Many of us attended guided reading sessions today.
If not, we are all going through Fountas and Pinnell Benchmark assessments - with the purpose of informing our instruction for small groups during reading.
So with some of my time this afternoon, I attempted to rally some leveled reading materials and resources.
Small groups can be guided and level based. They can be focused on a strategy that different levels of students need improvement. These groups might listen to an above level text read aloud, or independent level texts may be used to ensure easy decoding so the focus is on comprehension.
We have many leveled options available to us; however, it never seems like enough!
Here are some leveling options to play around with when planning for guided reading or strategy groups. Its difficult to find a correlation or conversion chart where Fountas and Pinnell levels match up exactly with Lexile or other leveling systems. Teacher judgement and testing texts out will most likely be needed when using some of the following resources.
Also, look at students' Lexile scores on myON and MAP! How exciting to have so much data to take into consideration when planning for the best interests of our students!
Ways to find levels
Lexile correlation to FnP levels - with Lexile in small increments.
Reading A-Z levels correlation to FnP and Lexile - Lexiles in increments ranging from 50 to 370
If not, we are all going through Fountas and Pinnell Benchmark assessments - with the purpose of informing our instruction for small groups during reading.
So with some of my time this afternoon, I attempted to rally some leveled reading materials and resources.
Small groups can be guided and level based. They can be focused on a strategy that different levels of students need improvement. These groups might listen to an above level text read aloud, or independent level texts may be used to ensure easy decoding so the focus is on comprehension.
We have many leveled options available to us; however, it never seems like enough!
Here are some leveling options to play around with when planning for guided reading or strategy groups. Its difficult to find a correlation or conversion chart where Fountas and Pinnell levels match up exactly with Lexile or other leveling systems. Teacher judgement and testing texts out will most likely be needed when using some of the following resources.
Also, look at students' Lexile scores on myON and MAP! How exciting to have so much data to take into consideration when planning for the best interests of our students!
Ways to find levels
Lexile correlation to FnP levels - with Lexile in small increments.
Reading A-Z levels correlation to FnP and Lexile - Lexiles in increments ranging from 50 to 370
https://readability-score.com - I would focus on Flesch-Kincaid options and correlate to Lexile.
Book Wizard - Scholastic book search by guided reading (FnP) level or Lexile
Leveled Text options
Fiction and Non-fiction leveled passage - by Lexile
Newsela.com - nonfiction texts by grade level and Lexile
Pearson leveled books - same log-in as Pearson Math - guided reading levels tend to be harder than RAZ or FnP levels
Don't forget about Komensky's BOOK ROOM in the back of the science/art room!!!
And of course myON's books are leveled my Lexile and guided reading levels!
And of course myON's books are leveled my Lexile and guided reading levels!
