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What Books Are Students Reading in Grades 1–12?

Groundbreaking Report Shares the Book Reading Habits of Students in American Schools


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While Amazon.com and other online booksellers boast lists of bestsellers, they can't tell you if any of these books were ever opened, much less if they were read cover to cover.

What Kids are Reading: The Book Reading Habits of Students in American Schools is the first comprehensive report to provide detailed information about the books school children are actually reading.

At Renaissance Learning, we have arguably the world’s largest single database of student book reading behavior, captured via our
Accelerated Reader (AR) software. As a result, we are in the unique
position to answer the following questions:

  • What books do students in each grade read most often,
    overall and by gender?
  • What books do students in each grade in each U.S. census region read most often?
  • What books do students in the top 10% of reading achievement read most often?

Featuring contributions from popular children’s authors Mary Pope Osborne, S.E. Hinton, Daniel Handler, and Christopher Paul Curtis, this report represents an important contribution to the research on reading practice.

Click here to download your copy of this information-packed report! (1 MB)

Note:
You need Adobe Reader to view the report.
If you do not have this free software, visit the Adobe site and download it.

If you are a K–12 educator and would like a printed copy of the report, click here.

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