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What is Renaissance Accelerated Reader?
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…
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What is Renaissance Accelerated Reader?
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 accountable for their learning. Dashboards and reporting provide users with the insights necessary to identify quickly which students need more support, which skills each student is ready to learn, and which resources will cultivate proven growth.
According to the vendor, key benefits include:
- Students are nearly twice as likely to be college and career ready with they practice with Renaissance Accelerated Reader.
- A strong research base of 178 scientific studies and review backs Renaissance Accelerated Reader, which ensures that you have scientifically sound practice and reliable data for instructional decisions.
- The Council of Administrators of Special Education endorses Renaissance Accelerated Reader for improving outcomes for students with disabilities.
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Renaissance Accelerated Reader Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | Mobile Web |
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November 16, 2023
AR Works!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
My school uses Renaissance Accelerated Reader 360 to help students learn to and love to read. It is perfect for providing a touch of accountability for students as they set and meet their own reading goals. The students love it and the teachers do as well. All in all, it is a perfect compliment to our independent reading program.
- Assesses basic book comprehension.
- Allows for quick data access.
- Allows students to set goals.
- None
April 04, 2023
Accelerated Reader Rocks!
My system uses Accelerated Reader to encourage students to read for understanding. We use it to see what they are reading and if they are comprehending the text. This helps me to adjust their instruction to fit their unique needs and to know what their interests are. I also use it to create a classroom competition to further engage students.
- documents what students are reading
- gives data to show how students are progressing
- encourages reading
- show students growth and interest
- relates to what I am teaching in class
- It is wonderful! If i have to say anything it would be, I would like for more titles to be added.
March 14, 2023
Accelerated Reader in Kindergarten
I have been using Accelerated Reader for many years. I have been there to watch/participate as the platform has changed over the year. It just keeps getting better and better. I teacher kindergarten and I love how this program encourages daily reading. My young students love to read and go to the library "by themselves" to get new books. We cheer for each child as they meet goals, may 100's on quizzes and earn new badges on the platform. I love the reports that are available to look at student data and growth. Very user friendly. I love this product.
- Reports and Data
- Daily Reading goals
- Records students progress
- Continue improving and updating platform
- Whole group testing for young readers
- Make Quiz previews easier to find
- More predictable texts available for young readers
January 31, 2023
Ren Place in the Classroom
I use AR with my students to discover their reading levels and track both their comprehension and a reading activity. The problems are motivating students to read at home. I supplement the program with incentive prizes that I purchase. The addition of the goal setting and the moving rocket has really added to my students' excitement. I like how students can track their progress through the rocket and completed work. I wish that my/on better paired with AR so my non-readers could have access to books in their AR level. Both the STAR and Early Literacy tests do not address the leveling of students significantly below grade level.
- STAR tests in accurate in leveling students.
- The moving rocket for goals motivates students.
- The leveling of books is helpful.
- The webpage with the five kinds of assessment was so confusing for my students. Four of the boxes were blue and one was orange. You recently added a colored tip, which is somewhat helpful. I wish the graphics were more unique and engaging.
- Work on the usability of my/on and better pairing it with AR
- Generate AR tests more quickly when new books come out.
January 25, 2023
Reading Success with Renaissance Accelerated Reader!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Renaissance Accelerated Reader is used in our district to help ensure that readers are not only reading materials that are appropriate and somewhat challenging for them, but it is also used to check comprehension skills. Accelerated Reader is used in our school as a tool to encourage students to read and meet goals set by the teacher and/or the Accelerated Reader diagnosis. I personally like to have a conference with each student and have each set his/her goal at either what the program suggests or higher if I've seen that he/she is capable of a higher point goal. I have found the tool to be very useful in assigning grade-level appropriate reading materials for my students and for holding students accountable for comprehending what they are reading. My data shows that my students are making between one and two full years' growth in reading already this year. That is due in part to students having books in their hands and Accelerated Reader!
- offers tests over a wide variety of children's books
- encourages careful reading
- helps assign a reading level range for students to be most successful
- reports are easy for students to understand
- program is easy to use
April 22, 2022
Much More Than Accountability
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
My school corporation uses Renaissance Accelerated Reader to ensure students' independent reading. It is used by our junior/senior high school in all of the English departments. Renaissance Accelerated Reader allows us to monitor independent reading and through so doing we are able to monitor improvement in reading scores. I have seen great growth in our student scores through the use of this product.
- Support
- Communication
- Achievement
- More fun graphics geared toward high school
- Data integration with other products
- Incentive pairing.
April 19, 2022
Middle School Teacher Loves AR
I use Renaissance Accelerated Reader in our school to help monitor students' successes, strengths, and weaknesses in reading. Students take tests after reading their books and it assesses if they comprehend what they are reading. It also has many Vocabulary Activities attached to each of the books they read to help them with their vocabulary, too. We have no problems with Renaissance Accelerated Reader.
- Assesses Comprehension
- Creates Data Reports to help monitor students
- Has great Vocabulary Quizzes that complement the books they read.
