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Reading Plus is an adaptive, online reading development programme. With a readability range from Year 2 to beyond GCSE, it serves the needs of a wide range of students.
We aren’t here to replace books. Our purpose is to:
Reading Plus supports students in shifting from the learning-to-read to the reading-to-learn stage of reading development. It is for students who:
The programme also focuses on students’ intrinsic motivation for reading by providing highly engaging texts and measuring their self improvement belief, confidence, and interest in reading. All of these components come together to develop reading proficiency.
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The results place each student at the right level in the programme before creating a learning pathway to accelerate their strengths and improve their weaknesses.
We recommend:
As students progress through their adaptive, personalised path:
They will:
When students first log on to Reading Plus, they sit the baseline InSight Assessment. This summative assessment will provide you with an overview of your students’ levels of:
You can easily attain which students require support and in which reading skill.
After completing the baseline assessment, students can begin reading on the programme. Once students read a short text, they will answer ten comprehension questions. If students read the recommended five texts per week, they are exposed to 50 comprehension questions testing their knowledge of summary, retrieval, inference, etc. These formative assessments ensure students are constantly reading age-appropriate and ability-level texts. You can also use this data to evidence progress.
Students work independently on Reading Plus at their just-right levels, meaning you will have:
For students requiring additional support:
Formative and summative assessment data is easy to interpret and access. Our Customer Support Team also offers progress reports for class, school, and trust levels – saving you precious time.
Reading Plus is proven to work. Over 100 research studies validate our programme’s ability to develop students’ reading fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.
As a multi-academy trust, you will benefit from a lower cost per student.
Supporting the National Curriculum, Reading Plus aims for students to:
Reading Plus achieves this through adaptive technology, high-quality and age-appropriate texts, and giving students the autonomy to control their reading journey.
In-built formative and summative assessments allow trusts to access student, class, and academy-level data – at a glance.
Our Customer Support Team provides monthly reports for trusts so leaders can evidence impact with board members and trust senior leaders. You will see:
Trust-wide implementation is easy thanks to our support offering. Our Customer Support Team uploads student data, creates accounts for students and educators, and offers training sessions as and when required – all free.
Our Marketing Team have several engaging initiatives and competitions throughout the year to encourage usage, motivation, and reading for pleasure.
Arun is an inefficient, relatively slow reader who struggles to read and comprehend year-level texts.
Hannah reads quickly but gets frustrated trying to comprehend year-level texts.
Jacob can read and comprehend content at or above year level, but he would benefit from support to develop fluency.
Aisha is a proficient and efficient reader and benefits from Reading Plus as enrichment.
Students sit a baseline assessment when they first start on Reading Plus, which places them at their just-right level on the programme.
This comprehensive in-built assessment allows teachers to see:
The image shows an example Screening Report; click on each student to view their reading needs.
To model good reading behaviour, students will see texts presented using the patented Guided Window feature. This tool:
I would 100% recommend Reading Plus to other schools based on outcomes at Ribbon, which have been incredibly positive - they stand for themselves.
Students reading below, at, or above their year level all need content and tasks that build critical thinking skills. They also need instruction that:
Over 1,300 high-quality and age-appropriate informational, fiction, and non-fiction texts are available for students to self-select to develop comprehension and vocabulary knowledge.
Reading Plus is built on decades of foundational research in:
Read more about the theoretical framework and research behind Reading Plus here.
*In an efficacy study with Derby Research School and Spencer Academies Trust, students eligible for pupil premium made, on average, 97% more progress with Reading Plus than in the control schools.
Read the Derby research study
Choosing a new reading programme is a big decision. That’s why you can try Reading Plus – with support from a dedicated Reading Development Consultant – at no cost for four weeks.
See for yourself how Reading Plus is different to other reading programmes.
Enjoy a seamless start in accelerating your schools reading development with comprehensive training and support.
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High-level diagnostic data provides teachers quick access to usage reports and student, class, and school-level progress.
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Close the attainment gap and see evidence-based results including improved reading speed, vocabulary, and comprehension.
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We offer personalised plans for your school's needs, whether it's targeted intervention or support for a specific key stage.
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