SCAFFOLDED NARRATION · LITERACY-FIRST AUDIO · GRADES 6–10
Narration that teaches, not just reads.
Audio of informational and primary-source texts, designed by a licensed literacy educator and performed by a professional narrator — so striving readers and multilingual learners actually understand what they hear.
Three ways to work together
From a single chapter to a district-wide license, every option is built on the same instructional judgment.
Custom Scaffolded Narration
Send us your text — a chapter, a primary source, a module. We return audio engineered for comprehension, plus two masters: a clean read for accessibility and read-aloud accommodations, and a scaffolded read for instruction.
Licensed Text Library
Mentor texts and primary sources, already scaffolded — Douglass, Du Bois, Lazarus, Riis and more. One text serves the whole room, including multilingual learners at WIDA levels 2–4. Licensed per school or district.
Professional Learning
Teaching Reading in Your Subject — for content-area teachers who were never trained to support struggling readers. Live, virtual, or as a licensed on-demand audio series.
Hear the difference
CLEAN READ — WHAT ANY NARRATOR DELIVERS
“What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.”
SCAFFOLDED READ — WHAT WE DELIVER
“What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? // I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice [wrong so plain it shocks] and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.”
Same text, same voice. The pause, the stress and the in-line definition are the teaching. Listen to both reads →
Hear it on your own text.
Send a passage you already teach or publish. We’ll return a short scaffolded sample and a quote within 48 hours.
Grounded in the science of reading
Every scaffold traces to structured-literacy principles, the Simple View of Reading and Scarborough’s Reading Rope. Human instructional design decides where a reader will lose the thread — a synthetic voice cannot make that call.
LICENSED — ELA · Moderate Disabilities · ESL (5–12), SEI endorsed
CREDENTIALED — ACX professional narrator
EXPERIENCE — 11+ years in urban public-school inclusion classrooms
Accessibility is now a deadline
Public school districts face ADA Title II web and digital accessibility compliance dates, currently April 26, 2027 for larger entities. Every Ayo project includes a clean, human-narrated read built for read-aloud accommodations. See who we serve →