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Bring the fun back to reading
Ditch Accelerated Reader® levels, points, and tests in favor of free-choice reading and student autonomy. With reading challenges, students can pick their books, build a diverse reading log, hit big reading goals, and be rewarded for a job well done throughout the school year.
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Replace quiz-based approaches with free-choice reading
How Beanstack Works
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Set a community goal
Incentivize readers to contribute to a collective reading goal. It's simple: Readers log double the reading minutes when working toward a community goal.
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Run competitions
Use data insights to highlight top readers and engage staff to encourage friendly competition in new challenges. Our most successful partners credit competition as a key driver of success.
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Provide recognition and incentives
Amplify our built-in gamification features by rewarding readers. Rewards or prizes double reader participation, confirming that extrinsic motivators lead to an intrinsic love of reading.
Built with librarians and educators for the love of reading
Save Time and Effort
Streamline everything summer. We make it easy to customize your website, launch summer reading challenges and summer reading programs, manage staff and reader accounts, track fun prizes, and get data in the summer months.
- Set up a summer reading challenge in minutes – Customize your summer reading program to match your goals.
- Encourage reading habits – Reward readers for logging minutes, books, or days read, improving reading motivation and engagement.
- Offer exciting incentives – Use digital badges, leaderboards, and low-cost rewards to keep motivation high.
- Track progress effortlessly – Get real-time insights into reading participation and impact.
- Engage families – Give parents and caregivers an easy way to support their child’s summer reading.
Summer is the perfect time to nurture a love of reading, and Beanstack helps make your summer reading program fun, easy, and effective. From theme-based summer reading challenges to community-wide initiatives, we provide the tools to keep readers engaged wherever summer takes them.
