Building confident readers through regular reading practice
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.
An extensive library to choose from
Sparx Reader gives all students access to a rich range of books at home, with quizzes throughout to support engaged reading.
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
5.4m+
hours of careful reading
1.7m+
books completed
341m+
questions answered
What our schools say
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
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
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!
Delighted that our Year 7s @TrinityAcademyL secured 💯 % completion of @SparxReader this week! It was a joy pulling together these graphics this evening! #homelearning #readersareleaders #Operation100
A huge well done to @Netherwood_Acad Sparx Reader Superstars!! 7E1 continue to smash the leaderboards week after week. Congratulations to you wonderful bookworms 🎉 📚📖🏆 @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 over half of UK schools, supporting students aged 11–16 across several large international school groups and many individual schools worldwide. Through our work - now also recognised by B Corp certification — we remain focused on supporting schools and improving learning for students around the world.
School groups we work with
