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❓ What's in our 2023 What Kids Are Reading report?
🧐 Children's reading habits by region, gender and year group
😍 Books that children liked the best
📈 Insights about reading enjoyment from
@Literacy_Trust
And the best part is... it's FREE! >>
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It's
#BookGivingDay
, and we have a giveaway for you!
#FriYAY
❤❤❤
We have TWO prizes up for grabs: one for a primary school and one for a secondary school. To enter, simply LIKE, RETWEET and reply with the name of the school you'd like to give these books to! T&Cs below ⬇
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Friday 13th is bad luck, right?! Well, here’s your chance to turn that around! Just LIKE and RT this for the chance to win this tableful of books for your school! 📖📚
Yep. All these books could be yours!! 😱
Table not included. Proper T&Cs below ⬇️
#friYAY
#FridayFeeling
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🚨BACK TO SCHOOL BOOK GIVEAWAY to celebrate surviving September! Thanks to our friends
@HouseLaburnum
, you could win all 132 of these books for your school! 😱😍 To enter:
✅ retweet this
✅ follow us and
@HouseLaburnum
✅ tell us the school you’d like to win!
T&Cs below ⬇
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Every school should have a library and a librarian. No exceptions 🙅♀️
That's it. That's the tweet.
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Keep the UK and Ireland Reading! 😁
We are announcing access to our myON e-book library and daily myON News service freely available for students. (Teacher resources not included)
#schoolclosures
#education
#reading
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✨Ireland, this one's for you!✨
You could WIN €200 of books for your school from
@TheBookNest
to kickstart the new term! To enter, just:
✅ like this post
✅ make sure you're following us,
@LiamRenlearn
&
@TheBookNest
✅ comment the school you'd like to win!
T&Cs below.
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The legendary author Dick King-Smith was born on this day in 1922! We have 84 of his wonderful books on AR, and they're still read and loved by children today. Which one is your favourite?
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🌟 THE IRELAND BACK TO SCHOOL GIVEAWAY!
We're giving a school in Ireland the chance to win €200 worth of books from
@TheBookNest
! To enter:
📚 Follow us,
@TheBookNest
& our Ireland rep
@LiamRenlearn
📚 Like & retweet this
📚 Reply & tell us which school should win!
T&Cs👇
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📚📣 BOOK GIVEAWAY! 📚📣
We have a copy of
@davidwalliams
'The World's Worst Teachers' to give away! Just like AND retweet this by Friday 5pm to enter.
Entry open to UK/ROI schools only (feel free to enter on behalf of a school). One winner, chosen at random. GOOD LUCK! 🤞🍀
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We're really happy to say that Black and British: A short, essential history by
@DavidOlusoga
now has an AR quiz!
This is a really important book about Black history and experience in the British Isles. Grab a copy for your library if you haven't yet! 📖
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Calling teachers, librarians and school folks in IRELAND! 🇮🇪
Here's your chance to win €200 worth of ✨FREE✨ books thanks to
@TheBookNest
! To enter, just:
✅ Follow us &
@TheBookNest
✅ Like this tweet
✅ Reply 👇 the name of the school you'd give the prize to!
T&Cs below.
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We're back with a BANG!!! Oh yes! Its time for the 2018 What Kids are Reading Awards! Register now so you dont miss out! It's gonna be BIG! 😘
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Oh, we love this. What a brilliant quote from a brilliant woman. 🙌
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Did you know that we recommend that students read within their ZPD **60%** of the time?
🙅♀️ AR is not about banning books! It's about helping children find the right book for them, improving their reading faster, and most of all... encouraging them to read for pleasure!
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Today marks the birthday of
#DickKingSmith
- the author of over a hundred beloved children's books. (We have 80 of them on Accelerated Reader!)
