Reading a Book

To read a book on your bookshelf, click its cover image. The book opens with arrow buttons on its left and right and play controls underneath.

If you’d like to read the book by yourself, use the arrow buttons to turn its pages. If you’d like to have the book read to you, press the play button and follow along with the highlighting as the words are read aloud. Use the volume controls to the left of the play button to control the loudness of the narration.

If you need to stop reading before you finish a book, LevelUp will remember exactly where you left off and “bookmark” the page. To return to the book, find it in the “Continue Reading" row of your bookshelf and open it. You’ll see the following message:

Depending on what you want to do, click one of the following buttons:

• Continue Reading takes you to the page where you left off.
  
• Start from the Beginning takes you to the book’s first page.

All unfinished books on your shelf are bookmarked this way, so you’ll only ever need to read a book from the beginning again if you that’s what you choose.

If you want to hear a word read aloud by itself, click the word and then click Read Word in the menu that opens. You can also choose Read Sentence to have the whole sentence that contains the word read aloud, or Start Reading Here to have the rest of the text on the page read aloud:

If you’d like to zoom in on the page to see something closer, click the magnifying glass to the right of the play button, then click anywhere on the page. When you click the magnifying glass again, the book returns to its normal size.

To record yourself reading the book, press the record button. See “Recording Yourself Reading a Book” for instructions.

Use the menu that opens when you click the three lines in the upper left-hand corner of the screen to return to your bookshelf or add the book to your favorites. 

When you get to the end of the book, click the Finish Book button to collect your LevelUp Land stars! You get five stars every time you finish a book. Stars are used to buy characters and objects in LevelUp Land.

Click Continue on the next screen to take a short comprehension quiz and earn even more stars. 

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