Penguin Reading Companion - Tencent's AI Reading Assistant for Primary and Secondary School Students

What is Penguin Reading Companion

Penguin Reading Companion is an AI reading assistant designed for primary and secondary school students by Tencent. Relying on Tencent's hybrid model and metamaterial platform, and in conjunction with the Compulsory Education Language Curriculum and Curriculum Standards (2022 Edition), Penguin Reading Companion provides students with personalized reading recommendations, multiple reading modes (focusing, reading aloud, and listening to books), inspirational interactions, role-playing, and gamification incentives, among other features. Based on AI technology, it turns classic books into "interactive theaters", stimulates students' interest in reading, improves reading ability and core literacy, and helps reconstruct the ecology of reading education. Students use the tool based on WeChat small program to enjoy the intelligent reading experience.

Key Features of Penguin Reading Companion

• Personalized Recommendations: Recommend appropriate reading books based on students' grade level, reading ability, and interest preferences.
• Multiple reading modes::
  • Focused Mode: Suitable for in-depth reading, it supports underlining annotations and golden sentence collections to help students better understand and memorize important content.
  • read aloud mode: AI recognizes students' reading aloud in real time, helps correct pronunciation and gives encouragement to improve students' reading ability.
  • listening mode: AI reads book content aloud for use when reading is inconvenient, such as when exercising or doing chores, allowing students to enjoy reading anytime, anywhere.
• lead with a question: During the reading process, the AI Reading Companion asks heuristic questions that lead students to think deeply.
• Role play and scenario experience: In some books, the AI reading companion offers a role-playing feature, where the user chooses the characters in the book and the AI plays other roles.
• Gamification Motivation: Design the reading process as an adventure game, where students earn wisdom stars for each chapter or task they complete, inspiring and motivating students to read.
• Smart Summary Report: The system automatically generates a reading summary report, visualizing data such as reading duration, progress, and AI interaction.

How to use Penguin Reading Companion

• Visit Penguin Reading Companion: Type "Penguin Reading Companion" in the WeChat search box, click Search to find the small program, click to enter.
• Register & Login: Complete registration and login as required.
• Selection of books to read::
  • Home: Upon entering the applet, the system recommends appropriate books based on the user's grade level and reading ability.
  • search function: If you want to find a specific book, click on the search box on the home page and enter the title or author to quickly find the book of interest.
• Select Reading Mode: Select Focus Mode, Read Aloud Mode or Listen Mode as required.
• Interaction and questions::
  • AI Interactive: During the reading process, AI Reading Companion asks heuristic questions to guide deeper thinking and improve questioning and problem solving skills.
  • role-playing (as a game of chess): In some books, the AI reading companion provides a role-playing function, where characters in the book are selected and the AI plays other roles, acting out the scene together to enhance emotional resonance and depth of understanding.

The core strengths of Penguin Reading Partners

• Personalized Recommendations: Accurately match students' grade levels, reading abilities and interests, and dynamically adjust the recommended books.
• Multiple reading modes: Provides focus, read aloud, and listen to book modes to meet different scenarios.
• Heuristic interaction: Based on questioning and role-playing, it leads users to think deeply and enhances emotional resonance.
• Gamification Motivation: Design reading tasks and incentives to stimulate interest and motivation.
• Smart Summary Report: Generate visual reports of reading data to provide personalized feedback.
• Supplementary educational resources: To provide quality reading instruction for students in lower tier cities and to close the education resource gap.
• Combining technology and content: Relying on advanced AI technology to ensure interactive intelligence and content that meets educational standards.

Who Penguin Reading Companion is for

• primary and secondary school students: Based on personalized recommendations and multiple reading modes, it stimulates reading interest, improves reading ability and meets personalized learning needs.
• head of a household: Participate in your child's reading, monitor learning progress, and cultivate your child's reading habits with the help of parent-child interaction features and smart reports.
• principals: Based on students' reading data and personalized feedback, it assists classroom teaching, provides effective reading instruction, and enhances teaching effectiveness.
• Pupils in areas where educational resources are scarce: Access to quality reading resources with the help of AI technology to close the education gap and inspire learning potential.
• People with a strong interest in reading: Based on rich bibliographic resources and intelligent interaction, it expands reading horizons and enhances reading and thinking skills.