Reading PlusReviews 359

The fact this is a paid program bothers me, the site looks like its from 2013, and makes tons of kids miserable. The passages are about as entertaining as watching paint dry, and it sounds like they're written by third graders. If you want to improve kids reading speed, just teach them some basic strategies like: Don't read every word on the page. For improving comprehension Reading Plus is again obsolete. With the horrible stories they offer I might as well analyze a Mo Willems book. If you're gonna make kids answer questions at least make the books about something the kids are remotely interested in.

Reading plus is the worst thing ever. Reading plus takes to much of my life. Reading plus took away all my bonus points. My teacher says it is going to help me grow in the future. I hate Reading Plus so much. Reading plus makes me lose a bunch of my brain cells. This is start up trash. I was doing reading plus when i was at a kid's birthday party. I starting a strike for reading plus. The pigeon is reading plus and the dog is me.

To start off, my school makes me use this site. Overall I'm not a big reader fan. But this site makes me stress. I can't tell you how many times I felt like pulling my head off due to all the stress this site has given me. For one, if you get a low score on one of the stories and you've already read another story that had an average grade, Reading Plus takes away that one story with the average score along with not counting the story you got a low grade on. The stories are extremely uninteresting and boring. Some of the stories can have over two thousand words. This site expects you to memorize everything in one shot. In my opinion, I feel there should be more rereads due to the lack of memorization I have and others may have as well. This site hasn't done me any good. All it does is add stress and lack of motivation. This site isn't worth stressing and feeling like a complete failure.

I can't assimilate the reasons for all of this hatred towards Reading Plus! Yes, it does augment the amount of homework (one) has to do.(I'm a 7th grader) However, the program itself promotes mental retention and efficient processing. Students might initially be incentivised to finish the lessons through temptations to play on Nintendo Switch, but, through a growth mindset, students must remember that the goal the program has for students is to SIMULTANEOUSLY read faster and comprehend more material. (That's where the retention comes in). Psychologically, the program wants to help people accommodate to faster reading rates, allowing the brain to quickly analyze and implement "mental reading tools."
UPDATE: I have noticed that the vocabulary lessons are a bit flawed. There can be multiple definitions to a word, but only 1 definition would be considered to be veracious. It is infuriating, since this website appears to help you memorize sesquipedalian terminology within a few minutes! I always want to enhance my terminology! Yes, I still think the website is great, but the flaws in the vocab. Lessons are a hindrance to my typically-growing exuberance when I learn new words!

I have to do reading plus at school. I have waaaayyy tooo much homework, and I also go to lots of before/after school classes, but the teacher ALWAYS makes me do the reading plus work. I stay up till 2am every night doing this stupid reading plus. There are only 3 things to do on reading plus. One is to choose a very $#*!ty 10 page story about something we don't relate to, like 'tHe HisTorY of BaSkEtbaLL'. The second one is to press the meaning of a word that pops up on the screen. And the third (the worst), is this $#*!ty thing where you have to press space whenever you see an c instead of an o. Apparently, the teacher says its to help us 'read better'. Well, its not helping me AT ALL! Also its 50 dollars per 4 people to do a boring load of reading plus. Whenever I don't do my reading plus (for example, I had wayy more important things to do like work on 3 assignments and do french homework, the teacher gets all het up. And because I missed 2 reading plus sessions (because I had to do important stuff), I got a B in my report instead of an A!