Primary Reading

Accelerated Reader Advantage (AR) is the reading practice component that is essential to any reading curriculum; it is combined with a daily progress-monitoring assessment tool and the STAR Reading program that allows you to instantly assess pupils reading levels, reading ages and national curriculum levels in reading as well as measuring growth. You can also add STAR Early Literacy which allows you to assess general readiness, phonemic awareness, phonics and other early reading skills which will enable you to provide more effective instruction during the most critical years of your early readers’ literacy development.

Since AR is individualised to match the reading level of each pupil, pupils are motivated to read more as they experience success. AR helps teachers to guide pupils at all levels to appropriate books and to closely monitor reading practice using reliable and valid quizzes.

Teachers using AR with best practices report that library circulation is growing, their pupils love to read, pupils are becoming better readers and standardised test scores are soaring. Scientifically-based research also shows that pupils using AR perform better in all academic areas than pupils who do not use the software. What’s more, AR provides teachers with immediate feedback on all reading practice activities to help monitor progress for pupils of all achievement levels in primary and secondary school.

The Accelerated Reader Advantage Edition, powered by Renaissance Place™, allows unlimited access to over 12,000 quizzes, plus new quizzes as they are created. Renaissance Place makes it possible for educators to access and manage their Accelerated Reader program from any Web-enabled computer and offer pupils a wide variety of quizzes - including Reading Practice Quizzes, Vocabulary Practice Quizzes and Literacy Skills Quizzes. Home Connect is also available exclusively to Advantage customers at no additional charge.

Benefits List:

With Accelerated Reader, educators will:

• Give pupils the in-class guided independent reading practice needed to become successful readers.
  
• Inspire the love of reading in all pupils, including reluctant readers.
  
• Enhance the joy of teaching and love of learning.
  
• Build pupils’ self-confidence and develop self-directed learners.
  
• Guide pupils to read books at their appropriate level to maximise growth.
  
• Improve pupils’ critical-thinking skills.
  
• Boost pupils’ performance in all academic areas.
  
• Improve pupils’ attendance and reduce discipline problems.