns like ou, ow, oi, and oy?

Yes. ROYO automatically matches each student to decodable stories built around the specific phonics patterns they are currently working to master, including vowel teams such as ou, ow, oi, and oy, r-controlled vowels, digraphs, blends, silent e, and multisyllabic word structures. Differentiation is automatic and continuous — teachers do not need to manually assign differentiated groups or create custom lessons for individual students.

Does ROYO adjust difficulty automatically based on phonics mastery?

Yes. ROYO continuously tracks each student's demonstrated mastery across the phonics scope and sequence and automatically adjusts the decodable text they receive. When a student demonstrates mastery of a pattern, ROYO advances them to the next stage. Students who need additional practice at a current pattern continue receiving targeted text at that level. This happens without any manual adjustment from the teacher.

How does ROYO support multilingual learners in a structured literacy program?

ROYO provides vocabulary support in students' home language alongside the decodable English text. This removes the comprehension barrier that often causes multilingual learners to underperform on phonics assessments — not because they can't decode, but because they don't know what the words mean. Vocabulary bridging in the home language gives multilingual students full access to Tier 1 phonics practice without requiring additional intervention resources.

How much time does ROYO require from teachers or students each week?

Students use ROYO for approximately 10 minutes per week. Teachers receive automatically generated dashboards and do not need to prepare materials, assign leveled texts, or conduct individual oral reading assessments to access fluency and accuracy data. ROYO is designed to reduce, not add to, the preparation and assessment workload teachers carry in a structured literacy implementation.

What grade levels does ROYO support?

ROYO supports students in kindergarten through 5th grade. The program covers foundational phonics for early readers in K–2 — including phonemic awareness, CVC words, blends, and digraphs — and continues building decoding accuracy, fluency, and comprehension through transitional and intermediate reading stages in grades 3–5, including multisyllabic word structures and advanced vowel patterns.

How do we get started with ROYO at the school or district level?

Contact ROYO's school partnership team at hello@royo.ai or book a demo directly from this page. Onboarding includes phonics curriculum alignment, teacher and coach professional development, and benchmark-aligned reporting setup — all handled by the ROYO team with no additional preparation required from your staff.

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