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Build confidence and skills

Stay informed with reading assessments
Teach deep reading comprehension skills
Differentiate with adaptive reading lessons
Support reading with personalized pathways
Motivate and build reading confidence
Read high-interest science, social studies and ELA texts

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Weekly practice of deep reading comprehension skills

Reading routines that build confidence, skills, and knowledge
Engaging, high-interest texts
Up-to-the-minute reading data all year
Transferable skills that give greater access to curriculum
Reading experiences that teach critical, independent thinking

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Reading Assessments

Diagnostic Reading Assessment

Quindew begins with a diagnostic assessment that evaluates students' reading ability during the first Season (12 Quests). After Season 1, a unique learning path is created for each student that meets them where they are as readers.

Benchmark Reading Assessments

Benchmark assessments formatively assess how students are progressing through a Season. Students take two benchmark assessments each Season, totaling 8 benchmarks each school year.

Summative Reading Assessments

At the end of each Season, students take a summative assessment. This assessment will measure students' growth during a Season. On average, students grow .5 grade levels each Season.

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EdTech Digest Awards Best Reading Solution!

We are pleased to announce that Quindew was named as a top finalist for Best New Product and Best Reading Solution for 2020. Quindew continues to lead the way in reading instruction and assessment.

Since 2010, the co-founders of LiteracyTA, Quindew's parent company, have developed amazing resources for teaching and learning that have helped nearly 300,000 students. In 2014, they were recognized for their leadership in education.

In 2017, LiteracyTA's teacher Toolkit was named Trend Setter top finalist. Their online tools and resources are built from a unique skill-based pedagogy that changes the way kids think and learn.

Students and Teachers love it!

Students log in to Quindew and they are immediately engaged in the reading process. I've been looking for an online tool that quickly assesses students' reading ability. Quindew gets it done in minutes.”

- Jose, California

My kids groan when I ask them to complete tasks on other reading programs. Not Quindew. They are genuinely excited to work on Quindew lessons. They like collecting badges and earning rewards like Blue Diamonds that they can use to buy things.”

- Meera, California

My kids love it. I love it because it teaches so many soft skills like perseverance, determination, and curiosity. I also like how Quindew teaches students to read directions carefully. Very pleased!”

- Rick, California

Why Quindew

We started with an outrageous idea. Let's stop over-testing students with tiring and dull assessments. Let's find a better way to evaluate students because assessing them on how well they can guess on multiple choice reading passages may not produce useful reading data.

What if we intentionally designed an online reading program that mimicked explicit reading instruction with predictable reading routines? And, what if this reading practice embedded authentic assessments so that students could demonstrate what they truly know while learning and practicing deep reading comprehension skills?

We are on a mission to offer a better reading experience for all students--for FREE. We are dedicated to building reading skills and confidence while evaluating true knowledge.

Our outrageous idea is working and gaining attention. 98% of our readers are engaged to highly engaged. Students are asking for more. They are growing as readers and teachers are happy. Come be outrageous with us!

Explicitly Teach Deep Reading Comprehension Skills!

Predict the main idea
Identify unfamiliar words
Number paragraphs
Predict text type
Identify author's purpose
Define in-text vocabulary
Analyze transitional language

Identify central ideas
Identify textual evidence
Determine point of view
Make inferences
Identify central claims
Identify opinions
Identify reasons/reasoning

Identify counterclaims
Analyze text structure
Trace sequence of events
Analyze paragraph structure
Identify phrases and clauses
Identify prefixes and suffixes
Analyze rhetorical devices

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20 minute reading lessons with powerful support

2 lessons/week = 1,440 EXTRA reading minutes/year

Autopilot keeps students on-track with notifications

Receive weekly performance reports

Engage students with positive messaging and celebrations!

Quindew is an exceptional reading program that builds skills and confidence.

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Free Online Reading Program

Quindew's mission is to develop the technical skills of reading through a free and fun reading program. Quindew's reading program boosts students' confidence and explicitly teaches deep reading comprehension skills. Kids love it and teachers appreciate the challenging reading lessons. You can't cut free and you can't argue with fun.

Free Online Reading Program

Our fun online reading program is absolutely free, forever! It’s true! Our mission is to deliver excellent reading instruction and practice directly to kids regardless of school budgets.

Reading is personal, it's technical, and it requires practice. As students progress through the grade levels and text complexity increases, students need continuous, authentic reading practice that targets reading comprehension skills.

When students Quindew, thinking and the application of reading skills is required. Instead of selecting a correct answer, students identify and mark text-evidence, purposefully reread a passage deepening comprehension with each read, and think critically about the information they are reading.

Reading with Quindew is fun and engaging. Students love their second chance opportunities, personal reading goals, and badges and game currency. Our skill-based pedagogy and teaching methods ensure students' minds stay on throughout the learning process which helps them build skills and confidence.

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Supporting Our Mission

Quindew's mission to deliver a completely free reading program began with a simple belief that all students must have access to high-quality reading programs and instruction. Our mission is supported by donations and the sale of our premium add-ons. Together, these funds make it possible for us to offer Quindew's reading program to students across the United States and around the world for free.

