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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Sora
Millions of ebooks and audiobooks for your students. Thousands of publishers. Comes loaded with hundreds of premium titles at no cost. Infinite reading possibilities on practically any device. Sora is your gateway to the best selection of ebooks and audiobooks available to schools, spanning millions of titles from thousands of publishers. With a catalog for all interests and abilities, Sora truly offers something for all readers. It all starts with the catalog, of course. But Sora also delivers game-changing features to connect more students with more books and positively impact their learning. Hundreds of premium, simultaneous-use titles in the current collection of included titles. Required reading classics: Emma, Call of the Wild, Great Expectations, Hamlet. Student favorites: Diary of a Wimpy Kid, El Deafo, The Terrible Two, Every Falling Star. Browse and borrow age-appropriate ebooks and audiobooks from your local public library’s digital collection via Public Library CONNECT.
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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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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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