READING COUNTS

For a list of all of the available quizes, please click here (Excel File)

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 St. Luke, 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 RC™ 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 RC™ quizzes that are available can be found in the library, computer lab, most classrooms, and on the school web-site.  The list 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.

Each month students set personal RC™ 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 - this year the theme is “Add a Splash of Color to Your Life 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.