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Accelerate reading progress by up to 97%*

Reading Plus is an online reading development programme that teaches students the skills they need to read - improving outcomes for schools and students.

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What is Reading Plus?

Reading Plus is an adaptive, online reading development programme. With a readability range from Year 2 to beyond GCSE, it serves the needs of a wide range of students.

Our purpose is to:

  • Enhance reading skills through evidence-based, adaptive technology.
  • Support teachers with comprehensive data on students’ reading progress and identify skill gaps.
  • Provide free training and support to make teachers’ lives easier.
  • Make a difference in school and student outcomes.

See the impact yourself in a free pilot of Reading Plus!

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The need for Reading Plus

Reading Plus supports students in shifting from the learning-to-read to the reading-to-learn stage of reading development. It is for students who:

  • Are secure in phonics and phonemic awareness.
  • Need to develop their fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills.

The programme also focuses on students’ intrinsic motivation for reading by providing highly engaging texts and measuring their self improvement belief, confidence, and interest in reading. All of these components come together to develop reading proficiency.

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How does it work?

Step 1 – A personalised learning path to success

Students begin their Reading Plus journey with an adaptive assessment, which provides a baseline and a data-driven starting point.

The results place each student at the right level in the programme before creating a learning pathway to accelerate their strengths and improve their weaknesses.

We recommend:

  • Students access Reading Plus for 30 minutes three times per week.
  • Weekly assignments are composed of five reading and one vocabulary task.
Step 2 – Lessons begin

Over 1,300 high-quality and age-appropriate informational, fiction, and non-fiction texts are available for students to self-select from to develop comprehension and vocabulary knowledge.

  • Students are presented with a range of texts at their ‘just-right’ level.
  • To develop fluency and stamina, they read the text using the Guided Window.
  • Once finished with a text, students answer ten comprehension questions.
  • The more texts they complete and the more questions they get right, the more it will help them to progress.
Step 3 - Creating readers for life

Engaging texts, instant feedback, and gamification features keep students motivated.

As students progress through their adaptive, personalised path:

  • Their fluency, stamina, comprehension, and vocabulary improve, as does motivation.
  • Cross-curricular subject knowledge improves due to the variety of text types and topics.
  • They become curious and confident readers who are more likely to read for pleasure.

Understanding your students' reading gaps

Students sit a baseline assessment when they first start on Reading Plus, which places them at their just-right level on the programme.

This comprehensive in-built assessment allows teachers to see:

  • If students are below, at, or above year-level expectations.
  • Which students need additional support in fluency and/or comprehension.

These images shows an example Screening Report.

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Increasing fluency and stamina

To model good reading behaviour, students will see texts presented using the patented Guided Window feature. This tool:

  • Keeps their eyes focused on reading the relevant material.
  • Utilises a moving box – set at a speed just right for them.
  • Is adaptive and will increase in speed as students progress.
  • Improves fluency and stamina.

Guided Window in action – the speed in this example is set at 185 words per minute; this is the expected level for a Year 6 student.

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Giving students autonomy

Students reading below, at, or above their year level all need content and tasks that build critical thinking skills. They also need instruction that:

  • Matches their individual learning abilities.
  • Prepares them for future success.
  • Builds and sustains their interest and motivation.
  • Broadens their horizons and increases their cultural capital.

Over 1,300 high-quality and age-appropriate informational, fiction, and non-fiction texts are available for students to self-select to develop comprehension and vocabulary knowledge.

Hear from Year 6 pupils Nick and Leena from Elmridge Primary School as they discuss Reading Plus.

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An evidence-based programme

Reading Plus is built on decades of foundational research in:

  • Silent reading development.
  • Vocabulary and comprehension improvement.
  • Decoding practice.
  • Reading stamina.
  • Efficiency development.

Read more about the theoretical framework and research behind Reading Plus here.

*In an efficacy study with Derby Research School and Spencer Academies Trust, students eligible for pupil premium made, on average, 97% more progress with Reading Plus than in the control schools.

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"I would 100% recommend Reading Plus to other schools based on outcomes at Ribbon, which have been incredibly positive - they stand for themselves."

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Ashleigh Sheridan Headteacher, Ribbon Academy

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