Building a Digital Library: Tips and Tricks for Maximizing Your BookSmart Experience
Learn how to make the most of Worldreader’s reading app that lets you discover stories anytime, anywhere, on any device.
With BookSmart, you and your child have access to thousands of free digital books to get them reading. But BookSmart is much more – the reading experience is designed to build life-long skills and a love of learning too. That’s why we want to share with you all the tips, tricks, and tools BookSmart offers to transform the way you and your child read!
In this blog, you’ll learn about:
- Digital Design and Details
- BookSmart Profiles for Everyone
- Read Together Online
- Fun Learning Activities with Books
- Tracking Progress on BookSmart
- Discovering New BookSmart Reads
- Organizing Your Digital Library
- Customizing BookSmart
- Parent Tips for BookSmart
Learn how to make the most of the reading app that lets you discover stories anytime, anywhere, on any device and give your child a more fun reading experience.
Digital Design and Details
Getting children excited about learning takes not only great stories but charming design. BookSmart captures readers’ attention with beautiful illustrations and colors that spark imagination during reading time.
Our design is not only playful and easy to follow, but makes sure that children start reading and stay reading.
BookSmart Profiles for Everyone
An account with BookSmart lets parents and caregivers create a more customized experience. Together with your child, you can set goals and track progress.
To create a profile:
- Enter your child’s name
- Choose an avatar
- Give your child’s age range
- List your child’s gender (girl, boy, or prefer not to say)
- Set up a weekly reading goal for your child
After signing in, you can create multiple profiles for your children. Set reading goals and track progress for each child, whether you’re reading individually or as a group.
Read Together Online
Once creating a profile for your children, caregivers will be asked who’s reading today. Selecting a profile allows BookSmart to track the reading progress of each child and reward them with points!
Choosing to Read Together allows a group to read together while still tracking reading progress for each child.
Fun Learning Activities with Books
BookSmart offers a ton of reading activities for you to spark wonder and creativity in your young reader. Customized for individual stories, these exciting and helpful ideas can be found at the bottom of the page when you first click on a book. They include rhyming games, quizzes, and more. We also have our Reading Buddy to help out!
Readers will collect points for completing tips, activities, and books that will be associated with their profile. These points encourage families to play and challenge each other while reading. Readers also collect individual points when they Read Together. These activities and challenges support the skills and benefits children get from reading, boosting the experience.
Tracking Progress on BookSmart
You can also check their progress when your child completes books and activities. Each child’s progress will be connected with their own profile. BookSmart can even help you set weekly reading goals for each child!
Discovering New BookSmart Reads
There are a couple great ways to find your new favorite books on BookSmart.
You can:
- Search by title
- Search by keyword
- Check out featured collections on the Home page, including new, popular, and curated books
We also publish themed booklists for young readers. You can stay up-to-date on our latest booklists by joining our newsletter, following us on social media, or regularly checking out our blog!
Organizing Your Digital Library
In your BookSmart library, you’re able to see your in-progress books and your favorite stories. This helps you and your child keep track of what you’re reading, the books you want to check out in the future, and the ones that you’ll keep coming back to again and again.
Customizing BookSmart
Ensuring that BookSmart is accessible and personalized for you and your kid is easy too. You can select your language and age group for your child. It’s also possible to change the book font, font size, line spacing, and contrast to make your reading experience as friendly as possible.
Parent Tips for BookSmart
Want to learn more tips and tricks for using BookSmart? Check out home reading tips from teachers using BookSmart.
