LEVEL A:
Includes simple books with one line of one to six words per page, easy-to-see print, and ample space between words; children can focus on print and gradually increase their control over words; most of the books in Level A focus on topics familiar to children.

Level A titles:
A World of Animals Rodriguez
Who Am I? Lee
School Day! Cervantes
In the Woods Gibson

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LEVEL B:
Books focus on a simple story line or single idea, with direct correspondence between text and pictures; one or two lines of print per page, with a variety of punctuation; many books at this level feature repeating patterns in the text.

Level B titles:
Fat Cat Sat Tuchman
Hop In! Small-Gamby
Goldilocks Tarlow
Dan Ran Curry

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LEVEL C:
Books explore familiar topics in a variety of ways to offer new viewpoints to the reader; simple sentences may have introductory clauses set off by punctuation; text may be patterned but is not as predictable as in Levels A and B.

Level C titles:
Boots Schreiber
Music Is in the Air Morris
Raindrops Gay
What Lila Loves Scarf

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LEVEL D:
Books cover familiar topics but introduce new, more abstract ideas; illustrations support the text but more attention to print is required; text contains more compound and multisyllable words and a full range of punctuation.

Level D titles:
The Ball Game Packard
Don't Be Late Gibson
Hide and Seek Brown
I Love Mud and Mud Loves Me Stephens

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LEVEL E:
Stories have more or longer episodes; informational books present more complex ideas; books are longer than in previous levels, with more pages or more lines of text on each page; sentences carry over several pages, with more complex punctuation.

Level E titles:
The Rainy Day Alphabet Book Posner & Wiener
Wake Me in Spring Preller
Tortillas Gonzalez-Jensen
Mousetrap Snowball

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LEVEL F:
Concepts presented in books at this level are more distant from familiar topics; larger variety of frequently used words and many more new words; text reflects patterns of written, rather than oral, language.

Level F titles:
What's Inside? Martin
Frog's Lunch Lillegard
How Far Will I Fly? Oyama
Itchy, Itchy Chicken Pox Maccarone

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