What Kids Are Reading
- Grade
- Gender
- ATOS LevelATOS LEVEL is an estimate of the challenge
level of a text reported on a grade-level scale.
- Interest LevelInterest level refers to the sophistication/maturity of a text’s content, ideas, and themes:
LG (lower grades, K–3), MG (middle grades, 4–8), MG+ (middle grades plus, 6 and up), and UG
(upper grades, 9–12). - State
- Type
- Language
- Keyword
level of a text reported on a grade-level scale.
LG (lower grades, K–3), MG (middle grades, 4–8), MG+ (middle grades plus, 6 and up), and UG
(upper grades, 9–12).
During the 2015–2016 school year, 9.9 million K12 students from 30,863 US schools read over 346 million books and nonfiction articles, per data captured by Renaissance Accelerated Reader 360®. Search for the books kids read most below.
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What the data show.
What the data show.
Meeting independent reading practice goals spells success in reading and achievement
Source: Renaissance Accelerated Reader 360® and Star Reading®, 2015–2016.
Modern novels present less formal vocabulary than past works
Note: To illustrate the transformation of prose over time, this word cloud displays top 25 most frequently appearing unique words in each of three dystopian novels, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (published 1932, ATOS 7.5, UG interest level), 1984 by George Orwell (published 1949, ATOS 8.9, UG interest level), and Divergent by Veronica Roth (published 2011, ATOS 4.8, UG interest level).
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