What is Reading Plus?
Reading Plus is an online reading programme that's packed full of engaging texts for pupils to explore and enjoy.
It teaches silent reading fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary with software that meets each pupil's individual reading level.
Reading Plus supports good teaching first. And provides ongoing help for every pupil – with actionable reports for teachers.
How does Reading Plus work?
Reading Plus begins with an adaptive assessment that pupils complete on their own and without any intervention from their teacher. These results provide a baseline and the data-driven starting point for a pupil's journey through the programme.
Weekly assignments are set with personalised instructions for pupils, these include visual skills development for eye-tracking, reading tasks for comprehension and fluency, and vocabulary tasks.
How is Reading Plus implemented in schools?
We know that deciding to adopt a reading intervention is a big step for any school.
The key to making it work? Experience tells us that the way to get the results you're looking for – and that we'd expect to achieve – is to initiate and sustain a culture of growth.
That's why, when you decide to adopt Reading Plus in your school, one of our Dedicated Reading Consultants and our UK Support Team will work alongside you, making sure that implementation is smooth and successful, every step of the way.
What results can you expect with Reading Plus?
Reading Plus is designed to accelerate reading growth for pupils at all reading proficiency tiers – and fast. After just 40 to 60 hours of using Reading Plus, your Emerging readers will make significant gains to close the achievement gap.
And your Expected and Exceeding pupils at age-related expectations? Within 40 to 60 hours of using Reading Plus, they'll improve their proficiency and increase their reading levels, gaining the ability to master higher volumes of complex text with confidence.
Recommended Usage
90 minutes per week supplemented by homework
Educational Impact
Additional evidence
Mar 2022
Are your pupils struggling with reading stamina?
Mar 2022
Discover how Reading Plus data now informs all reading strategies at Park View Primary Academy.
Mar 2022
Does your school have a high proportion of EAL pupils? Find out how Reading Plus supported pupils at Whetley Academy.
Mar 2022
Find out how Reading Plus improved reading at Elmridge Primary School.
Mar 2022
Find out how TES Primary School of the Year, St Aloysius, use Reading Plus to accelerate reading progress.
Mar 2022
Reading SATs EXS increases 33% in one year thanks to Reading Plus at Sunnyside Spencer Academy.
Mar 2022
Whitepaper: How educational technology can transform reading for pleasure.
Mar 2022
How Reading Plus accelerated reading development at Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Primary
May 2022
Reading Plus efficacy study in partnership with Derby Research School
Jan 2021
How reading plus kept children reading up to speed during covid-19 lockdown
Oct 2023
Reading Solutions UK White Paper - Reading in KS3: Challenge, impact, outcomes
 Company | Business Name: Reading Solutions UK HQ Location: United Kingdom Founded: 2003 |
| Age Range | 5-7, 8-10, 11-13, 14-16, 17-18 |
 Features | Accelerated Reading DevelopmentFluencyStaminaComprehensionGuided WindowProgress Reports |
 Languages | English |
 Accessibility | Robust features |
 Policies |  Terms of ServicePrivacy PolicyGDPR |
 Requirements | Internet - Low BandwidthDesktop - MacDesktop - WindowsDesktop - ChromebookMobile - iPad |
 Set Up | 3-5 days |
 Training | Live OnlineWebinarsDocumentationVideosWhen your school purchases a Reading Plus licence, you gain access to much more than our award-winning literacy software.You gain the support of our team of dedicated professionals who are committed to making sure you get the most out of the programme throughout your contract with us. We’ll help you implement the programme in your school, provide tailored ongoing support, training, and pedagogic advice – and be on hand during school hours to answer any questions. Your journey with Reading Plus begins with your dedicated Reading Development Consultant.They will take you through a structured implementation plan to establish a routine and your understanding of the programme. This is achieved by providing regular scheduled online training at a time convenient to you. During these sessions, you will be taken through the functionality of the programme – as well as a detailed overview of the many data reports that show the progress your pupils are making. The next stage of your journey involves a handover to our experienced Partner Plus Team. Partner Plus is our built-in support package that lasts for the length of your contract. As part of the handover, your training needs and