100 Book Challenge® en Español is a proven-effective program for building literacy skills of students in bilingual and dual language programs. Created by bilingual educators for bilingual educators, 100 Book Challenge en Español provides every student in your school access to the right books and to results-based instruction.
Students read 30 minutes in school and 30 minutes at home. Quantity practice targets are set, monitored, and rewarded, ensuring every student adopts the independent reading routines of academically successful students.
Using national standards for reading proficiency, both books and students are leveled based on what readers need to know and be able to do at each of the five developmental stages of reading acquisition, as outlined by No Child Left Behind. Learn more about our leveling system.
100 Book Challenge aligns all of your existing reading materials and assessment tools using one simple color-coded leveling platform, keyed to Common Core Standards, that students, teachers, and parents can understand and use to ensure every student is making expected progress towards proficiency.
As if they had stopped at the book store on the way home from school every day with $15–$50 to spend, each student arrives home every afternoon with 1 or 2 or 3 or more, trade books, hot off the press, that are part of a system designed for their achievement. The standards-based book sizing system and take home Skills Cards keep parents informed and participating in their children’s success.
Discover the richness and diversity of the Spanish language and Spanish-speaking cultures with our materials and programs. Learn more »
The ENIL provides a comprehensive formative assessment framework for reading, writing and thinking in Spanish built on the Common Core State Standards. Learn more »
Have questions about 100 Book Challenge? Read our FAQ.
for 30 students, 5 classroom minimum
The Spanish Teacher Resource Kit provides teachers with the tools they will need to get started with 100 Book Challenge®.

The Teacher Handbook is a vital and comprehensive resource for any teacher using 100 Book Challenge. The handbook provides blackline masters, instructions for implementation of every aspect of the program, tips for addressing common concerns, detailed descriptions of the book leveling system, and materials to encourage parent participation. Spanish translations of many of the materials for students and parents are also included.

The Conference Notebook is the heart of the 100 Book Challenge standards-based formative assessment system. The teacher maintains a standards-based assessment/coaching guide appropriate to that student’s current level of reading proficiency. Teachers learn to assess, diagnose, and instruct each student using a standards-based formative assessment framework while the student reads books he or she has chosen and wants to read.
Student progress is monitored, coached, and documented as they increase their mastery of the reading standards required by state testing. All instruction is differentiated to match individual student needs and interests. Teachers learn to be diagnosticians, expert coaches, and reading friends to their students. The Conference Notebook supports both student and teacher learning through daily classroom practice.

American Reading Company’s ENIL provides core national standards for reading proficiency, grades PreK–8. The ENIL allows educators to determine a student’s current level of reading proficiency in Spanish, diagnose areas of strength and weakness, formulate an Action Plan for next steps, and track progress on a daily basis using books the students has chosen to read.
Students need to know where they stand in relation to grade-level expectations. The ENIL will help teachers show students where they are, where they should be, and what skills and behaviors lie in between. Through regular conferences, teachers and students outline and track a course of correction, acceleration, or maintenance for each student and his or her family.

Each 15 minutes of reading practice counts as one Step. Students are expected to read for 11 Steps a week, for a minimum of 400 Steps (100 hours) per year. Teachers, administrators, and office staff, wear the weekly target number of Reading Steps around their necks. This simple gesture makes it clear that every student in the school is expected to do enough reading practice every day to get good at it. It is soon very clear which students in the school are not getting enough reading practice in time to do something about it.

Have the entire range of 100 Book Challenge Skill Cards at your fingertips! This set includes all 100 Book Challenge Skill Cards making it easy to locate the skills necessary at any reading level. The set is laminated and collated onto a ring for quick reference.

Teachers can keep track of students’ reading milestones. This 39" × 27" colorful glossy poster has spaces for the teacher to write in the students’ names and the dates on which they reached reading milestones—from 100–600 Steps.

ARC’s standards-based color leveling system organizes all of your leveling tools into one simple standards-based gradient that students, teachers, and parents can understand and use. The leveling poster is a handy reference defining the text characteristics at every color level and providing the correlation to other popular leveling programs.


100 Book Challenge Reading Folders keep your students organized for Independent Reading. Everything they need for reading practice travels with them throughout the day and goes home each night. Students start with the basic Blue folder. As each reader completes 100 Steps of reading, he or she is awarded a new 100-Step Red folder. Students who have not completed the requisite amount of reading practice continue with the aging Blue folders. Teachers and volunteers can see at a glance who needs extra reading practice time. The color folders provide a Karate Belt system for monitoring and rewarding student effort.
100 Book Challenge Smart Start modules include folders to take 30 students to 100, 200, 300, and 400 Steps. Additional incentive folders up to 1,000 Steps are available à la carte.

Milestone Awards are presented to students by the school principal in recognition of effort-based achievements in reading. Each gold medal has the 100 Book Challenge logo on one side and the reading milestone on the other. Colorful ribbons represent which milestone the reader has reached.




Rewards for Readers Who Achieve
Research shows that extrinsic rewards help students sustain behavior that is initially challenging but with experience becomes intrinsically rewarding. Your avid readers don’t need the prizes, but students not used to reading at home every night on their own do. The Smart Start Module includes a package of small incentives to get all of your readers started on lots of reading every day.

Cool Bags for Smart Kids
Students in grades PreK–5 use these durable book bags to transport all their 100 Book Challenge materials to and from school. The elastic strap will allow the bags to hang over the backs of most classroom chairs. Teachers can easily check to be sure every child goes home with this reading practice kit every night. Parents and younger siblings look forward to the unpacking of this special bag every afternoon, full of new books to read.

SchoolPace is a web-based student achievement dashboard that allows educators to monitor growth and performance in real-time. With SchoolPace, you’ll have out-of-the-box access to reports including:

FREE Professional Development with the purchase of five or more classroom modules (or webinar with 4 modules or fewer.)

