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Printable leveled book list - The Measured Mom
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IMPORTANT UPDATE: As I learn more about the science of reading and how our children learn to read, I have come to the conclusion that leveled books are not the best reading material for brand-new readers. Instead, they need a steady diet of high quality decodable books so they learn to pay attention to the letters and sounds right from the beginning. I will keep this post here, but I wanted to share this important insight.
Today’s post is for the parents who want to support their child’s beginning reading efforts at home – but they visit the library and don’t know where to begin.
Let’s talk easy reader book series.
- My First I Can Read
- Step Into Reading
- Hello Reader
- Ready to Read
- I can Read
And that’s just the beginning! The maddening thing is that each collection of books – and even books within the same series – are wildly different when it comes to reading level.
What’s a parent to do?
The first thing to do is understand guided reading levels. These are the levels that many teachers use when they teach small reading groups.
Level A
Level A books are hard to find at the library, because they’re very, very simple. In fact, teachers usually have to order these books from special publishing companies. But if you hunt, you can find a small collection at your library, such as the books listed above.
Level A books typically have predictable language patterns, high frequency words that are used over and over, and a single line of text per page.
Please note: As stated above, I no longer recommend using these early leveled books with brand new readers. They simply don’t have the phonics knowledge to read the words, and using only leveled books can lead to the bad habit of guessing.
Level B
Level B books are very similar to A books, but they may have two lines of text on a page.
There is a direct correspondence between the text and the pictures; the print is clear and easy to read. Like level A, level B books are in short supply unless you special order them.
Level C
Level C books are longer than level B books, but they still have only a few lines of text per page. The pictures are still very important in supporting meaning. Some level C books use pattern and repetition.
Level D
As you move into level D, you will notice that the stories are slightly more complex. The illustrations support the text, but children will need to pay more attention to the print. Words often contain more inflectional endings, such as ing, ed, and s.
Here I am again! We want all readers to pay attention to print from the very beginning. You can see that these early levels don’t require much of that at all because kids can use pictures and predictable text to “read” many of the books. Contact me via the support tab if you’re looking for quality decodable books.
Level E
As we move to higher levels, the amount of text gradually increases. Level E books have 3-8 lines of text per page. Stories are more complex, and repeating patterns are less frequent. While the illustrations are helpful, students will need to do more problem solving to figure out new words.
Sigh. When I originally wrote this post I wrote that kids would need to do “more” problem solving to figure out new words. Now I understand that they should be sounding out words from the very beginning so they can orthographically map the words. Not sure what that means? Contact me via the support tab.
Level F
Since level F texts are slightly longer than level E, the print is smaller. Text carries more of the meaning, and children need to use sight word knowledge as they read. Unlike lower level books, level F books have a clear beginning, middle, and end.
Level G
These books contain more challenging ideas and vocabulary, and the sentences are longer than lower level books.
Level G books introduce children to new vocabulary.
Level H
Level H books are very similar to level G, but the vocabulary and language continue to get more complex. There is less repetition as the books continue to sound more like stories.
Level I
Level I books have a more complex story structure. Illustrations provide low support, and there are more sentences on each page.
Level J
I have found level J to be a magical level. Many, many wonderful books are written for children at level J. Even better – many come in a series. At this point your child is starting to read fluently and maybe even read in his head. Level J books often have short chapters, include dialogue, and have a clear font with space between the lines.
Level K
Level K books are simple, but slightly longer than level J books. Chapters are short. The books include illustrations on most pages, but they are not essential to understanding the text.
Layout is still reader-friendly; level K books have a large, clear font with clear spaces between the lines.
Update
As stated many times in the above post, I no longer recommend the early levels (about levels A-G) for early readers because kids really need to sound out words as they learn to read.
It’s all about helping them permanently store the words in their sight vocabulary. Research tells us that this happens when kids match the sounds to the letters (fancy words: phonemes to the graphemes), and it’s hard for them to do this when they’re not looking at the words at all, but rather looking at pictures to solve words.
I know that many teachers still use the early levels with young readers (I certainly did until diving deep into the research led me to reconsider).
But if you are teaching brand new readers, let me encourage you to use decodable text instead. Search “decodable” in the site’s search bar. In the future I’ll be adding free decodable texts to this website.
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Guided Reading — Hubbard's Cupboard
During shared reading in the kindergarten classroom, teachers guide the entire class through stories with a high level of support. It is considered guided reading at this level. In order to continue meeting the needs of beginning or emergent readers, many kindergarten teachers are also incorporating modified aspects of the guided reading used in most first grade classrooms.
