Record reading time and track progress

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1 Record reading time and track progress To Login as a Student: Login / Logoff 1. Using a PC connected to the internet, navigate to 2. Click on the Record Your Reading! button on the homepage 3. Enter user ID 4. Enter 4 digit PIN number 5. Press Login. This will log you in and take you to the student Reading Summary page. To Logoff or Change User: 1. Click on Logoff (upper right).

2 Record Your Reading Time Once Logged in, click on the Enter Time Button. This will take you to the Time Entry page. 1. Step 1 Enter your Book (or Skip) a. Next type in the title or author of the book you want to record and click the Search Button to search for your book. Use just the first few words (in correct order) from the title, type in the title exactly as it appears on the book, or just use the Author s last name for best results. Book results will be displayed below. b. If you don t want to enter your book read, but still want to record reading time, click the Skip button. You will now be able to enter your time at the bottom (Step 3). 2. Step 2 Select Your Book a. Your Book is Listed When your selection appears; click on the correct title. Scroll through the results if needed.

3 b. Your Book is Not Listed If you did not find the book you were searching for using the words entered, you should try again using different words or spellings. Try just the first few words of the title (in exact order). Or if too many results, type in the entire title exactly as it appears on the book. c. If you still can't find your book in the search, you can add this book title to your book list by clicking Add This Book. i. Add This Book If you wish to record the book you read and you can t find it in the search results, you can still enter the title. Click Add This Book. Type in the information of your book and click Add as typed or search again. Adding a book allows a student to keep a record of the books they have read. We recommend this option. 3. Step 3 Enter Time you read this book Minute School A Minute School records the number of minutes each day that a student reads. Select the day(s) you read by clicking in the grey box below the date you read. When the Box is highlighted type in the number of minutes you read.

4 note It s important for students to enter their minutes for each day rather than enter in the total minutes for the week on one day. This affects their reading summary page. Save & New Book Select Save & New Book to record another book read. Repeat the steps above to enter in reading time. Save & Close Select Save and Close if you are done recording reading time. Record Past Reading When enter reading time, the time entry page will default to the current week. To record past week s reading click on the arrows to scroll to any of the previous three weeks. Select the days or minutes read and proceed to save reading. Reading Summary The Reading Summary page allows the parent and student to see their current reading progress. 1. Days/Minutes Read This Year Shows the current total number of days or minutes (depending on if you are a day school or minute school ) read during the entire school year. 2. Current Streak The current number of days the student has consecutively read. 3. Longest Streak The longest period of time that the student has consecutively read without missing a day.

5 4. Monthly Calendar This calendar shows what days the student read. The dates with the star mark the days read. Any week the student read five days or more will be highlighted. A. Scroll from Month to Month to select which month you would like to view click on the arrows above the calendar. The Left arrow takes you to the previous month and the right arrow takes you to the next month. This allows you to view past reading minutes. 5. Print this page by clicking on the print button in the upper right.

6 My Books This page is a list of all the books read by the student and the date last read. To enter more reading time for a book, just click on the book and you ll be taken to the time entry page. Parent Report This page allows parents to view the current reading progress of their students. a. Reading Summary 1. Average Number of Days Read Per Week *for accuracy in this number, students from minute schools must enter in their time correctly by entering their minutes per day rather than entering all of their minutes on one day.

7 2. Number of Days Read in the Last 30 Days *for accuracy in this number, students from minute schools must enter in their time correctly by entering their minutes per day rather than entering all of their minutes on one day. 3. Total Days/Minutes Read This School Year This is the total time read for the current school year. This will be in days if you are a day school or minutes if you are a minute school. b. Book Summary 4. Read This Week Total number of books read in the current week. 5. Read This Year Total number of books read in the school year. 6. Average Book Lexile lexile score is a scientific approach to reading and text measurement. For more information on lexile score click on the lexile score for any book below. This link will take you to This website explains how lexile scores are measured and the average lexile scores for each grade. c. Books Read Shows all books read and reading details for each book. d. Print Parent Summary To print parent summary click on the print icon on the top right corner of the page. Troubleshooting i. Lost Student Registration Code Contact teacher if the student has not registered yet. ii. Forgot Username Contact student s teacher. The teacher can look up your auto assigned user ID. iii. Forgot PIN number Contact Teacher. The Student s teacher can create a new 4 digit PIN number for the Student. iv. Contact My School To find your school contact information click on the Parents tab on the RTSutah.com homepage. Then click on Contact My Child s School. A list of all participating RTS schools with address and phone number will appear. You can sort or scroll through the list to find your student s school.