The Parent's Guide to Accelerated Reader
This document gives parents a complete reference to Accelerated Reader, including common questions and answers about the software. Parents will receive a comprehensive overview explaining how teachers can help their students become stronger readers with AR™.
• A Parent's Guide to Accelerated Reader: Questions and Answers
• A Parent's Guide to Accelerated Reader - Spanish Version
The Parent's Guide to AR BookFinder
If parents want to help their children choose books, or if they want to help their kids learn how to choose the right books for themselves—AR BookFinder™ is the answer. With a few clicks of a mouse, parents and children can search for titles at the appropriate level, so they will find books that are both interesting and enjoyable.
• A Parent's Guide to AR BookFinder• A Parent's Guide to AR BookFinder - Spanish Version
The Parent's Guide to Renaissance Home Connect
Research confirms that parental involvement in a child's education is a strong predictor of student achievement. Encourage your students' parents to log onto Renaissance Home Connect™ to get instant updates on their child's reading progress.
• A Parent's Guide to Renaissance Home Connect• A Parent's Guide to Renaissance Home Connect - Spanish Version
Take an AR Tour to discover exciting possibilities
AR Enterprise gives you unlimited access to more than 140,000 quizzes, parental access to real-time data on their children's reading practice with Renaissance Home Connect, a user-friendly stream of reading performance data with Renaissance Place Dashboard, plus AR Widget, Live Chat, The AR Goal Calculator, AR Quizzes on NEO 2 mobile e-learning device...imagine the possibilities!
• Accelerated Reader Flash TourTake AR Quizzes on iPhone®, iPad®, and iPod touch® devices.
Imagine the excitement you'll generate when your eager students can take AR Quizzes and receive their quiz results—all on their iPhone®, iPad®, or iPod touch® at school. The new AR Student App can now be downloaded from the App Store™ or iTunes®.
• Learn more about AR Quizzing on these devicesFind out more about Accelerated Reader Enterprise
Find content-area books—Take a tour of AR BookFinder and learn how to find content-area books for readers of all levels.
• Go to AR Bookfinder
• More about AR Bookfinder
Increase parental involvement—Discover how to increase parental involvement through Renaissance Home Connect.
• Increase Reading Practice and Raise Parental Involvement
Setting reading goals—View a quick demonstration of how to set and monitor individualized reading goals with the AR Goal Calculator.
• AR Goal Calculator
Check key reading metrics—Learn how to use the Renaissance Place Dashboard to check key reading metrics.
• Renaissance Place Dashboard
Share reading success—Display your students' reading progress with staff, students, parents, and the community with the AR widget.
• Renaissance Place Real Time Widgets
Finding the funds using the Renaissance Funding Center
Are you interested in Renaissance Learning software/hardware, but it's just not in your budget? Check out our Funding Center for tips and techniques to help you find funding.
• Renaissance Funding Center
The Renaissance Training Center is here to support you.
Visit our new Renaissance Training Center to find a wide selection of training opportunities. You'll also discover free resources such as the Accelerated Reader and Accelerated Math Getting Results guides for teachers, A Parent's Guide to Accelerated Reader, and What Kids are Reading 2011.
• Renaissance Training Center
More Resources
Many helpful resources are also available in the Resource section of your Accelerated Reader software, including student reading logs (in English and Spanish) and the AR Goal-Setting Chart.
Have Questions?
If you have any other questions about Accelerated Reader, or any of our wide variety of research-proven tools for educators, contact your sales representative.
