Fuel Student Success With the Power of Reading
A strong reading culture encourages students to read more, improving academic performance across all subjects and boosting student achievement. Yet, students today are reading less than ever. Beanstack helps reverse this trend with unified, district-wide challenges that create a shared reading experience while encouraging healthy, independent book choices. When literacy thrives, students excel, families connect, and future opportunities open.
What is Beanstack?
Beanstack uses proven gamification principles and modern reading integrity tools to motivate students to read. By partnering with schools and districts nationwide, we help cultivate a love of reading, foster strong independent readers, and grow thriving reading cultures throughout the school year.
Beanstack helps school districts launch branded, district-wide reading challenges and competitions that motivate students to read consistently. Innovative challenges and gamification make reading exciting, and progress is measured in minutes or books read. With Beanstack, your school district can enhance its reading curriculum, connect to other reading resources, and better reach reading goals.
Students easily log in with SSO or their launchpad and log all their reading in our intuitive interface. At key milestones, they earn digital badges, reading streaks, and encouraging messages as rewards. Schools can attach prizes or experiences to badges or activities as extra incentives. Students find themselves excited to unlock the next badge and then the next.
Many districts adopt Beanstack reading challenges to replace quiz-based programs like Accelerated Reader. Classroom teachers, school administrators, or district superintendents choose a reading goal, such as a certain number of minutes or books read. Younger children learn to love reading, while older children find intrinsic motivation to keep reading. The result? School-wide improvement in reading abilities and test scores.
The Best Alternative to Accelerated Reader
Beanstack offers a fresh approach to motivating strong readers—no quizzing required. Unlike Accelerated Reader, Beanstack promotes daily reading habits, unifies schools with a district-wide approach, creates a safe space for all types of readers, and encourages healthy, independent book choices.
Empower Every Student to Succeed Through Reading
Here’s how Beanstack can support your school district:
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Motivate Every Reader
Gamified challenges spark excitement for readers at every level.
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Boost Test Scores
Students who read for fun achieve higher scores in reading and math.
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Simplify Accountability
Keep students on track with log limits and Book Talks with Benny.
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Celebrate Progress
Achievable goals and milestones inspire students to keep going.
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Recover Reading Confidence
Support foundational skills like phonemic awareness and vocabulary.
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Build Lifelong Habits
Create a thriving community of readers who love learning.
Can Beanstack Impact Standardized Test Scores?
Creating a culture of reading is just the beginning. Beanstack empowers districts to drive measurable improvements in standardized test scores by motivating students to read for fun and keep reading consistently, vastly improving reading proficiency levels.
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Grow Your Reading Culture, Make It Last
Robstown Independent School District in Texas has seen remarkable progress in building a vibrant reading culture with Beanstack. Over the past three years, book circulation increased by 63%, and junior high reading challenge participation grew by over 70%. These results highlight how Beanstack empowers students of all ages to embrace reading as a lifelong habit.
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Watch Reading Scores Skyrocket
Joy James Elementary School in Texas demonstrated how Beanstack improves outcomes in schools. By challenging students to log 2,000 minutes of reading, they achieved remarkable results: average reading scores increased by 62%, and math scores saw a 47% improvement. These gains went beyond fluency and phonological awareness, proving the broad impact of consistent reading.
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Boost Comprehension for All Grade Levels
Mitchell County Middle School in Georgia experienced nearly a 10% boost in reading comprehension scores after implementing reading incentives through Beanstack. The results demonstrate that students across all grade levels, from kindergarten to high school, benefit from school reading programs powered by Beanstack.
Tools to Inspire, Track, and Celebrate Success
Beanstack provides tools designed to inspire a love of reading and track progress across your entire district. From engaging challenges to comprehensive reporting, we make it easy to scale literacy initiatives and celebrate success in literacy achievement.
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Easy-to-Use Digital Platform
A user-friendly interface that effortlessly allows students, teachers, and district administrators to access and manage reading challenges.
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Progress Tracking & Data Insights
Get detailed reports on student reading progress to support literacy initiatives and celebrate success.
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Equity & Accessibility
Accessible for all students, providing opportunities to participate regardless of reading level or language. Building early literacy skills and vocabulary development is important at any age.
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Cultural and Thematic Challenges
Engage students with challenges for heritage months, seasonal themes, and genre exploration, promoting diverse and inclusive reading.
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Incentives and Gamification
Motivate readers with badges, points, and leaderboards tailored to their interests.
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Reading Accountability
Set logging goals, monitor reading habits, and ensure accountability with tools that promote consistent, independent reading across all grade levels.
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Collaborative Family Engagement
Our tandem connections help families log reading together, strengthening the home-school bond and boosting literacy and student motivation.
Join Districts Growing Strong Reading Cultures
Join a network of innovative districts that use Beanstack to inspire a love of reading. Beanstack supports students of all ages and backgrounds, from large urban districts to smaller rural communities.
