Raz-Kids - Interactive Leveled Readers

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The NYC Technical Learning Solutions (TLS) recommends Raz-kids.com for New York City classrooms.

PRACTICE makes kids better readers. Research has shown that poor readers get better as minutes spent reading increases. Surveys have also shown that low performing readers do not have ready access to books at their reading level. This is a problem.

Raz-kids offers an extremely affordable solution to this problem.

Raz-kids Features

Student materials
- Over 300 books spanning 27 levels of difficulty
- Books with animation and sound effects
- Fact and fiction books, songs, and nursery rhymes
- Student option to listen, read, and record the reading
- Modeled reading for fluency
- Difficult words pronounced when clicked on
- Words tracked as read in the listen mode
- Quizzes to take after reading a book
- Worksheets to accompany books
Teacher tool
- Build a class roster for up to 36 students
- Assign reading level for self paced lessons
- Make customized lessons
- Access and print reports on student reading activity
Motivation features where
- Students earn stars for reading books and taking quizzes.
- Students use their stars to purchase items to decorate, and friendly aliens to inhabit, their personal rocket ship.

For less than a $1.50 per student, New York City kids can have an online bookroom full of hundreds of books to listen to and read.

27 reading levels
fact and fiction
multiple genres
online book quizzes

Motivational!
Kids earn stars for books read and quizzes taken. Stars are used to buy things, including fun aliens for their personal rocket ship in outer space.

Maria Goes to School introduces readers to the print vocabulary for the names of familiar items taken to school. The familiar situation, repeated sentence pattern, and picture-to-text correspondence help early readers make meaningful connections.

Two crows decide to rest for the night in a cornfield. Students learn about cause-and-effect relationships from the crows' reactions when the scarecrow begins to move. The text features supporting illustrations and character dialogue.

How Zebras Got Their Stripes is a folktale about two donkeys who are tired of working and want an easier life. They meet a wise man who devises a solution to their problem: to turn the donkeys into zebras.

A Prairie Dog's Life provides information about prairie dogs by describing the adventures of Charlie the prairie dog. The book informs readers about where prairie dogs live, what they look like, and how they respond to danger. The book also includes photos with captions, a map, a table of contents, glossary, and index.

Read-Only Book
Pasta, with its many shapes and sizes, is a treat for children. Children will enjoy the silly tone of this song and its illustrations. Approximate book level: T.

ELL Support
Raz-kids is an excellent resource for ELL. Not only does the listen mode model fluent reading but the tracking of print and the pronunciation of difficult words are important support for these emerging readers of English.

Summer School
Order Raz-kids now before summer break. Create a summer reading program. Students have access throughout the summer and teachers can continue to monitor their reading activities. Raz-kids is an excellent way to stop the summer slide by delivering developmentally appropriate books to kids wherever they have Internet access.

Home Connection
What better way to connect home and school than with online books that kids can use their personal password to access and read at home.