Please Read..More Leveling Resources!

[Erica Lingrell]

Hi! Joyce Romano, an experience Lit specialist, wrote me with some more resources for English and Spanish text. Please read below. Also, thank you to Vanessa for sharing a resource that you found! If anyone has a response to these resources, we would love to hear from you!

Good luck!
Erica

Hi,

I've been meaning to respond to your email - sorry it's taken me awhile.  I don't know of any on-line resources specifically for leveling Spanish texts, but sometimes the following resources list levels for Spanish title trade books:

 1. Scholastic Book Wizard - type in the title and indicate whether you want the grade level equivalent or the Fountas & Pinnell level.

http://www.scholastic.com/bookwizard/

2.  You can register at http://www.titlewave.com/ which is the Follett website, and then enter titles. They provide only grade level equivalents, and sometimes conflicting levels, but they have a huge catalog of books so I often use them when I can't find a title anywhere else first.  They do have a lot of Spanish titles.

 3. This is the website for Accelerated Reader. You just indicate that you're a teacher and you can enter titles and get levels - I think just grade level equivalents.  I don't know if they have many or any Spanish titles.

http://www.arbookfind.com/UserType.aspx

4. The Fountas & Pinnell official website:

http://www.fountasandpinnellleveledbooks.com/

You have to pay $25 for an annual subscription.  This website is great for English titles but I don't think they have Spanish titles.

5.  For Guided Reading books (e.g. Rigby), the specific publishers' websites/catalogs usually carry the levels.

6.  This school district has their own website. I haven't used it much and don't know how extensive it is, especially for Spanish titles, but they do list F&P levels.

https://leveledbooks.beaverton.k12.or.us/

7.  For some 1st grade and early 2nd grade trade books, the Reading Recovery/Descubriendo la lectura website provides levels.

Last year I helped the 2nd grade teachers level their trade books, and we did it by gathering possible levels from all the above sources, and then physically grouping the books and reading through them to make our final decision.  I'll pass along that list of titles to you in a couple of days.  This was a time consuming effort but it was really good for getting us to think about what makes one book more challenging than another.  The levels are tentative, open to change as they actually get used with the students.

I hope this helps in the meantime.

Joyce Romano