Digital tools to support the acquisition of reading skills

Reading is the backbone of all learning. However, recent OECD studies show that 40.5% of french 15-year-olds do not have age-appropriate reading skills. As many as 21.5% even have significant difficulties. The differences in performance between the best and the worst performers are steadily increasing, at least in France. Faced with this problem, digital technology can offer "first-aid" solutions for training reading skills within the school environment well before children fall behind. In this article, we first summarize the existing tools. We will then present the principles behind one of the major reading training programs: GraphoLearn, and describe its implementation. Originally developed in Finland and implemented in other languages, GraphoLearn has recently been implemented and validated in French.