What Kids are Reading: 2024 edition

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Abstract:

What Kids Are Reading, 2024 Edition, shares the reading habits of 5.4 million K-12 students, from 22,982 schools across all 50 states and DC, who read 179 million books during the 2022-2023 school year. WKAR is organized by grade range, with each section beginning with a map of Signature Books, State by State, and a list of Futuristic Finds. Individual grades feature three ranked booklists, Top Print Titles (from AR, displayed as series to allow as many unique authors/titles as possible), Popular Digital Books (from the 148,371,020 times students opened books on myON), and the new Highest Rated Reads list (which displays the books kids rated highest in AR). Each grade-level also includes two curated book lists, featuring Authentic Spanish Literature and titles Recognizing Resilience. To supplement the lists, we created two We Asked AI sections, where we queried Microsoft Bing Chat (Copilot) about each grade’s Top Print Titles, asking: (1) What common themes do the top titles share?, and (2) Whom should we add to the list of popular authors for this grade? We also used Copilot to help develop the new list of Futuristic Finds with the query: What books on AI topics may have influenced some of the technological advancements we are seeing today? The report features four research analyses, sprinkled within each grade-range section, which explore reading topics relevant to those grades. Julianne Robar, Senior Director Metadata & Product Interoperability at Renaissance, wrote the Introduction to this year’s report, drawing on her expertise in content development and her time spent as a fellow in the inaugural EdSAFE AI Alliance's Women in AI cohort.

The Full Report and additional information is available online.

Publication Date:
05/01/2008

Updated: 04/09/2024