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Reading Practice
Renaissance Learning
Accelerated Reader helps teachers access data-based insights into student reading practice, manage personalized goal setting, and connect to a worldwide community of support.
How it works: Teachers set personalized reading goals for each student, using key factors for success: quantity (time spent reading), quality (reading comprehension), and difficulty (text complexity). Students individually select books to read, taking an Accelerated Reader comprehension quiz after finishing each one. Immediate feedback is shared with the student and teacher after each quiz, including comprehension level and number of words read.
With quizzes for 225,000 books and new quizzes constantly added, Accelerated Reader offers students vast reading options. Its Discovery Bookshelf provides personalized reading suggestions, and any book with a quiz can be found at www.arbookfind.com.
Explaining Accelerated Reader in 2 minutes
Hidden Treasures of Accelerated Reader, 40 minutes
From recognizing students’ achievements to students discovering new interests, Accelerated Reader helps create a culture of reading through choice.
Students who read more perform better in all their academic coursework. Help all your teachers make up for lost instructional time by helping students learn to love reading. This isn’t high dosage tutoring, but its impact may be even greater.
The concept behind Accelerated Reader is simple: Students read what they love and take a short quiz to check thier understanding.
Guide: These quizzes give you insights which you can use to guide greater grow by setting the appropriate goals. Engage: Inspire independent reading with over 220,000 quizzes for titles in English and Spanish. Accelerated reader makes recommendations for students based on their history, level, and books popularity. As new titles are released, we work quickly to make sure that quizzes are ready too. Keeping students motivated with books and excit them. Practice: with Acccelerated reader, you ensure that practice can happen anytime, anywhere. Students can quiz in class and at home and receive instant feedback. Grow: Celebrate students' growth. Your detailed reports provide insight you need to create goals, and personalize lesson plans, and celebrate even more progress.
Accelerated Reader Bookfinder (www.arbookfind.com)
A web-based search tool that was created for parents, guardians, students, teachers, and librarians to search for appropriate Accelerated Reader books.
Read this blog on the making of the Accelerated Reader Quizzes https://www.renaissance.com/2020/09/03/blog-the-making-of-an-accelerated-reader-quiz/
Ren-U: ZPDs for Emergent Readers from Renaissance UK on Vimeo.
What Kids Are Reading is the world’s largest annual study of K–12 student reading habits, published by Renaissance Learning. The 2023 edition lists the most popular books at every grade level—and shows you new & noteworthy titles, popular Spanish titles, and much more.
Celebrating 15 years of What Kids Are Reading
Since 2008, What Kids Are Reading has been a go-to resource for teachers, librarians, families, and students themselves. Using data from Renaissance’s Accelerated Reader program and myON digital platform, the report lists the books students are reading the most—along with new and noteworthy titles, popular Spanish titles, and much more.
With this edition, we celebrate the 15th anniversary of What Kids Are Reading, with the same goal we have every year: providing inspiration to kids searching for that next great read.
Download the 2023 report https://www.renaissance.com/resources/wkar/
See quick guides below:
MARC Records Report
When you import MARC records from your library system, Accelerated Reader Bookguide looks for matching books. When matching books are found, the software marks them as books that you own. https://arhelp.renaissance.com/hc/en-us/articles/12870341240859-MARC-Records-Report
Printing Book Labels
You can print labels for the new books (or all of the books) listed in imported MARC records from your library's circulation system.https://arhelp.renaissance.com/hc/en-us/articles/12870622187931-Printing-Book-Labels
Help your students get the most out of their reading practice with these two powerful literacy solutions.Check the video below.
Visit the help page https://arhelp.renaissance.com/hc/en-us
Watch these 30 minutes webinars: please choose How to webinars and Accelerated Reader under product type fillterhttps://www.renaissance.com/resources/webinars/
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