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Reading Plus

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1 review
26 helpful votes
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Never use this
January 9, 2024

I got put in a mental institution because i lost my mind over this gut wrenching horrendous website. My teacher did a mortal combat fatality for not doing my 5 story's which are the most useless texts ever they make my eyes bleed this app makes me want to kill my self and school shooting when i am on this app i want a shooter to come into my class and I would thank him

Date of experience: January 9, 2024
Florida
1 review
10 helpful votes
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OK, so first of all, it doesn't increase my reading comprehension. It doesn't even teach me anything. Second, The vocabulary is trash. Sometimes, there are multiple meaning to words, and it only shows as one meaning. Like, come on, man... and apparently, because i read at an eighth grade level, i am too fast for the actual reading plus. I am reading 20'000 leagues under the sea, and it took me an hour to get past almost five chapters. It takes me TWO HOURS to finish FIVE SEE-READERS! Honestly, this website is a waste of time. ITs stressful for kids, most stuff on this website is incorrect, and more. This website is complete garbage.

Date of experience: December 17, 2020
Kentucky
1 review
5 helpful votes
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It sucks
February 25, 2023

Reading plus $#*!ing sucks. It does not help with rating whatsoever. It gives stories that are extremely boring and not educational, it's system of "helping" is also complete bull$#*!. It has I-rates and G-rates that don't help you at all. You should be able to read at your own pace. Reading plus lacks in quality, and is NOT a good way to help students improve their reading skills. If I could give 0 stars I would, do not use reading plus. Reading plus will $#*! you over.

Date of experience: February 25, 2023
New Zealand
1 review
13 helpful votes
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Reading plus is a terrible place to learn. It has made me and my fellow class mates hate reading and want to kill ourselves. The see reader books are dull and boring and the questions are either laughably easy or super hard,
Same case with the vocab task either too easy or too hard and is just meaningless the final one is good because it is the only one that makes sense.
I have no idea how schools think that this is acceptable.
Reading plus, go die in a hole,
Sincerely, every human ever

Date of experience: February 27, 2023
New Jersey
1 review
33 helpful votes
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Why would I need this?
January 17, 2021

How is this going to help me in the future. It isn't helping my reading skills, some of the stories are all the same with just different titles. To much stress from Reading Plus and Regular homework. The site doesn't even work half the time. Overall... wasting my brain cells and overall mental health just to pass a class.

Date of experience: January 17, 2021
Community M. Reading Plus Rep
over a year old

Hi Jeremyia!

My name is La'Keisha and I work with Reading Plus; I'm sorry to learn that you are stressed from homework and using the program. We recently doubled our content and so there are hundreds more stories to choose from; but mostly importantly, I'd love to know what type of stories you'd like to read more of? Your feedback is important, and I will share it with my team members who find and even write many of the stories.

Also, if you're ever having difficulty with the website we have a "Live Chat" button on the website that takes you to our live customer service team ready to solve any problems you may be having.

Thank you!

La'Keisha

Ohio
1 review
32 helpful votes
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It is so boring! It does not help reading or vocabulary what so ever! It's a waist of time and money! I hate it! So my class does thi every day except for like 3 day weeks or so what but, from when we started to the middle of the year our scores went down, proving my point that this dumb website doesn't help.

Date of experience: April 13, 2021
New Zealand
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Waste of time
June 13, 2023

Reading plus is the biggest waste of time to exist. As a student who goes to a school that requires using reading plus, its just not worth it. For the see readers, you get 3 questions wrong and you score decreases dramatically. You need 80 percent to pass the see reader, anything lower and it doesn't count as a completed task. In all honesty, you would learn more from reading physical copies of books or reading something of your choice online. You get the whole week to complete all the tasks and it's supposed to help, but in reality it just more workload for students or others. Absolutely WOULD NOT recommend for anyone, it's a real pain in the $#*!, from experience. Would give no star rating.

Date of experience: June 13, 2023
Kentucky
1 review
26 helpful votes
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My child has been having anxiety attacks ever since her teacher signed her up for reading plus. She hasn't been sleeping well either because she is assigned so many things to do on reading plus. Overall, I hate it.

Date of experience: December 4, 2020
Tennessee
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Why
October 14, 2021

This is the worst thing ever created. I don't think I hate anything more in life than reading plus. It should at least show me the definition after I get the word wrong instead of just feeling defeated. I hate my life so much more after getting off and the stories don't make any sense. The questions are so basic and not even thought-out. TRASH

Date of experience: October 14, 2021
Hawaii
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Distasteful
November 18, 2021

The website "Reading Plus" teaches incorrect English, spelling and grammar. Even if your answer is grammatically correct. If its not what they believe is grammatically then it will be marked in correct.

