[LIT] Reading Levels

[TLP]

--- Ginny White <ginnywhitefl at earthlink.net> wrote:

> There is no computer program that can match the
judgment of a teacher who has read a book and knows
the power of the discussion or the internal thinking
it can evoke.  I surely wish there were a better 
system ...


So true...we also have this issue. Our media
specialist and I are so saddened by this new
development. You see, our curriculum director loves
data and lexile levels are right up her alley! We now
must choose books that fall within the lexile level of
an average middle schooler. That means our core novel
can not be any of the ones I have seen suggested. 
I used these sources


http://www.lexile.com/pdf/lexilemap.pdf
http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=4476

The Giver is 760 or 3rd/4th grade level
Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry 920 5th grade level
The Outsiders 750 3rd/4th grade level
My brother Sam is Dead 770 3rd-4th grade level
Diary of Anne Frank 1080 6th /7th grade
Holes 660 3rd/4th grade
The Dark is Rising 930 5th grade
Walk Two Moons 770 3rd 4th grade
Number the Stars 670 3rd 4th grade
Hatchet 1230 7th -8th grade
1984 1090 6th grade
A Day No Pigs would Die 690 3-4
Milkweed 510 2nd/3rd grade
Touching Spirit Bear 670 3rd/4th grade


Sooo what do you think? The only books I could suggest
are Diary of Anne Frank 7th , Hatchet 8th  and 1984
for 6th. Do you think it has gone too far? 

 





TLP

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