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What Kids Are Reading: 2025 Edition

What are the most popular books at each grade level? Can just 15 minutes of daily reading significantly impact learning outcomes? Get the answers in the world’s largest annual study of K–12 student reading habits.

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RESEARCH-PROVEN READING PRACTICE

Motivated readers, improved skills

Accelerated Reader motivates students to read more through engaging quizzes, goal setting, and personalized recommendations. As students increase their reading volume, they develop greater reading stamina, word recognition, and language comprehension skills.

Guide

Personalized goals help students stay focused on the factors that matter most for reading growth—and help you monitor their progress and provide feedback to keep learners on track.

Engage

Individual reading recommendations use students’ interests and reading levels to suggest titles—or students can self-select from over 220,000 choices.

Practice

With Accelerated Reader, students read widely to build word recognition and language comprehension skills. Reading quizzes monitor overall comprehension, while literacy skills and vocabulary quizzes connect to skill-based classroom instruction.

Grow

Detailed reports provide insights into students’ progress. Paired with Renaissance Star Reading, track students’ mastery of focus skills aligned to state-specific learning standards. See how Accelerated Reader boosts growth.

Accelerated Reader for administrators, teachers, and families

Create a culture of reading

Accelerated Reader helps create a culture of reading through engagement, choice, and celebration of reading achievement. When students feel successful as readers, they are motivated to read more, and they read more widely, which in turn supports building critical word recognition and language comprehension skills.

Reading abilities greatly impact student performance across all subject areas, and students who read more are more confident and skilled readers in all reading environments.

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Match students with the right reading materials

Personalized dashboards and reports provide insights on your students’ progress, as well as what they’re reading—giving you the ability to differentiate and personalize instruction.

Keep families in the loop

Families can access real-time information on their child’s reading progress, sign up to receive emails about quizzes, and use Renaissance Home ConnectTM to make reading a regular conversation outside of school.

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Set students up for future success

Goal setting

Create personalized goals around comprehension, engaged reading time, and students’ reading levels to keep them on the path to future success.

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Choice and motivation

Motivate students with tailored reading recommendations and endless choice. Accelerated Reader matches students with books and articles aligned to their unique interests and reading levels.

Additionally, students, parents, and educators can use Accelerated Reader Bookfinder to help find the next great read.

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Nonfiction and close-reading

Built-in nonfiction articles keep students engaged. Students can explore articles on a variety of topics to build background knowledge and sharpen their close-reading skills.

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Comprehensive practice

In addition to Accelerated Reader comprehension quizzes, a vast number of titles offer Vocabulary Practice and Literacy Skills quizzes as well.

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Monitor reading practice

Powerful reports provide quick and efficient insight into each student’s progress, freeing you to spend more time with each student.

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How does Accelerated Reader work?

How it works

1

Choose

Students have abundant reading choice through access to over 220,000 quizzes in English and Spanish and more than 600 nonfiction articles matched to students reading level and interests to ensure purposeful reading practice.

2

Read

This is the best part! Students get to read a book of their choosing. Students can read in class, at home, or out and about in the community.

3

Quiz

Once they finish a book, students take a short quiz on what they’ve read. Each quiz is written to ensure students have read the entire book.

4

Analyze

You gain instant insight into students’ quiz results. Use that data to set goals, monitor students’ continued progress, and personalize lesson plans.

See Accelerated Reader in action

See how the feedback received from Accelerated Reader can help champion students’ successes as they become inspired readers, exceed their goals, and grow.

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Accelerate literacy growth with Dynamic Reading Practice

Accelerated Reader is part of Renaissance’s Dynamic Reading Practice for Literacy along with myON and myON News. Together, they support the needs of all students, including Emergent Bilinguals and reluctant readers, by providing personalized reading experiences that adapt to each student’s level and interests. Accelerated Reader, myON, and myON News improve engagement, build vocabulary, expand background knowledge, and strengthen reading comprehension.

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Trends in Student Outcome Measures

The Role of Individualized Reading Practice

Study of 2.8 million kids finds students are nearly twice as likely to be college and career ready with Accelerated Reader.

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What Kids Are Reading

The world’s largest annual study of K–12 student reading habits shows you the most popular books at every grade level.

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The Research Foundation for Accelerated Reader

Dozens of studies support the science behind—and prove the efficacy of—Accelerated Reader.

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Approved by administrators and teachers globally

Success builds more success. Renaissance has been with us each step of the way as we work to serve students better. We want students to own their education—and we’re getting there.

Rosemary Batzel, Principal, Divine Mercy Catholic School

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Once they realized they could do well, they became addicted to the sense of accomplishment.

Crystal Salmi, Teacher, Warrenton Grade School

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Even when students meet their Accelerated Reader goals ahead of schedule, they don’t stop reading—they just kept going and going!

Kathleen Grigsby, Principal, Davis IB Elementary School

It thrilled me to know that he was falling in love with reading—you could tell by listening to his voice.

Maggie Buns, Mother of a student

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Success stories from schools and districts like yours

Real stories from real educators

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Creating a flourishing reading culture

See how Accelerated Reader and myON are helping an elementary school to increase daily reading time—both in and out of the classroom.

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Louisiana school notes two-grade improvement in school performance

In just four years, a principal has led renewed efforts to boost achievement, helping the school advance nearly two letter grades on state school performance scores.

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Certified by Digital Promise

The Research-Based Design Product Certification serves as a rigorous, reliable signal for district and school administrators, educators, and families looking for evidence of research-based education technology products that are based in research about learning.

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Resources designed to help deliver meaningful results

Get the most out of Accelerated Reader

Accelerated Reader Bookfinder

Curious what books have quizzes? Search from more than 220,000 books based on authors, topics, or titles.

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Defining ATOS

What is ATOS? How is it determined? Discover what goes into an ATOS level and how our team determines an ATOS level for each book.

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Star Reading

Explore how Accelerated Reader integrates with Star Reading to share data across products and inform instruction.

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Funding is available for Accelerated Reader

From federal and state funds to corporate grants, learn more about resources that can help with the purchase of our products and solutions.

Additional resources

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Brochure

Discover how Accelerated Reader accelerates growth for all learners

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Blog

See how we select books for new Accelerated Reader quizzes.

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