SparxreaderReviews of sparxreader.com

This website is falsely marketed as for reading. However, the website fails to do anything remotely good about reading. Instead of letting you be wrong, it decides to force you to attempt to answer questions you obviously will not know over 4 times. As well, it does not let you pick your own book freely. It is much more like a dictatorship , which makes you pretend you have a choice when in reality you only get to pick from 4-7 books. It is much more of a time waster and forces you to do "reading" even if you do not want to which usually leads to punishments. If i were to improve the website, i would remake the entire website to actually be about reading but it would still be disliked for that as it is a Sparx-Homework Website which is actively hated.

i dont read any more. it made reading a chore and if you dont do it schools give detentions FOR NOT READING A BOOK!!! i put my preferences(fantasy) in and it only gave me football books????? i dont recommend it...and why do schools even use it?

This app is rubbish unless you have sparx gold reader pass you have to answer 4 questions and get them all right and if you get them wrong you have to read it again takes all the fun out of reading.PLEASE BAN THIS APP

Sparx Reader is actually so bad. The fact that if you read the whole text but get more than two of the questions wrong you have to read it all over again and when you finally get it right you get way less SRP! It's so ridiculous, i enjoy reading books but when I have to use sparx Reader it makes me absolutely hate reading, I thought sparx maths was bad but this is just another level.

this website is horrible. i had to do 900 srp worth of homework and had a meltdown only 100 srp in. now its 700 srp but even with that amount it’s still impossible to complete, i make my mom do it as she doesn’t mind and i know that if i do it more compared to what im mandated to do at school, i will have another meltdown. i cannot believe people still actively choose this app in most schools across Britain. its embarrassing, really.

this app has completely made me hate reading its just so bad 4 questions and on a chance you get 1 question wrong you lose about 3/4 of the points you would have had and you have to read it again, also barely gives points you have to spend so long on it would much rather do a detention than it

THIS APP IS ABSOLUTELY ABYSMALLY DOGSHIT. Yes I am taking the time out of my day to go and type a review about this since it geniunely is one of the WORST APPS EVER MADE IN THE HISTORY OF HUMANKIND. This app targets children learning how to read and pushes it's sloppy idea of what 'learning' is in order to make money. This app, firstly, makes you select an array of only FOUR BOOKS. Tell me how many books are there in a library? On your bookshelf? In a cupboard somewhere? Definitely not FOUR. This instantly makes this app bad enough since limiting choices for children is inexplicably damaging for a child's creativity. Not only this, but the way to complete the set assignments are HORRIFYING. At the end of a passage (which can geniunely be up to 10 medium paragraphs by the way), you'll have to answer a few questions. First off, these questions aren't even about the entire plot. These questions ask for SPECIFIC DETAILS that can easily be mistaken for another subject. This makes it hell as you'll have to memorise basically every object and character in the entire story. If you score 3/4 or 4/4 on the first try, you'll pass, but if you mess up (which is easy to do), you will have to reread the ENTIRE PASSAGE, and this time, you'll only be able to get 4/4 to pass. That's a textbook definition of PUNISHING KIDS HEAVILY FOR A COUPLE MISTAKES. This makes Sparx Reader geniunely a gruelling task that usually takes HOURS to complete. And don't get me started on the books themselves. They are either kids books for genuine 4 year olds, or have passages that stretch up to 500 words (obv exaggerating here, but probably not close off). And guess what? Dont like the book? SCREW YOURSELF BECAUSE WE HATE FUN AND WANT TO WASTE A CHILD'S TIME WHE DRAINING EVERY MOLECULE OF CREATIVITY AND PASSION THEY HAVE FOR READING. If anyone is EVER thinking of buying this app, DONT. DONT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT. DON'T LET A SINGLE ELECTRIC PULSE THEOUGH YOUR BRAIN LEAN SLIGHTLY IN THE FAVOUR OF INSTALLING THIS APP

Children should NOT be forced to read. Studies show that reading for fun is one of the clearest indicators of a more successful education. However, in forcing us to participate in comprehension exercises that SUCK the joy out of reading through a text like nothing else, we only harbour more and more hatred towards reading in general. Our brains do not discriminate between Sparx "reading" and normal reading. If you're looking to end up with an illiterate year group trained to despise reading in all its forms, Sparx reading is a great place to start.