Renaissance Accelerated Reader® is designed to save educators time by empowering them with Learnalytics® to make differentiating independent and close reading practice effortless – all while maintaining the flexibility necessary to fit within existing classroom routines. Students are engaged in reading self-selected authentic books and articles.
Short comprehension quizzes and built-in close reading practice activities, combined with automatic and educator feedback, keep students…
They go hand in hand. What I loved was that when they would read a book on MyOn, it would take then directly to the AR quiz. This helped my lower leveled students who struggle when typing. I also like that they can pick whether it reads them the book or not.
Renaissance Accelerated Reader has a greater variation of books available to all students. While MyOn has its own books that are easily accessable an testable through Renaissance Accelerated Reader. I love the fact that students can read books at home that they already have, …
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This program was set up by our district for our students to work with and I believe is a great program for students love reading.
I have not used any other products like this. I have used Accelerated Reader for about 20 years, and I have nothing else to compare it to. I have NOT used A/B Smartly, but I could not skip this question so I had to randomly select something. AR is a good product. If it …
Renaissance Accelerated Reader offers so much more than accountability. If used properly, Renaisssance Accelerated Reader provides statistics and data teachers can use to align lessons and group students. The program offers visual reports and goal setting as well as rewards. As …
I love Renaissance Accelerated Reader because it is always consistent and it tries to keep up with and turn out products that will engage students. Accelerated Reader is the best at what it does and gives me great data to help monitor my students' reading comprehension without …
I have not used any of the products listed. However, AR has been my choice of product. My school system choice this product because it interfaces well with all other reading and testing programs that have been purchased. It is an excellent product, but that is a given since it …
I love having access to Renaissance Accelerated Reader for science class. I loved the Renaissance Accelerated Math program just as much, but currently I do not have access to it through my district. All Renaissance products I have used in my 18 years in education have been …
STAR assessments work well with [Renaissance] Accelerated Reader. The STAR assessment can inform students what material they will be able to comprehend and help guide teachers when they are trying to help students find books to read. STAR assessments also help teachers focus …
We have been using Accelerated Reader for quite some years at our school district. I think it is a good program that gives students the tools to become better readers. The website is user friendly and very self explanatory. Students are able to track their progress and set …
Our teachers and students love Freckle! The students are able to interact with the platform on a student-specific pathway. The students love the pig and the interactive graphics.
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I have only used AR in my classroom during the years.
I have not personally evaluated any other programs similar to Accelerated Reader. AR was the program introduced to me when I started teaching and since I have never had any issues with it, I have never been driven to find another program with similar offerings.
I don't know another program like this. We do have many online resources that we use, but nothing like Accelerated Reader. I like that even when we use ebooks such as Capstone, we can link the book to Renaissance so that they can take the test immediately after the book ends.
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I have not used or evaluated a product similar to Accelerated Reader.
I have also used Whooo's Reading, which is free, but felt that it was extremely lacking when compared to AR. It was easier for students to type a certain amount of words in their answer to confuse the auto grader and to pass a quiz without much information in their answers. I …
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I know of no other product that is similar to Accelerated Reader.