My Take
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.
How I Use It
I was looking for some great tool for my homeschooling kids last year and came to know about raz-kids. It's a great web application for developing good reading habits. I found my kids were using it by themselves without any assistance and it keep continue moving them up for reading next book.
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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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Lori C.
June 3, 2024
Helpful but lacks in certain areas.
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.
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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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