Your child's BOG scores will be coming home on Monday. On them, you will see an estimated Lexile level for your child based on their performance on the test. Lexile measures text complexity. This number is useful to you because there are a wide variety of search options available where you can put in your child's Lexile score and see lists of books that are appropriate. Of course, once you go to the library and check these books out, you'll still want your student to read a page or two outloud to you so that you can assess whether they know all the words and comprehend the text by asking them questions about the pages they read. You might find they need to go down a little bit in the text difficulty, but the Lexile level is a helpful guide to finding those "Good Fit Books." Barnes & Noble and Scholastic also have Lexile search engines that can help you! Here's a great site to search:
Thanks for helping your child read appropriately leveled books at home.
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