-
The Beanstack Buzz Reaches Charleston County
In 2022 Charleston County School District transitioned from Accelerated Reader to Beanstack to achieve their county-wide reading initiative of 15 million minutes.
Read now -
Building a City That Reads: Atlanta Public Schools’ RACE2Read and Beanstack
Atlanta Public Schools' focus on free-choice reading led to the RACE2Read literacy campaign. Learn how they are using Beanstack to achieve their goals.
Read now
Beanstack vs. Reading Counts!
Choosing a reading motivation and management platform is no easy task, so we’ve compiled a comparison chart to help you pick one that aligns with your reading program goals while allowing teachers to monitor students’ independent reading.
Key Features
Reading Counts!
Allows users to create, participate in, and manage reading challenges
Reading Counts!
Provides tools and best practices for rallying around community reading goals
Reading Counts!
Includes a Streaks systems to encourage readers to log every day
Reading Counts!
Facilitates school competitions among classrooms, grades, and individual students
Reading Counts!
Includes recognition and incentive tools including virtual badges, tickets, and drawings
Reading Counts!
Includes Friends and Leaderboards features that lets users share their reading log
Reading Counts!
Facilitates Bingo challenges including reading, activity, and review goals
Reading Counts!
Includes a reading fundraising system to help schools and libraries raise money
Reading Counts!
Offers teachers the ability to create custom reading challenges for their classrooms
Reading Counts!
Provides system for "verifying" students as having demonstrated reading integrity
Reading Counts!
Includes "Take A Closer Look" system for flagging unusual logging entries
Reading Counts!
Provides system for "freezing" students with unusual log entries
Reading Counts!
Includes a system for detecting and preventing counterfeit logging
Reading Counts!
Allows for daily logging limits and log limit warnings
Reading Counts!
Uses social tools including leaderboards to create transparency and community monitoring
Reading Counts!
Includes optional fill-in-the blank or multiple choice questions for some titles
Reading Counts!
Provides highly-rated mobile app with over 75,000 reviews
Reading Counts!
Scans ISBN numbers in a single step using the web and mobile apps
Reading Counts!
Include timer in the web and mobile app for tracking reading sessions
Reading Counts!
Facilitates reading list challenges that allow specific titles to be featured in a reading challenge
Reading Counts!
Offers readers the option to write book reviews
Reading Counts!
Includes tools to easily upload data for readers using paper only
Reading Counts!
Offers teachers and librarians the ability to log for entire classes or individual students to track sustained silent reading and read alouds
Reading Counts!
Includes family registration
Reading Counts!
Provides customizable data and insights dashboard
Reading Counts!
Shows trends in Lexile Level for independent reading by student, classroom, grade level, and school building
Reading Counts!
Provides custom and scheduled reports
Reading Counts!
Includes reporting, insights, and leaderboards based on readers, classrooms, and grades for teachers and librarians
Reading Counts!
Provides system for teachers to quickly scan in each book in their classroom libraries
Reading Counts!
Highlights classroom library books to students for each of their teachers
Reading Counts!
Motivates students to read books in their classroom libraries
Reading Counts!
Provides school and district level administrators insight into classroom libary connections
Reading Counts!
Integrates with Clever, ClassLink, and other single sign on and school rostering systems
Reading Counts!
Imports reading automatically from ebook platforms, including Boundless and Epic!
Reading Counts!
Includes a tandem connection feature allowing users to link individual library and school accounts
Reading Counts!
Connects to the library's catalog for book lists and suggestions
Reading Counts!
Integrates with Alexa and voice technology
Reading Counts!
Each client provided an individual client success manager
Reading Counts!
Each client site given regular quality assurance reviews
Reading Counts!
Kick-off calls and staff training opportunities
Reading Counts!
Complementary and professionally designed customizable marketing resources
Reading Counts!
Custom designed landing pages, reading challenges, and virtual badges
Reading Counts!
Access to Facebook user group with over 3,000 members
Reading Counts!
Regular Q&A sessions with school success experts
Reading Counts!
Featured webinars, school roundtables, and on-demand EDU training
Reading Counts!
Helpdesk support, customized troubleshooting, and dedicated customer support
Reading Counts!
Annual sponsored summer and winter reading challenges
Reading Counts!
Publishes and delivers original high interest nonfiction content
Reading Counts!
Provides annual reports evaluating data and trends
Reading Counts!
Offers printable reading logs that compliment virtual reading challenges
Reading Counts!