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Quizzes and Books

Scholastic Reading Counts! quizzes* and books allow students to build on their strengths to develop both reading skills and confidence!

  • Rely on the Lexile Framework® for Reading to provide students with books that have just the right amount of reading challenge
  • Assess students’ mastery of fiction, nonfiction, and curriculum-connected text with a unique comprehension quiz for each student
  • Allow students to retake a quiz with a different set of questions
  • Offer more than 40,000 engaging titles from over 500 publishers that cover every topic, theme, and genre!
  • Support the core reading program with skills-based quiz questions and titles that integrate with subject areas across the curriculum
*Scholastic Reading Counts! software must be installed in order to run Scholastic Reading Counts! quizzes.

Learn more about how Scholastic Reading Counts! can enrich an independent reading program:

Computer-Generated Quizzes

Target student and educator needs with unique quizzes* that are:

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  • Customizable—Easily modified to adjust the number of questions on the test, the point value assignment, and student feedback options
  • Skills-based—Drawn from a bank of 30 equally weighted questions that probe for understanding of key reading comprehension skills
  • Empowering—Provides students with options to review incorrect answers, view instant progress reports, see a fun congratulations screen for passing a quiz, and rate the books they read in the program
  • Positive—Allows students to retake a quiz up to three times and receive an entirely different quiz each time
  • Personalized—Focuses students on their own reading goals with randomized quiz questions and answers that cannot be shared with other students

Increase student motivation to read! “Research has shown that computer-assisted instruction can be a powerful  motivating force for students of all ability levels to improve reading  comprehension skills.” (Block & Mangieri, 2004)

*Scholastic Reading Counts! software must be installed in order to run Scholastic Reading Counts! quizzes.

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Match Scholastic Reading Counts! books to quizzes to allow all students to participate!

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  • Develop vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension skills
  • Integrate books that connect meaningfully to the comprehensive reading program
  • Provide a wide variety of engaging print materials
  • Offer increased reading practice opportunities
Provide a wide variety of trade books to increase independent reading! “A common feature of effective reading programs is student access to a wide variety of appealing trade books and other reading materials.” (Cullinan, 2000)
Use the program’s Lexile®-leveled books to build essential reading skills
  • Below-level readers
  • On-level readers
  • Above-level readers
  • English-Language Learners
  • Reluctant readers
  • Emergent readers
Customize your book order to fit your needs!

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