Frequently Asked Questions | FAQs | Reading Plus (2023)

Teachers

Teacher FAQs are on our Learn Site, which also offers training, resources, and teaching tools specifically for educators. Simply log in (with your existing Reading Plus credentials) athttps://learnsite.readingplus.com. Access to all of the training and support on this site is also available directly from within the Reading Plus application.

The easiest way to retrieve your login credentials is to use our Password Reset Tool.

How to Reset Your Password:

  1. Go tologin.readingplus.com
  2. Click Educator Login
  3. Click the Reset Password link below the login fields
  4. Enter your email address and click Reset Password
  5. You will receive an email, click the link to set your password
  6. You will see your username next to the text “Enter your new password for username:”
  7. Enter a new password
  8. Click the link to log in to your account with your credentials

If you do not know if you have a Reading Plus account, contact your school’s Reading Plus administrator. If you know you have an account but you do not receive an email, contact Reading Plus Customer Service atsupport@readingplus.comor 1-800-732-3758 option 1.

Students and Families

Does your child use a school Site Code?

A Site Code is a unique code that Reading Plus assigns to an entire school. The Site Code is a school’s main entrance to Reading Plus. Each student at a school uses the same Site Code to open the door to Reading Plus.

If your child has forgotten the Site Code, ask your child’s Reading Plus teacher or classmates who are also using Reading Plus. Encourage your child to write it down for future reference. If you still do not know the Site Code, please reach out to the Customer Service team at support@readingplus.com or 1-800-732-3758 option 1.

When your child first logs in to Reading Plus, he or she is asked to enter a Site Code. Your child’s computer or tablet will remember the Site Code the next time he or she logs in.

Does your child log in through a single sign-on link?

Your child’s school may use a single sign-on program (a page such as Clever or ClassLink that a student logs in to to access all school-related websites) to access Reading Plus. If your child has forgotten the username and password to the school’s portal, his or her Reading Plus teacher will need to provide them. For additional clarification, contact the Customer Service team at support@readingplus.com or 1-800-732-3758 option 1.

When logging in to Reading Plus, your child will need to enter a username and password provided by a teacher or administrator.

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If your child has forgotten the username and password, ask his or her Reading Plus teacher. We do not distribute student usernames and passwords from Customer Service.

Your child’s school may use a single sign-on program (a page such as Clever or ClassLink that a student logs in to to access all school-related websites) to access Reading Plus. If your child has forgotten the username and password to the school’s portal, his or her Reading Plus teacher will need to provide them.

The G-Rate is the rate at which the Guided Window moves across the text as a student reads. The independent rate, or I-Rate, is the student’s rate when reading without the Guided Window.

When students read text in the Reading component (SeeReader), the text is presented in either a guided format or an independent format. In the guided format, students read text with the support of the Guided Window scaffold. In the independent or non-guided format, students are in control of advancing through screens of text at their own pace.

The Guided Window is an essential, powerful feature of the program and cannot be turned off.As students increase their ability to successfully comprehend texts with greater reading efficiency, Reading Plus responds by transitioning them to more traditional reading formats. Text scaffolds are gradually removed in accordance with each student’s reading rate.This helps students sustain attention and assists them with transferring the increased efficiency they attain to all of their reading activities.

Reading Plus is designed to automatically provide your child with the instruction that is just right for him or her. It adapts itself to provide the appropriate level of challenge at all times. However, if you believe the instructional experience could be modified in a way that would better serve your child, please contact your child’s Reading Plus teacher.

This message will appear if your child has been struggling with his or her Reading lessons for an extended period of time. When this message appears, your child will need to speak with his or her Reading Plus teacher to release the Hold and make it possible to continue working in the Reading component.

