My Take
However, RazKids lacked in grammar which I found to be extremely important for the kids and the stories were fairly straight forward. The kids needed something that had more critical thinking portions which is when we landed on Beestar. Beestar provided kids with lots of classical stories with good test taking sample questions. The kids were better prepared for their standardized tests after we switched to using Beestar.
How I Use It
We used RazKids as a supplemental website to help kids build up their reading skills. It was really helpful with the audio section of the program. If anything it gave me the quick breather I needed throughout the long class day.
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Anna Grace G.
Teacher
January 25, 2025
We enjoyed it but other options have been more helpful.
I enjoyed it to help give kids something to read on a daily basis that I didn't need to worry too much about. In order to really help kids improve in their reading you do have to spend time with the kids to help them understand the material and some of the material provided was just too simple and straight forward.
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Suzanne T.
October 19, 2020
Decent for a quick assessment
In general, RAZ-kids works for me in terms of getting a quick assessment from students. I appreciate that I can get a running record from every student with 5-10 minutes of effort (on their end). It's also nice that I can assign individual students/groups books/stories at their levels. That being said, my students don't love the books that are on this site.
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Sal U.
January 12, 2020
Great web application for reading comprehension
It's a bit expensive though, about $219 for reading a-z and raz-kids alone without writing a-z however, I found a deal on eBay.
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