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Leveled Read Alouds Page 1 LEVELED TEXT CHART Grade Level Guided Reading DRA Kindergarten A A-1 Kindergarten- B 2-3 Grade 1 C 4 The chart on the left shows the D 6 equivalency E 8 between the Grade 1 F 10 Guided Reading G 12 Levels (letters) and the DRA H 14 Grades 1-2 Levels (numbers) I 16 at each grade J 18 level. Grade 2 K 20 Please refer to L 2 Grades 2-3 this chart when M 28 helping children Grade 3 N 30 select books at their independent O 34 Grades 3-4 reading level. P 38 Q Grade 4 R 40 S Grades 4-5 T Grade 5 U 50 V Grades 5-6 W X 60 Grades 6-8 Y Grades 7-8 Z 80 MEM FOX’S Page 2 Ten Read-Aloud Commandments SuggestedSuggested ReadRead --AloudAloud TitlesTitles Teachers College Reading and WriƟng Project 1.1. Spend at least ten wildly happy Amber Was Brave, Falling Down the Page Lile Louie the Baby minutes every single day Essie Was Smart Georgia Heard Bloomer reading aloud. Vera B. Williams Robert Kraus Flush 2. Read at least three stories a The Best Christmas Carl Hiaasen One Green Apple day: it may be the same story Pageant Ever Eve Bunng three times. Children need to Barbara Robinson The Flying Bed: hear a thousand stories before A Magical Adventure Sacagawea they can begin to learn to read. Birdsongs Nancy Willard Liseloe Erdrich 3. Read aloud with animation. Betsy Franco Listen to your own voice and Grandmama's Pride This Place I Know: don’t be dull, or flat, or boring. But That’s Another Story Becky Birtha Poems of Comfort Hang loose and be loud, have Sandy Asher Georgia Heard fun and laugh a lot. Hiromi’s Hands Coming Home: 4. Read with joy and enjoyment: Lynne Barasch Those Shoes From the Life of real enjoyment for yourself and Maribeth Boelts great joy for listeners. Langston Hughes The Librarian of Basra: Floyd Cooper A True Story from Iraq While No One Was 5. Read the stories that the kids Jeanee Winter Watching love, over and over and over Exploding Ants Jane Leslie Conly again, and always read in the Joanne Seel same ‘tune’ for each book: i.e. with the same intonations on each page, each time. 6. Let children hear lots of Leveled Read Aloud Titles language by talking to them constantly about the pictures, or anything else connected to LEVEL I the book; or sing any old song that you can remember; or say nursery rhymes in a bouncy The Dark How to Lose All Your The Lile Engine That way; or be noisy together Robert Munsch Friends Could doing clapping games. Nancy Carlson Way Piper 7. Look for rhyme, rhythm or Henny Penny repetition in books for young Paul Galdone Knuffle Bunny Trouble in the Barkers’ children, and make sure the Mo Willems Class books are really short. How I Spent My Summer Tomie dePaola Vacaon Leo the Late Bloomer 8. Play games with the things that Mark Teague Robert Kraus you and the child can see on the page, such as letting kids finish rhymes, and finding the letters that start the child’s name and yours, remembering LEVEL J that it’s never work, it’s always a fabulous game. Bippity Bop Barbershop I Have A Sister My Sister Is Deaf 9. Never, ever teach reading, or Natasha Anastasia Tarpley Jeanne Whitehouse Peterson get tense around books. 10. Please read aloud every day, Circus Family Dog Ish mums and dads, because you Andrew Clements Peter Reynolds just love being with your child, not because it’s the right thing Coyote: A Trickster Tale from the to do. American Southwest Gerald McDermo Page 3 Leveled Read Aloud Titles LEVEL K LEVEL L LEVEL M A Day’s Work Chrysanthemum Fly Away Home The One in the Middle is the Eve Bunng Kevin Henkes Eve Bunng Green Kangaroo Judy Blume Fireflies Creatures of Earth, Sea, and Freedom Summer Julie Brinkloe Sky: Animal Poems Deborah Wiles Patrol: An American Soldier Georgia Heard in Vietnam Jamaica’s Find Hip Cat Walter Dean Myers Jaunita Havill Dancing in the Wings Jonathan London Debbie Allen Rats on the Roof A Leer to Amy Knots on a Counng Rope and Other Stories Ezra Jack Keats Bill Marn Hurricane! James Marshall Jonathan London The Wednesday Surprise The Old Woman Who Saturdays and Teacakes Eve Bunng Making the World Named Things Lester Laminack Douglas Wood Cynthia Rylant LEVEL N LEVEL O Amber Brown Is Not My Name is Maria Almost Starring Lavender Skinnybones a Crayon Isabel Skinny Bones Karen Hesse Leo Lionni and Paula Danziger Alma Flor Ada Barbara Parks Barbara Park The Most Beauful The Chalk Box Kid Sidewalk Story Amber Brown Goes Place in the World Story of Ruby Bridges Clyde Robert Bulla Sharon Bell Mathias Fourth Ann Cameron Robert Coles Paula Danziger Donovan’s Word Jar The Stories Julian Tells Rats! Under the Sunday Tree Monalisa Degross Ann Cameron Appalachia: The Voices Paul Zindel Eloise Greenfield of Sleeping Birds Seven Kisses in a Row Flight Cynthia Rylant Wings Patricia MacLachlan Robert Burleigh Christopher Meyers LEVEL P