Could Reading Help Your Homeschooled Teen Get Into College?

Could Reading Help Your Homeschooled Teen Get Into College?

Could Reading Help Your Homeschooled Teen Get Into College?

I was provided with a free subscription and was compensated for my time in completing this review. All opinions are my own.

A whopping 45% of 17-year-olds read for fun just once or twice a year. While there are some homeschooled teens who also don’t enjoy reading, there are many more who are avid readers–sometimes to the exclusion of other activities that seem more noteworthy on college applications. Yet reading is by far and away the most valuable skill when it comes to college coursework.

Homeschoolers sometimes have to provide a more detailed syllabus for coursework completed on college applications than students in traditional schools.  Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to prove that your student has not only read but understood many great works of literature? It could not only support your child’s admission to college, but could be used to support applications for scholarships.

Reading Portfolio Could Help Your Child Get Into College

Reading Portfolio is a new online program that not only keeps track of books your high schooler has read, but verifies that the books have been read. Videos of your student taking quizzes on books read are used to confirm that your student isn’t cheating and are then deleted.

Student taking quiz on Reading Portfolio review

Points are accumulated for passing scores and can even be used to demonstrate exemplary reading using these designations:

Reading recognition; Reading portfolio

 

 

 

 

 

This great video explains how the program works:

Benefits Beyond College

Do you have a sneaking suspicion that there is more screen time than reading going on? You could also use Reading Portfolio to verify that your students are reading.

Some readers will be motivated to accumulate points just as though reading WERE a game. You could challenge your child to a reading competition with a prize going to the most prolific reader. If your child isn’t an avid reader, check my post of ideas for getting your kids to read more.

Reading Portfolio is an Affordable Way to Improve Your Child’s College Application

Subscriptions are just $15.95 for a year and $24.95 for ten years. You can try a sample quiz to see how it works. You can start building a reading portfolio when your child turns 13. I wish I had a list of all the books I’ve read. Don’t you?

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Reading Portfolio is making free one-year subscriptions available to 25 fortunate readers. Enter below through August 27th, 2015.

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