Sparx Reader

Building confident readers through regular reading practice

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Sparx Reader makes reading visible, empowering schools to build a culture of regular independent reading.

Making reading visible to teachers

Visibility of reading

Teachers can see in real time how much every student is reading, empowering you to hold students accountable for their reading.

Powerful insights

Powerful insights about each student's reading enable you to have impactful conversations with students about their books.

The Sparx Reading Test allows you to measure students' progress through the year.

Time-saving automations

Automatic weekly homework saves teachers time and helps students build consistent habits.

Training and CPD

As well as training and ongoing support to maximise your impact, we include Reading Matters: 10 short CPD videos on reading pedagogy plus materials for running school CPD sessions.

Supporting all students to read for pleasure

Personalised

Students are offered fantastic books at their level from a wide range of texts.

Homework tasks are also personalised, so all students can experience regular success in reading.

Engaging

As they read, students answer regular questions, helping them to stay engaged in the story.

Readers earn Sparx Reader Points (SRP) and can compete with others to climb the league table.

Our library, plus yours

Sparx Reader gives all students access to a rich range of books at home, with quizzes throughout to support engaged reading.

Gold Readers can add any book and earn points by keeping reading logs.

Reading with understanding

Students complete regular quizzes as they read, encouraging them to read actively and carefully.

Our ebooks include contextual definitions for every word, helping readers understand the text and build their vocabulary.

Accessible

Sparx Reader works on any device, so students can access books from anywhere. Students can access dyslexia-friendly fonts, colour overlays, and reading rulers.

Our community

Sparx Reader in numbers

1,200,000+

hours of careful reading

Stack of books

450,000+

books completed

100,000,000+

questions answered

What our schools say

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Sparx Reader is an engaging and supportive platform in which pupils can develop their reading and literacy skills… with the options to change text and background colours, enlarge the text and check the meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary. By developing these skills, we can ensure our pupils develop the necessary life skills to function and be successful adults.

Daisy Lewis

Sparx Reader Leader - Brakenhale School

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Sparx Reader is an engaging and supportive platform in which pupils can develop their reading and literacy skills… with the options to change text and background colours, enlarge the text and check the meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary. By developing these skills, we can ensure our pupils develop the necessary life skills to function and be successful adults.

Social buzz

Oldham Academy
Oldham Academy@reading_toan

Happy Reading @OldhamAcademy. We finish the Au Term on a high. Well done to our best readers this term; these superstars have been spotted in the library reading and getting lost in great story lines. We have also smashed our new @SparxReader platform with our KS3 students!

Trinity Academy
Trinity Academy@HaleDonal

Delighted that our Year 7s @TrinityAcademyL secured πŸ’― % completion of @SparxReader this week! It was a joy pulling together these graphics this evening! #homelearning #readersareleaders #Operation100

Netherwood Academy
Netherwood Academy@kimjwharton

A huge well done to @Netherwood_Acad Sparx Reader Superstars!! 7E1 continue to smash the leaderboards week after week. Congratulations to you wonderful bookworms πŸŽ‰ πŸ“šπŸ“–πŸ† @SparxReader

Social buzz

Happy Reading @OldhamAcademy. We finish the Au Term on a high. Well done to our best readers this term; these superstars have been spotted in the library reading and getting lost in great story lines. We have also smashed our new @SparxReader platform with our KS3 students!

Sparx Learning provides maths, reading and science solutions to more than half of UK schools, supporting students aged 11-16yrs across several large International School Groups and many individual schools across the world.

2m+Students
36k+Teachers
2,200+Schools
Map of the world with points showing all the different countries Sparx Maths is used in. These countries include: Australia, Belgium, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, Myanmar, Oman, Peru, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, UAE, United Kingdom, United States, and Vietnam

School groups we work with

Tedd Wragg Trust
International Schools Partnership
United Learning
International Education Systems
Greenshaw Learning Trust
Delta Academies Trust
The Athelstan Trust
Consillium Academies
Star Academies
GLF Teaching School Aliance
Academies Enterprise Trust
Spencer Academies Trust
Ark
Brooke Western Academy Trust
Invictus Education Trust
Shaw Academy Trust
Dudley Academies Trust
Westcountry Schools Trust
Leigh Academies Trust
Chorus Education Trust
Stour Vale Academies Trust
Tedd Wragg Trust
International Schools Partnership
United Learning
International Education Systems
Greenshaw Learning Trust

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