Epic
Epic for Educators is a digital reading platform that helps boost confidence with real books students love, offering thousands of online books and reading tools for kids ages 12 and under. Teachers can use Epic with their class through Epic School, which gives students and teachers access to around 20,000 books during school hours on weekdays, or through Epic School Plus, which expands access to more than 40,000 books year-round, including offline reading. It is built to support every classroom with award-winning fiction that supports SEL, thousands of nonfiction books in STEM, science, math, history, and more, plus graphic novels, motion comics, audiobooks, educational videos, Read-To-Me books, leveled readers, decodables, chapter books, and multilingual books and videos in English, Spanish, French, Chinese, and Gaelic. Epic includes tools that help teachers guide and track student reading, including book filtering, class reports, downloadable books, and an admin portal.
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ReadSquared
READsquared is a fully customizable reading program platform designed for libraries and schools to boost reading engagement across all ages. It allows participants to log reading minutes, books, or other activities, either online or via its mobile app, and rewards them with digital badges, incentives, and prizes. Librarians and administrators can create year-round or seasonal programs (e.g., summer reading clubs, holiday challenges, or themed reading initiatives) and set up custom “missions,” reading lists, and community events. READsquared supports individual, family, classroom, or group accounts, enabling parents, students, or patrons to track reading activity collectively or separately. It features mission-based reading tasks, suggested reading curated lists, integration with library catalogs, optional game-style challenges (like Bingo or seasonal competitions), public leaderboards, social engagement via community-wide reading goals, and incentives.
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NetGalley
Hundreds of thousands of members use NetGalley to share reviews and champion literacy. If you are a bookseller, book trade professional, educator, librarian, reviewer, journalist, or in the media, NetGalley is for you. Publishers and authors offer free digital books and audiobooks to the NetGalley community of book advocates and industry professionals. Read or listen within the NetGalley Shelf app. Request, read, and review easily in just a few clicks using our secure, sustainable, and easy-to-use platform. Your reviews and feedback are essential to publishers, authors, and other readers. Join today to help books succeed. NetGalley Shelf is a reading and listening app for NetGalley members. NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies and audiobooks to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley community to discover, request, read, and review.
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Renaissance Accelerated Reader
Accelerated Reader is a digital reading-management program developed by Renaissance that helps schools, teachers, and librarians manage, monitor, and motivate independent reading practice among students. Students choose books at their reading level and read them at their own pace. After finishing a book, they take a computerized comprehension quiz via AR to assess their understanding. Each book in the AR catalog is assigned a readability level (via the ATOS readability formula) and a point value based on length and complexity; when students successfully pass the quiz, they earn points. These points contribute toward personalized reading goals set by teachers. Teachers (and in some cases parents) receive detailed feedback and reporting on each student’s reading behavior, including books read, comprehension, progress toward goals, and reading volume.
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