Reading Plus is a personalized adaptive reading intervention. Our program gives students the online tools they need to improve reading levels at their own pace, and teachers the ability to measure their progress and motivation.Reading Plus has partnered with some of the most well-respected names in publishing, publishers whose texts meet our exceedingly high standards for texts worth reading and provide students opportunities to learn about themselves and the world them.Contact our team for a short demo or to learn more.
Reading Plus (readingplus.com) has 375 customer reviews on Five Star Index, with an average rating of 1.1 out of 5.
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readingplus.com
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School & High School
Location
Winooski, Vermont
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2026
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Reading plus is the most annoying tool I have ever seen. It literally forces students to read at an unnatural pace and blurs everything so you have to read at a pre-determined rate. The window doesn't make any allowances for punctuation, sentences or paragraphs. What is even worse is that my daughter's school insists she successfully completes 5 exercises a week. If she gets a "red" it doesn't count. She currently has a deficit of 9 exercises which will take over 2 hours to complete, and her Teacher keeps giving her consequences for not having completed them.
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nico
I like reading like its a normal book…
I like reading like its a normal book at any speed I like not with the txt turning grey or having everything blurred out and having only a small box to read from. And when It says how was you reading rate it doesn't let you say too slow
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Charlie H.
QUESTIONS ARE HORRENDOUS THEY NEED TO…
QUESTIONS ARE HORRENDOUS THEY NEED TO FIX THEM I’D RATHER PLAY FNAD (five nights at diddy’s)
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Patrick H.
boring it doesnt help and has bad…
boring it doesnt help and has bad reading level and itsd annoying as the reading box is wayyy to sow dont use
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Jack W.
This site/app sucks
This site/app (i forgot if it has an app) is the worst, no good books, no engagment and just unfun all together AND you NEED to pay for it???????
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Filed B.
Reading Plus claims to improve… reading plus diss
Reading Plus claims to improve literacy, but in reality, it’s just an endurance test in boredom and frustration. Instead of making reading enjoyable, it turns it into a monotonous chore, sucking the life out of every passage. The stories? Either painfully dull or so random you wonder if they were generated by an AI that barely understands human interests. Who actually enjoys reading a dry three-page essay about the history of scissors or some obscure scientist no one cares about?
And the pacing system? A complete disaster. It forces you to read at a speed that makes zero sense—either so slow you feel like you’re in a coma, or so fast you’re skimming words without actually processing anything. Oh, and let’s not forget the eye-tracking box—one of the most infuriating features ever created. If your eyes so much as twitch outside the designated area, the program acts like you didn’t read anything at all. Congratulations, start over!
Then there are the comprehension questions, which feel like they were written by someone who didn’t read the passage themselves. Instead of testing actual understanding, they throw in trick questions or vague wording just to mess with you. And if you get too many wrong? Boom—you’re stuck in an endless cycle of repetitive, uninspired reading assignments, as if punishment somehow makes people better readers.
And let’s be real—the whole program is just busywork disguised as education. It doesn’t foster a love for reading. It doesn’t encourage curiosity. It doesn’t make you want to pick up a book in your free time. If anything, it makes students despise reading even more. The best way to improve literacy is to let students explore engaging, meaningful content at their own pace—not force them to endure soul-crushing passages with robotic comprehension tests.
Reading Plus isn’t a reading tool—it’s a reading prison. Round 2 coming soon.
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Claire W.
Reading plus is really boring and not…
Reading plus is really boring and not fun. At first I loved it but then everything fell down hill. Worst app ever. I would not recommend for children under 1 years old 😃 that’s all for now bye bye bye
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Phoebe L.
KEEP AWAY
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭THIS IS ME CRYING RN BC I HAVE TO DO THIS APP OUR TEACHERS are like lets doSOME READING PLUs 🎉🎉🎉YIPEEE YAAY while im like NOOOO TGIS APP IS TERRIBLE meanwhioe there saying OHHH get off those phones its bad and your addicted to them URM WELL GET US OFF THIS TERRIBLE APP then they say OH ThAts DIFFReNt LIKE SHUT UP everything is bad the answers books i bet the owners dont have a life bc there reading on reading plus like this 👨💻 just get a book from the libary there better and then its like UR oN SUpPoRT MODe MEANWHILE IM LIKE SCREAMING JUMPING AROUND AND WHILE LOSING ALL MY BRAICELLS then now i just wanna say oh yh my password aint working even tho i changed it and when they will figure out i will just say oH Yh it wAS MY cOuSIn PRoB Bc A FEw DaYS bEfOrE i WENt tO My COuSins even tho he is 24 and then when im reading it i just play with my hair think of things and when im at school i just skip through everything and then all the reviews were its like low taper fade skibdy toliet reading pkus read and there like what does this mean hmmmm i have no clue and nkt reading plus repling to 5 star reviews and there like GReAT I HOPe YoU HAVE fuN DoiNG reADinG Plus AnD KEeP uP thERe gOod WoRK ANd kEEp US nOTIFyed ON YoUR STUDENTS PRoGress like omg no one cares and also its boring as i have to do 1 vocab and 5 reading and then its bad for mental health and also makes kids anxious and also when i get a red i scream in my head and out loud its really annoying this is probally there longest review ever but this app is just really bad i cry in my head everytime i get a red or yellow and then the teachers are like GuYs yoU NEeD To dO bETtEr AT reADinG PlUS iTS juSt as IMpoRtANt AS ScHooL WORk URM NO ITS NOT ITS JUST STUPID HOMEWORK AND THEN OUR FEACHERS AND OARENTS ARE LIKE DO YOUR READING PLUS ALR THEN SEND US TO HELL THX LIKE I CANT BE BOTHERED 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 Keep away from this app like its covid again pls