Guided reading has many of the same components as shared reading. However, it is conducted with a smaller number of students and focuses more on the individual reading needs of each child. During guided reading, teachers work with students at their instructional level to guide them in using the context, visual, and structure cues within stories to generate meaning.
By using instructional level texts that gradually increase in difficulty, students apply strategies in context and feel successful! The end goal, as with any literacy component used in kindergarten, is for students to become confident, proficient readers who LOVE to read!
Guided reading in kindergarten can be conducted one on one or in small groups using books with predictable text, decodable text, books containing a large number of sight words, specially leveled books in a series, or trade books. Teachers in a half day setting may meet with each guided reading group once or twice a week while full day kindergarten classrooms may be able to meet daily.
Below are some resources that should be helpful for starting guided reading in the kindergarten classroom...
Skills and Strategies to Focus On
Leveling Books
Running Records
Where to Find Leveled Sets of Emergent Readers
Blackline Masters for Non Leveled Emergent Readers
Take Home Book Boxes
More Guided Reading Resources and References
Skills and Strategies to Focus On:
These are just a few areas in which to help students with during guided reading.
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- tracking print left to right and word by word
- one to one matching
- using picture cues
- applying letter and sound knowledge in context
- activating prior knowledge
- recognizing and reading sight words
- predicting and inferring
- attending to concepts of print (spacing, capitalization, punctuation)
- retelling a story with sequence and story elements (characters, setting, beginning, middle, end)
- self correcting
Reading Cues - P rompts and strategies for 'during reading' to help beginning readers
Leveling Books:
Reading Recovery, Fountas and Pinnell, and different publishers have varying leveling systems. How do educators compare levels and use books from different sources? How do we level books that currently do not contain a level? Check out the informative links below!
Characteristics for Book Levels - The traits for each book level, as determined by Fountas & Pinnell, are described on page 5 of this PDF document published by CIERA.
This is also a great place to refer to when leveling books and booklets that have not been previously leveled.
Scholastic Book Wizard - allows you to search for books by author, title, or keyword and provides information for each book on on interest and grade level
Running Records:
Running records are used to assess and record what cueing systems students are currently using while reading. It also helps to determine the difficulty level of the text they are reading and assists teachers in accurately matching students to instructional level materials.
Running Records - free, printable form
Assessment Tips - From Reading A-Z
Running Record Calculator - from the University of NC
Running Record Calculator
Where to Find Sets of Leveled Emergent Reader Books:
Printable Booklets - some free and some for a fee from Reading a-z
Creative Teaching Press - I especially like CTP's Learn to Read Series (predictable, engaging text for early readers)! The Sight Word Readers and Dr.
Maggie's Phonics Readers (decodable) are also good from CTP.
Scholastic Guided Reading
Wright Group
Take Home Readers - from Keep Books
Black Line Masters for Non Leveled Emergent Reader Booklets:
StarFall On Line Readers - on line decodable books and free booklets for teachers
Printable Booklets for Emergent Readers - booklets to correspond with story lessons, sight words, word families, and concepts (all here at Hubbard's Cupboard!)
Make Your Own Mini Books - printable booklets from DLTK
Single Page Stories for Kindergarten and 1st Graders - from Clark Ness
- 25 Emergent Reader Mini-Books (Grades K-1) by Maria Fleming
- Pocket Charts for Emergent Readers (Grades K-1) by Valerie Schifferdanoff
- 25 Science Mini-Books for Emergent Readers (Grades K-1) by Carol Pugliano-Martin
- 20 Sing-Along Mini-Books for Emergent Readers: Sweet and Simple Stories That Can Be Sung to the Tunes of Favorite Children's Songs by Maria Fleming
- 25 Holiday & Seasonal Emergent Reader Mini-Books (Grades K-1) by Maria Fleming
- Take Home Books: Math by Karen P.
Hall - Take Home Books: Science by Karen P. Hall
- Take Home Books: Social Studies by Karen P. Hall
- Take Home Books: Fun and Fantasy by Karen P. Hall
- Look, Look, I Wrote a Book: Reproducible Little Books for Emergent Readers by Linda Ball
Take Home Book Boxes:
Sample Home Poems and Booklets Letter - a PDF from Hubbard's Cupboard. I sent this letter home with the book boxes that each child made. The boxes were used to store copies of poems, reproducible booklets, and retelling booklets that we read many times in class and corresponded to our shared reading stories. You could send a similar note home with your students' book boxes and use the boxes to store their reproducible leveled readers. Boxes can be made from shoe boxes, dry laundry detergent boxes, bakery boxes, etc.! The goal of the take home book boxes is to provide/extend appropriate reading materials in the home and to encourage reading at home!
More Guided Reading Resources and References:
Making Guided Reading Work - a wonderful PDF article written and shared by Lori St.
