Raz-Kids

Charity Catunao

ED638 Fall Intercession 2017

Dr. M. Rivera

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website #4

            Raz-Kids (https://www.raz-kids.com/) is an award-winning literacy product that offers comprehensive leveled reading resources for children. Raz-Kids has a wide range of eBooks offered at 29 different levels of reading difficulty. Kids are able to access their leveled reading text through an interactive learning portal designed to keep them motivated and engaged! Through the interactive learning portal, all eBooks will be available online and in mobile formats. The eBooks allow students to listen, read at their own pace, and record themselves reading.

When students are finished reading each eBook, they will take a corresponding eQuiz with an extended answer response to test comprehension and determine future instruction needs. Once a child reads ten or more leveled eBooks and passes each of the corresponding eQuizzes, he or she will have the opportunity to advance to the next reading level. As the students progress, their eBooks will be lengthier and more difficult to read. In addition, there are Spanish eBooks and eQuiz translations for English language learners and bilinguals programs provided from Raz-Kids. As of now, there have been over six billion books read through its digital library.

Since Raz-Kids is an exceptional website perfect for a child’s reading development, many parents and teachers turn to this website as an additional asset to a child’s education. Parents and teachers are able to buy the Raz-Kids reading product for a little over one hundred dollars. Although I wish it were free, I believe that the Raz-Kids reading product is worth it in the end. If parents or teachers are unable to buy the full product, there is also an option to receive free samples and start free trials. Overall, Raz-Kids is an exceptional literacy website and reading product because it is accessible for students, it keeps teachers in control, the reading results are extraordinary, and the product is aligned with Common Core State Standards.