- Training for how the reports have changed over the past several years.
Accelerated Reader is being used county-wide in grades K-8. Accelerated Reader gives us a powerful tool to assess students' levels in reading using STAR tests, tests to check students' comprehension, and reports to track progress. Accelerated Reader helps motivate students to read every day and achieve their individual reading goals.
- Accelerated Reader does a good job of making the use of STAR results to easily set AR goals for students.
- AR goals are easy to see and keep track of each student's progress towards their goals.
- AR could use a face lift for viewing reports by making the font easier to read.
- I think AR could increase their student engagement by having a screen that recognized students for "streaks" of passing tests, making 100% on tests, etc.
Our District uses Renaissance Accelerated Reader to encourage and promote reading with our students. We want our students to be reading a book of their choice for at least 15 minutes or more every day.
- The game like scoring provides immediate feedback in a positive way.
- I personally love the words read in the report. I use it to encourage students to continue reading to see how many words they can read.
- The goal setting feature is easy to use.
- I do not have improvement needs at this time.
March 11, 2022
AR makes reading fun!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I use this product at our school with all students. It addresses problems of motivating, monitoring, and managing student independent reading. the program quizzes kids when they have read books and assigns points to their account. Teachers can track student efforts and progress. This is vital for effectively intervening where needed.
- Motivates
- Manages
- Monitors
- Articles have glitches
- Not all quizzes have voice
- Would like to see certifications beyond
- The classic level
March 09, 2022
Renaissance Accelerated Reader Review
Renaissance Accelerated Reader (AR) is being used school-wide, however, multiple teachers do not use it. This is because there was no training on it, therefore teachers are a little cloudy on how to set it up along with how to set goals for their students. The problems AR addresses is the lack of reading on our campus.
- It gives different level DOK questions to the students
- AR allows students to track their points to their goal and students can see a percentage of what they have not completed.
- There is a wide range of books on AR.
- Makes it easier for teachers to reset the quizzes. It was a mission to find it, and then I had to email the help desk. Our wifi is not very strong so it will freeze the computers sometimes, and that ends the quiz.
- It should be easier to set goals for the students all at once.
January 18, 2022
Renaissance Accelerated Reader Review
We use it in the classroom and I use it in the library and computer lab.
- I like the vocabulary tests.
- I like the read-to option.
- I wish the test automatically went to the vocabulary tests after the quiz questions.
- I wish I could set the read-to option automatically for my SPED students.
December 10, 2021
Points Chasers
I facilitate the program. Students have started chasing points instead of reading for pleasure. They skim the book to get the answers.
- Frequently add new tests.
- Allow suggestions of books.
- Good visual for goals for students.
- New report settings are hard to understand.
- Allow teacher to set a timer per question.
- It is slower now when pulling up latest quizzes.
October 15, 2021
AR Book Success!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
The [Accelerated Reader] program through Renaissance is wonderful. It allows me to track the books my students are reading, and allows them to "show what they know". We track [the] number of words read, and I am so thrilled that each year I have had students reach the Million Word Club. Students like that they can access AR at any time and complete their assessments.
- Ease of use
- Number of books tests available
- Continue adding book questions
September 27, 2021
Renaissance Accelerated Reader
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Renaissance Accelerated Reader provides staff the diagnostic information necessary to monitor student independent reading and create a culture of readers in our school learning community. Students engage with Accelerated Reader to set goals and monitor their progress with the support of their teachers through reading conferences. The library of Accelerated Reader assessments provides a large range of student choice and ownership in reading.
- Independent Reading Assessment
- Goal Setting
- Parent Communication
- Teacher Tools
- Student Engagement
- Student certifications
- Parent engagement
- Teacher communication
June 20, 2021
Education's BFF: Renaissance Accelerated Reader
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
My school system has continuously used Accelerated Reader (AR) to initially assess and monitor reading practice and progress. It is mainly used in grades K-5 presently and is dependent on individual classroom teachers. It is purchased for the entire school system. Teachers are encouraged to have data to assess students. AR helps teachers to have a well-researched computerized system to analyze current reading comprehension of materials chosen by the student. This provides standardized current data that can be shared with other support personnel (reading specialists, curriculum coordinators, media specialists).
- Large selection of tests. This does not limit the students' choices of reading materials.
- Computer assistance with setting goals for individual student/classroom.
- Parent portal eases the communication process to parents.
- Increase ways to improve reading comprehension for grades 6-12.
- More read-to tests to support differentiated learning.
- More training sessions for free for new and experienced users.
Renaissance Accelerated Reader is used across our district as a way to access students' reading comprehension. I use it in conjunction with my science instruction. I choose nonfiction books that have a Renaissance Accelerated Reader quiz. My students enjoy seeing success with their quizzes while learning science content. This is a great way for me to see if they are understanding what they are reading as well as science content.
