Scholastic Reading Counts! is based on years of reading research that shows that students who read more achieve more. At Curtner, Scholastic Reading Counts! gets our students reading on their own and provides an easy way to manage and assess their independent reading. At present, we have almost 8,000 quizzes with more books being added each year!

Reading Great Books Students do best when they are matched to books that suit their interest and/or reading level. Scholastic Reading Counts! offers many ways to guide students to the best books:

• Book Expert search engine, built right into the program, provides useful information on each title with fast searches to match students to appropriate books. You can use Book Expert to create book lists to print for students, send home to parents, or post on your school website.

• The Scholastic Reading Counts! e-catalog provides effective searches for the most up-to-date quizzes and titles. You can search by author, title, topic, series, interest level, Lexile level, and much more!

• Scholastic Reading Counts! can also enhance your reading curriculum with quizzes on the major basal reading programs, including Open Court Reading, Houghton Mifflin Reading, Harcourt Trophies, Scott Foresman Reading, McGraw-Hill Reading and more!

Assessing Effectively Research also shows that when students are routinely asked about what they've read, their reading achievement improves significantly. Use Scholastic Reading Counts! as a way to ask students regularly and effectively about whatever they are reading. Each quiz is randomly generated from a bank of 30 questions that test reading comprehension and vocabulary, including a variety of literacy skill areas. Students receive immediate feedback on their performance. If they do not pass a quiz, they have up to two more opportunities to review their book and re-take a quiz with newly generated questions.