INDEPENDENT READING PROGRAM OVERVIEW

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Scholastic Reading Counts! is an independent reading program for Grades K–12 which combines reading practice and software-based reading assessment. Instructionally flexible, mastery focused, and professionally written, SRC! is the program PROVEN to develop reading skills, help raise test scores, and motivate students to achieve reading success.

Scholastic Reading Counts! edges out the competition with BETTER quizzes, which lead to more ACCURATE data and that provides more ACTIONABLE reports to keep every student on track for success.

  • EASY: Start with any great book found in your classroom library, school library, or public library—fiction, nonfiction, and curriculum-based books that kids WANT to read!
  • LEVELED: Students choose a title from a personalized SRC! book list that is appropriate for their skills and matches their interests. All SRC! titles align with the Lexile Framework® for Reading, making it easy to match a student with a book at just-the-right level for them.
  • SIMPLE: Students read a book and take the corresponding quiz. SRC! automatically generates a quiz that meets each student's reading needs.
  • ACTIONABLE: Every quiz provides a true, formative, curriculum-based assessment so you can use SRC! as a regular progress monitor. Students can continue to retake different quizzes on the same book to ensure skills mastery.
  • FUN: Kid-friendly selections and leveled quiz content ensure that every independent reading experience will be a successful one.
  • BEST VALUE: SRC! is the most cost-effective solution available to improve students’ independent reading accountability.
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A Lexile®-based independent reading program.
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Measures progress by Lexile®, Guided Reading, and Grade Level.
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A bank of up to 30 questions per quiz.
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Available in Locally Hosted or Remotely Hosted platforms at a comparable price.
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Provides a consistent assessment environment with all quizzes written to specification by educational professionals to be balanced, internally consistent, and concise, not supplied by book publishers.
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Quiz questions and answers are written to support randomization and do not refer to previously asked questions.
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Flexibility for students to retake quizzes with a different set of questions, and review questions that were incorrectly answered.
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Fun, age-appropriate, motivating congratulations screens for students.
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Personalized suggested reading lists generated based on student interests and Lexile level. Students have the opportunity to rate every book they read.
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Internal quiz installation monitoring in Book Expert.
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Automatic alert of students at risk.
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District-level reporting and data management.
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Ability to customize/write own quizzes.
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Unlimited
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Only up to 500
Tracking of awards and goal.
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Data is available on metrics such as WORDS READ, BOOKS READ, and POINTS EARNED, information to help provide a complete picture of a student’s independent reading experience.
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An optional Point System based on an algorithm of book length (measured in words) and interest level (grade level) to help motivate students independent reading choices.
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