'The Hodgehog' (quiz
#201701
) remains a favourite of ours - what's yours? 🦔🐷
@DickKingSmith
#OnThisDay
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|￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣|
| AR only works |
| if you have |
| teachers and |
| librarians |
| on board |
|＿＿＿＿＿＿＿___|
(\__/) ||
(•ㅅ•) ||
/ づ
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Our Easter holiday plans:
Stay at home reading
Stay at home reading
Stay at home reading
Stay at home reading
Stay at home reading
Stay at home reading
Stay at home reading
Stay at home reading
Stay at home reading
Stay at home reading
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What will you read today?
Choose from over 7,000 books free on myON to support you while schools are closed! Just head to
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We visited Kettering Buccleuch Academy on Friday last week to present a very special certificate. This is Jacob, and so far this year he has read... wait for it...
12 MILLION words! 😱
What an incredible achievement. BIG well done, Jacob - you're going places! 🏆✨
@KBuccleuchA
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Our second winner of the day is announced! The winner of the Outstanding Achievement for secondary is..... Kettering Buccleuch Academy!
@KBuccleuchA
@KBALibrary
#RenAwards2019
🏆
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A reminder:
Accelerated Reader could NEVER replace teachers or librarians. It only works WITH dedicated school staff running it, helping children choose their books, and getting them enthused about reading. If AR is working well in your school, give YOURSELF some credit! 🙌📚
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ICYMI:
We are giving free access to thousands of books and child-friendly daily news articles. Available FOR FREE, FOR EVERYONE. Tell your friends!
#welovereading
#keepreading
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It's not easy to picture just how much a million words is. Did you know that if you read ALL SEVEN Harry Potter books, that's only just over one million words? 😱 big shout out to everyone who achieved word millionaire status this year! 👏
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AR has a brand new feature!🎉
Many of you send in book requests for your favourite books and authors but did you know that you can now request these directly from your site with just one-click?! It's that simple.👇
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"If I had my way, I would remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead." - Roald Dahl
Us too, Roald. Us too 🙋♀️
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|￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣|
| Stop saying |
| that you hate |
| Accelerated Reader |
| when you don't |
| know how it |
| works |
|＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿|
(\__/) ||
(•ㅅ•) ||
/ づ
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Apparently there are people out there that STILL don't know about our free site 😱
✅ F R E E
✅ no registration needed
✅ 6,000 📚 & new child-friendly 📰 every day
Help us spread the word so that everyone can access FREE resources!
#EduTwitter
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The legendary author Dick King-Smith was born on this day in 1922!🎉
We have 84 of his wonderful books on AR, and they're still read and loved by children today. Which one is your favourite?
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Happy new year to all our lovely customers and friends! 🥳
And hey. If you hate AR, happy new year to you too. 🥂
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With only three weeks to go until World Book Day, we're very excited to say that we have copies of ALL the £1 books ready to quiz...
...and this year, all of them are quizzable! As ever, the quizzes will be live on the big day. 🎉💃
@WorldBookDayUK
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Did you know that our Quiz Writers read and quizzed on almost 2,000 (1,962) books last year? These guys are heroes - that's over 150 books a month! 👋📚
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One of the most important things you can do with your students is make time for reading EVERY DAY. Put it in the timetable and stick to it! 📚
Do you have time for daily reading in your timetable?
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Did you know that there are over 33,000 books on Accelerated Reader UK? You'd have to read a book a day for 90 years to get through them all! 😱
(And we add new quizzes every week which means that even after 90 years you'd have more to go!)
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Ok, ok, ok, we know a load of you have been waiting for this, and we're sorry for the delay, but it's finally here...
...
@davidwalliams
Code Name Bananas has an AR quiz! 🎉🥳
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We all know that AR is based around each book having a book level (aka an ATOS level). But how do AR book levels work? What do they actually measure, and how do we work them out?
This blog explains everything you need to know!
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We promised big names appearing on the new quiz list today...
Tell an
@AnthonyHorowitz
fan that the AR quiz for Alex Rider: Nightshade is brand-new on AR TODAY! 🙌
@WalkerBooksUK
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This is so great!!! Watch this video to brighten up this grey afternoon!
