Reading Levels Indicators

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Reading Levels Indicators

• Jenn Vallario
• EDST 6301 NA
• Literature for Children YA

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• Until third grade, a child learns to read.
  After third grade, a child reads to learn.

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The Reader

• Grades 6, 7, and 8
• Ages 10 14

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Characteristics of book

• Less illustrations
• More text smaller font
• Chapters
• Complex sentence structure
• Challenging vocabulary
• Sophisticated literary devices

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Readers attributes Features of text

• Prior knowledge
• Understanding of world around them

• More challenging subject matter
• Depiction of reality

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Readers attributes Features of text

• Growing sense of self ability to empathize
• Move from concrete thought to abstract thinking

• Strong development of complex characters
• Includes themes reader can interpret and think
  about critically

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Subject Matter

• Friendship
• The Alfred Summer
• Jan Slepian
• Identity
• Jacob Have I Loved
• Katherine Paterson
• Bronx Masquerade
• Nikki Grimes

• Responsibility Decision-Making
• It Only Looks Easy
• Pamela Curtis Swallow
• Sports
• Maniac McGee
• Jerry Spinelli
• Whale Talk
• Chris Crutcher

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Subject Matter

• Family
• Flood
• James Henghan
• Ordinary Jack
• Helen Cresswell

• Adjusting to life changes
• Dear Mr. Henshaw
• Beverly Cleary
• Step by Wicked Step
• Anne Fine

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Subject Matter

• Mortality
• Bridge to TerabithiaKatherine Paterson
• Survival / Heroes
• The Summer of Swans
• Betsy Byars

• Justice
• A Sweet Smell of Roses
• Angela Johnson
• A Lesson Before Dying
• Ernest J. Gaines

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Works Cited

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Works Cited

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