[CASL-L] Leveling of books?

[Janice Pellegrino]

Hi Sarah -

I work as a school librarian and a public librarian and neither of those
collections are leveled, but students are always coming into the public
library looking for a specific level. It is frustrating when the publishers
all have different designations.  I'm not a reading specialist by any
means, but I did some research and created a document to help the public
librarians. There were some useful conversion charts that I found online
and included.  (Sorry, when I uploaded it to Google Docs, the formatting of
the document went funky.)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwsIR3LDGWu3bmRmMTVUWGJZMnBTZ2RPb3plS3hZX2pKXzJF/view?usp=sharing


On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 3:24 PM, Lauren Hunt <huntla at danbury.k12.ct.us>
wrote:

> 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).
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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>
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> *Danbury Public Schools*
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Joseph A. Foran High School
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