How to track reading progress
Six weeks in, every parent asks whether a reading app is working — and from the doorway, a child reading and a child staring look identical. This film shows what StorySparkle actually measures: a clock that runs only while they read, levels against CEFR, the daily habit, and every word read.
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Six weeks in, every parent asks the same thing.
Is it working?
From the doorway, a child reading
and a child staring look identical.
So you look for a number, and get time on screen.
Which counts lunch.
Ours does not.
Our clock runs only while they read:
tapping, listening, replaying.
It stops when they do.
Top row: the collectable part.
Four counters, twelve badges to gather.
Enjoy it, then scroll.
The journey: XP per finished story, harder ones more.
A keepsake, not a score to chase.
The levels answer it.
SESL© scored, mapped to CEFR — the level
of what they finish, not a test of the child.
The habit, day by day.
Tap a green day to see what they read.
The mileage counts every word, re-reads included.
The ninth read is practice, not a stall.
None of it is guessed —
just what your child did.
Which, six weeks
in, is what you asked.
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