SparxreaderReviews of sparxreader.com

The system here is terrible. I do my best not to leave only hateful feedback online but I can't think of any good qualities of this platform. From the point of view as a student who would normally read a lot and finish all my books, on this platform I have switched out the last 8 books I read as soon as possible. This is because, one, when selecting a book you are given only 4 book options that hardly ever change. While sparx claims that helps students pick I could not disagree more. From other students in my class we all find ourselves messing around with setting and changing our "genre preferences" to try to get a different book option. However the system hardly considers your selected preferences. I'm in a top set class. However despite that on this platform around 60% of people don't even do homework because the process is so painful. Every page your given 3 questions if you screw up you lose countless points, which is a problem as you need points to complete tasks and track reading. Questions range from simple to vocabulary specific niche questions that just feel impossible if reading normally. One quality I would have considered good was a Gold Reader system. This meant if you read a little bit extra you could read your own books and track them for homework. This was a trust system so you had to read a lil extra each week, which felt painful but you could see the gold reader pass getting closer. And once you got it you can read your own book and log it and the teacher can track your progress and all was great! Until this year they removed all of it. "Gold Reader" is a celebratory achievement. You can still log books, but there is no reward in it, and it doesn't contribute to homework, so why would you? Sparx reader claims to support students reading. It doesn't. The system fully replaces their reading with something they'll hate. It makes reading like suffering where you just want to finish your homework task. I am sorry to leave such a hateful comment here. I have never written anything near as hateful as this. But in this scenario I have nothing positive anymore. If your even considering using this in your school for every one of your students sake I beg you to reconsider if you want to promote reading for pleasure this will annihilate any chance for you. I believe this platform is worse then completely unmonitored reading for students and their reading.

Sparx reader is one of the most annoying homework sites I’ve ever used. Not only does it give you 2-10 SPR points for reading a 10 minute long section, but it only gives you a choice of 5 completely random books to choose from. These 5 choices can only be changed to 3 different books a week which means if you don’t like/want to read the book it gives you then you’re stuck with it until the next week, this only makes me want to read it less because I’m not going to sit and read a book I don’t like for almost 3 hours because I don’t get enough spr to finish quicker. I hate sparx reader so much for these reasons.

this is the definition of hell

Why did they make gold reader a status instead of something that helps you? It was the only thing on the site that wasn't lifelessly boring to do. This entire company is BS and should shut down.

This recent update sucks, making gold reader a mere status makes 0 sense, some people cant read off a screen, like me, I prefer the warmth of a book not a cold white display.

Honestly I wish I could rate this 0 stars. This website genuinely ruined my experience for reading as a child, getting me to select my reading preferences and then not listening to it at all. I have other stuff to mention but yeah

Mid. Don’t like the limited range in books, and the fact that you only get 4 recommendations each time you pick a new book. The questions can be frustrating at times, especially when you answer some wrong the first time round, then you try again and you get 3/4 but still aren’t able to move on. Not fun. The spellings are okay though, I wish they would give you more points for doing them though, and they keep giving me the same ones to do which is irritating. We used to use Bedrock for English, which even though the design wasn’t as good, the work wasn’t as annoying. It also let you answer grammar questions and not just literature/reading questions, and you got to write interesting paragraphs (short ones) too. IF YOU CAN I WOULD RECOMMEND ASKING YOUR TEACHER TO GIVE YOU PERMANENT GOLD READER, IT IS WAY BETTER! YOU CAN ADD YOUR OWN BOOKS WHICH YOU WILL ENJOY MORE, AND YOU GET SO MANY MORE POINTS, IT MAKES HOMEWORK SO MUCH MORE EFFICIENT. ALSO YOU GET TO MAKE THE QUESTIONS YOURSELF, SO IT ISN’T AS DIFFICULT. It is better than Maths and Science though, so I’ll give it that.

Recommended to me a WW1 gay romance. I specified I hated romance. I logged political science books on my gold reader. In what world does it seem like I would want to read that?