Overview
Surrounding students with a wide variety of leveled literature, fiction, and nonfiction texts is a first step to inspiring lifelong readers. Pairing these choices with a supportive program that keeps students coming back for more creates strong independent readers. Reading Counts! brings success to teachers, students, and district leaders alike.
Student Experience
When students read independently, they flex their reading comprehension skills and become confident learners. Even struggling readers step up to the challenge when they see the progress they’re making with Reading Counts!
When students are selecting books and topics of interest, generating their own reading lists, and checking their progress after taking quizzes they are empowered to advance with confidence.
As they progress through the program and grade levels, students can customize their interests and reading lists to maintain engagement.
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Positive messaging received upon successfully completing quizzes builds students’ confidence.
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The invitation to share their opinions of completed books on a “Read-O-Meter” page helps students appreciate the enjoyment, empowerment, and community that reading can bring to their lives.
Teacher Experience
To ensure every student meets today’s standards requiring more complex texts, teachers need insight into individual reading levels and progress. Reading Counts! combines flexible instruction, high-quality book recommendations, practice, powerful assessment, and reporting to guide students to college- and career- readiness.
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Compatible with classroom, library, or curriculum-based books, Reading Counts! helps students select reading options that match their Lexile scores and personal interests.
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Teachers can consult our Online Book Expert, a database of thousands of books searchable by title, author, grade level, Lexile measure, genre, and topic—all supported by Reading Counts! quizzes.
Because every quiz provides a true formative, curriculum-based assessment, Reading Counts! serves as an ongoing progress monitor, enabling teachers to determine when instructional strategies are working.
Up-to-the-minute, customizable reports support targeted, data-driven instruction so teachers can provide extra challenge, encouragement, or intervention as needed.
As students are encouraged to stretch their reading proficiency for college- and career- readiness, Reading Counts! provides data on how well students are reading more complex text independently.
This two-hour training module moderated by an educator and program expert can be customized to meet the needs of all participants. The training provides proven strategies, best practices, and great ideas to integrate this independent reading program into your school community.
Participants in our in-person training will learn the key features of Reading Counts! and how to customize the program to fit their students’ needs and their own instructional goals. Training also covers using SAM™ to simplify record keeping and report generation, applying data to target instruction and monitor progress, and using the Lexile® Framework for Reading as a measure for reading success.
Leaders gain insights at district, school, and individual student levels
Education leaders responsible for district-wide literacy improvement initiatives welcome the support of a powerful and cost-effective independent reading program that easily integrates with core reading programs already in use. Actionable reports offer easy-to-digest overviews of student performance, program usage, and reading growth over time.
Reading Counts! is an integral part of our core and intervention literacy programs, matching students to appropriate texts and measuring their understanding.