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Elevate core instruction for all students with anytime access to high-quality and interactive reading and writing activities and thousands of digital fiction and nonfiction books and articles.
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Simply increasing students’ access to reading materials can increase reading engagement and, in turn, reading growth. With our reading platform, students get access to thousands of digital books—and so much more. From robust scaffolds that help students build reading and writing skills to customizable assignments and reports to help teachers nurture and monitor their progress, myON helps you supercharge reading growth for every learner.
Easily create and deliver assignments and monitor growth
myON’s comprehensive approach to personalized literacy includes the tools and content educators need to guide and enrich students’ reading—then monitor and celebrate their achievements at every step.
myON’s Assignment Creator helps teachers elevate classroom instruction and engage students in purposeful reading practice that builds language comprehension skills aligned with the Science of Reading.
Based on myON’s most popular and inclusive texts in the Core collection, myON Made assignments are premade and skill- and standards-aligned. Each assignment contains 3–5 activities, providing teachers with an efficient and effective way to help students build literacy skills aligned with the Science of Reading.
Thirteen detailed reports give teachers rich insights into engagement and achievement at the student and class level, so they can keep literacy going strong.
Anytime, anywhere access to books helps infuse reading opportunities throughout the school day and involve parents, families, and communities in supporting reading outside of school.
Embedded scaffolds and instructional tools, along with rich data insights into student reading behavior, help teachers enhance skill- and topic-based instruction to maximize student motivation and growth.
Students can read on their favorite devices at home or on the go, online or offline. Families can read with or to their children, in English or Spanish.
Active reading and writing practice
The built-in highlighter, shapes tool, and drawing brush encourage close reading, allowing students to identify evidence, make connections, and mark-up key photos and illustrations in ways not possible with shared physical texts or e-book subscriptions.
Teachers can view students’ comments and respond in the text, providing a quick formative assessment opportunity.
Students can use sticky notes to annotate as they read, writing comments, documenting theories, asking questions, identifying connections, and more. A journal is available for longer responses or teacher-assigned writing projects.
A citation creator embedded within each student’s journal helps them learn the importance of citing sources and using proper formatting.
Twelve graphic organizers are available to help students gather and arrange their thoughts around specific reading comprehension skills before, during, and after reading.
Within Assignment Creator, teachers can assign students writing tasks along with a target word count, time goal, checklist of instructions, and more. An optional peer review setting allows students to see and comment on each other’s work.
On our reading platform, students can record themselves reading books out loud, then listen to themselves and self-assess both their miscues and their strengths as readers. Students can also compare their recordings to the natural-voice audio narration to improve pronunciation, especially with words they haven’t seen before.
Teachers can listen to student recordings to get deeper insights into their students’ reading progress.
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Access titles that capture students’ interests and support classroom instruction
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Educational attainment
Researchers found that kids with access to 500 books at home can be expected to graduate high school. Children with minimal access to books at home often don’t make it past ninth grade.
50k
WORDS
Building vocabulary
It takes a vocabulary of around 50,000 words to be able to understand a new language, but it is impossible to directly teach enough vocabulary words–most are learned through listening and reading.
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Reading habits and academic achievement
Students who read 15 minutes or more per day achieve accelerated reading gains, while students who read less than 15 minutes per day may be at risk of falling behind their peers.
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Reading trends by age
Nearly half of students read for less than 15 minutes a day. Students read most in elementary school, but by the end of high school the typical student spends just 8 minutes per day reading books.
Real stories from real educators
Mission CISD in Mission, Texas, saw students read twice as many books in a single school year after adding myON, which tripled the number of titles available to students.
Oxnard School District in Oxnard, California, used myON to expand students’ book access—especially to nonfiction titles in Spanish—and saw its state reading test scores rise.
From federal and state funds to corporate grants, learn more about resources that can help with the purchase of our products and solutions.
myON has made it possible for us to provide digital access to a wealth of fiction and nonfiction content, including literature and news articles in both Spanish and English. myON has really opened up an opportunity of equity, allowing us to give every OSD student access to relevant, interesting books.
Dr. Anabolena DeGenna, Assistant Superintendent, Oxnard School District
myON enriches what we’re doing with Accelerated Reader and steps it up a notch.
Francisca Sanchez, Executive Director for Elementary Education, Mission CISD
By providing age-appropriate, leveled texts, myON also helps teachers connect content to classroom topics or to our adoptions in social studies and science.
Anna Thomas, Director of Curriculum, Instruction, and Accountability; Oxnard School District
myON News provides K–8 students with age-appropriate news articles. Students learn about the world around them as they develop stronger digital and media literacy skills!
Recommended research and resources about our reading platform
Report
To strengthen students’ reading comprehension skills, myON was developed based on three key principles: accessibility; autonomy and differentiation; and feedback and learning analytics.
Report
Multiple studies reveal the powerful connection between students’ reading behaviors and their academic achievement.
Guide
The world’s largest annual study of K–12 student reading habits reveals key factors for accelerating growth.
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This research study examines patterns of positive growth for students using myON.
A Renaissance representative can provide you with a more detailed understanding of myON
Vaughn, S., & Fletcher, J. M. (2023). The Practice Gap. Perspectives on Language and Literacy, 49(1), 15-19.
Cervetti, G. N., Wright, T. S. & Hwant, H. (2016). Conceptual coherence, comprehension, and vocabulary acquisition: A knowledge Effect? Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 29(4) 761-779.
Evans, M.D.R., Kelley, J., Sikora, J., & Treiman, D.J. (2010). Family scholarly culture and educational success: Books and schooling in 27 nations. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 28:2, 171–197.
Renaissance Learning. (2015). The research foundation for Accelerated Reader 360. Wisconsin Rapids, WI: Author.
Renaissance Learning. (2019). What Kids Are Reading. Wisconsin Rapids, WI: Author.