Amand & Chris Binicki - explains in detail how to introduce literacy centers, how to implement guided reading, and guided reading concepts to focus on in a half day Kindergarten classroom
Guided Reading in First Grade -from eHow
Guided Reading Workshop- for elementary classroom teachers, info, printables, and video
- Guided Reading : Good First Teaching for All Children by Irene C. Fountas, Gay Su Pinnell
- Matching Books to Readers: Using Leveled Books in Guided Reading, K-3 by Gay Su Pinnell, Lois Bridges Bird, Irene C. Fountas
- Guided Reading: Making It Work (Grades K-3) by Mary Browning Schulman, Mary Browning Shulman, Carleen dacruz Payne
- Balancing Literacy: A Balanced Approach to Reading and Writing Instructions Gr. K-2 by Dr. Margaret Allen
- An Observation Survey Of Early Literacy Achievement by Marie M. Clay
- The Teacher's Guide to the Four Blocks by Patricia Cunningham, Dorothy Hall, & Cheryl Sigmon
How to read books for free on Android and iOS
January 30, 2021 Likbez Technologies
There are at least five different ways.
1. Applications of major services (only classics available)
Major book services not only distribute books for money, but also provide free and legal access to classics. To start reading, just install the desired application on your smartphone and find the book you are interested in in its catalog. After downloading it to your device, you can read without an Internet connection.
Cross-platform applications of services such as Bookmate, LitRes (Read books online) and MyBook are at your service. According to official information, their libraries contain 50,000, 32,000 and 27,000 free texts, respectively.
Bookmate and MyBook allow you to read books only inside their programs. Against this background, LitRes has an advantage. So, you can select a book in the Read Books Online app and export it to any third-party reader. Almost every book on LitRes is available in several formats: FB * 2, ePub, PDF and others.
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Price: Free Google Play Books and Apple Books
Google and Apple branded stores contain a variety of books, many of which are available for free.
These are mainly classical works, as well as books by independent authors, but sometimes there are also popular novelties. Most of the content on Apple Books is in English. Google Play Books has a lot of literature, comics, textbooks and audiobooks in Russian.
To read, you need to install the official application on your smartphone.
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3. "Read Free" application
This is another LitRes application, but available only on the Android platform. The program catalog contains more than 50,000 free books, including modern fiction and non-fiction. In "Read for free" you will find both texts by domestic authors and translated books by foreign writers.
Texts are monetized by showing ads, so be prepared to be distracted from reading by annoying ads. But if you're a master at concentration, you can give the program a try.
We also note that the range of the application does not include many popular texts that can be bought in offline stores or obtained from paid Bookmate, LitRes and MyBook catalogs.
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4. Free online libraries
In addition to paid services, there are online libraries where you can read books for free and completely legally. As a rule, the choice there is not so great, especially for literary novelties. However, you can always find something interesting. Here are some popular libraries:
- Samolit is a library with works by independent and emerging writers. Books are available for free, but there is an opportunity to thank the authors you like.
- TarraNova is an archive of foreign books, which are provided personally by the authors and translators or with their permission.
- Project Gutenberg is a well-known library of the eponymous project for the preservation of works of world literature that are in the public domain.
Books are available in various formats in English and other foreign languages. - Bookz.ru is a large library of conventional and audio books, where, in addition to the classics, there are modern works. Many books can be downloaded for free, but there are also paid ones.
5. "LitRes Library"
The service of the same name from "LitRes" allows you to legally and free of charge read any e-books from the catalog with a local library subscription. To do this, you need to issue a library card by contacting one of the nearest state libraries. By presenting your passport, you can get a login and password from your LitRes account in order to log in to the website or mobile application and read books at any time.
Some libraries issue a library card online. For example, in the Library of Foreign Literature at this link. If your local library is not connected to LitRes, ask the staff to write to [email protected] or do it yourself, indicating the contacts of the institution.
After registration in the catalog of books, in addition to the "Buy" button, there will be another one - "Take it from the library". Access to the work is issued for two weeks. You cannot extend the rental period, you can only request the book again. This works for both the text option and audiobooks. Copy protection does not allow you to simply download files to your device, you can only view them on the website or in the mobile application. In the latter case, offline reading is also available.
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This article was first published in February 2018. In January 2021, we updated the text.
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10 Ways to Get Books for Free
Do not curb your appetite for books for reasons of economy. After all, there are proven ways to get great books for free.
Here are 10 ways you can read more and... not pay at all!
1. Giveaways
Some book sites have book giveaways. They promise to send a certain number of copies to those who leave an application. Not everyone who expressed a desire to read it receives the book - the lucky ones are determined by chance. But the chances that the gift will sail to you are quite high. In addition, there are many such distributions, you will definitely be lucky in some!
