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Reading Plus

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Reading Plus Reviews Summary

Reading Plus has a rating of 1.3 stars from 359 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Reading Plus most frequently mention mental health, worst thing and boring stories. Reading Plus ranks 73rd among Educational Games sites.

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Florida
1 review
18 helpful votes
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Dog $#*!
March 23, 2021

I hate reading plus its so bad stpid stinky pls ban it from america omg reading plus sucks so bad pls go bankrupts

Date of experience: March 23, 2021
California
2 reviews
25 helpful votes
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Reading Plus is dumb
March 22, 2021

I am in 5th grade and reading plus is one of most boring things I have done. My teacher assigns me a tremendous amount of work that isn't even interesting. The stories are just tedious and dumb. I lose interest after only reading one paragraph. The stories that Reading Plus provide aren't even relatable. So I just want to conclude that Reading Plus is a dumb app that makes kids stressed about getting the questions all right and maintaining their good grades by giving them uninteresting, unrelatable, and tedious stories.

Date of experience: March 22, 2021
California
1 review
10 helpful votes
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Why do I need to learn how to read. I already know how to read. Why only 2 rereads? If I am given a handbook, I can reread whenever the (censored) I want. Why am I so limited. How is this helpful, because I sure am learning useless information that I will forget the next day. This has unhelpful resources. I can read the entire wiki and say "wow this sure was interesting" but the topics here are (a lot will agree) BORING! So 1 star and this should not be a big part in my grade. BABABABAABAAAAADDDDD

Date of experience: March 19, 2021
California
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Bad
March 16, 2021

I say that reading plus was good at first but it gotten wrongs every time if i get one right my mom will be happy but when i get one wrong my mom is close to beating me with the belt.

Date of experience: March 15, 2021
Georgia
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Worst thing ever
March 11, 2021

My teacher said that reading plus is good but it sucks so much it is so stupid that i want to just throw the program in the trash

Date of experience: March 11, 2021
Florida
1 review
29 helpful votes
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Stupid
March 1, 2021

I'm in 4th grade and reading plus is so dumb. It makes me spend a hour reading a book I am not even interested in when I could be reading a book that I'm interested in IN REAL LIFE! Reading plus gives me long and boring stories that I am not interested in. I don't want to read how Velcro is made or how metal was found in the first place. I want to read about gaming or about how to fly planes! Just don't buy reading plus unless you want your kids or students to lose their minds.

Date of experience: February 28, 2021
Hawaii
1 review
43 helpful votes
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I hate this website.
February 27, 2021

THIS SITE SUCKS BRO. Istfg i HATE it. My teacher assigns me like 6 a week and I absolutely hate it, it stresses me out so much and I have no time to do anything. I can't hang with friends, I get barely any sleep, and I'm way too stressed out. Over quarantine, I've been struggling with depression and mental health and this just makes it worse, I would like it better if there were more interesting stories, I feel like then I would actually want to do my work.

Smd reading plus. ‍

Date of experience: February 27, 2021
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Real good but glitch
February 28, 2021

Listen i love it but in visual skills i comleted the lesson it told me to continue i did not need to continue it said complete so NO

Date of experience: February 26, 2021
GB
1 review
45 helpful votes
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Absolute Garbage
February 25, 2021

Presumably because they are determined to get their money's worth for this waste of school budget, the school tries to make us do this with my son almost every day. It is an ongoing source of conflict with his teacher because I insist that he reads real books instead.

Frankly, teachers objecting to proper literature at home instead of this brain rotting trash is a bit like if they tried to make us feed him candy in place of vegetables.

Date of experience: February 25, 2021
Community M. Reading Plus Rep
over a year old

Hello Ellen,

We are so sorry to hear about the ongoing conflict with your school about the requirements they have set regarding usage of Reading Plus. We are a supplemental program and provide a recommended number of assignments based on the students initial assessment and ongoing performance; teachers are at the helm and have the ability to edit the number of assignments.

Teachers find Reading Plus useful at identifying specific skill deficiencies and providing targeted instruction in those areas; the goal is to use the information gathered from online instruction to then turnkey for offline skills practice and application to literature of all kinds.

Again, we wish there were no conflict with your son's teacher regarding Reading Plus. We do invite you to speak to myself or a team member that works in your community to help address your concerns. Feel free to email us at [email protected] and we will connect with you to discuss further.

Thank you.

La'Keisha
Community Manager
[email protected]

Florida
1 review
18 helpful votes
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Horrible website
February 22, 2021

This website is absolutely horrible i cant find anything fun about it i dont learn and it gives me a headache just trying to read on the screen i hate this website and want it gone.

Date of experience: February 22, 2021
Florida
1 review
5 helpful votes
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THIS SUCKS AND TRASH
February 22, 2021

THIS WEBSITE IS TERRIBLE BECAUSE THE LESSONS ARE TOO LONG AND TOO BORING ITS JUST OVERALL TRASH AND IT GIVES ANXIETY AJD ITS SUPER BAD PLEASE DONT GIVE THESE TOO STUDENTS

