Reading Counts™

For a list of all of the available quizes, please vist the Scholastic website. On the Scholastic website, you can find any book that is in the Scholastic Reading Counts!™ program and learn how many points it is worth, the reading level, even a brief summary of the book.

With Scholastic Reading Counts!™, educators have a proven, strategic tool to navigate the difficult terrain of developing independent reading skills, improving reading proficiencies, raising reading test scores, and demonstrating the results.

At Saint Luke School, students in grades 1 - 8 participate in the Reading Counts™ program in the library, in homeroom, and in the computer lab. Students read a book that offers a Reading Counts™ quiz. After completing the book, the student takes a computerized quiz. The quiz consists of ten multiple choice questions based on the book. If the student correctly answers seven or more of the ten questions, he/she passes the quiz and earns the points that title is worth.

Lists of the Reading Counts™ quizzes that are available can be found on any networked computer in the school or at the link above. The site provides the number of points each title is worth and the reading level the book is written at. Library books that have a corresponding quiz are marked on the spine with a sticker denoting how many points the book is worth and the reading level of the book.

Each month students set personal Reading Counts™ goals. The goal is set with the homeroom teacher and is set to match the student’s reading ability. If a child meets his goal, he is rewarded both in the homeroom and with a school-wide reward. Homeroom rewards vary with the grade level. The school-wide reward is a free comfy cozy day (students who reach their goal wear pjs, sweats, jeans, - whatever they are comfortable in) and everyone in the school stops for a half-hour to read whatever they choose.

At the end of the school year, students who have met their goal 6 out of 8 months attend a Reading Counts™ celebration. Each year the school has a Reading Counts™ theme - the 2009-2010 theme is “Read Like A Champion With Reading Counts™!"

Reading Counts™ offers students an opportunity to improve their reading skills in a fun way which is completely self-motivated. Reading Counts™ encourages students to help themselves become better readers - and allows them to enjoy the process along the way.