implementation plans for the programme will be documented to form the basis of your tailored ongoing support, training, and pedagogic advice. With our Customer Support team you have access to:• Unlimited online training and support for educators An extensive collection of reports Our extensive reporting shows you the progress your pupils make through their use of the Reading Plus programme. We’ve also developed additional reports to further support you – and evidence the progress being made. Lexile tracking reportsThe Reading Plus Lexile Tracking Report is designed to evidence formative pupil progression in reading speed, comprehension, and vocabulary. And it identifies target pupils who require further support or intervention. We send these reports on a termly basis covering years 3 to 6. Skills tracking reportsSkills tracking reports identify children’s strengths and areas for development to help inform interventions. When children complete a reading selection on Reading Plus, they answer 10 questions to test their deeper understanding and comprehension anchor skills. We have correlated these anchor skills to the content domain reference for KS2 to help provide an insight into pupils’ overall levels of performance. We send these reports in preparation for Year 5 pupils progressing to Year 6 so that teachers can identify immediately where pupils require support to become secure in the skills areas that require development. |
 Support | EmailFAQs/ForumKnowledge BasePhone Support24/7 Live Rep |
| Home Learning | Teacher must create the account. |
 Tags | Readingaccelerated readingfluencyreading supportKS2KS3 |
Reading Plus PricingPricing Plans Free TrialPaid Subscription Reading Plus pricing starts from £24 / per-pupil 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.  Optimised for a quick response | |
 Special Offer | Free four-week pilot, with no obligation to purchase. |
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Reading Plus Reviews
from 52 Verified Reviews
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Oct 2024
Reading Plus has had a huge impact on our school. It is popular with parents, teachers and children alike. The children enjoy the texts they read, find out lots of new information from them and like how the Reading Plus dashboard looks. They love the competitive nature of the leaderboard and the certificates they get when they level up.
Sarah found Reading Plus:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Reading Plus saves two lessons of reading planning, which can take up to an hour each.”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“We have had some 'hard to reach' pupils who have not read a single, physical book, but have attained well despite this, using Reading Plus. We have had significant successes with large percentages of pupils making 3 or more years progress, with the most being 8 years of progress in one year.”
- Significantly provides school data“We share the Reading Plus reports with parents at parents' evening. Data has also been shared trust-wide and to governors.”
- Moderately improves attainment“We have seen a large impact on reading fluency speeds for most children.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge
Oct 2024
I work with reluctant readers, however I think this program would work great for students who love reading. It would help teachers fill in the learning gaps.
Clare found Reading Plus:
- Does not significantly reduce teacher workload“None”
- Slightly reduces attainment gap“None”
- Significantly provides school data“Reading levels went up slightly”
- Slightly improves attainment“None”
- Slightly builds student knowledge“Students don't want to improve their knowledge”
Oct 2024
Works for some learners but initial assessment is a daunting process for our learners
Stuart found Reading Plus:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“We now have a 1 lesson per week on Reading Plus”
- Slightly reduces attainment gap“Improvements in vocabulary”
- Does not provide school data“Initial assessment scores are often not accurate for our learners”
- Slightly improves attainment“Mixed engagement from our young people with the programme”
- Slightly builds student knowledge“Mixed engagement”
Alison
TEACHER IN THE VIRTUAL SCHOOL
Used Reading Plus monthly for 5 years+
Oct 2024
Alison found Reading Plus:
- Does not significantly reduce teacher workload
- Moderately reduces attainment gap
- Moderately provides school data
- Moderately improves attainment
- Moderately builds student knowledge
Oct 2024
Reading Plus is a fantastic teaching tool that enables myself at Reading Lead to track the progress of every child from Y2 to Y6 using Reading Plus. It supports our reading teaching and saves so much time on assessments, giving us current data so we can best support our children.
