[CASL-L] Leveling of books?

[Lauren Hunt]

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 at 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).
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Thank you for any help you can give me!
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> Sarah Zajac
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> South Elementary School
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> Windsor Locks, CT 06096
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*Lauren Hunt*
*Library Media Specialist*
*Danbury Public Schools*
Ellsworth Avenue Media Center <http://ellsworthmedia.weebly.com/>

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the right one.” - Neil Gaiman
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