Reading Plus®

Reading Plus® is a web-based reading intervention designed for students in grade 3 and higher that uses technology to provide individualized scaffolded silent reading practice. The program aims to develop and improve students' silent reading fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary by adjusting the difficulty of content and duration of reading activities so students proceed at a pace corresponding to their reading skill level. The intervention includes differentiated reading activities, computer-based reading assessments, tools to monitor student progress, ongoing implementation support, and supplemental offline activities. Within a typical 45-minute session, students engage in visual perceptual warm-up activities, scaffolded silent reading activities that dynamically adjust content-level difficulty, and contextual analysis activities to build vocabulary and inferential abilities. The program length can vary from 9 weeks (3-4 times per week) to 30 weeks (5 times per week). Teachers are provided guidelines for organizing small-group and whole-group comprehension skills instruction using offline assignments that target identified deficiencies.