Reading (SeeReader)provides students with personalized reading practice and adaptive instruction. Students self-select stories and articles that match their reading level and their interests. A reading selection is presented within either a Guided Window, which guides the reader’s eyes through lines of text, or in an independent reading format, which allows the student to advance through screens of text independently, without the assistance of the Guided Window. After reading a selection, students answer ten carefully crafted questions, designed to build essential comprehension skills. The content library spans lower-first-grade (Level Pre-A), through 12th-grade (Level L) and college level (Level M). Every student starts reading on the level that is just right for him or her, based on his or her instructional goals, and moves to increasingly challenging content as goals are met.

Vocabulary (ReadAround)is the Vocabulary component. The academic vocabulary words students learn in this component were selected through extensive analysis and research. Students engage with and master vocabulary in the Vocabulary component and then encounter those words in their Reading (SeeReader) selections. The Vocabulary component offers 12 levelsof vocabulary, corresponding to 1st grade through 12th grade.

Visual Skills (iBalance)is the part of the program that supports the development of visual and perceptual skills related to reading.The Visual Skills component includesa Flash activity in which a combination of three letters is presented at different distances from the center of the screen. The student is asked to type the letter sequence that was flashed. iBalance also includes a Scan activity in which students are asked to follow a Guided Window and press on the space bar whenever they see an open ring that looks much like the letter c.

As a parent or family member, you can check your child’s progress by logging in to your child’s account. Log in to your child’s Reading Plus account to access his or her Dashboard. Learn more about each section of the Student Dashboard by either clicking theFamilieslink at the top of the screen or by clicking the Help icons found throughout the Dashboard.

The first page you will see upon login displays your child’s reading rate, total number of words read, and total number of stories read. If you click theMore Infolink at the bottom of the page, you will see comprehensive data on your child’s progress within the program.

To verify that your child has completed his or her assigned lessons for the week in the three component programs, click the blueLessonsbutton at the top of the page. Here you will see checkboxes on the right side of each program bar indicating the number of assignments to be completed.Once these checkboxes are all checked off, then your child has completed all assignments for the week. Reference page two of theHome Learning Guide for Familiesto learn more.

Your child’s teacher can also provide further data and context on your child’s progress in the program.

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Reading Plus technical specifications, including operating systems, browsers, screen resolution, and bandwidth requirements for students can be foundhere.

If your child is logged in to Reading Plus and is missing certain buttons or cannot see the entire screen, check the zoom settings on the browser. The browser should be set at 100% zoom for best performance. To easily change the zoom, hold the Ctrl key while scrolling up or down, or hold the CMD key and the + or – icon on a Mac. You will see the screen zoom in or out. Adjust this until you see the missing images reappear when the browser zoom is at 100%.

If this does not resolve your issue, check your screen resolution. Reading Plus requires a minimum screen resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels. You cancheck your screen resolution here.

Technical Staff

Reading Plus uses HTML5 to support a media-rich, animated presentation style that does not rely on any browser plugins.

The program works on many modern browser and operating system configurations, as can be seen in thetechnical requirements.

Reading Plus technical specifications, including operating systems, browsers, screen resolution, and bandwidth requirements for students can befound here. TheEducator Management Systemrequirements can befound here.

If you are using a Content Filtering solution, Web Caching Server and/or Proxy Server in your infrastructure, we require that you Whitelist the following Domain Names:

*.readingplus.com

*.digicert.com

If your filtering, proxy or caching service does not allow the use of wildcards for DNS entries, please contact our Customer Service department for further assistance.

Issues that require whitelisting may include, slow page loads, page freezing, white/blank web pages, or text only web pages. If you see any of these issues, consider temporarily disabling your content filtering, caching and/or proxy services to determine which solutions requires a whitelisting entry for Reading Plus.

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If the workstations appear slow or they freeze while students are on Reading Plus, consider the following:

  • Is the problem being experienced in one workstation, (and might be connected to the student’s particular usage), or is it experienced on several workstations?
  • Have the students closed all other programs, such as music, video, chat, or multiple web browsers?
  • Refresh the page:
    • Windows: ctrl + F5
    • Mac/Apple: command + R
  • Reload the browser by closing and reopening it.
  • Do the computers have all of the required hardware and software to run Reading Plus? Check technical requirementsfor studentsandfor educators.