Wendy found Reading Plus:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Don’t have to do our half-termly running reading record assessments on each child.”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“Children don’t need to wait for teacher assessments to move up so constantly challenged and also supported where needed.”
- Significantly provides school data“Able to easily group and track children, so know to support and encourage to read more.”
- Significantly improves attainment“It has identified specific children who are now reading above primary school level, even in Year 3.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Children are putting into practice the 7 reading strategies we teach, ie. inferring, clarifying, summarising. Shown when we share what we’ve been reading with each other, or when they write in their reading records at home.”
Sep 2024
I find it frustrating that it is set up for American ages and not UK.
Cathy found Reading Plus:
- Does not significantly reduce teacher workload“I am responsible for the usage check and maintenance, as well as the rewards”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“A couple of pupils who use it regularly have made progress”
- Significantly provides school data“To support Reading Strategy”
- Moderately improves attainment
- Moderately builds student knowledge
Sep 2024
Easy access, great accessibility for students,
Miss found Reading Plus:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Homework”
- Slightly reduces attainment gap
- Significantly provides school data“Accurate and detailed data”
- Slightly improves attainment
- Slightly builds student knowledge
Sep 2024
Sally found Reading Plus:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload
- Does not significantly reduce attainment gap
- Slightly provides school data
- Does not significantly improve attainment
- Does not significantly build student knowledge
Sep 2024
When it works, it really works well. Practitioners need to be careful when selecting the right students who will benefit from it. Some pupils love the competitive set-up, and the rewards are very useful. It is possible, however, for pupils to 'park' themselves in sessions when the task becomes repetitive.
Jo found Reading Plus:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload
- Does not significantly reduce attainment gap
- Moderately provides school data
- Moderately improves attainment
- Slightly builds student knowledge
Sep 2024
I think it still has a long way to go. For example our top set students have often completed it which means we then have more reading to set as we use it for a measurable homework
Jenny found Reading Plus:
- Does not significantly reduce teacher workload
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“A few pupils reading ages have gone up”
- Significantly provides school data
- Slightly improves attainment
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Enhances their cultural capital as they are reading such a range of texts”
Sep 2024
Another tool to engage children in reading
Deborah found Reading Plus:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“It allows whole class reading so I can read with individuals”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“Children are engaged, receive awards. The competitiveness keeps even the most reluctant of readers on task.”
- Slightly provides school data
- Slightly improves attainment
- Significantly builds student knowledge
Apr 2023
User friendly, reduces teacher workload, students enjoy it. Data on progress is pending.
Ms found Reading Plus:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Immediate AFL, resources provided and differentiated by software. Progress monitored.”
- Slightly reduces attainment gap“No data to show yet.”
- Slightly provides school data“Data pending.”
- Slightly improves attainment“Anecdotally, students feel that it improves their understanding of vocabulary.”
- Moderately builds student knowledge
Apr 2023
Staff support from Reading Plus has been great, children are motivated with the program and encourage their peers to read texts they have enjoyed and impact is evident.
Kayleigh found Reading Plus:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“We still plan and teach additional reading in school and use this for individual children so track their needs”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“Children have made accelerated progress with reading fluency, vocabulary knowledge and comprehension. Many children began on Pre A and have made huge steps in progress.”
- Significantly provides school data“Reports can be used to support the impact in SLT meetings and monitoring of reading assessments.”
- Significantly improves attainment“All children have made progress.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Vocabulary knowledge and usage in their written work as understand how to use from their reading plus lessons.”
Apr 2023
It is very expensive and takes a lot of teacher effort to get pupils engaged. I think it is a good system and would be better if it was cheaper, had more links to the curriculum and was easier accessible to both teachers and pupils who want to access it like their peers but need much more support - possibly an option where the comprehension and questions were read to pupils - or at least some of it.
