SparxreaderReviews of sparxreader.com

As a person who uses Sparx Reader, I absolutely hate it. The fact that they have repetitive vocabulary words that don't even expand my own vocabulary speaks for itself. My reading age is 17 years old, and the vocab words I'm given, is that of a 7 year old's. The book choices are bad, and Gold Reader book setups are just so unnecessary. Most importantly, the 100% completion is so annoying. Sometimes, read 3 bits to finish my homework. Now, with a different book, I have to take more effort, and I probably have to pick a second book. Finally, sometimes, they send me one question, saying, "Did you read this section carefully?" OF COURSE I DID!!! I just think it's not worth my time at this point.

After picking questions based on your opinion, you have to do a few simple questions. It's all ok untill they force 4 terrible books down your throat that you have to choose from and waste way too many hours of your life reading for 3 times as long as it would usually take due to terrible questions. Sometimes I wonder wether the detention is better than doing that.

awful, just awful. There are times when the book is so boring but I still have to complete a page, and it gives me 7% of the amount needed to complete the whole homework set! Disgusting, destroying my soul, and one way to ruin someone's like of reading. The amount of hate I have for this app has gone beyond even Sparx Maths!

The book selection is horrible and it constantly interrupts your reading and wont let you move on if you get more than one question wrong geniune rage bait istg

horrible horrible HORRIBLE app

Hate when a page is actually decent but end up getting all the questions wrong because of minute details.

This website and overall company is what happens when you mix reading as a hobby with corporate slop. Everything in this website looks like it was geared to appeal to teachers that don’t know how stressful and boring this homework website is. First off, no actual search bar??? That should be an obvious red flag because kids won’t be able to find books they love. And also, why are most of the books so unknown? I’ve never heard of most of the books they shove in my face. The genre searching method isn’t any better, they present you books that you will yawn while reading because they are the exact opposite of what you want (most likely funnelled down by ai). After finding a book that looks like it could be good, you’re presented with a massive passage and you have to memorise ‘key phrases’. Once you’ve reached the end of it, you’re shown four questions that you have to answer to progress quickly with a points system ‘SPX’, but one of them doesn’t correlate to the book and makes it even more confusing for the kids reading. At some times, it takes roughly 30mins to complete the required amount of SPX for the homework to be considered completed, but for some it can take up to 1h or even more when the limit is 300 SPX. Teachers, if you want your students to learn while reading, steer away from this website. Go back to the ‘old fashioned way’ by telling them to read a book they love and can feel. Putting them at a screen to read a book so boring and feel like torture won’t help them with their literacy skills (there are some unnecessary spelling mistakes that even a toddler wouldn’t make), but it puts them off reading altogether. Don’t listen to Sparx’s lies. They make learning feel like slavery and teachers don’t understand the experience. So teachers, never introduce this to your school because it’s just low quality gimmicks slapped onto books kids don’t know or want to read. Let kids have more freedom with reading if you want them to have future jobs. Shame on you Sparx, I could give this review -5 stars if I could.

The thing with sparx reader is that you have to get at least 3 or 4 questions right to get points and carry on with the book, so sometimes it doesn't matter if you get 0% or 75% on the quiz, YOU WILL BE REWARDED NOTHING. I kept on getting 3/4 or 2/4 questions right and sparx reader didn't even aknowlege that I was trying! you should at least get a few points for trying. I already hated reading but this is just awful for my mental health.