See how the feedback received from Accelerated Reader can help champion students’ successes as they become inspired readers, exceed their goals, and grow.
Accelerated Reader: Motivating Independent Reading
Motivate, monitor, and manage students’ independent practice and support their stamina and skill growth through wide reading.
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.
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.
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.
Explore what makes Accelerated Reader effective
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.
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.
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.
Comprehensive practice
In addition to Accelerated Reader comprehension quizzes, a vast number of titles offer Vocabulary Practice and Literacy Skills quizzes as well.
Monitor reading practice
Powerful reports provide quick and efficient insight into each student’s progress, freeing you to spend more time with each student.
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
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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.
Recommended research and resources
Additional white papers, special reports, guides, & more
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.
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.
The Research Foundation for Accelerated Reader
Dozens of studies support the science behind—and prove the efficacy of—Accelerated Reader.
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
Once they realized they could do well, they became addicted to the sense of accomplishment.
Crystal Salmi, Teacher, Warrenton Grade School
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
Success stories from schools and districts like yours
Real stories from real educators
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.
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.
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.
Learn more about how Accelerated Reader can help educators create a culture of reading
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.
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.
Star Reading
Explore how Accelerated Reader integrates with Star Reading to share data across products and inform instruction.
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.
Want to learn more?
A Renaissance representative can provide you with a more detailed understanding of Accelerated Reader