Reading Counts! is an incentive based reading program in which students can read a book of interest, whether fiction or non-fiction, and then take a short quiz to test comprehension.  If the student passes the quiz the student earns points which can then be cashed in for a prize or award. For the teacher, there is no need to write quizzes or to be an expert on all the books in the school's media center!

Manuals for Download

• SAM-Reading Counts Media Specialists' Quick Guide
• Reading Counts! Educator's Guide (7mb)
• Using the SAM Book Expert
• Student Log-On Convention

Scholastic Support Pages of Interest

• The Leveling Resource Guide - This page will help you determine the GRL of a book - especially helpful when making your own quiz.
• The Teacher Book Wizard - Find and level books for students. Over 50,000 titles. Search by author, title, genre, level, interest, book lists and more.

MetaMetrics (the inventors of Lexiles) Support Pages of Interest

• Find a Book by Lexile - Enter your Lexile score or Lexile range, and interests and you'll get a list of books that you may find interesting. Teachers can create printable "book bags" of reading lists for their students.
• Book Search by Title, Author or ISBN - Quickly search 100,000 titles from 450 publishers to find the Lexile of a book, plus other factual information.

Interactive Quiz List Links

Schools should feel free to link their Edline pages to the interactive Reading Counts Quiz Lists for parents to view. However, please link to the Quiz Lists and not to this web page.

There are six pages to choose from. Each page has a different configuration as to which Interest Levels will appear. Select the page that matches the Interest Levels you have installed and link to that page. The addresses (links) of the pages are provided below - just copy and paste into Edline. Please do not link to this page.

All Quizzes (K12)

http://www.palmbeach.k12.fl.us/learning_tools/scholastic/QuizListApplet/QuizList.html

K-5 Quizzes

http://www.palmbeach.k12.fl.us/learning_tools/scholastic/QuizListApplet/QuizListK5.html

K-8 Quizzes

http://www.palmbeach.k12.fl.us/learning_tools/scholastic/QuizListApplet/QuizListK8.html

3-12 Quizzes

http://www.palmbeach.k12.fl.us/learning_tools/scholastic/QuizListApplet/QuizList312.html

6-12 Quizzes

http://www.palmbeach.k12.fl.us/learning_tools/scholastic/QuizListApplet/QuizList612.html

9-12 Quizzes

http://www.palmbeach.k12.fl.us/learning_tools/scholastic/QuizListApplet/QuizList912.html

Quiz Lists for Download

PDF Quiz Lists are no longer availabel effective December 2009 due to the Interactive Quiz Lists above. If you still need to have PDF quiz lists, then please have your school tech install CutePDF on your PC and then you will be able to print your own PDFs by using the Excel spreadsheet located below.

We do not recommend linking your Edline page for parents/students to the Excel spreadsheet since most consumer PCs will not have Excel; therefore the home user will not be able to open the Excel file. However, you may link your Teachers to this file since your Teacher's PC at school would have Excel. The Excel sheet has the advantage of being sortable.

• Reading Counts Quiz List All Grades(Excel)

Training Videos

• Mapping Drive Z to Central Scholastic Server (Scho-Main)
• Downloading and Importing Reading Counts Quizzes