How can Accelerated Reader™ support my pupils?

Engage students, motivate reading practice, improve reading progress

A student reads a book, takes an online quiz, and gets immediate feedback. Students respond to regular feedback and are motivated to make progress with their reading skills. 

Valuable data

Accelerated Reader gives teachers the information they need to monitor students' reading and make informed decisions to guide their future learning. A comprehensive set of reports reveals how much a student has been reading, at what level of complexity and how well they have understood what they read. Vocabulary growth and literacy skills are also measured, giving teachers insight into how well students have responded to reading schemes and class instruction. 

Motivational quizzes

Because students receive regular feedback from Accelerated Reader, teachers and librarians are given many opportunities to praise them for their successes and to discuss with them what they have been reading. 

Appropriate challenge

Pupils develop reading skills most effectively when they read appropriately challenging books – difficult enough to keep them engaged but not so difficult that they become frustrated. This is their ‘Zone of Proximal Development’ (ZPD). Text complexity is determined by the ATOS formula, which uses the text of an entire book to inform the calculation rather than just a sample as with some other formulae. As pupils are retested, their ZPD ranges increase and broaden so they continue to read suitably challenging literature.

As an alternative to the ATOS formula, Lexile® measures are also available for books with Accelerated Reader quizzes. 

What Accelerated Reader books for struggling readers?

For students struggling with the Accelerated Reading programme, listen to their feedback. Choose inclusive books geared to their interests or with low word counts to encourage them to read.

Extensive choice

Accelerated Reader gives students significantly greater choice in levelled books and quizzes than any comparable reading programme. Over 35,000 reading practice quizzes are available on books from over 300 publishers and imprints. Independent of any publishing interests and suitable for students of primary and secondary age, AR ensures that there are plenty of books to interest every reader available on the programme.

Where to buy Accelerated Reader books?

Peters offers book packs with Accelerated Reader books, and their experienced librarians provide support on picking the best quizzed books for each year group or interest age. To find out more, call us on 0121 666 6646 or email hello@peters.co.uk.