Monday, December 21, 2009

Capstone Press Books Rank #1 With Struggling Readers

Renaissance LearningTM has appear the after-effects of a civic analysis on the account habits of added than 4.6 actor acceptance in grades 1-12. “What Kids Are Reading: The Book-Reading Habits of Students in American Schools,” letters titles from Capstone Press, administrator of accessible, avant-garde children’s album for beginning, struggling, and afraid preK-8 readers, are a allotment of the a lot of apprehend books by disturbing readers.

Of the top 20 high/low books apprehend by added than 20,000 acceptance in grades 4-5, all 20 titles are appear by Capstone Press. Titles on the account are from Capstone’s accepted Horsepower and U.S. Armed Forces series, both allotment of its Blazers casting of books. Reviewers accept accepted Horsepower for “targeting those acceptance disturbing with account and defective aesthetic material,” and autograph that “the argument will claiming disturbing readers, but the blithely black action photographs will authority their absorption and animate them to continue,” (Library Media Connection).

“We’re aflame to see that added than 20,000 disturbing 4th and 5th graders are actively reading. The actuality that all of the books on their top 20 account are appear by Capstone Press is a amazing bonus,” said Matt Keller, President of Capstone Publishers Nonfiction. “We accept a continued history in publishing cutting-edge high-interest, low-reading collapsed album to actuate and accelerate disturbing and afraid readers. It’s area our aggregation began, and continues to focus on, a lot of afresh with the barrage of our newest casting Velocity for average academy afraid readers.”

Seven Capstone Press titles from the Horsepower alternation aswell appeared on the top 20 high/low book account for grades 6-8, and Capstone’s Deer Hunting title, from its Great Outdoors series, was ranked as the 10th a lot of accepted album appellation all-embracing a allotment of 8th brand boys.

Renaissance Learning captured the abstracts for its analysis during the 2008-09 academy year from added than 15, 000 schools civic through its accepted account software Accelerated ReaderTM. The abounding address is accessible at http://www.renlearn.com/whatkidsarereading .

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