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Scholastic has provided this leveling resource to help you align our leveled and guided reading materials to your existing reading program. It is our goal to help you match your readers to the appropriate text for successful growth in reading.

Educators often use multiple leveling systems when matching books to readers. The Scholastic products found in this catalog have been leveled for your convenience and ease-of-use, whether you need to select the "just-right" level of text for your students or when creating, building, or enhancing your classroom library.

Levels represented on the chart to the right have been broadly aligned with grades K–6 according to the recommendations of our renowned reading experts and professional educators. The chart will help you to quickly review Scholastic's range of recommended levels for each grade. Now you can evaluate the needs of your students and select from motivating books that will realistically meet the instructional need of ALL of your readers at any level.

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.