Renaissance Accelerated Reader vs. Classkick

Renaissance Accelerated Reader is an independent reading practice program that helps K–12 students become confident, lifelong readers. Supporting more than 210,000 fiction and nonfiction books at a wide range of levels, Accelerated Reader gives students extensive choice in what they read—and keeps them engaged in independent reading practice as they work toward personalized goals. Quizzes for Spanish titles help meet the needs of emergent bilingual learners, while in-depth reporting supports regular teacher-student conversations about reading time, reading comprehension, and reading growth.

Classkick is an app and web-based platform that can be used as an instructional tool in the classroom. Teachers upload their own content or create something new– with drawings, text, images, audio, links, and videos to provide instruction or create assessments. Students input drawings, text, images, and audio or answer fill-the-blank or multiple choice in response to teacher-created material. Teachers provide individualized, real-time feedback and grading with an array of tools–directly on the canvas, in the help center or with pointed stickers.