MASSIVE well done to
@SJBPS11
🤩👏
NO HOMEWORK!! 📚 The children of P4-7 in
@SJBPS11
have just hit their first
@AccReader
target 🎯 of the year! 20,000,000 words read already this year. Outstanding
#aspirebelieveachieve
🇹🇿
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We love Windrush Child so much we've picked it as our book of the week this week!
@BZephaniah
's story is gritty, moving and certainly packs a punch. Have you read it yet?
@scholasticuk
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Have you seen our new Word Millionaire certificates? Available to download on our website now 🌟🌟 🌟🌟
What else would you like to see on our Resources page? Tell us and we'll see what we can do!
#RenaissanceSpace
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Don't forget that to log into AR from home, you need to make sure you're using your school's unique URL to log in! If you try your log in details on the wrong site, they won't work!
#WednesdayWisdom
#RenaissanceSpace
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Another fantastic reader from Moira Primary School in Northern Ireland!
This is Hannah, in Primary 7, who has read 10 million words this year! Wow! Huge well done to you, Hannah! 🤩👏
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Flashback Friday📸
Today we’re taking it back to What Kids Are Reading 2022📚
Outstanding Achievement winner
@BZephaniah
gives us some context behind Windrush Child. We loved reading this! It's so important for young readers to learn about Black British History
✅
#239425
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🌟 Can students take AR quizzes in the summer holidays?
Lots of you have been asking us this. And the answer is YES! You'll just need to adjust your term dates so that summer term runs til 31st August and autumn term starts on 1st September. Give us a shout if you need help!
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AR will never replace teachers, librarians and other educators there to help students with their reading.
Without you, AR wouldn't work at all!
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"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark."
We love this quote from Victor Hugo, who was born on this day, 26th February, 220 years ago! 🔥
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So many of you are tweeting us with your AR achievements, it's hard to keep up! 😂 we'd love to say well done to everyone individually but it's impossible ☹
BUT please know that we LOVE reading them - so keep 'em coming. We are SO proud of every single one! 🤩📚
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And the winner of the
@CILIPCKG
Carnegie Medal 2020 is... Lark by
@anthony_mcgowan
! 🏆🏆
If you haven't read it yet, now is the time! You're going to love it! (And you will definitely cry.) AR quiz
#236249
🎉📖
#CKG20
@BarringtonStoke
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Check out these cool AR bookmarks!! 😀😀
Just created AR bookmarks on
#GoogleDrawing
! Please share!
@AccReader
#TOSAchat
#KITTchat
#KernEDU
#ConnectedTL
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IT'S NEW QUIZ DAY! 🎉🥳
#WeLoveWednesdays
And LOOK at what's got a brand-new AR quiz today! Lots of you have been waiting for this one... search
#238441
and get quizzing! 🕊🐍
(Not on til it's updated tomorrow, but on your AR site now!)
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Exciting news! ✨ We quizzed every single published by
@BarringtonStoke
in 2019... AND 2020!
The selection of super-readable, accessible books on AR is growing! 🤩💃
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We spend a lot of time on here saying well done to students for their reading achievements. But the truth is, they wouldn't be able to achieve ANY of them without their teachers, TAs and librarians.
🌟YOU🌟 make AR. So well done on a brilliant term, everyone!
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Is your school library Hallowe'en-ready yet?! 🎃 look out for a competition later this week to win a big bunch of spooky books and goodies! It's going to be a big one...
#feelingspooky
#
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This is GREAT! 😍
With school closures and social distancing affecting us all, we’ve created something in the hope that it makes your life a little easier.
Audible Stories - 100s of kids’ audiobooks for free. Just click, stream and listen 😊
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And here are our most popular authors this year at the What Kids Are Reading Awards! Want to know who wins?