If you read too fast they will pause you from reading for over an week which makes it so you can not complete school assignments

Date of experience: November 18, 2021
Georgia
1 review
7 helpful votes
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I hate it so much it make me want to kill myself everyday and every minute! Reading plus has made me have so many suicidal tendencies. Just last week i was on the news because i held down a walmart threatening to kill myself and everyone in it.

Date of experience: May 15, 2023
Texas
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Boring and Frustrating
November 1, 2022

Reading Plus is super annoying. The stories are boring and the only way to really pass is to be on support mode. I have gotten 5 reds in a row to finally get a green. This is by far the stupidest thing in the world. And it doesn't even help your reading it just causes stress and it only pushing you to read faster. I hope when I get to high school they are not doing this anymore. Worst program.

Date of experience: November 1, 2022
California
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Ok, as much as i like reading sometimes, i read fast. But. Reading plus apparently hates fast readers, as the title says. Im a minor in grade 7, almost grade 8, and it won't let me read fast whatsoever. It took me days just to get by the first test on this thing, and it was fine, but now its just rude. Like, make it so that if someone reads fast, then accept it.

Date of experience: May 18, 2022
AE
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Very bad site
October 26, 2022

I thought that utilizing Reading Plus would enable my kids to read more quickly and with greater enjoyment because I am a school administrator. The outcomes, however, were disastrous. Many students became anxious and would start crying in English class because they didn't have enough time to finish all of their lessons and because Reading Plus didn't function well because their lessons reset frequently and they had to redo them. I therefore stopped assigning Reading Plus to my students and had them read their own books Because of its filthy content and extreme insensitivity, I never want to see a kid anywhere near that website again. By assigning them this garbage, I almost destroyed their lives.

Date of experience: October 26, 2022
Florida
1 review
4 helpful votes
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This is the worst so called "educational" site ever! The lessons do not help with reading skills and comprehensions at all. I have no clue why schools in my area are making students go do work on this god awful platform.

Date of experience: December 1, 2021
Hawaii
1 review
12 helpful votes
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Rapist and racist
September 29, 2023

My lil bro became racist and raped 2 black women aged 40 and 19, and hes only 3. What the actual $#*! is this app? Never use reading plus or youll get stage 90 prostate cancer and $#*! your left nut out along with your liver, $#*! off.

Date of experience: September 29, 2023
GB
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Reading plus is an ugly, boring website that is supposed to encourage children to read. However, the stories are so dreadfully bland and uninteresting that I would be surprised if any child was encouraged to read by this horrible, dreary website.

Date of experience: October 18, 2022
Texas
1 review
14 helpful votes
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Horrible product
January 27, 2023

The american school and education system is bad enough, why should reading plus exist to make it even worse? This is damaging to mental health, and is a horrible product, Take down this website, YOU are the reasons students have low mental health. Instead of making an app that makes students go insane, instead, you should really create a program to actually help students and not to embarrass students. Shame on all of you that work at this horrible hell you call a "company"

Date of experience: January 27, 2023
Missouri
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Grasping the readers
October 25, 2021

It's not all that bad but it would be a lot more fun if there was more choices for books. Not everyone likes the science and historical. Me personally, I like poetry and romance and maybe a little bit of drama. This website has NONE of that. I'm in middle school and I would like to enjoy reading even when I'm being forced to do it. Overall more selection would be nice and possibly a couple more re-reads would help.
(If someone doesn't have a book they are interested in it can be hard for them to grasp the book causing them to not do as great on the tests)

Date of experience: October 25, 2021
GB
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Never cook again
May 6, 2024

Hello. It is me john sigma. Your crusty 1990 software with biased test results and ai generated ""storeis"" must cease. The children will not stand such an horrendus software. Why have you done this? My website front page has been set to the firey gates of hell. The shipping is outstandly bad. This is what schools spend their budgert on? Never cook again. You have disgraced mankind with this service. My resolve has been broken again and again. Your "guided reader" must be deleted because it hurts my eye. I can get more productive use of time by watching paint dry. Goodbye.

Date of experience: May 6, 2024

Overview

Reading Plus has a rating of 1.1 stars from 357 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Reading Plus most frequently mention mental health, worst thing and boring stories. Reading Plus ranks 72nd among Educational Games sites.

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