• to provide effective, scaffolded silent reading practice,
• to ensure efficient development of foundational visual, perceptual, and information processing skills.
  

Reading Plus® provides essential structure to silent reading by scaffolding content difficulty, duration of reading activities, reading rate and text presentation parameters based on continuous formative assessments. The system’s unique scaffolded approach to silent reading instruction engages students in individualized reading experiences that ensure the development of fluency in silent reading, so students can better comprehend the meaning of text as they read.

Reading Plus® assesses, develops, and strengthens foundational reading skills, the “unseen and unheard” skills that are taught the least and tested the most. Reading is a complex process that involves close interaction among visual, perceptual, and cognitive functions. Inefficiencies in these functions can be a major impediment to the development of reading skills and silent reading fluency.

The Reading Plus® system’s web-based placement tests determine each student's independent silent reading ability level along with the appropriate instructional programs and effective starting levels for each student. Instructional paths are then individualized to meet each student’s needs, and adjust dynamically to match student progress.