LEVEL Q “The single most important activity Brown Angles: An Album of Songs of Myself: Fourth Grade Rats Pictures and Verse An Anthology of Poems Jerry Spinelli for building the Walter Dean Myers and Art knowledge Georgia Heard Fudge‐a‐Mania Fantasc Mr. Fox Judy Blume required for Roald Dahl Who Stole The Wizard of Oz? eventual success Avi Just Juice The Hundred Dresses Karen Hesse in reading is Eleanor Estes Wilma Unlimited Kathleen Krull Mr. Popper’s Penguins reading aloud The Hundred Penny Box Richard Atwater and Florence Atwater Sharon Mathis to children.” The Sunsets of Miss Olivia Wiggins Smoky Night -Commission on Reading Lester Laminack Eve Bunng Page 4 Leveled Read Aloud Titles LEVEL R LEVEL S America Street: A Fig Pudding Sadako and the Amelia to Zora: Mick Harte was Here Mulcultural Anthology Ralph Fletcher Thousand Paper Cranes Twenty‐Six Women Barbara Park of Stories Eleanor Coerr Who Changed the Frindle Anne Mazer World Pink and Say Andrew Clements Patricia Polacco Sarah, Plain and Tall Jacqueline Woodson Bat Boy and His Violin Hatchet Patricia MacLachlan Gavin Curs Gary Paulsen The Gi Giver Taste of Blackberries The Secret Soldier Joyce Hansen Doris Buchanan Smith Because of Winn Dixie Ann McGovern The Landry News Kate DiCamillo Yellow Bird and Me Andrew Clements Shiloh The Great Gilly Hopkins Joyce Hansen Laminack Charloe’s Web Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Katherine Paterson Rules E.B. White Cynthia Lord Sun and Spoon Journey Kevin Henkes Patricia MacLachlan LEVEL T LEVEL U LEVEL V Baby The Islander The Boy Who Owned the School The Birthday Room Patricia MacLachlan Cynthia Rylant Gary Paulsen Kevin Henkes Bridge to Terabithia The Lion, the Witch and the Bud, Not Buddy Crash Katherine Paterson Wardrobe Christopher Curs Jerry Spinelli C.S. Lewis Cassie Binegar The Miraculous Journey of Patricia MacLachlan Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Edward Tulane Holes Lois Sachar Thief Kate DiCamillo Danny, The Champion Wendelin Van of the World Draanen The View From Saturday Locomoon Roald Dahl E.L. Konigsburg Jacqueline Woodson Sing Down the Wringer I’ve Seen the Promise Land Moon A Long Way From Jerry Spinelli Walter Dean Myers Sco O’Dell Chicago Richard Peck The Music of Dolphins Karen Hesse LEVEL W LEVEL X LEVEL Y Stargirl Freak the Mighty 13 : Thirteen Stories That Becoming Naomi Leon Jerry Spinelli Rodman Philbrick Capture the Agony and Pam M. Ryan Tuck Everlasng Home of the Brave Ecstasy of Being Thirteen James Howe Natalie Babbi Katherine Applegate Burning Up Caroline Cooney Hoot The Devil’s Arithmec A Year Down Yonder Carl Hiaasen Jane Yolen The Giver Richard Peck Lois Lowry Missing May Out of the Dust Yolanda’s Genius Cynthia Rylant Karen Hesse The Monument Carol Fenner Through My Eyes Gary Paulsen Ruby Bridges Where The Red Fern Grows Slake's Limbo Walk Two Moons Wilson Rawls Felice Holman Sharon Creech Page 5 Mathemacs Titles NUMBERS IN BASE TEN OPERATIONS & ALGEBRAIC THINKING How much, How many, How Far, How heavy, Mission: Addition Each Orange Had 8 Slices How long, How tall is 1000? Loreen Leedy Paul Giganti Tracy Walker (Grades K-4) (Grades K-3) (Grades K-4) Subtraction Action The Great Divide: A Mathematical How many seeds in a Pumpkin? Loreen Leedy Marathon Margaret Mcnamara (Grades K-2) Dayle Ann Dodds (Grades PreK-2) (Grades K-6) Rooster’s Off to See the World Great Estimations Eric Carle Domino Addition Bruce Goldstone (Grades PreK-2) Lynette Long (Grades 2-5) (Grades 2-5) Let’s Count to 100! Masayuki Sebe (Grades PreK-2) MEASUREMENT & DATA The Coin Counting Book Millions to Measure FRACTIONS Rozanne Lanczak Williams David Schwartz & Steven Kellogg (Grades 2-5) (Grades K-3) Benny’s Pennies Me and the Measure of Things The Pizza Counting If You Were Pat Brisson Joan Sweeny Book a Fraction (Grades K-2) (Grades PreK-3) Christina Dobson Trisha Speed Shaskan (Grades K-4) (Grades 2-4) Telling Time: How to Tell Time on Inch by Inch Digital and Analog Clocks Leo Leonni Fraction Action Apple Fractions Jules Older (Grades K-3) Loreen Leedy Jerry Pallotta (Grades 2-4) (Grades 3-5) (Grades K-3) How Big is a Foot? A Second is a Hiccup Rolf Myller The Wishing Club Hazel Hutchins (Grades 1-3) Donna JoNapoli (Grades Prek-2) (Grades 2-5) Bananas! Me Counting Time: From Seconds Jaqueline Farmer to Centuries (Grades K-4) Joan Sweeny GEOMETRY (Grades PreK-3) Spaghetti and Meatballs for All Marilyn Burns (Grades PreK-5) The Greedy Triangle Marilyn Burns (Grades K-5) LOOK FOR THESE SERIES! A Cloak for the Dreamer Aileen Friedman (Grades K-5) Pigs Will be Pigs Math Start Books Windows, Rings, and Grapes- Amy Axelrod Stuart Murphy A Look at Different Shapes Brian Cleary Warlord’s Sir Cumference (Grades K-3) Virginia Walton Pilegard Cindy Neuwschwander & Wayne Geehan .
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