Community reviews for ReadTheory

As stated before, this product is used only to scaffold or re-teach. I would not use this product as the sole tool for my instruction. Students can work on a specific standard or skill and see whether that goal is being met. Teachers can quickly gather the data to see who is meeting grade level standards. Great for conferences and another insight on your student's reading ability.

I think ReadTheory is a great resource for any classroom. It cannot stand alone as the only reading instruction a student receives, but it is excellent independent practice. The passages are engaging and enjoyable. I cannot say enough about how much students enjoy checking their progress. They can see if their grade level equivalent goes up or down with each passage and they respond appropriately to their results. It is excellent, self-paced practice in reading comprehension, and that is hard to find.

ReadTheory is ideal to introduce in the classroom before sending it home as homework or as an end of class, free work time activity. It's not a game of any sort, it simply provides students with reading passages at their level followed by comprehension questions which show me a students reading level. I'm still testing to see if the reading passages equate to grade level reading, but find with ELLs some of the American centric cultural questions raise new topics such as American holidays or traditions to be directly covered in class.