Accelerated Reader
Accelerated Reader ® is the world’s most popular reading management software. Used in nearly 73,000 North American schools, Accelerated Reader provides teachers with an easy and effective way to monitor all forms of guided reading practice.
Fountas & Pinnell reading levels is a system of reading levels A-Z developed by Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell to support their guided reading method, commonly referred to as Fountas & Pinnell. Reading text is classified according to various parameters, such as word count, number of different words, number of highfrequency words, sentence length, sentence complexity, word repetitions, illustration support, etc. Teachers use this leveled system of letters A-Z in small reading groups when reading is being taught at the lower grades. (Fountas, I. & Pinnell, G (1996). Guided reading. Portsmouth:Heinemann, 1996)
Lexile A Lexile measure is a valuable piece of information about either an individual’s reading ability or the difficulty of a text, like a book or magazine article. A student gets his or her Lexile reader measure from a reading test or program. A book, article or piece of text gets a Lexile text measure when it’s analyzed by MetaMetrics. The idea behind The Lexile Framework for Reading is simple: if we know how well a student can read and how hard a specific book is to comprehend, we can predict how well that student will likely understand the book.
Library of Congress
LEVELED READING PROGRAMS
Fountas & Pinnell
The Library of Congress is the nation’s oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections. The Library’s mission is to support the Congress in fulfilling its constitutional duties and to further the progress of knowledge and creativity for the benefit of the American people.
For more information, please contact your Educational Services Representative or find complete leveling information at ubamleveling.com.
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