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Program Overview
Benefits for Students
Students will read more and become better readers using Scholastic Reading Counts! In addition to reading great books, they can monitor their own progress in the program and gain satisfaction when they meet attainable goals.

Key Benefits: Personal Choice Meaningful Practice
  A Sense of Accomplishment Accountability
  Voice of Opinion  

Students personally choose up to three topics of interest
to generate a customized reading list
Elementary, middle, and high school students select from different screens with appropriate topic choices. The Recommended Reading Report not only lists books that students will find interesting, but is automatically populated with books in their Lexile level range.
Student Interest Screen
Student Interest Screen

Meaningful practice builds students’ confidence and leads to success on software-generated comprehension quizzes
After independently reading a book, students log on to the computer and take a Scholastic Reading Counts! quiz. They demonstrate completion and comprehension of the book by correctly answering multiple-choice questions. In the process, the quizzes provide students with standardized test practice.
Quiz Screen
Quiz Screen

Students gain a sense of accomplishment and
build excitement after passing a quiz
High-interest, age-appropriate, personalized congratulations screens pop up when students successfully complete a quiz.
Accomplishment Screens

Elementary School Middle School High School

With on-screen reporting, students can be accountable
for meeting their reading goals
After taking a quiz, students can immediately track their own progress toward reading goals and view an up-to-date report on their achievements.
Student Options Screen
Read-O-Meter

Read-O-Meter gives students a voice by allowing them to rate
a book after they have successfully completed a quiz
Students not only have a chance to express their opinion with Scholastic Reading Counts!, but they can use Read-O-Meter results to inform their future reading choices.
Read-O-Meter