Quindew's premium add-ons help schools and districts understand and support their readers, assist with program monitoring and performance, and inform and enhance reading instruction.

Last year, Quindew was able to support 207,000 students. Our goal this school year is to support over 500,000 students!

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Clarity Data for Teachers

This is the perfect data package for classroom teachers who want to understand more about their students as readers! Teachers gain access to truly actionable data that they can use in practical ways. For the first time, teachers have clarity on what each student needs.

Enjoy weekly reading data that includes grade and Lexile levels
Know how your students are performing on essential reading skills
Dig in to question level details and view student answers
Group students based on performance, engagement, and support
View weekly performance reports for all classes
Predict performance on standardized tests

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Clarity Data for Programs

Understand what is happening at a site and across a district with Clarity Programs. This is the ultimate data package that provides complete access for school and district leaders to essential reading data. See what the classroom teacher sees with Clarity Data and so much more.

Weekly Performance Reports for all classes
Reading Performance by grade level
Reading Performance by skill level
Reading Performance for English language learners
Reading Engagement Reports
Administrator/Leader access to class and student reports
School/District wide reading level reports
School/District wide performance level reports by grade
School/district wide standards-based reading skills reports

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Curriculum Pack

With Quindew’s Curriculum Pack, classroom teachers are given instructional tools, materials, and research-based reading comprehension skills to explicitly teach what students still need to learn. With our Curriculum Pack, classroom teachers can drill into the standards-based skill reports and gain access to relevant teaching materials right there on the data dashboard. The data is the “what to teach.” The Curriculum Pack is the “how to teach it.”

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Teacher Training

Teachers gain confidence from a one hour training with a Quindew expert. Our reading experts are classroom teachers, so participants learn practical and effective ways to implement Quindew, share Clarity Data with their students, and use the data to drive explicit reading instruction.

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Start Quindewing today!

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20 minute reading lessons with powerful support

2 lessons/week = 1,440 EXTRA reading minutes/year

Autopilot keeps students on-track with notifications

Receive weekly performance reports

Engage students with positive messaging and celebrations!

Quindew is an exceptional reading program that builds skills and confidence.

Start My Forever-Free Plan
Getting started is as easy as 3, 2, 1...Quindew!

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Top 3 best apps for teaching children to read

Often modern parents face the problem of teaching children to read. The old methods don't always work, especially for hyperactive babies who can't sit still for long periods of time. Such children need to be really interested and captivated. Using special good applications for learning to read, you can quickly learn this skill at home.

Many children today have tablets, which are perceived as exciting entertainment. To prevent your child from wasting time watching uninformative videos and playing with toys, install useful educational programs that can quickly learn the alphabet and master reading skills.

How to find the best app for teaching children to read, because there are so many of them? We have analyzed dozens of educational programs for preschoolers and selected the best ones for you!

Our choice:

"Reading" - With this game, learning to read will become an exciting adventure. It features easy to operate, intuitive interface and an incredibly exciting storyline. Suitable for children from 3 to 7 years old.
"Speaking ABC" - Application with high-quality animation for the little ones.
"Learning letters is fun for kids!" - This game is best suited for those who are just learning to read. Training takes place with the help of elementary exercises.

Contents of the article:

1. Reading - the author's game according to the method of Zaitsev's cubes
2. Speaking alphabet
3. Learning letters is fun for children
When to start teaching a child to read?
How to choose a good application for learning to read?
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The application that took the highest place in our rating is “Reading”. We will pay special attention to him in the article, because there is something to tell about.

"Reading" is an interesting educational sequential game for children from 3 to 7 years old. Differs in simplicity in management and intuitively clear interface. There is a plot here, which is even more captivating for a child who seeks to learn new information. Thanks to the sound accompaniment, the child quickly remembers letters and sounds. All letters, warehouses and words are pronounced clearly and slowly.

After starting the application, a short animation appears on the screen - two heroes in a balloon get into a magical land, but a strong wind blew and the balloon skidded to the top. Now friends will have an exciting journey through Reading.

The guys will regularly have to move to new levels, where more difficult tasks await them. In order to maintain your rating, it is recommended that you regularly go to Reading, which encourages children to study systematically. The child is immersed in an exciting adventure, while developing such useful qualities as attentiveness, diligence, kindness and love of knowledge.

"Readings" is an application that will be a great addition to learning with "Zaitsev's Cubes" - one of the most effective methods today. The educational program is aimed at instilling in children a love of reading from childhood. In the game, you can create several profiles, which makes it possible to deal with several children at once. The multiplayer mode allows each student to learn at their own pace. Additional profiles can be created for free. There are statistics on the passage of the game, in which parents see the progress of their child, the percentage of correctly completed tasks.