- Keep records of scores
- Read books on a virtual bookshelf
- Great teacher reports
- Choose reports per book from a class
- Better report dashboard for teachers
- Notifications when students reach their goals
April 16, 2021
Accelerated Reader
[Renaissance] Accelerated Reader was used across the middle school as a method to track student reading, comprehension, and progress. It was a great tool to get kids reading and create a "team atmosphere" between students to try and rack up the most AR points. [Renaissance] Accelerated Reader has SO many books included that our kids love to read and is always adding more to their list.
- Basic Comprehension Questions
- Questions which could only be answered if a book was read
- Tracks student progress
- Tracks reading levels
- Open ended questions
- Adding new books faster
- More books at the adult level (higher readers)
April 05, 2021
Thoughts on Accelerated Reader
At our school district, we use Accelerated Reader to support our students' reading goals. Accelerated Reader makes students accountable for their own reading/comprehension progress. It is user friendly and the students already know exactly how to use it. In our classroom, we can do "read-alouds" or students can read independently and then they can access Accelerated Reader to take quizzes based on our readings.
- User friendly.
- Easy to navigate.
- Reliable website.
- The student version is user friendly, but the updated teacher version was a little hard to navigate at first.
- It sometimes takes a while to update after a student has taken a quiz.
- When students use their passwords it can be very picky as to how they need to type it. Now that we use Clever that doesn't seem to be an issue anymore.
December 22, 2020
Accelerated User for Remote Learning!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use [Renaissance] Accelerated Reader building wide. We set goals for students, They receive a grade based on the percentage of the goal that they make.
- Cover Reading Comprehension
- Vast collection of Books to test on.
- Management
- Reports
- Parent access and communication
September 20, 2020
Renaissance Accelerated Reader
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Accelerated Reader is used throughout the district as a tool to keep students engaged while independently reading. By tracking and questioning students on their independent reading books, it allows teachers to focus on individually conferencing with students. They use the data gathered by Accelerated Reader to help focus their conversations with students and keep track of the progress they make throughout the school year.
- Ensure that students have read and understand the books they choose to read.
- Keep track of what books students have read.
- Engages students to choose books of increasing difficulty.
- Simpler user Interface for teachers.
- Simpler user interface for admins.
- It would be nice to have a suggested reading list for students based on the titles that they have already read.
July 24, 2020
Renaissance Accelerated Reader Review
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Renaissance Accelerated Reader is an excellent resource used by Imagine Schools to support student comprehension. This valuable tool provides a platform for teachers to set goals with students, conferencing on students' reading habits, and celebrate students' success. By using Accelerated Reader teachers are able to personalize the students pathway to ensure everyone is reaching their maximum potential.
- Data
- Reports
- Student Specific Learning Progressions
- Update the platform with avatars or exciting graphics for students
June 13, 2020
Motivated to Read with Accelerated Reader!
Our school district uses Renaissance Accelerated Reader to encourage students to read daily. We also use Accelerated Reader to monitor student progress and academic growth. This product is so flexible and can be used in so many ways! Accelerated Reader is user friendly for students and teachers! There is also a way to connect parents to student accounts. Parents can monitor student progress and receive email updates about their child’s activity in Accelerated Reader.
- The Accelerated Reader program is easy for students and teachers to use.
- Accelerated Reader is so flexible and can be used with all students and all reading levels.
- Renaissance Accelerated Reader makes monitoring student reading so manageable and easy.
- Even though Accelerated Reader has a VERY LARGE collection of quizzes, not all books have an AR test.
- They are always adding new quizzes to increase the quiz collection.
- When selecting an Accelerated Reader Quiz, students often click the wrong language.
- Some quizzes can be difficult to locate if they have the same title as many other books.
April 29, 2020
Ready! Set! Read to Reach Your Goal!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
AR is used daily in our school. Students are tested to determine their reading level. Students goals are set and students find books on their level to read and test on. Students must maintain at least 85% accuracy and reach their goal in order to earn daily, weekly, or monthly goals. Our school's AR team plans the awards for each month. The awards are planned with a theme that matches any activity for each month. For example, for December, any child reaching their AR goal is invited to a movie with popcorn - dressed in their Christmas pajamas of course! Parents are able to keep track of their child's progress at home. Students are also able to keep track of their progress and document it in their Leader In ME AR folder. Finally, we gather during a Senergy Assembly and recognize those who reached their goals, exceeded their goals, the top AR points achieved, and million word readers are also recognized.
- AR promotes the love of reading.
- AR promotes teacher/child/parent communication.
- AR strengthens comprehension in our students.
- Easy access for parents to print a list of the books their child has read and tested on.
February 12, 2020
Accelerated Reader 360
Our whole school, though small, uses Accelerated Reader 360. We love the program and being able to see how well our students are paying attention to the books and stories being read. It is also a user-friendly service that helps teachers and parents watch the progress of their child/student. Our students are on the program every day and it is very user-friendly for them as well.
- It tests students knowledge of books and how close they paid attention to the story.
- It provides good data for how well a student is growing in their reading abilities.
- It gives a good level of reading for our students and allows teachers to see what grade level they are close to.
- I also love the recommendations of other books students could or should read next.
- The quizzes test more details from a story versus the comprehension of the story.