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AI Close Reading Assistant

A real close read of any text — powered by AI, shaped by a teacher.

Smart-Reader is an AI close reading assistant that turns any passage into a sectioned, evidence-based analysis with staged questions, vocabulary in context, and AI coaching that pushes students back to the text.

Close reading is hard to do at scale.

Great close reading demands time, patient questioning, and a teacher who can push a student back to the text. Most classrooms can't provide that for every student on every passage.

  • Students skim instead of analyze
  • Evidence is missed or misread
  • Vocabulary trips readers up
  • Teachers can't confer with 30 students at once
  • Advanced questions rarely get asked
  • Written analysis is disconnected from reading
How Smart-Reader helps

Sectioned prompts. Evidence-first feedback. Every student, every passage.

Smart-Reader breaks the text into short close-reading sections. Each section pauses for staged questions — literal ("what did the text say?"), inferential ("what does it mean?"), evaluative ("what do you think and why?") — and coaches students to point back to the passage before the AI offers feedback.

  • Sections short enough to actually re-read
  • Every question asks for evidence from the passage
  • Vocabulary is pulled from the text and used in context
  • AI feedback deepens reasoning, doesn't replace it
  • Teachers see every response and every AI reply

What students and teachers get

Sectioned passages

Text broken into short, close-readable sections — like a great teacher would.

Staged question types

Literal, inferential, and evaluative prompts on every section.

Evidence-first coaching

AI asks 'where in the text?' before agreeing with a response.

Vocabulary in context

Definitions and usage examples stay inside the passage.

Works on any text

Articles, primary sources, novel chapters, and poetry.

Chapter memory for novels

Close reading Chapter 5? It remembers what happened in Chapters 1–4.

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Frequently asked

What is close reading?+

Close reading is the practice of carefully analyzing a passage — its language, structure, evidence, and meaning — instead of just skimming for the main idea.

How does Smart-Reader run a close read?+

It breaks the text into short sections, asks staged literal → inferential → evaluative questions on each section, and coaches students to cite evidence from the passage.

Can I close-read novels and non-fiction?+

Yes. Smart-Reader supports pasted passages, uploaded articles, primary sources, and novel chapters with continuity between chapters.