Do the browsers or operating systems have an update that needs to be installed?

Yes. NComputing® or networked computing solutions do pose some unique challenges. Typically, a server needs to have at a minimum 1 processing core per every four users and 1 GB of RAM per user connected in order for Reading Plus to perform adequately. It is also important to note that these are the Technical Requirements to run the Reading Plus program. These numbers do not include any additional RAM or Processor requirements needed to run the Operating System or any other applications your students are using in addition to the Reading Plus program. It is recommended to use Windows Server rather than Windows Professional for the Operating System of the Host machine. Beyond these considerations many of the client devices used for these types of set ups are NOT recommended for games, media, or streaming. Reading Plus is a media rich interactive software which runs similarly to a game or streaming media. Any client devices used must be built for these functions to work with Reading Plus. Please consult the manufacturer of such devices to learn more.

Make sure that Firewall settings do not block our website, and check that antivirus programs recognize that our URL as safe.

If possible, whitelist the domain for Reading Plus to ensure that filtering and caching servers are not filtering these addresses out and potentially affecting application performance and presentation quality.

You will need to whitelist a wildcard domain, use:

*.readingplus.com

In regards to Windows group policy for Internet Explorer or Chrome Management for the Google Chrome browser, please make sure you are allowing cookies and temporary files from Reading Plus®, to be saved locally,as well as listing *.readingplus.com as a trusted site in the Internet Explorer or Google Chrome web browser.

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The site code, a unique login code assigned to each school, is stored as a “cookie”. This allows the student to skip the site code entry screen each additional time they log into the Reading Plus application.

In order to import data into Reading Plus, Administrators may import data into Reading Plus by preparing a comma-separated values (CSV) file or export a CSV file from your Student/Teacher Information System. To ensure successful importation please visit ourimports page.

We maintain a separate website for posting application status messages. Pleasecheck hereto see the current status of the application.

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FAQs

What grade level is F in Reading Plus? ›

English Level Correlation Chart
Learning A-Z Text Leveling SystemGradeAges
E16 - 7
F16 - 7
G16 - 7
H16 - 7
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What does level H mean in Reading Plus? ›

1260-1380+ “Hi” content levels contain high-interest, low-readability selections and are available to students in grades six and higher who are working on content levels A through E.

How much percent is a red on Reading Plus? ›

Green indicates a completed Reading lesson at 80%+ comprehension. Yellow indicates a Reading lesson completed with 70-79% comprehension. Red indicates a Reading lesson completed with less than 70% comprehension.

What are Reading Plus site codes? ›

Your Site Code is a unique code that Reading Plus assigns to your entire school. The Site Code is your school's main entrance to Reading Plus. Each student at your school uses the same Site Code to open the door to Reading Plus.

What grade is level Z? ›

English Level Correlation Chart
Learning A-Z Text Leveling SystemGradeDRA
W440
X540
Y540
Z550
25 more rows

What grade is a 4.5 reading level? ›

For example, a book level of 4.5 means the text could likely be read independently by a student whose reading skills are at the level of a typical fourth grader during the fifth month of school.

What grade level is a 200 Lexile? ›

The width of the bar varies by the size of the numeric range for the grade level band. For example, Grade 3 has a 100 point range, and is half the width of Grade 2, which has a 200 point range.

What grade level is J in reading? ›

In general, kids read books on Guided Reading Level J / DRA Level 16 around the middle to end of first grade (although every child is different, so check with your child's teacher to determine his/her exact level).

What is the lowest reading plus level? ›

The content library spans lower-first-grade (Level Pre-A), through 12th-grade (Level L) and college level (Level M). Every student starts reading on the level that is just right for him or her, based on his or her instructional goals, and moves to increasingly challenging content as goals are met.

