As a librarian, I tend to not mess with leveling books. I leave that up to the classroom teachers. Most systems (Atriumm, OPALS, Destiny) will have the level of the book right in the Marc record so you can see it when you are looking up the book on the catalog. If a teacher is looking for a certain level, I usually recommend to search by lexile, since so many different systems are being used to level books, and lexile is pretty universal. I do have one section of "Step Into Reading" books, but other than that I don't separate the levels into different sections of the library. Hope this helps!

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Zajac, Sarah <szajac@wlps.org> wrote:

I have a question for some of you… I was just wondering if there are any other libraries out there that level books.  My co-worker and I are starting to get frustrated with the fact that Scholastic, Fontas and Pinnell, Perma-Bound and Capstone all seem to be using their own “criteria,” creating completely different levels for the same book and not really sharing how they are coming up with these levels (or I’ve just never been able to find or get any answers).

 

I was wondering what other schools are using, if they are leveling, and if they have gotten any information about how these companies are coming up with levels.

 

The book that sent us over the edge today was “Who was Louis Braille?” which Scholastic has at a R but Guided Reading on Perma-Bound has it at M.

 

 

Thank you for any help you can give me!

 

Sarah Zajac

South Elementary School

Windsor Locks, CT 06096

 

 


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