Reading Plus: Content Library | Reading Solutions

Reading Solutions UK is dedicated to providing students with a diverse content library depicting a wide range of experiences, celebrating the diversity of people and cultures and meeting their emotional and academic needs and interests.

Texts on the Reading Plus programme

The quality of rich and engaging texts on Reading Plus is continually assessed to provide students with a holistic reading experience. Over 1,300 informational, fiction, and non-fiction texts are available for students to self-select. All texts are age-and level-appropriate.

Reading Plus provides an extensive library of engaging informational and literary selections that support instructional objectives through student-centred learning. Your students will experience an extensive library with the highest quality, integrity, and diversity standards.

Offering students choice and control

Reading Plus offers a student-centred experience, where students choose the texts they want to read from eight high-interest categories that support the acquisition of knowledge in curriculum areas of STEM, social science, civics, and literature.

The eight categories students will encounter when using Reading Plus are:

Personal Journey.
Earth.
Heroes & Trailblazers.
Mystery & Adventure.
Art & Culture.
How Things Work.
Time Machine.
Get in the Game.

Levelled texts and comprehension tasks

Reading Plus offers qualitative and quantitative measures to ensure students read texts appropriate for their reading abilities.

Each text includes rigorous questions in various formats to test comprehension skills. Critical year-appropriate academic vocabulary is seamlessly incorporated into every text. Students advancing through the programme encounter a staircase of steadily increasing vocabulary complexity and sentence length, ensuring they engage with appropriate texts for their reading ability.

The programme has 14 levels, and students can progress through them. The readability level on Reading Plus ranges from Year 2 to GCSE.

For students reading below grade level, the programme’s content enables struggling readers to build efficiency at lower readability levels while reading about topics that respect their interests.

Diversity and Equity

Reading Plus texts are written and selected to include and respect all people. A diverse content library benefits all children. Reading Plus content is strategically written and chosen to encourage new ways of thinking and foster discussions.

We believe that all students should feel included and supported as they develop reading skills in Reading Plus, and we strive to incorporate content and imagery that reflects our diverse student community.

The programme offers texts that are “mirrors” and “windows”—an approach advocated by scholar Rudine Sims Bishop, widely regarded as the mother of multicultural literature. Through reading texts in Reading Plus, students have the opportunity to see themselves and their lives reflected in the selections they read and gain an understanding and appreciation of experiences different from their own.

The content editors responsible for texts on Reading Plus look specifically for “content that respects and reflects the experiences and cultures of all children, especially those who have been historically underrepresented.” – Randi Gelfman Bender, Chief Content Office at Dreambox Learning (owners of Reading Plus).