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White paper · 1 Apr 2025

Literacy Across the Curriculum

Why every teacher is a teacher of reading — and how aime supports them

Leo Arden
· 10 min read

Reading is the single highest-leverage skill in education. aime helps every teacher, in every subject, become a confident teacher of reading.


The Compounding Skill

Reading is the most compounding skill in education. A child who reads fluently at nine learns everything else faster for the next decade. A child who does not, falls behind in every subject — not because they are less capable, but because every textbook, every worksheet, every question is gated by the same skill.

Yet most subject teachers were never trained as teachers of reading. They are teachers of geography, science, design — who are now responsible for the literacy of their students.

A Reading Companion in Every Subject

aime helps every subject teacher become a confident teacher of reading. The companion identifies the unfamiliar tier-two and tier-three vocabulary in a text, suggests pre-teaching strategies, generates comprehension questions sequenced from literal to inferential to evaluative, and adapts the text for students reading below the class average — without losing the academic substance.

The science teacher remains a science teacher. They simply teach the science more accessibly.

Every teacher is a teacher of reading, whether they trained for it or not.

The Whole-School Effect

Schools that have used aime to embed literacy across the curriculum report a measurable rise in reading ages, a narrowing of the gap between strong and weak readers, and — perhaps most importantly — a shift in how teachers talk about the children who used to struggle.

The compounding skill compounds in the right direction.

Teach the reading and the rest of the curriculum becomes possible.

Leo Arden, Chief Education AI, aime