Read & Understand with Leveled Texts, Grade 1 Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Publisher: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers

I hope this is the start of a new trend of him reading more on his own. If you've been reading my recent posts you'll know that I recently attended a conference with Lucy Calkins about her Units of Study in Reading, grades 3-5. How do I ensure my readers are reading books that they can understand, while teaching them to become more independent in choosing the right books, and maintaining my positive community of readers? I just call them by the Our school has a library we can pick from that are leveled and come in bags with 6 books inside. The student's practice their fluency skills and reading strategies and I keep track of how they are reading, their level of understanding of reading strategies, etc. All his Reading Comprehension activities this week were from Evan Moor Read and Understand with Leveled Texts, Grade 3. I divide my student's into 5 groups: my Monday group, Tuesday group, Wednesday group, Thursday group, Friday group. The popularity of leveling was also enhanced by Marie Clay in 1991 with her Reading Recovery System which made teachers search for books with closely spaced difficulty reading levels, and these were aimed at primary . One of the challenges of the "complex text" is gaining a real understanding of exactly what it is. Here's how I set my things up: Folders and books. One thing that she said that really stuck in our So what do I do? But I also think, to an exstent, that It should be fairly obvious to most people which books are appropriate for which grade level. Prior to reading this article, I was not familiar to these terms, and did not quite understand the difference at first.