Leveled Books, K-8: Matching Texts to Readers for Effective Teaching

by Irene C. Fountas, Gay Su Pinnell

Fountas & Pinnell take you through every aspect of leveled books from how to select and use them for different instructional purposes to prototype descriptions for fiction and nonfiction books at each level.

Genres: Education, Professional Development, Teaching

288 pages, Paperback

First published December 7, 2005

Reviews

[stephanie · Rating 3 out of 5]

surprisingly helpful, it not only finally gave me examples of books on grade-appropriate reading levels, but then kind of explained why they were there. the charts and stuff are really helpful too, as are the ideas for starting your own classroom library.

my only real problem with this book is that it didn't address the problem in SPED, when you have kids reading, say, three grade levels belong their aged-peers, and how to find appropriate books for them. it did reassure me that the books i have been collecting are age appropriate and possibly even level-appropriate.

i wish there had been a section on recommended books for boys who hate to read. i know what to recommend to girls who tell me that, but i don't know if boys just want to read about boys, or if they could be interested in a story about a girl. not to mention the question of diversity - these are inner-city rough and tough kids. all i've gotten from people is Holes, which, okay, but more? i need tons of books!

but back to the point, this was really really helpful in determining what books would go on which level (they have each grade divided by even more subdivisions), how to teach to a differentiated classroom, how to teach reading (most strategies would not work so well in the SPED classroom, though), and examples. best one i've found so far.

[Kris Patrick]

I came across this book while getting organized to for the school year, and thought, hey! yeah! I'll read this and become super smart about everything reading! About fifty pages in I thought - to borrow from a label my husband gave one of his Goodreads shelves - this book is putting my socks to sleep.

[Diana Sarao · Rating 4 out of 5]

Leveling is a tools for educators- not for students!