Beanstack
Beanstack is an online reading-challenge and tracking platform that helps individuals, families, schools, and libraries track reading habits, organize reading logs, and gamify reading to build stronger reading habits and community engagement. It supports logging reading sessions (minutes, pages, books, or days) across formats, print books, e-books, and audiobooks, using tools such as a reading timer, an ISBN scanner, and progress trackers. Users can join reading challenges or readathons (e.g., seasonal, school-wide, or community challenges), earn digital badges when they meet milestones (like certain reading minutes or number of books), and potentially receive rewards or raffle entries depending on the challenge configuration. Beanstack supports individual readers, families, classrooms, or entire library communities; a single account can manage multiple readers, making it easy for parents, teachers, or librarians to oversee reading logs for children or students.
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Amplify
Teaching is always challenging, often exhausting, and sometimes exhilarating. At Amplify, we want teachers to experience more exhilaration, more great classroom moments, and more great days when they’re reminded why they became a teachers. We create high-quality programs that make it easier for you to teach inspiring, impactful lessons that celebrate and develop the brilliance of your students. The science of reading refers to the vast body of growing research that shows how children learn to read, and the instruction that gets them there. Dive into frameworks for understanding reading fluency, read the latest research, and find strategies you can implement in your classroom. Our programs help you build a strong Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) and a seamless literacy instructional model to meet the needs of every student learning to read. Amplify is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment.
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Istation
Istation’s mission has always been to support educators and empower students. In unprecedented times like these, that support is even more crucial. With that in mind, Istation is providing the tools to keep students thriving with award-winning, computerized learning programs for reading, math, and Spanish literacy. Istation offers engaging, game-like instruction in reading, math, and Spanish literacy to extend learning beyond the classroom. Educational leaders preparing for back to school during COVID-19 face many unknowns. Istation has created a resource page to help educators lead through unprecedented times. Challenges created by the coronavirus require leaders to stay extra flexible and to face topics like summer learning loss, intervention, blended learning, and more with an extraordinary spirit of optimism and innovation.
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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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