Do you need headphones for Reading Plus? ›

We recommend that the student have earphones or buds so they can hear the explanation videos as they begin the various parts of the program. Please ensure that the student is situated in a space that will allow them to focus to do their best work in the program.

What are good reading grades? ›

U.S. Department of Education reading programs often say children should learn to read by age 8, or third grade, because learning to read transitions into reading to learn other subjects soon thereafter.

HOW MUCH IS A to Z reading? ›

Reading A-Z Delivers a Leveled Reading Library for Every Classroom. (That's only $11.00 a month!) This program aligns to ESSER funding's allowable activities. Click here to learn more.

What are the 5 pillars of reading? ›

The National Reading Panel identified five key concepts at the core of every effective reading instruction program: Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension.

How many schools use Reading Plus? ›

Reading Plus is an adaptive literacy solution that improves comprehension, vocabulary, motivation, and reading efficiency. The Reading Plus program is currently used in more than 5,000 schools nationally, helping more than one million students become lifelong readers.

What is iReady level F? ›

Level F is a level that appears in i-Ready Reading and Math lessons. Level F is equivalent to Grade 6. Many different characters appear in this level, including Dr. Rio, Luna, and others.

What reading level should a 8 year old be? ›

Elementary Level: Children ages 8 to 12, or 4th through 6th grades. These children read sentences of approximately 10 words, with the maximum number of words being 20. Most books written at this level range between 20,000 and 40,000 words.

What age is level 20 reading? ›

Purple titles (levels 19–20) are designed for students with a reading age of 7.5–8 years.

What Lexile level is 7th grade? ›

In the 7th grade, studies using a national sample of students have shown that typically readers will score at a Lexile level between 735L and 1065L over the course of the year.

Is 1450 a good Lexile score? ›

Lexile measures are represented by a number followed by an “L” (such as “800L”) and range from below 0L for beginning readers to above 1600L. Research shows that 1300L or above is the target Lexile measure for students to be ready for college and career in reading.

What grade level is 500 Lexile? ›

Third Grade
Grade LevelLexile Rating & Range
4.1700500-800L
4.3725
4.5750
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What is a 500 Lexile score? ›

2nd Grade: 451L-600L

2nd grade Lexile levels: 451-500L: best level J books. 501-550L: best level K books. 551-600L: best level L books.

What reading level should a 4th grader be at? ›

The average 4th grader will have a Lexile score of 445L to 810L. However, this is true for around 50% of students, with around 25% being below the average, while the other 25% are likely to be above the average. The same study showcased that students can be up to 250L above or below the average.

What reading level should a 5th grader be at? ›

Your average reader in Grade 5 will fall between 565L and 910L, though there will be readers who fall below the average, and others who are reading at a more advanced level.

What is level n reading? ›

LEVEL N BOOKS have complex sentences and vocabulary. The fiction narratives are straightforward but have more elaborate plots and multiple characters that develop over time. The nonfiction has a range of text features and vocabulary that may be unfamiliar.

What level is D in Reading Plus? ›

Grade Levels: Reading levels match grade levels (Level 3 = third grade). Levels are presented to students as letters. Level 3 = C, Level 4= D, etc.

What reading level should a 2 Grader be at? ›

In the fall, second graders typically independently read at a Level 18. By the end of second grade, a typical second grader will independently read at Level 28.

What age is Reading Plus for? ›

Reading Plus is a program for children aged 8 and above that teaches them to be stronger readers. It does this by developing silent reading fluency (reading speed), then introducing more complex stories (for comprehension), and advanced vocabulary (for knowledge).

How long does it take to finish Reading Plus? ›

By using Reading Plus, your child will be able to read at a fluent rate with good comprehension. Is this your child's first time using Reading Plus? If so, the first time your child logs in to Reading Plus, he or she will complete the Reading Plus InSight assessment. The assessment takes 30-50 minutes to complete.