Get your copy here >>
@wimpykid
@davidwalliams
@roald_dahl
#JuliaDonaldson
@rodhuntdraws
@WorldBookDayUK
#wkar18
#primary
#school
#secondary
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We're super excited for
#WorldBookDay
and we have a FANTASTIC new game you can download to celebrate! BookbustAR is a bookish twist on the famous gameshow and it's suitable for readers of all ages and abilities! Download it here:
🌟🌟
#RenaissanceSpace
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Today's AR top tip is to make sure you use the right link to log into AR from home! Every school has a unique link and if you use the wrong one, your login details won't work!
#RenaissanceSpace
#ThursdayWisdom
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Some children read 10 million words in a year. For some, just finishing ONE book is a huge achievement. It's so important to meet pupils where they are are, and celebrate their individual successes!
What are you doing in your school to help with this? 👇
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ICYMI, we're currently writing the quizzes for all* the
#WorldBookDay
£1 books and they will be live on your AR site on the big day itself - which is just over a week away! 😮🥳🎉
A few of you have been asking for the book levels & quiz numbers of the books, so here they are 👇
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How many words has your school read this year?! If you don't know, it's easy to find out! Just use the Word Count report and click ‘do not group’, and you'll find the total at the end of the report. Tell us your grand total! 👇👇
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It's
#WorldBookDay
TOMORROW! One of our favourite days of the year! 😱 who's excited?! 📚
@WorldBookDayUK
#WorldBookDay2019
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The best way to distract yourself from the doom and gloom is READING! Keep an eye on this thread as we share our favourite books to escape into, and share yours with us too! ⬇⬇
#RenaissanceSpace
We all know reading is GREAT for helping you forget what's happening in the real world. So we asked our colleagues for their favourite books to escape into and we'll be sharing one every day starting today! A THREAD of book recommendations incoming... ⬇
#RenaissanceSpace
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Nearly 38,000 books are on Accelerated Reader. But it's not enough! We're on a mission to make the offering on AR as diverse as we can so that every child can read the right book for them. So if you can think of any that are missing, tell us about them! ➡
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🏆 Quiz Writers' Choice Awards 2022 winners! 🏆
And the winner of the Best Debut category is... MINA AND THE UNDEAD by
@Yaundermyskin
! 🤩🥳
@publishinguclan
#WKAR22
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🎺🎺 Have you heard the news?! The fantastic
@vashti_hardy
will be hosting this year's Renaissance Awards! Vashti will be here with us on the night to present the prizes to our winning schools - we can't wait! 🤩👏🏆
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Did you know that there are around 35,000 books on Accelerated Reader? If you read one book a day, it would take you about 95 years to get through them all! 😱
(And even then you'd struggle, because we add new ones every week!) 📚
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We are SO excited to say that we WON the
@TeachSecondary
Curriculum Impact award! 🏆🎉
Judges said, "This addresses a definite need for teachers and supports struggling readers with the transition from primary to secondary school as well as on reducing teacher workload." 🙌
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Our Book of the Week this week is Armistice Runner by
@tompalmerauthor
- published by the wonderful
@BarringtonStoke
. What are you reading to commemorate Remembrance Day this week?
#welovereading
#remembrance
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#WKAR21
and the winner of our final Quiz Writers' Choice Award, for Secondary Non-Fiction is... Black and British: a short, essential history by
@DavidOlusoga
!
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Did you know that
@WorldBookDayUK
have a tonne of FREE audiobooks you can read until the end of March? And a lot of them have AR quizzes too! 🥳🥳
Head here to check them out >>
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How great is this word millionaire frame?! 😍 we love it! Great work girls 👏
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Finally we've finished quizzing them! 😍😍
Check out the top quizzed book(s) of the week!
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SUPPORTING YOU FROM HOME: a thread! We'll keep adding new links and resources as we continue to create them! ⬇
#RenaissanceSpace
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1/ Hello
#MondayMorning
! Our book of the week this week is the brilliant A KIND OF SPARK by Elle McNicoll
@booksandchokers
! This is a brilliant debut that you’re going to love. Big thanks to
@_KnightsOf
for helping us get the AR quiz written so quickly on this one!
