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An evidence-based programme with proven results

With over 100 research studies, Reading Plus is proven to accelerate reading progress, close the gap, and encourage reluctant readers.

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Proven results

Students reading below, at, or above their year level all need content and tasks that build critical thinking skills.

Outcomes improve with Reading Plus as the programme:

  • Teaches students the skills they need to read using adaptive patented technology.
  • Closes the gap through personalised scaffolded instruction matched to each individual’s learning abilities.
  • Builds and sustains students’ interest through its extensive content library.
  • Creates curious and confident readers, preparing students for future success.

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Reading Plus' impact

What results can you expect?

With Reading Plus, students’ progress is continuously and dynamically monitored using summative and formative assessments.

Reading content levels are adjusted accordingly, ensuring they progress at their just-right levels and are matched with age-appropriate, high-quality texts.

Students develop their comprehension skills as they are exposed to word reading skills (decoding, full word recognition, fluency) and language comprehension (inferencing, comprehension monitoring, text structure, and vocabulary).

After reading a text selection, students practice their understanding by answering ten comprehension questions. These questions are calibrated to a student’s level of reading proficiency to strengthen comprehension skills, forming a basis for critical thinking.

The research-based, patented Guided Window develops students’ fluency and stamina. This unique feature guides the reader’s eyes across a page of text at a bespoke speed, utilising a moving box.

The Guided Window moves at the speed the student is currently reading and adapts based on their performance with comprehension questions. This patented technology moves students toward efficient, independent reading at a year-appropriate rate.

With over 2,400 words, the Reading Plus vocabulary feature develops students’ language capabilities, which teaches a research-based compilation of highly valuable, cross-curriculum, general academic vocabulary.

Reading Plus offers a student-centred experience. Students can self-select fiction, non-fiction, and informational texts from eight high-interest categories that support the acquisition of knowledge in curriculum areas of STEM, social science, history, and literature.

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Expected results

Find out what results students below, at, and above year-level expectations could achieve with Reading Plus.
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Students below year-level expectations

Students who need fluency, stamina, and comprehension support will benefit from reading efficiency and vocabulary tasks on Reading Plus to build their knowledge. Once a student has improved their vocabulary, reading will be less of a challenge, and they then can focus on improving their comprehension. Adaptive technology and support scaffolds ensure students are:

  • Working at their just-right levels.
  • Accessing age-appropriate and ability-level texts.
  • Motivated and engaged with their learning.
  • Closing the gap on their peers.

Students just below or at year-level expectations

These students will benefit from reading tasks which develop their fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills. When used as recommended, students will be exposed to 50 comprehension questions weekly, testing their summarising, retrieval, and inference skills. Reading Plus ensures students:

  • Are exposed to a wide range of text types.
  • Can self-select texts from high-interest categories.
  • Are suitably challenged to progress.
  • Improve their fluency with the patented Guided Window.
  • Make rapid progress to meet year-end goals.

Students above year-level expectations

With a readability range up to Year 11, proficient readers will use Reading Plus for enrichment and to further enhance their reading skills. They will:

  • Enjoy the variety of rich and engaging informational, non-fiction, and fiction texts.
  • Build a vast vocabulary bank, enhancing cross-curricular subject knowledge.
  • Be presented with texts and comprehension questions that suitably challenge them.
  • Not only are we now seeing an impact on fluency and overall comprehension, but we can also see how this has enhanced our reading-for-pleasure culture.
    Heather March
    Director of Education, Dubmire Academy

Reading Plus efficacy study

Reading Solutions UK collaborated with Derby Research School and Spencer Academies Trust to determine the efficacy of Reading Plus and its impact on disadvantaged pupils.

The main findings showed:

  • Pupils who used Reading Plus for reading development achieved more significant progress than non-users, on average.
  • Disadvantaged pupils made 97% more progress than disadvantaged pupils in the control schools.

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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.

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