Ever wished you could provide each and every learner in your class with the reading pen they need to succeed… without having to navigate up-front costs?
Now you can, with Scanning Pens’ smart leasing model: support your students for as little as 24p a day per pen!
Why choose a reading pen to support reading?
Reading pens are one of the most effective ways to support the students in your classroom who have reading challenges. Those learners may have dyslexia, or have come to learn in English from another language background—or they might just have fallen behind in reading, and need a little extra help to get back on track in terms of their literacy journey.
And reading pens are a staffroom favourite because implementation journey is as quick and as simple as scan, listen, understand. Students just move the pen across the page to get started: lightning-fast audio relays the words back to them, boosting their comprehension and their independence, and as students problem-solve themselves, it frees up educator bandwidth as well as fosters stronger reading skills.
It’s all about taking learning multi-modal, for better impact and stronger retention… as well as cutting down on the need for expensive human readers that many schools in the UK are struggling to find and retain.
With dedicated reading pen support, it means learners head into the new school year feeling ready to tackle whatever new learning the curriculum throws at them, with the confidence to be creative, and smash their target grades at the end of the school year.
And that’s what it’s all about, really.
Why are we offering reading pen leasing?
…Because we know that school budgets are tight at the moment. And we know that they may be set to get even tighter too.
As a teacher, SENCo or school leader, you’re likely to be facing a huge uptick in reading support demand due to a similarly huge increase in SEN diagnoses. The lingering effects of the pandemic are playing their part too: even now, there are still far too many learners in far too many classrooms whose literacy skills aren’t up to their age level standard.
When reading needs are more prevalent, reading support requests increase— and that leaves you to navigate the finances of those support decisions.
Sometimes, it just doesn’t add up. That's why we're here to help with the maths, as well as the words this time.
Leasing reading pens means that instead of paying for tech up-front, you can source reading support for around 24p a day per pen, or £7.30 a month.
It’s a simple idea. Leasing with Scanning Pens allows schools, colleges and other education settings to spread the cost of each and every reading pen across a term or a school year, making it easier than ever to get your students the support they need without breaking the bank. It also means that your education setting can take better advantage of the Government’s £2 billion boost to early education funding and £740 million investment in SEND places.
It’s a chance to maximise the support you can offer students and take charge of budgets that even with the new investment, might feel a little like they’re spiralling out of control as the cost of learning goes up.
But there are other benefits to a leasing model, too
Leasing really speeds up the support process.
When you lease a reading pen package, it means you can intervene early and get support into readers’ hands sometimes up to months earlier than if you’re waiting on funding allocations—and we all know that early intervention is key when it comes to reading outcomes.
And most important of all? It’s really, really easy. We know that a lot of technology subscription models and tech loans are difficult to manage and require a lot of bandwidth. We wanted ours to be something different. Something that saves educators time, as well as money, and hits the ground running with a reading pen in every hand that needs one.
Because your learners don’t have all the time in the world: whether they’re studying for GCSEs and A-Levels, developing skills for their SATs or even just getting to grips with the foundations of literacy, the clock is ticking down to year transitions and end-of-stage exams, and the earlier we can intervene with support that really works, the better their outcomes will be.
Who can lease reading pens from Scanning Pens?
Are you a…
🧠 School?
🧠 College or Sixth Form?
🧠 University?
🧠 Other type of education setting?
And are you…
🧠 In the UK?
Incredible news! If you answered yes to both of those questions, you’re able to lease reading pens from Scanning Pens. Together, we can get your learners reading with confidence in no time, all thanks to powerful reading pens like C-Pen Reader 2, JCQ-approved exam models like C-Pen Exam Reader 2, and our flagship reading rescue device, C-Pen Reader 3!
What kind of reading pen can I lease from Scanning Pens?
Scanning Pens offers one of the UK’s largest ranges of reading pens, curated for you by education experts and literacy specialists. We don’t recommend models we don’t trust, and that don’t have proven positive impact on student literacy outcomes because we believe that students deserve better than tech they can’t depend on.
When it comes to UK educators, our bestselling reading pens are designed by C-Pen, creators of the original reading pen. Over the past three decades, they’ve truly put in the work to get students reading with confidence.
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🔵 C-Pen Reader 2
A WiFi-free reading pen with built-in dictionaries and practice modes. Approved for use in SATs exams when exam-locked by the STA. Save what you scan, and record voice memos too: it’s a complete, customisable support for readers at all ages and stages. ►
🔵 C-Pen Exam Reader 2
A WiFi-free, zero-storage reading pen approved for use in GCSE and A-Level exams by JCQ, as well as in others such as Common Entrance (CE) exams. You can’t save what you scan with this one— but schools can save thousands every exam season by cutting down on the cost of human reading support. ►
🔵 C-Pen Reader 3
C-Pen Reader 3 is the latest innovation in reading pen technology. With a wealth of new features to enhance accessibility and support users as they practice, its new language module and super-sleek touchscreen design make it easier than ever to read with confidence, wherever your starting point. ►
🔵 C-Pen Lingo 3
The world at your fingertips for any language-learner! Boost learner confidence in Modern Foreign Language (MFL) classes as they scan to translate instantly in 5 built-in languages, and connect online to access 40+ more! ►
🔵 C-Pen Secure Reader 2
A reading pen that takes data privacy seriously— but not at the expense of reading support. Designed for secure settings or anywhere that needs to keep information locked up tight. ►
Here’s how it all works
Because we’re good like that, we’ve decided to keep it as simple as possible. We know that you don’t have all the time in the world: nobody who works in education gets the luxury of a lot of downtime, and we understand that you need guaranteed results, proven solutions, and an acquisition process that doesn’t take all term.
So just head over to our Reading Pen Leasing Hub and let our handy calculator do the rest! There, you can explore the reading pens we offer on our new leasing scheme, take a look at our quarterly payment schedule options, and kickstart the process by filling in the form at the bottom of the page. There’s no lengthy consultation process: one of our reading pen experts will get back in touch with you using the contact details you’ve provided to talk numbers and progress your request, and then you’re ready to kickstart a reading pen revolution in your classroom with minimum stress and fuss.
➡️ Need a little extra advice on which reading pen is right for your students? Take our super-handy (and super-quick) Reading Pen Guide Quiz to find out which model is perfect for the classroom or the exam hall where you are!
Need a little more information?
We get it—in the age of information overload, when the stakes are high, sometimes you just want to talk to a human being right away. Reading futures aren’t something that you can trust to time, or gamble on when budgets are at stake.
That’s why our team of reading pen experts is on-hand five days a week, every week in term time, ready to help you work out which reading pen and purchase options are the right ones for you.
There’s never been a better time to take back control of your budget and make sure it’s working as hard as you do for the learners in your care. Drop us a line today, and find out about how leasing reading pens from Scanning Pens might just be a game-changer in your education setting!