Accelerated Reader

Foster a love for reading

Help K–12 students to become confident, lifelong readers and keep them engaged in independent reading practice.

Make reading a priority in school and at home

How it works

Choose Read Quiz Analyze

Access to over 220,000 quizzes in English and Spanish, and more than 600 nonfiction articles, to deliver abundant reading choice.

This is the best part! Students read a book or article of their choosing. Students can read in class, at home, or out and about in the community.

Once they finish a book, students take a short quiz on what they’ve read. Each quiz is written to ensure students have read the entire book or article.

You gain instant insight into students’ quiz results. Use that data to set goals, monitor students’ continued progress, and personalize lesson plans.

Implement an effective cycle of reading practice

Engaging Personalized Insightful Motivating

Guide Engage Practice Grow

Effortlessly create personalized goals around the three main factors:

• Comprehension

• Quantity

Learners quickly and autonomously explore new literacy concepts through fun, playful worlds with intuitive design.

• Complexity

Students work at their own pace and are given adaptive exercises on each component of foundational literacy.

Foster motivation, engagement, and a love for reading by matching students with books aligned to their interests and reading level

Go beyond assessing how well students understand what they read—activities help build the vocabulary and literacy skills that play a fundamental role in reading

Ensure all students become proficient readers by leveraging the actionable data on whole class and individual student progress.

Provide quick and efficient insight into every student’s progress with a complete menu of powerful reports—letting you spend more time personalizing student learning

Foster a love of reading. Vocabulary-rich reward stories encourage students to keep learning and coming back for more.

Inspire independent reading by setting the right goals

Guide readers in their AR Goals

Goal setting is at the heart of the most effective Accelerated Reader implementations:

• Insightful metrics for student understanding

• Clear visualization on next steps for the student

• Engaging designs to keep both younger and older students motivated

Drive student agency

Personalized goals help students stay focused—and help you monitor their progress. Create goals around comprehension, engaged reading time, and students’ reading levels. Students can track their individual goals to gain agency over their learning.

Motivate with “just-right” recommendations and more choice than ever

More quizzes, faster

When a highly anticipated title—like the latest book in the Dog Man series—is released, our team works to ensure that students can take the Accelerated Reader quiz as quickly as possible.

Smart reading choices = greater student growth

Reading suggestions—which are based on students’ reading history, reading level, and books’ popularity— get smarter as students read more.

Try searching Accelerated Reader Bookfinder for book titles based on authors, topics, collections, state lists, or our latest What Kids Are Reading Report.

Read Blog: The Making of an Accelerated Reader Quiz

Choose where students can take AR quizzes

Perfect practice for in-person or remote learning

You have the flexibility to choose where students can take AR quizzes, in-person or remotely from home. Anytime quizzing provides instant feedback to students, helping to keep them engaged and motivated in their reading practice.

• Over 220,000 titles in English and Spanish

• Nearly 600+ nonfiction articles

Our solutions seamlessly transition students and educators from the school year to summer—with targeted supports to address the challenges and opportunities that define this season of learning. Visit the Summer Learning webpage to access our annual resources we develop to support your summer learning initiatives.

Quiz at home

Quiz at school or

Build skills beyond reading comprehension

Create a culture of reading

Independent reading can be a key strategy for addressing learning loss. Accelerated Reader is a student-friendly way to integrate daily independent reading into your curriculum.

Nonfiction can spark student interest

Connect the nonfiction articles in AR to what students are already interested in. Students can also self-discover their next great read, having articles and nonfiction book ideas as part of their personalized recommendations.

Gain actionable insights to accelerate student growth and celebrate success

Celebrate reading achievement

New Reading Snapshots let you share your students’ reading achievements!

Monitor day-to-day activity

Access data to drill into practice details to see class and student progress towards goals.

Empower reading skill development in English, Spanish, or both languages.

Explore text supports and monitoring tools here.

Accelerate reading growth with updated goal models

NEW!

Motivate students to read even more this school year with new goal models and progress screens. As we celebrate 35 years of Accelerated Reader with over 220,000 quizzes, students’ literacy growth continues to thrive with even more tools to help them as they go.

New Record Book & Goals

The redesigned AR record book and goals will walk you through setting personalized goals the first time you visit the record book.

New Progress Screens

All students will see a new progress screen to keep them engaged in their reading progress.

New Goals for Grades K–2

A new goal model with fun tokens and badges will help early readers celebrate goal success.

Easily switch between Accelerated Reader and myON with a single button!

myON gives pre-K–12 students immediate access with thousands of enhanced digital titles—fiction, nonfiction, graphic novels, and more—at a wide range of reading levels, in English and Spanish!

Personalized reading suggestions in both Accelerated Reader and myON engage students through self-selected reading practice.

Accelerate Literacy Growth