Mrs found Reading Plus:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“Those pupils who are able to access it independently mean it does reduce teacher workload. For those pupils who find it difficult to log in and need a lot of support to access it - it is much more difficult, particularly in Year 2/3 when it is first introduced. It isn't always easy to navigate for those teachers who do not use it often or are new to it so as the lead I am often trying to show/train others on how to use it.”
- Slightly reduces attainment gap“I have no evidence to say either way”
- Slightly provides school data“We can see how a pupil has advanced through RP however I would like to be able to see a reading age or a measurable target outside of RP.”
- Slightly improves attainment
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Pupils have said to me, I read that on RP. It would be good to have more readings linked to the currciulum.”
Apr 2023
it is half way
Margaret found Reading Plus:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“2 2”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“the p2rogress exams”
- Moderately provides school data“the students enjoy 2reading”
- Slightly improves attainment“they are engaged”
- Slightly builds student knowledge“undrestandin2g”
Mar 2023
Too early to see full impact
Mr found Reading Plus:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Less planning for reading teaching”
- Slightly reduces attainment gap
- Significantly provides school data“A wealth of reports to run - excellent for parent feedback”
- Moderately improves attainment“Higher level readers particularly benefited”
- Slightly builds student knowledge
Mar 2023
Definitely useful, but the cost is significant in times of limited school budgets.
Mr found Reading Plus:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Preparation of intervention material”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“Reading ages shifting significantly”
- Slightly provides school data“Reading ages (from Literacy Assessment Online) increasing for target groups”
- Slightly improves attainment“Difficult to link RP directly to attainment at this stage”
- Slightly builds student knowledge“All reading builds knowledge, but hard to quantify.”
Mar 2023
It has a great impact on some children, as the variety in books is improving.
Ms found Reading Plus:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Marking”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“Basic Reading Skills”
- Moderately provides school data
- Moderately improves attainment
- Significantly builds student knowledge
Nov 2022
Really good programme to use with excellent support from the Reading Plus team
Mrs found Reading Plus:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Instant analysis of how children are reading and answering questions”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“Amazing attainment in KS2 SATs last year after frequent use of the programme”
- Significantly provides school data“Progress in reading over time”
- Significantly improves attainment“SATs attainment last year - many children reached EXS/GDS standards”
- Significantly builds student knowledge
Nov 2022
It has really improved children's reading level and comprehension.
Tim found Reading Plus:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Reading speeds can see improvements.”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap
- Moderately provides school data“N/A”
- Moderately improves attainment“N/A”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“N/A”
Nov 2022
Too early on in the process to give a score of 10. Need to monitor the positive impact first.
Michelle found Reading Plus:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload
- Slightly reduces attainment gap
- Moderately provides school data
- Moderately improves attainment
- Slightly builds student knowledge
Nov 2022
It's a great tech tool to have in the classroom, that improves student outcomes and decreases teacher workload
Mrs found Reading Plus:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Helps with guided reading, measuring misconceptions and supports the planning of reading”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“Looking at the number of years gap that is reduced within a shcool year”
- Significantly provides school data“Helps with report writing and termly assessments with the use of data from reading and insight assessments”
- Significantly improves attainment
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Students often follow up reading from reading plus with further exploration of the topic and/or author”
Nov 2022
The children are engaged in their reading and I get real time assessment
Mrs found Reading Plus:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Less marking and more real time feedback”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“The increase in reading speed definitely helps with exam practise”
- Significantly provides school data“I can review who my bottom 20% of readers are regularly and plan activities accordingly”
- Moderately improves attainment“Children who are struggling at the start of the year find confidence through choosing their own reading material.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge
Nov 2022
Yes, overall, I can see the merit in this system. I have observed first-hand the improvements that Reading Plus can make on reading skills. However, I tent to agree with our students- much of the reading material is bland.
