Explore Reading Programs for School Districts
Are you looking for a way to motivate your students to read? Are students in your district only reading in the classroom rather than reading for fun? Do you desire to create a culture of reading in your school district to improve reading skills and test scores?
If you answered yes to these questions, then take a look at Beanstack.
Beanstack is a great supplement to your existing reading programs and instruction in the classroom. We level the playing field by rewarding all students for their reading effort, regardless of age or reading ability. If you need to improve reading comprehension and standardized test scores and get your students excited about reading, learn more about Beanstack.
What is Beanstack?
Beanstack is a digital platform that motivates people to read. We partner with librarians and educators to provide the tools you need to promote reading challenges within your communities.
Beanstack helps schools set up customizable reading programs and challenges to motivate students to read. Through Beanstack, teachers and school districts can enhance reading curriculum and connect reading resources. Innovative challenges and content make it exciting to read, and progress is measured through minutes or books read. With Beanstack, your school district can better reach your reading goals.
At its core, Beanstack is a reading software for schools to set up and track reading programs. Within those programs, gamification tools like badges and leaderboards transform extrinsic motivation into intrinsic motivation.
Students easily log in with SSO or their launchpad and log all their reading in our intuitive interface. At key milestones, they earn digital badges, reading streaks, and encouraging messages as rewards. Schools can attach prizes or experiences to badges or activities as extra incentives. Students find themselves excited to unlock the next badge, and then the next.
Classroom teachers, school administrators, or district superintendents can choose a reading goal, such as a certain number of minutes or books read. Many districts adopt Beanstack to supplement quiz-based reading programs like Accelerated Reader. With our reading challenges, schools can get kids reading with less stress. Younger children learn to love reading, while older children find intrinsic motivation to keep reading. The result? Schoolwide improvement in reading abilities and test scores.
How Can Beanstack Help Your School District?
With our reading program added to your core instruction in the classroom, you will enjoy:
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Boosted reading participation
Students of all levels are encouraged to read more.
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Improved recognition of sight words
As students grow their reading habits, they also expand their sight word vocabulary.
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Built-in accountability
Our reading integrity features, like reading log limits or short answer activities, keep students accountable.
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Customizable goals
Struggling students and slower readers can earn badges and build motivation alongside skilled readers.
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Strong reading skills
Kids who read for fun score higher on standardized tests and develop lifelong reading habits.
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A reading community
Our program will foster a reading culture at your school, so you'll have a community of readers.
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Accelerated reading recovery
Beanstack motivates students struggling with phonemic awareness, vocabulary development and other foundational skills in reading.
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Lifelong reading habits
Beanstack's instant feedback builds students' motivation in real time and encourages a true love of reading.
Can Beanstack Improve Standardized Test Scores?
While creating a culture of reading through school or district wide reading challenges is a big benefit, most school districts also need to back up these gains with improvements in their standardized test scores. According to the data, Beanstack can help with this.
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Curbing a Decades-long Trend
One study found that half of the kids who scored at or above the 75th percentile in reading standardized tests reported reading for fun every day. But the number of kids who are reading for fun dropped precipitously in the last decade—up to 10% less for some age groups. Teachers and school districts need a way to motivate students to read for fun. Fresh new school reading challenge ideas in Beanstack can do that.
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Skyrocketing Test Scores
Joy James Elementary School in Texas demonstrated how Beanstack can improve outcomes in a school setting. For the 2021–2022 school year, they challenged students to use Beanstack to log 2,000 minutes of reading. On the end-of-the-year testing, students' reading scores increased by 62% on average. What was truly telling is they didn't just improve fluency and phonological awareness—math scores also improved by 47%.
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Significant Reading Comprehension Gains
Mitchell County Middle School in Georgia saw nearly a 10% boost in reading comprehension scores when they implemented reading incentives through Beanstack for the 2021–2022 school year. The school’s results show that all students, from kindergarten up to high schoolers, benefit from school reading programs using Beanstack.
Can Beanstack Promote a Culture of Reading in School Communities?
When part of a comprehensive literacy program, Beanstack can go beyond test scores to create a culture of reading in school communities. Teachers and students alike can celebrate reading successes and connect about the books they're reading.
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Reading Becomes Fun
The most impactful reading incentive programs for schools make reading fun. Instead of stressful quizzes and restrictive levels, our platform encourages reading choice for students and educators. Teachers can incorporate logging into learning experiences in the classroom, then allow students to log their own reading at home. Students love using Beanstack, and that love makes reading exciting.
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All Ability Levels Can Participate
Beanstack's customizable challenges let you reward different levels and milestones. Our reading streaks encourage reading effort and consistency, instead of speed and completion. We also encourage widespread reading choice, without restrictions or levels for content. Recent studies show that this is one of the best practices in reading instruction.
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Highlight Great Reads
Beyond implementing reading challenges for schools, the program is also a comprehensive online resource for your school's literacy instruction. Students can read and post reviews of books they love, the school librarian or principal can create challenges that feature their “top picks” and link to your ebook collection and it even has a database of original content, supplemental instruction, and learning activities teachers can add to their lesson plans.
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Create Community Goals
Along with your ability to create goals for each individual student or small group, such as a classroom, you can also rally readers around big community reading goals. Does your district want to log 1 million minutes of reading? Beanstack makes it easy to promote and track. Build extrinsic motivation by offering a district wide celebration once you achieve your goal and watch as reading minutes start piling up.
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Link to the Library
One of Beanstack's most unique and powerful features for building a reading community is the school-library tandem connection. Students can link their school and public library accounts in the app, then earn badges and log for both organizations' reading programs at the same time. By connecting your school and local library, you'll encourage your students to make reading part of everyday life.
Let Beanstack Help Your School District
Implementing Beanstack into your district is smooth and seamless with our top-notch client success team. Request a free demo of this innovative software and comprehensive reading program today. We’ll show you how Beanstack can deliver reading gains for your schools and students while creating a community of readers through innovative district wide reading challenge ideas.