Leveling Resource Guide

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Use this guide to select motivating books that will realistically meet the instructional needs of all of your readers at any level. For more information about the Guided Reading Levels, Developmental Reading Levels, or Lexile Levels, see below.

Guided Reading Levels
Leveling criteria developed and introduced to educators by Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell through their books Guided Reading: Good First Teaching for All Children (Heinemann, 1996), Guiding Readers and Writers Grades 3-6 (Heinemann, 2001), plus others.

DRA Levels
(Developmental Reading Assessment)
Leveling criteria developed and introduced to educators by Joetta Beaver through her various assessment tools such as DRA Developmental Reading Assessment K-3 Teacher Resource Guide (Celebration Press, 2001), plus others.

Lexile® Levels
A leveling criteria developed and introduced by MetaMetrics, Inc.
Books are assigned Lexile levels by the company using their proprietary leveling system. Students are tested with proprietary tests to determine the Lexile level at which they are reading.

		Scholastic Guided Reading Level		DRA Level		Lexile® Level
Kindergarten		A		A–2		200–400
		B		1–2
		C		3
		D		4
First Grade		A		A–2		200–400
		B		1–2
		C		3
		D		4
		E		6–8
		F		10
		G		12
		H		14
		I		16
Second Grade		E		6–8		300–600
		F		10
		G		12
		H		14
		I		16
		J		18-20
		K		18-20
		L		24–28
		M		24–28
		N		30
Third Grade		J		18–20		500–800
		K		18–20
		L		24–28
		M		24–28
		N		30
		O		34–38
		P		34–38
		Q		40
Fourth Grade		M		24–28		600–900
		N		30
		O		34–38
		P		34–38
		Q		40
		R		40
		S		44/50
		T		44/50
Fifth Grade		Q		40		700–1000
		R		40
		S		44/50
		T		40/50
		U		44/50
		V		44/50
Sixth Grade		T		44/50		800–1050
		U		44/50
		V		44/50
		W		60
		X		60
		Y		60
		Z		70–80

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