Date of experience: February 22, 2021
Florida
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Lets be realistic, the passeges take WAY too long and the stories itself are boring. Nothing is relatable and all off the "achivements" you get really don't encourage anyone to continue. The site is outdated and NO ONE wants to do it. I got 2 F's on what normally would have been a B or C if it was not for reading plus. Reading Plus is boring, no one likes it, and it's just a waste of your lifetime. You have to get an 80% for every assignment in order fr it to "count", and even though they try to make their users "read faster," it liturally hurts my eyes trying to even read 2 lines of the story. Also, I had to spend over 5 hours just to do 5 see readers, 5 HOURS! Plus, YOU HAVE TO READ THE SAME STORIES OVER AGAIN IF YOU ALREADY FINISH ALL OF THE OTHER STOIRES AND HAVE YET TO MOVE ON TO THE NEXT LEVEL. MAYBE TZRY AND MAKE THE STORY MORE INTERESTING, INCREASE THE PASSING SCORE TO AT LEAST A 70%, OR EVEN TRY TO ADD SOME STORIES THAT ARE MORE RELATABLE

Date of experience: February 19, 2021
Community M. Reading Plus Rep
over a year old

Thank you Naph for this feedback. I am sorry to know that you feel some of the stories are not interesting or relatable. What topics interest you? I am happy to share this with our team.

Hawaii
2 reviews
39 helpful votes
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Absolutely terrible.
February 16, 2021

My school assigns us 6 reading lessons every week. It's very dreadful for me and it is like a weekly chore. The reading lessons are too long and boring to keep my interest, and overall I just don't enjoy how much time and irritation I have to put into it weekly. On level L and up I can only get one wrong, if I get another one wrong I have to do it again to get a green. This is bizarre and I want this program to be removed from our school.

Date of experience: February 16, 2021
Florida
7 reviews
25 helpful votes
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HORRIBLE
February 15, 2021

I hate this website so much it just causes may too much stress. The worst thing is the fact that you have to do MORE reading plus if you get under 80%. Its absolutely horrible and I want this website to be gone :(( (

Date of experience: February 15, 2021
Indiana
1 review
12 helpful votes
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ABSOLUTE GARBAGE
February 12, 2021

My review please I can't find anything interesting and that I want to read so I don't recommend this stupid and gay website. So if anyone is going through the same your not alone and also the rating of when you get one wrong is BullS**T cause it's like oh you get a red 10 deducted and a yellow is like 3-5 deducted so yeah kind of weird right so pls decrease that to like 5 for reds and like 1 for yellows so I don't keep getting gay 78%s when I do this and I also have no brain cells from staring at a screen for 5 years and cant even go back to the text whenever I want so reading plus if you are reading this please fix these.

Date of experience: February 12, 2021
Texas
1 review
3 helpful votes
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It's not the worst site, but apparently, it calculated my G-Rate wrong, as it always tells me I'm going too fast. (I read it two times.) It also doesn't have a lot of books that sound interesting, either. They are pretty versatile for each student, though. The books are so boring though. I'm also reading books for level "H," but i'm currently level Z, so that makes no sense. Their website is also extremely ugly, but that's not really that big a problem for me.
TL; DR: Reading Plus isn't terrible, but not something to rave about.

Date of experience: January 28, 2021
Community M. Reading Plus Rep
over a year old

Hi Lauren!

Thank you for sharing your concerns. I'm happy to know you feel the program is versatile, but would love to know what topics interest you those can be considered. We have lots of reading selections to choose as you level up in the program, and have added more this past year - hearing ideas from students is great!

New York
1 review
33 helpful votes
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Why would I need this?
January 18, 2021

How is this going to help me in the future. It isn't helping my reading skills, some of the stories are all the same with just different titles. To much stress from Reading Plus and Regular homework. The site doesn't even work half the time. Overall... wasting my brain cells and overall mental health just to pass a class.

Date of experience: January 17, 2021
Community M. Reading Plus Rep
over a year old

Hi Jeremyia!

My name is La'Keisha and I work with Reading Plus; I'm sorry to learn that you are stressed from homework and using the program. We recently doubled our content and so there are hundreds more stories to choose from; but mostly importantly, I'd love to know what type of stories you'd like to read more of? Your feedback is important, and I will share it with my team members who find and even write many of the stories.

Also, if you're ever having difficulty with the website we have a "Live Chat" button on the website that takes you to our live customer service team ready to solve any problems you may be having.

Thank you!

La'Keisha

District of Columbia
1 review
42 helpful votes
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You know what $#*!? Go kill ur self reaeding plus. You take up way too much time of my like. I have to do 4 lessons a week. I got under a 80 percent this time and i had the bonus ten. You know what it did? It said that it had a problem and i couldnt do that so i failed the lesson. Reading plus sucks, dont waist ur time. And if this company is reading this, i got a message for you $#*! $#*! reading plus: GO SUCK A D! CK!

Date of experience: January 3, 2021
Florida
1 review
10 helpful votes
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OK, so first of all, it doesn't increase my reading comprehension. It doesn't even teach me anything. Second, The vocabulary is trash. Sometimes, there are multiple meaning to words, and it only shows as one meaning. Like, come on, man... and apparently, because i read at an eighth grade level, i am too fast for the actual reading plus. I am reading 20'000 leagues under the sea, and it took me an hour to get past almost five chapters. It takes me TWO HOURS to finish FIVE SEE-READERS! Honestly, this website is a waste of time. ITs stressful for kids, most stuff on this website is incorrect, and more. This website is complete garbage.

Date of experience: December 17, 2020
Alabama
1 review
44 helpful votes
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Worst. Website. Ever
December 14, 2020

Apparently my regular reading speed is too fast for reading plus to handle. Also has a super limited selection of short stories from outdated authors who cant even write an interesting paragraph. Would not recommend

Date of experience: December 14, 2020