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Annabelle is a TRIPLE Word Millionaire at only 8 years old!
Have any of your students ever beaten that?! Tell us 👇
#RenaissanceSpace
First day of the Summer Term and readers across the school have reached an astounding 40,679,133 words. Special congratulations to Annabelle, our youngest ever triple word millionaire
#AcceleratedReaderScheme
#BookWorms
#TerringtonOnline
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🚨 Big news for schools in Ireland! 🚨
We've teamed up with
@TheBookNest
to give away €200 worth of books to a school in Ireland! Here's how to enter:
1️⃣ Follow us (
@AccReader
),
@TheBookNest
&
@LiamRenlearn
2️⃣ Like this tweet
3️⃣ Reply & tell us which school you'd like to win!
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Have you heard? The AR quiz for Alex Rider: Nightshade is here! Make sure all your Alex Rider fans know!
@WalkerBooksUK
@AnthonyHorowitz
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How many books do you think are on AR? 1,000? 10,000? 20,000?!
Nope. There are actually over 35,000 books on Accelerated Reader! AND we add new ones every week! 😱📚
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We FIRMLY believe this. Pick up a book and get reading this weekend! 📖
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#WKAR21
a little behind-the-scenes shot: here are our colleagues Hannah, Oli and Sophie who ventured into the OFFICE today - safely, of course! - to make sure the event went smoothly. Thanks, guys!
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Did you hear? On Thurs, we announced the winners of this year's Quiz Writers' Choice Awards!
🏆 A Kind of Spark by
@BooksandChokers
🏆 Pride In... series (
@BooklifePubLtd
)
🏆 The Black Flamingo by
@DeanAtta
🏆 Black and British by
@DavidOlusoga
#WKAR21
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BIG NEWS - free myON is back for the summer!
Remember when we gave you all access to myON for free last year? Well, it's BACK for summer holidays! No payment, no contract, just sign up. Details here 👇👇
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AR 👏 is 👏 only 👏 as 👏 good 👏 as 👏 you 👏 make 👏 it 👏
If AR is doing great things for you - you deserve the credit! So keep doing the incredible work you're doing and more great things will follow 🙌
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We're big fans of
@tompalmerauthor
and
@BarringtonStoke
here at AR - and we know lots of you are too! So it's good news all round that his latest book, Arctic Star, now has an AR quiz! Happy reading 🙌📖
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Did you hear? We added 177 new book quizzes to AR in September!
You can download the full list here:
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As the end of the school year draws closer, we are seeing more and more tweets celebrating your word millionaires... and we love them! Keep 'em coming, because positivity is what we all need right now. 🙌🥳
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Lots of you are asking about whether this year's
#WorldBookDay
£1 books will be on AR. But rest assured - they'll be live and launched on the big day ready to quiz!
#WorldBookDay2019
#threedaystogo
📚
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WEEKEND IDEAS:
📖 read in bed
📖 get up, move to armchair
📖 read on armchair
📖 get up, make cup of tea
📖 read with cup of tea
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A. A. Milne was born
#onthisday
in 1882 which means it's Winnie the Pooh Day! We're celebrating the Bear of Very Little Brain by reminiscing about our favourite Hundred Acre Wood moments. 🔎AR quiz
#200031
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Did you know that all the books on our ✨free✨ site have audio narration that reads the text aloud to you? 🗣
Perfect for low-level readers, EAL students, and those with dyslexia!
#RenaissanceSpace
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We're super pleased to announce that Windrush Child by
@BZephaniah
is now on AR! This moving book pulls no punches, telling the story of Leonard when he arrives in Southampton from Jamaica.
🔎 AR quiz
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Did you know? We work closely with the lovely folks at
@BarringtonStoke
and we've quizzed EVERY book they've published so far this year - and everything they published last year too! 🥳
More Barrington Stoke on AR = more provision for dyslexic readers!
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