The benefits that students reap from everyday reading are obvious to educators. A study by the National Endowments for the Arts reports, “Regular reading not only boosts the likelihood of an individual's academic and economic success—facts that are not especially surprising—but it also seems to awaken a person's social and civic sense. Reading correlates with almost every measurement of positive personal and social behavior. The cold statistics confirm something that most readers know—books change lives for the better.” For this reason elementary schools have made it a priority to teach our children to read and to become life-long learners by reading every day. Yet, less than one-third of 13-year-olds are daily readers and the average 15- to 24-year-old spends only 7–10 minutes per day on voluntary reading. These alarming figures warrant a call for action.
As daily reading declines, education technology is on the rise—upending the teaching and learning process and engaging students in a variety of new media platforms. Let's use technology to upend the single most important academic activity—reading! Progress by the Page has developed a technology that allows educators to send reading assignments directly to students’ iPads (with an optional quiz), and then track how many pages and minutes they read. With our easy-to-use web application you will know exactly how much and how often your students are reading. And, you can continue to monitor reading after school and over holiday and summer breaks. Our goal is to ensure your students reap the undisputed benefits of reading every day.
I invite you to learn more about how we encourage everyday reading on the iPad by visiting www.progressbythepage.com
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