Distribution is organized by publishers and authors. They are interested in promotion, and a mention in the “Giveaways” section is a good way to draw attention to the product.
Giveaways can be found on Goodreads, LiveLib.
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2. Good old libraries
Good old libraries keep inexhaustible reserves of excellently published classics. Things are not so good with new products, but this is a solvable issue. If the book you need is not available, it will be ordered for you through an interlibrary loan, found in another library and brought to you! So you will have more choice than some bookstores.
In addition, today the most common libraries lend readers not only paper but also electronic books. The ELS (Electronic Library System) operates, which provides access to both works of art and educational and scientific literature.
Please note: LitRes books can be read free of charge through your library. Here you will find general information about this possibility, and here you will find more detailed instructions.
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3. Bookcrossing
Bookcrossing is a hobby, a game, and a real social movement.
Readers leave books that they have already read in certain places, and in return they can take new ones that they like. It is a special pleasure to watch how the book travels from hand to hand, sometimes all over the world. For example, now there are already 9 million books in the world! In Russia, bookcrossing is a new idea, but already popular. Bookcrossing sites in your city are easy to find using any search engine, and you can also go and leave old books (and at the same time pick up new ones) in cafes, libraries and parks around the country, leaving a note in them “The book was not lost. It was specially left for you to take and read.” Addresses of popular bookcrossing points are available, for example, on the website bookcrossing.ru.
Don't want to go anywhere? Organize bookcrossing in your own entrance - just take out the books and put them on the ground floor and invite everyone to pick them up. You will see, the neighbors will also soon "do their bit" and add books to the shelf for exchange.
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4. Become a book reviewer
Many publishers will gladly send you their books if you tell about them later.
For example, the Alpina publishing house offers to send your books for free to anyone who has more than 500 subscribers on social networks. If you have a visited blog and you promise to write about a book, then other publishers will most likely not refuse you if you ask them for literature of interest. Such proposals can be addressed to the PR department or the press service.
And if you start reviewing books regularly, you will simply be inundated with literature! Just have time to read ...
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5. Borrow from friends
Friends will no doubt be happy to give you their books to read. And here's what they have good on the bookshelves, you can find out by registering on readrate.com. The resource allows you to exchange quotes and opinions about what you have read with friends.
Just go to the "Now online" section, switch the toggle switch to the "Friends" position and see who is reading what. Interested in a particular friend's home library? Just take a look at his profile and find out. The main thing is to read carefully and not to "flirt" books, even the most interesting ones.
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6. I'll give it away for free
When people run out of space for bookshelves in their apartment, they begin to distribute their library to everyone who wants it free of charge. That is, a gift. For example, people donate unwanted books to good hands on BookMix or LiveLib (select the filter “I will give a book as a gift”).
Non-specialized “Give away for free” communities, which, however, often distribute books:
LiveJournal
SwopShop
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7. Contests in social networks
This is entertainment for the well-read and gambling.
On the social pages of almost every publishing house (on Facebook and Vkontakte), books are regularly distributed to active visitors. Sometimes, in order to get the coveted volume, you have to answer questions and take part in a real quiz. But often it’s enough just to leave a like and repost - and read to your health!
8. Legal and free e-book libraries
Yes, yes! This also exists! There are not so few books in the world that can be downloaded and read completely free of charge, without violating the laws. And all these books are neatly collected by kind people in legal and convenient libraries. See the full list of these magical places here. As many as 20 sources of book happiness!
Just occasionally return to the real world from this virtual paradise for readers.
9. Pirates and semi-legal sites
In all honesty, we admit that often the right book can only be found on pirates or on semi-legal sites, as well as in torrents. Many works have not been published in paper form for a long time, no one has legally released them in electronic form, because they did not buy the rights.
Addresses, perhaps known to everyone: Rutracker.org and Rutor.org will not let you waste away without spiritual food.
By the way, a useful life hack: if you have installed the PocketBook Reader mobile application or have a PocketBook reader (one of the older models with WiFi), you can “register” free libraries directly in the reader. You will be able to search and download books directly from the application (from the reader). Connecting is very simple: tap the "Library" section in the menu, and then select "Online Libraries" at the top. Click on the plus sign in the upper right corner and add libraries (for example, http://flibusta.net/opds, http://lib.rus.ec/opds, http://coollib.net/opds, http:/ /asmodei.ru/opds). Now you can search for the desired book, and it will immediately download directly to your device! No wires or computer involved.
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10. Book fairs
At book fairs, books are not only sold, but often distributed as a promotion.
