Reading PlusReviews 359

Its ok at first but it gets your reading rate wrong so it takes you 5 years to read a 5 minute book.

I have been forced to use this for almost 3 years now. I can tell you now I have never read such boring stories. I am one of the top-of-the-grade kids and I believe these stories (even at the top levels) are written for smaller kids. I am getting 50%'s in this program because I can't bear reading these. I was hoping each time for something like a end where all the characters die or something (sorry I read really gory stuff and all that) and every time I get a low score my rr goes down to an unbearable level so I can't focus. I have actually been a little scared of books because of this program and how boring and bland the stories are. Add a entire section with a ton of unlocked stores (marked with any triggers, of course) and maybe I'll get better grades here. This program is terrible in every way. My eyes hurt because of the background. More background colors would be cool too.

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TL: DR?- Stories are boring and bland; want stories with more death and stuff. Background hurts eyes, and more background color would be nice.

Coming from a student, reading plus is horrible. The vocabulary section needs review and the stories are bland, uninteresting, and old. First off, the vocabulary is rigged in a sense. The words they give you can have multiple meanings, and sometimes there appear to be two answers, but only one is correct. On top of this, the stories also have major flaws. Most of the stories are on useless information and are written by people who cant describe the topics well. The stories provide no interest to the reader, and overall the whole site makes my friends mourn about reading, not excited for it. Reading used to be my favorite activity, but because of reading plus, it seems to be the opposite now.

I am a student and I have to do reading plus every week. The program tries to make you read faster but that shouldn't be the goal, the goal should be to comprehend what you are reading. Another thing is that they make up random crap and call it the answers and on top of that when you are doing the vocabulary they make up random words and the definitions are very similar. The reading plus lessons at my school are also graded on accuracy and not completion ( it also is like this at many other schools) this is very annoying because of the fact that the story's aren't very good so you end up having to do like seven lessons to get your weekly assignment done. I also would like to point out the fact that the stories are boring and stupid. They are almost all nonfictional and really repetitive in what they say. Reading plus really isn't worth it and doesn't even improve your reading. And I'm not just saying this as a student so please take this review seriously.