Why a Digital Reading Record is Better for Schools and Parents

Nov 25, 2024

3 min read

Reading Records are a great communication tool between home and school. They are a good way to track reading but they do have some limitations - for instance, traditional paper-based reading records are frequently lost or forgotten and can be expensive to replace.

Pageticker is digital reading record and a reading-for-pleasure community app for schools, created by teachers. It creates seamless communication between parents and teachers, with an app for parents and a dashboard for teachers. Teachers can log, share and celebrate reading progress; they can discover exciting and relevant books to recommend to their students; they can gain valuable insights into their school’s reading habits.

The limitations of traditional reading records

Reading records are a key communication tool between home and school. They help track reading progress, but traditional paper-based records come with challenges:

They are frequently lost or forgotten
Replacing them can be costlyThey do not provide in-depth reading insights

This is where Pageticker, a digital reading record, transforms the experience by offering better quality data - and so much more.

As an example of the better quality data we can gather, our platform supports parents in understanding and recording reading accuracy, reading rate, expression and comprehension. We are dedicated to educating parents to support their child’s reading journey. We regularly update our blog, to make sure that we can support parents with the most up-to-date guidance.

What is Pageticker?

Pageticker is a digital reading record designed by teachers. It bridges the communication gap between parents and teachers through:

A parent app for logging and engaging with reading
A teacher dashboard for tracking progress and discovering books
Seamless communication tools to encourage reading habits

With Pageticker, teachers can:

Log, share, and celebrate reading progress
Discover and recommend exciting, relevant books
Gain valuable insights into their school’s reading habits

For parents, the app helps them actively support their child’s reading journey, ensuring a more engaging and data-driven approach to literacy.

Advanced reading insights for parents and teachers

One of Pageticker’s biggest advantages is its ability to gather high-quality reading data, allowing parents to track more than just pages read.

Parents can log:

Reading accuracy: How well their child reads words correctly
Reading rate: How fluently their child reads
Expression: Whether they read with enthusiasm and tone
Comprehension: How well they understand the text

How Pageticker helps teachers

For teachers, our dashboard will allow teachers to view the reading for their class at a glance, including identifying pupils who haven’t read recently. It will allow teachers to react to reading and comments, as well as make their own. It will allow teachers to nudge parents to record, as well as send messages to the whole class, at the click of a button.

Our book discovery capabilities will help teachers recommend exciting books to pupils which are relevant to their age, reading level and interests, supporting teachers in creating a reading-for-pleasure community in their classrooms.

The Pageticker Teacher Dashboard is designed to make reading tracking and engagement effortless. Overall, teachers can:

View class reading progress at a glance, identifying students who haven't read recently
React to reading logs and comments made by parents
Leave feedback and encourage reading habits through quick responses
Send nudges to parents to remind them to log reading
Message the entire class with reading-related updates in one click