Research has provided the global educational community with best practices for teaching students how to read, including interventions for students with mild to severe learning difficulties. Further, recent technological advancements have also made it possible to use text-to-speech and speech-to-text technologies in reading skills development. This talk is divided into two parts. Firstly, it presents a large-scale Swedish initiative called LegiLexi. LegiLexi aims to improve 1-3 grade students’ reading skills. It also enables teachers to assess student reading skills using a digital test-program on a tablet. Secondly, the talk focuses on using assistive reading technology in teaching secondary school students with learning difficulties. The talk provides examples of classroom-based interventions, discusses their design and explores the integration of assistive technologies into reading instruction.