Accurate, Valid, Reliable, Assessment—All in 20 minutes! Edit content
Traditional Assessments are All Missing the Mark
Assessment Works Better When It’s Designed for How the Brain Learns
360° View of Every Student’s Reading Journey
Amira ISIP Assess™ is a benchmark assessment, dyslexia screener, and progress monitor—all in one.
Amira does the heavy lifting, then gives you a 360-degree view of each student’s data tied to actionable recommendations.
A Complete Assessment Suite in One Seamless Experience
Amira combines benchmark assessment, universal screening, dyslexia screening, and progress monitoring and just a 20-minute oral reading session.
Real-Time Scoring Without Manual Work
Amira listens as each student reads aloud and responds and can capture, analyze, and score everything in the moment.
Actionable Guidance Teachers and Administrators Can Use
Amira goes beyond scoring—mapping student needs to instruction, intervention, and tutoring across the strands of the Reading Rope.
Better for Students, Smarter for Teachers
Amira continuously adjusts to each student’s reading ability, alerting teachers of student struggles and moments to celebrate, encouraging powerful reading growth.
Modern Psychometrics Meets Neuroscience
Smarter Reporting Informs Instruction
Admin Dashboard
Progress Report
Standards Mastery Report
Student Summary Report
Student Summary Report
Accurate Reading Assessment for Every Student
Chosen by Districts Committed to Reading Growth
Frequently Asked Questions
Amira proctors, observes, and scores by listening to students read aloud, observing oral reading behaviors (miscues, pauses, and self-corrections) to deliver a diagnostic picture of reading mastery, aligned with Scarborough’s Reading Rope and the Active View of Reading.
What reading skills does Amira assess?
Amira screens a comprehensive set of domains and subdomains, including:
- Phonological Awareness
- Phonological Working Memory
- Letter Name Identification
- Letter Sound Identification
- Listening Comprehension / Retell
- Expressive Vocabulary
- Pseudoword Identification
- Word Identification
- Spelling/Encoding
- Oral Reading Fluency
- Reading Comprehension
- Receptive Vocabulary
- Structures & Reasoning
- Rapid Automatized Naming
- Visual Attention
Yes. Amira is approved in 39 states and has received top ratings from organizations like the NCII and Deal Center. Amira is the sole state-selected screener in GA, NM, OK, and ID, and is recognized for accurate risk identification in CA, GA, and MA.
Amira can assess an entire class in 20 minutes. Students simply read aloud, and Amira captures 10x more measurement points than traditional assessments without the test-taking stress.
Amira’s multi-stage adaptation, real-time responsiveness, and psychometrically robust models allow for fine-grained measurement, even in pre-readers. Unlike fixed computer-adaptive assessments, Amira adjusts dynamically during the session, ensuring students are never overwhelmed or under-challenged.
By zeroing in on every student’s reading level, Amira keeps students engaged, reduces frustration, and creates a smoother, more supportive experience. Saving valuable time while capturing the precise insights teachers need to guide instruction.
Amira generates real-time, curriculum-coherent instructional recommendations. Teachers get clear next steps connected to core curriculum and aligned to standards through dynamic dashboards.
Yes. Amira offers authentic Spanish assessment (not just translated), evaluates across dialects and languages, and provides family reports in both English and Spanish.
Yes. Amira is a dyslexia screener designed with neuroscience-based oral tasks that detect early indicators like rapid naming and phonological processing by listening to students read aloud.