Karen found Reading Plus:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Most teachers use Reading Plus to cover one full English lesson per week. This is used as assessment time, we can gather data on progress etc. It also allows teachers time to mark while discretely monitoring Reading Plus progress.”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“Yes, last year we had a year 11 boy who presented with signs of dyslexia. He also had significant gaps in his reading ability in relation to his age (assessed at 9y 4months at the start of y11). He began to use Reading Plus every day at the start of the academic year and stuck to his prescribed programme of 20 min daily sessions for the year. He left school the following summer, to go to college, with a GCSE level 3 in English Language and a Functional Skills Level 2 qualification. Importantly, his reading age improved significantly to 13y 6months.”
- Moderately provides school data“For the most part, I feel the data systems are far too complex and overly complicated to read and use. However, I do like the reading speed measure.”
- Moderately improves attainment“Please see example provided above. This student also did well in other GCSEs as a direct result of being able to read fluently and with much more confidence.”
- Slightly builds student knowledge“A common complaint from our students is the lack of variety in the reading material. They often feel bored by the choices. Therefore, I would have to say that often the reading material can have a detrimental impact on attainment.”
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- Reading books that are structured in different ways and reading for a range of purposes.
- Enabling the growth of positive self-image
- Practicing to take responsibility of one's own learning
- Practicing to find, evaluate and share information
- Practicing to find ways of working that are best for oneself
- Learning to understand and interpret diverse types of texts
- Practicing persistent working
- Practicing strategic thinking
- Practicing to look things from different perspectives
- Practising visual recognition
- Practicing to observe spoken and written language
- Learning about different countries and their characteristics
- Learning about cultural aspects and to respect different cultures
- Encouraging to build new information and visions
- Developing problem solving skills
- Learning to recognise and evaluate arguments and their reasonings
- Getting familiar with different cultures
- Learning to understand people, surroundings and phenomenons around us
- Learning to understand and interpret diverse types of texts, from vernacular to academic
- Practicing logical reasoning to understand and interpret information in different forms
- Learning to find the joy of learning and new challenges
- Practicing letters, alphabets and written language
- Encouraging to build new information and visions
- Learning to build information on top of previously learned
- Practicing to notice causal connections
- Learning the basics of spelling
- Practicing decision making
- Learning to plan and organize work processes
- Encouraging the growth of positive self-image
- Practicing to evaluate one's own learning
- Practicing time management
- Practicing to set one's own learning goals
- Learning to face failures and disappointments
- Apply their growing knowledge of root words, prefixes and suffixes (morphology and etymology), as listed in English Appendix 1, both to read aloud and to understand the meaning of new words that they meet.
- Apply their growing knowledge of root words, prefixes and suffixes (etymology and morphology) as listed in English Appendix 1, both to read aloud and to understand the meaning of new words they meet.
- Distinguish between statements of fact and opinion.
- Identifying how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning.
- Summarising the main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph, identifying key details that support the main ideas.
- Drawing inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence.
- Understand what they read by checking that the book makes sense to them, discussing their understanding and exploring the meaning of words in context.
- Increasing their familiarity with a wide range of books, including myths, legends and traditional stories, modern fiction, fiction from our literary heritage, and books from other cultures and traditions.
- Reading books that are structured in different ways and reading for a range of purposes.
- Continuing to read and discuss an increasingly wide range of fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction and reference books or textbooks.
- Identifying how language, structure, and presentation contribute to meaning.
- Identifying main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph and summarising these.
- Drawing inferences such as inferring characters’. feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence.
- Checking that the text makes sense to them, discussing their understanding and explaining the meaning of words in context.
- Identifying themes and conventions in a wide range of books .
- Increasing their familiarity with a wide range of books, including fairy stories, myths and legends, and retelling some of these orally.
