Accelerated Reader (AR) is the world's most popular reading management software; over 70,000 schools worldwide use AR everyday. Across Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia alone, thousands of schools are achieving great results with AR.

At the basic level, Accelerated Reader is a tool to motivate students to read books, though when coupled with a set of classroom practices, a school can extend outcomes to include:

• Individualised teaching programs
• Dramatic increases in library circulation
• The development of linkages with the entire school community
• Moving the library to the centre of a whole school literacy program
• Raising a school’s ‘reading profile' to rank alongside traditional high achievement activities such as sport and performing arts