How long does a Reading Plus lesson take? ›

Step 3: Use Reading Plus®

A typical lesson lasts 30-45 minutes. Click Start to begin. Keep working until you are sent to the My Progress tab to review your progress.

Why does Reading Plus put you on hold? ›

Reading Plus automatically places students On Hold if they appear to be answering questions inaccurately because they are disengaged or off-task. A student is placed on a temporary hold either immediately or after two warning messages, based on behavior: 1.

What grade is a 7 year old in? ›

School Grade Placement
GRADEAGE APPROPRIATE2022 – 2023
Grade 1Age 6 – 7Sept 2015 – Aug 2016
Grade 2Age 7 – 8Sept 2014 – Aug 2015
Grade 3Age 8 – 9Sept 2013 – Aug 2014
Grade 4Age 9 – 10Sept 2012 – Aug 2013
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What grade should a 10 year old be in? ›

Grade 5

What level should a 7 year old read? ›

First and Second Grade (Ages 6–7)

use pictures and context to figure out unfamiliar words. use some common punctuation and capitalization in writing. self-correct when they make a mistake while reading aloud. show comprehension of a story through drawings.

What age can read alphabet? ›

By age 2: Kids start recognizing some letters and can sing or say aloud the “ABC” song. By age 3: Kids may recognize about half the letters in the alphabet and start to connect letters to their sounds. (Like s makes the /s/ sound.) By age 4: Kids often know all the letters of the alphabet and their correct order.

How much should my child read? ›

3. The majority of children don't spend enough time reading outside of school. According to teachers, students should be reading between 15 minutes and 1 hour a day outside of school (85% of teachers expect daily reading in this range), but most of their students are reading less than the 15-minute daily minimum.

Does reading plus cost money? ›

The cost of Reading Plus for your school depends on how and where you want to introduce the programme. For instance, you may want to introduce Reading Plus to your whole school or to a specific class - or year group. That's why we offer a range of price points.

What are the reading levels on reading plus? ›

The content library spans lower-first-grade (Level Pre-A), through 12th-grade (Level L) and college level (Level M). Every student starts reading on the level that is just right for him or her, based on his or her instructional goals, and moves to increasingly challenging content as goals are met.

What is level F in I ready reading? ›

Level F is equivalent to Grade 6. Many different characters appear in this level, including Dr. Rio, Luna, and others. Older lessons were replaced by new lessons without characters by the school year of August 2020.

What are Level F reading books? ›

LEVEL F BOOKS usually have themes and ideas typical to the experiences of children. The characters will be more developed and the sentences in the story will be longer (more than ten words). The words may have one or two, or even three, syllables. The illustrations continue to be very supportive of the text.

What grade is a 2.5 reading level? ›

Kindergarten-First Grade
2.545020
2.647520
2.750024
2.952528
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What grade is level H reading? ›

These Level H books, appropriate for readers in grades 1-2, are ideal for both guided and independent reading.

What grade is a level G reader? ›

A diverse variety of fiction and nonfiction books for your Guided Reading library for grades 1-2.

What grade is Level C mean in i-Ready? ›

Levels of I-Ready

Level AA - Kindergarten. Level A - First Grade. Level B - Second Grade. Level C - Third Grade. Level D - Fourth Grade.

What is the highest i-Ready reading score? ›

i-Ready's diagnostic assessment provides a scaled score (ranges from 0 to 800) that can be tracked and compared across grades. This scaled score is available for a student's overall reading performance, and for each of the individual domains described in the learning objectives response, above.

What is a level Z book? ›

From definitive classics like Lord of the Flies and Of Mice and Men to contemporary bestsellers like The Hunger Games and The Book Thief, these Level Z titles demand the highest critical reading skills from the most widely-read students.

What reading level should a 7th grader be at? ›

In the 7th grade, studies using a national sample of students have shown that typically readers will score at a Lexile level between 735L and 1065L over the course of the year. Growth of around 69L is generally achievable for 7th graders should students be progressing at around 1.3L per week.

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