Benefits of the application:

Fascinating plot - from the first minutes the application captivates, so classes are held in a relaxed manner. This is the first app we've analyzed that has a story. The child does not just learn, but becomes a participant in the quest, which further fuels his interest.
Rich functionality - thanks to the application, you can not only learn letters, but also compose syllables, read words in full, write letters and words correctly. The game has an extensive vocabulary and many levels, the passage of which will take more than one day. The lessons are very interesting. Therefore, we can conclude that the application will not get bored for a long time.
Stylish design - illustrations are made in watercolor, the application has a unique musical accompaniment, the main characters speak with children's voices.
Detailed explanations for children and hints for parents. Tasks in the game adapt to the child. If the student successfully copes with the tasks, the algorithm selects more difficult levels. This is a useful functionality that allows each child to study at a pace that is comfortable for him. All children are different. For some, it takes 1-2 months to learn to read, and in some cases it may take at least a year. An important role in learning is played not only by how the child remembers information, but also by his age. The Readings app is suitable for both a 3-year-old and a 7-year-old child.

Disadvantages:

We did not find any cons in this application. The developers have created a really useful tool for teaching preschoolers, taking into account the age characteristics of children and paying attention to details. You can find out more about how everything works here:

A short video review of "Reading" will allow you to evaluate the functionality, design and main features of the application.

An application with high-quality animation will surely appeal to little fidgets. Letters appear on the screen, and when pressed, they fold up like plasticine, transforming into funny animals. You can click on the note symbol and listen to the list of animals that begin with that letter.

For children who have already mastered the alphabet a little, the second learning option is more suitable. Six letters appear on the screen. The voice in the program says which letter to choose and the child clicks on the option that suits him. If the answer is correct, an animal with that letter appears on the screen, if not, the letter folds into a ball.

Benefits:

Three modes - learning, games and puzzles. All the knowledge gained can be consolidated in a playful way.
Interesting design - many children will like plasticine animals.
Quality soundtrack.

Disadvantages:

Although the application is intended for children from 2 to 7 years old, in our opinion, it will appeal mainly to toddlers. Children over 5 years old will be carried away for a while.

The app is best suited for young children who are just learning to read. Training is carried out with the help of elementary exercises. The main screen contains the alphabet. When you click on a letter, a picture and a word that begins with that letter appears. There is also a funny rhyme. To consolidate the knowledge gained in the application, coloring pages are provided; games "Memory", "Find the letter in the picture", "Show what begins with a letter", "Make a word".

Advantages:

large letters;
original coloring book that helps to remember the letters well;
intuitive interface.

Disadvantages:

Of the minuses of this application, we can note a small functionality. From personal experience, we can say that such an application will quickly get boring for a child. Especially if the baby is active. It can be concluded that using "Learning letters fun for children" is only at the initial stage of learning. When the child masters the alphabet, it is worth moving on to more functional programs. For inquisitive children, the application is too simple.

When should a child start learning to read?

The days when children went to school unprepared and learned to read all together in the classroom are long gone. The school curriculum is now quite complicated, so parents start preparing for school at the age of 4-5, which will reduce the load in the first months of schooling.

It is important to adhere to the "golden mean" in everything. If the neighbor's child is already reading with might and main at 5 years old, and yours does not show interest in learning, you should not sound the alarm. In some cases, it is necessary to wait a little for the child to show interest in learning.

The main signs that the child is ready to learn to read:

the child understands the words and phrases addressed to him by others;
vocabulary allows the child to communicate freely with other children and adults;
the child pronounces most of the words correctly, without gross errors.

Studying letters and reading is necessary regularly, but little by little. It should be borne in mind that due to age, it is difficult for a child to spend a lot of time in one place, so many hours of classes become a real test.

How do I choose a good reading app?

New preschool learning apps are released regularly. Only a few of them really deserve attention and are useful. Modern parents simply do not have time to monitor all the information and choose the right programs. Therefore, we have already done it for you and prepared a rating of the best applications, thanks to which a child can quickly learn to read at home.

When choosing an application, consider:

Age - there are both universal applications, calculated from 3 years old to the school itself, and designed for a specific age. The first option is more convenient, because the child starts learning in one program and, as he grows up, he does not need to study other applications. If there are several children in the family with a small difference in age, you can study together using one application!
Level of preparation - if the child is already familiar with the letters, he will be absolutely uninterested in using the application, in which classes are designed for the smallest. While the baby is uncomfortable to engage in a program designed for the age of 5 years. It is better to choose universal applications that are suitable for both those who are just learning to read, and for children who want to improve their knowledge.
Interface - should be as simple and clear as possible so that the child can independently launch the application and start classes.
Additional features - children perceive information more easily in a playful way, so it's great if the application provides coloring, various puzzles and games. The presence of built-in educational games helps to maintain interest in completing tasks and stable memorization of the information received.
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Free learn to read program

Fun & Free Online Reading Program

Free Reading Program

Weekly Reading Practice

Reading Assessments

EdTech Digest Awards Best Reading Solution!

Students and Teachers love it!

Why Quindew

Explicitly Teach Deep Reading Comprehension Skills!

Start Quindewing today!

Free Online Reading Program

Free Online Reading Program

Supporting Our Mission

Premium Quindew Add-ons

Start Quindewing today!

Meet our Family!

Roskachestvo named the safest applications for teaching children to read - RBC

Top 3 best apps for teaching children to read

When should a child start learning to read?

How do I choose a good reading app?

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