| When it comes to selecting "just the right" books for guided and independent reading, nobody can match Gay Su Pinnell and Irene Fountas. With Leveled Books for Readers, the authors build on their previous work, extending leveled books up through the elementary grades and covering all the different genres that are important to students.
More than 6,000 leveled titles for grades 2-6 are featured, including both fiction and nonfiction—as well as popular series books and short story collections—and genres as diverse as realistic fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, traditional literature, biography, and information books on a variety of content topics. Books are organized by title, by level of difficulty, and by genre to assist teachers not only in providing a range of quality texts in guided reading, but also in making recommendations for independent reading.
In addition to the book list itself, readers will also learn more about selecting and using books for different purposes in the literacy program and the process of "leveling" books—with many prototype descriptions for fiction and factual books at each level. Pinnell and Fountas offer a detailed explanation of the leveling process, advice on analyzing text characteristics as a foundation for teaching and using benchmark books to assess instructional levels for guided reading, along with separate chapters on how to select books and organize high-quality libraries in intermediate classrooms. There's also a full chapter on acquiring books and writing proposals to fund your efforts. |
Table of Contents
Contents:
1. Selecting and Using Books in a Literacy Program
2. Leveling Books: How and Why
3. Understanding Text Characteristics: Supports and Challenges
4. Analyzing Text Features to Determine Levels
5. Creating a High-Quality Leveled Book Collection
6. Understanding Levels of Text: J to M
7. Understanding Levels of Text: N to S
8. Understanding Levels of Text: S to Z
9. Leveled Books for Guided and Independent Reading
10. The Classroom Library
11. The Classroom Collection for Guided Reading
12. The School Book Room
13. How to Write Grant Proposals to Acquire More Books
14. Book Clubs, Gifts, and Cost-Effective Planning
Appendixes:
A. List of Publishers
B. Evaluation Response for Text Gradient
C. How to Use the Book List
D. Book List (6,000 Books Sorted by Title, Level, and Genre)
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