#808Reads Objectives 

• Provide opportunities for students to discover the joys of independent reading through reading challenges.

• Give students agency to read what they want to read--comics, fiction, fantasy or any other subject.

• Establish a love of reading that can last a lifetime.

• Strengthen community and school library partnerships through reading and literacy challenges.

• Leverage technology to inspire more independent reading.

• Develop reading programs aligned with the State Literacy Plan, Comprehensive Literacy State Development grant and reading research.

• Collect detailed data to track performance, identify areas most in need of support, and quantify success.

Benefits 

👨🏻‍💻  For teachers & school librarians

➔ View individual or class reading logs - including Lexile levels for most titles.

➔ Foster a reading culture among students and teachers.

➔ Log for individual students or an entire class at once.

➔ Ready-to-launch reading challenge templates mean minimal setup work.

➔ Easily customize your own challenges.

➔ Create reading lists for students to choose from.

🧑🏻‍💼 For administrators

➔ Each school gets its own home site, including a reading goal “ticker.”

➔ Integrated with Clever for instant rostering.

➔ Extensive, customizable data reports with actionable insights.

➔ Segment data by individual reader, grade, school, or district as a whole.

➔ Build community connections around reading and literacy.

#808Reads School Manager

Although all students and staff can participate in the statewide reading challenge and teachers can view reading logs for students rostered to them, only a registered #808Reads School Manager can create personalized school-wide challenges.

To register a school manager, please complete the registration form at https://bit.ly/808READS_REGFORM. More detailed information and training opportunities are provided to the #808Reads School Manager.