- Learning to find the joy of learning and new challenges
- Practicing to evaluate one's own learning
- Practicing to set one's own learning goals
- Practicing to take responsibility of one's own learning
- Practicing to find ways of working that are best for oneself
- Practicing persistent working
- Practising visual recognition
- Practicing to observe spoken and written language
- Practicing memorizing skills
- Practicing letters, alphabets and written language
- Using technology as a part of explorative process
- Practicing to find, evaluate and share information
- Practicing to use information independently and interactively
- Connecting subjects learned at school to skills needed at working life
- Encouraging positive attitude towards working life
- Enabling the growth of positive self-image
- Supporting student to build their own linguistic and cultural identity
- Learning about different languages
- Learning to combine information to find new innovations
- Encouraging to build new information and visions
- Apply their growing knowledge of root words, prefixes and suffixes (morphology and etymology), as listed in English Appendix 1, both to read aloud and to understand the meaning of new words that they meet.
- Read further exception words, noting the unusual correspondences between spelling and sound, and where these occur in the word.
- Apply their growing knowledge of root words, prefixes and suffixes (etymology and morphology) as listed in English Appendix 1, both to read aloud and to understand the meaning of new words they meet.
- Continue to apply phonic knowledge and skills as the route to decode words until automatic decoding has become embedded and reading is fluent.
- Re-read these books to build up their fluency and confidence in word reading.
- Read aloud books closely matched to their improving phonic knowledge, sounding out unfamiliar words accurately, automatically and without undue hesitation.
- Read most words quickly and accurately, without overt sounding and blending, when they have been frequently encountered.
- Read further common exception words, noting unusual correspondences between spelling and sound and where these occur in the word.
- Read words containing common suffixes.
- Read accurately words of two or more syllables that contain the same graphemes as above.
- Read accurately by blending the sounds in words that contain the graphemes taught so far, especially recognising alternative sounds for graphemes.
- Realizing the connection between subjects learned in free time and their impact to skills needed at worklife
- Connecting subjects learned at school to skills needed at working life
- Practicing versatile ways of working
- Practicing decision making
- Learning to plan and organize work processes
- Practicing to take responsibility of one's own learning
- Learning to use foreign language in work context
- Encouraging positive attitude towards working life
- Understand what they read by checking that the book makes sense to them, discussing their understanding and exploring the meaning of words in context.
- Summarising the main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph, identifying key details that support the main ideas.
- Practicing to use foreign language as a communication tool
- Practicing to find ways of working that are best for oneself
- Practicing persistent working
- Getting familiar with different cultures
- Learning to notice causal connections
- Supporting student to build their own linguistic and cultural identity
- Learning to understand people, surroundings and phenomenons around us
- Understand books by answering and asking questions.
- Reading books that are structured in different ways and reading for a range of purposes.
- Understand books by checking that the text makes sense to them as they read and correcting inaccurate reading.
- Learning to build information on top of previously learned
- Practicing to notice causal connections
- Encouraging the growth of positive self-image
- Supporting the growth of environmental awareness
- Encouraging to build new information and visions
- Practicing fine motor skills
- Practicing memorizing skills
- Practicing letters, alphabets and written language
- Using technology as a part of explorative process
- Learning about different countries and their characteristics
- Increasing their familiarity with a wide range of books, including fairy stories, myths and legends, and retelling some of these orally.
- Creating requirements for creative thinking
- Understanding and practicing safe and responsible uses of technology
- Learning to find the joy of learning and new challenges
- Using technology as a part of explorative and creative process
- Practicing to notice causal connections
- Using technology resources for problem solving
- Building common knowledge of technological solutions and their meaning in everyday life
- Learning to plan and design own written content and textual representations
- Practicing keyboard skills and touch typing
- Familiarizing with the influences of media and understanding its affordances
- Practicing to set one's own learning goals
- Practicing to find, evaluate and share information
- Practicing to use information independently and interactively
- Learning to understand and interpret diverse types of texts
- Using technology as a part of explorative and creative process
- Experiencing and exploring sounds and music from different sources
- Learning to understand and interpret diverse types of texts, from vernacular to academic