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TEACHER GUIDE ii
Reading Plus is for students with foundational reading skills who are ready to become
proficient silent readers. This program helps students establish silent reading fluency,
increase comprehension skills, and expand vocabulary while broadening interests and
building knowledge. The program includes three instructional components: the Reading
component (SeeReader), the Vocabulary component (ReadAround), and the Visual Skills
component (iBalance).
• Serves as primary program
component
• Provides structured, scaffolded,
silent reading practice
• Supports the development of
academic vocabulary
• Delivers increasingly complex
text selections
• Includes rigorous selected
response and constructed
response comprehension tasks
• Builds knowledge and mastery of
general academic vocabulary
• Develops contextual analysis
skills
Supports the development of
visual perceptual skills, including:
• visual perceptual span
• visual memory
• left-to-right scanning
Reading
≈ 10 minutes per lesson
≈ 10 minutes per lesson
Learn About the Program
≈ 15 minutes per lesson
Vocabulary
Visual Skills

TEACHER GUIDE 1
Set Up Classes
™
1. Log in
Create a class, enroll students, and print usernames and passwords.
• If you see class(es) listed, press the
name of the class in which you will
enroll students.
• If no classes are listed, or if you
need to add an additional class,
you can create a class (see below).
• Press Enroll / Unenroll Students.
• Press +Enroll to access the Student
Roster.
• Press the student’s name to enroll.
Note : Always check the Student
Roster before enrolling manually to
avoid duplicate student accounts.
• Click +Create Class .
• Enter the name of the class. Use a
name that will be easy for you and
others to identify (your last name
and class period, for example).
• Click +Assign if you would like to
assign a co-teacher.
Note: If you logged in to an
administrator account, press the
uppermost Classes tab, then press the
gear icon to the left of a class name to
access class settings.
• Go to login.readingplus.com and
press Educator Login.
• Enter your username and
password.
2. Press Settings
3. Select a Class
5. Enroll Students
4. Create a Class
(only for students who do not appear
on the Student Roster)
• Press Create New Student to enroll
any students whose names do not
appear on the Student Roster.
• Enter information into all fields.
• Press Save.
6. Enroll Students Manually

TEACHER GUIDE 2
Set Class Calendar
Set your class calendar and weeks off.
1. Set Start and End Weeks
• Press Class Calendar .
• Press Select Week in the Class
Start Date field.