AI agent for tutors
Reading Comprehension Evidence Agent
Learners back their answers with evidence from the text.
What it does
Adult literacy learners often answer reading questions from opinion or memory rather than the text. Telling them 'wrong' does not teach them to look back at the passage. This agent spots the specific part of an answer that the passage does not support. It retrieves the relevant lines and asks a targeted follow-up question that points the learner back to them. It then checks whether the new answer is supported by the text. If the learner is still confused after two tries, it switches to a simpler excerpt and asks again. A corrected answer moves the learner on to transfer practice with a new passage. The tutor receives a session record and decides on further support. Edge case: an answer that is reasonable and supported by a different line is accepted.
How it works
Follow the arrows from top to bottom. The orange dashed arrow is the loop: when a check fails, the agent goes back and tries again.
Read the steps as a list
- Learner submits an answer
- Identify unsupported interpretations
- Retrieve the relevant passage lines
- Ask a targeted follow-up question
- Is the new answer supported by the text?If not: use a simpler excerpt and ask again. Back to step 4.
- Move to transfer practice
- Evidence-based practice session record for the tutor
How it decides
It chooses a follow-up that targets the specific unsupported inference; it simplifies the excerpt after two failed follow-ups.
- Follow-up target: the specific unsupported claim in the answer.
- Simplify: switch to a shorter excerpt after two unsupported answers.
- Accept: any answer supported by the passage, even if not the expected line.
- Move on: to transfer practice after one correct supported answer.
Make it yours
Every agent is a starting point. You choose these settings for your own situation.
- Number of tries before simplifying (default 2)
- Reading level of excerpts (default one level below the passage)
- Session length (default 20 minutes)
- Tone of follow-up questions (default encouraging and short)
- What the tutor receives (default session record with each answer and the lines used)
What keeps you in control
It always asks you first
- Formal grading or diagnosis
Hard limits
- No formal assessment.
It stops when
- Done: supported answers in two items.
Set it up
We guide you through the set-up, step by step
Members get the full set-up guide for this agent. No technical skills needed: you copy, paste and upload.
- One set of instructions to paste into your AI, with the clicks for ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Gemini and Grok
- The agent then walks you through connecting your own data, one source at a time
- A downloadable copy with the flow chart, the rules and the full guide
