ReadTheory Account Types Overview

📑 Table of Contents

Teacher Account
Parent Account
Student Account
Picked the Wrong One? Here's What to Do
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Teacher Account 🏫

A teacher account is built for educators who want to manage a classroom of students. With a teacher account, you can:

Create and manage student accounts
Organize students into classrooms
Assign reading comprehension quizzes and activities
Monitor student progress in real-time
View detailed reports to support individualized learning

Parent Account 👨‍👩‍👧

A parent account lets you set up and manage a student profile for your own child, outside of a classroom setting. The underlying student experience, quizzes, points, progress tracking, works the same. The difference is who's managing the account.

A few important limits to know:

A parent account can only be linked to one student account.
Only one email address can be associated with that student account.
Parent accounts don't include the reporting or activity-assignment tools that teacher accounts have.

📌 Want more visibility into your child's progress — reports, assigned passages, standards alignment, etc.? We recommend creating a teacher account instead. Many parents use a teacher account to manage their own children, since it unlocks the same tools educators use.

👉 How to Create a Parent Account

Student Account 🎓

A student account gives learners direct access to ReadTheory's adaptive reading program. With a student account, you can:

Practice reading with quizzes that adapt to your level
Get instant feedback on your answers
Track your own progress and earn Knowledge Points over time
Join a teacher's classroom using a class code

Student accounts can be created independently (for practicing at home) or connected to a teacher's classroom for assigned activities and progress tracking.

👉 How to Create a Student Account

Picked the Wrong One? Here's What to Do:

It's a common situation; a parent signs up and accidentally creates a student account instead of a teacher account, or a teacher's account gets set up as a student account by mistake. If this happens to you, don't create a second account. Contact us at support@readtheory.org and we'll help sort out the correct account type for your existing account.