Accelerated Reader: Motivating Independent Reading

Motivate, monitor, and manage students’ independent practice and support their stamina and skill growth through wide reading.

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.

Features

• **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.