Raz-Kids and Learning A to Z

Our school has a subscription to Learning A to Z and Raz-Kids for the kids. While a great tool to help kids with reading there are a few problems. Here are my pros and cons for the site.

Pros:

• Lots of material.
• Different reading levels for the same book to accommodate struggling readers.
• The ability to assign reading to students and keep track of progress.
• Different activities for different aims.
• Awards students for progress.

Cons:

• Hard to find appropriate books for our unit of study.
• Reading levels not high enough to accommodate advanced readers. 

So far Pros outweigh the Cons. Especially considering they just added two new reading levels to accommodate advanced readers. I will be pushing more Raz-Kids this year mostly during Independent Study specifically for students who do not have access to a computer at home. I will update this periodically as we use it.