(Qlovi was shut down in early 2015)

Qlovi is a free K-12 eReading and writing platform aligned to the Common Core State Standards. Harlyn Pacheco co-founded Qlovi in the Fall of 2013 to address a “literacy crisis that disproportionately affects low income and students of color.” According to the company, only ¼ of high school graduates move on with a reading and writing proficiency necessary for success in college and beyond.

Qlovi first prompts teachers to add their class and students to the platform. Then they can search through their library of thousands of interactive and integrated digital books by genre, theme, grade level, difficulty level, or even particular standards. Teachers can choose texts that are appropriate for students of varying reading levels and select lessons that are integrated directly into certain texts. As students proceed through their reading assignments, highlighted passages will have accompanying assessments that are linked directly to certain Common Core State Standards. Teachers will receive a report of each student’s overall comprehension levels of each text, as well as a measure of their understanding of each individual standard present in each section. Teachers can then add different types of questions into future texts designed to help students in the areas that they need to improve.