Scholastic Scholastic Reading Counts! Powered by SAM

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Program Overview
Benefits for Teachers and Media Specialists
Rely on Scholastic Reading Counts! for leveled, measurable independent reading practice that will motivate students to read and achieve more! Built-in features help teachers, reading specialists, and media specialists guide each student to the best books at the appropriate reading level.

Key Benefits: Match Books to Students Monitor Student Progress
  Empower Students Engage Parents

Match Lexile-leveled books to your students’ interests and reading levels
Using Book Expert, you can easily search the entire Scholastic Reading Counts! database to identify books that fit your students’ and curriculum needs. This software feature also allows you to read a synopsis of each book and print book labels to organize your library.
Find the best books for your students with Book Expert Book Expert Search Screen Book Expert Print Custom Booklist


Monitor students’ reading progress and inform instruction
The Scholastic Achievement Manager (SAM) generates customizable reports that detail students’ achievement levels and progress toward reading goals. Educators can use the data to differentiate instruction for readers of all ability levels.
Monitor student reading progress and inform instruction with easy-to-access reports
Reading Progress Report Quiz Alert Report

Empower students to read
Students can select topics of interest, generate their own reading lists, and check their progress after taking quizzes—all of which make students accountable for their independent reading.
Empower students to read by allowing them to select topics of interest, generate their own reading lists, and check their progress after taking quizzes Student Interest Screen Student Reading Record Report


Engage parents with customized parent letters
Keeping parents up-to-date on their children’s participation in the program and reading progress is easy with parent letters available in English or Spanish.
Encourage parent involvement with custom parent letters
Parent Letter (in English) Parent Letter (in Spanish)