HIDOE Staff
#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.
Please note:
Students log in with username=student ID number and password=date of birth (mmddyy)
School Managers
#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.
