[Michlib-l] Lexile level and reading counts

[Cathy Moras]

Unfortunately, the quizzes are through a subscription service purchased by
school libraries.  My son has to take quizzes and he can only take them at
school:
http://www.renaissance.com/products/accelerated-reader/sample-quiz

I wish we had access at home, but I see that even the student app doesn't
allow quizzes to be taken from home, only at school.

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Mary Rice <mrice at milfordlibrary.info>
wrote:

> Apologies...I just re-read the original email and realized that the main
> concern is finding out if there are quizzes to go along with the books.
> Book Wizard doesn't appear to have that capability.  Still, it's a great
> tool for at least finding books within a certain level range.  Barbara's
> recommendation of AR BookFind seems to be the best bet.
>
>
>
> Mary Rice
> Head of Youth and Teen Services
> Milford Public Library
> 330 Family Dr
> Milford MI 48381
> (248) 684-0845 ext. 403
> mrice at milfordlibrary.info
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Mary Rice" <mrice at milfordlibrary.info>
> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2014 9:29am
> To: "Amelia Nolan" <anolan at sjcity.com>
> Cc: "michlib-l at mcls.org" <michlib-l at mcls.org>
> Subject: Re: [Michlib-l] Lexile level and reading counts
>
>  Scholastic's Book Wizard is another good tool.  You can search by title,
> similar books, and levels (Grade Level Equivalency, DRA, Guided Reading or
> Lexile).  You can also refine the searches by Interest Level,
> Theme/Subject, Genre, Series, and Language.  I did a search for 1130-1300
> and came up with 2057 books that included books ranging from the *Oxcart
> Man* to *Pride and Prejudice*.  Refining it to an Interest Level of 6th -
> 8th grades, gave me 1101 hits with books like the *Series of Unfortunate
> Events*, *Brian's Winter*, *Catherine Called Birdy* to name a few.
>
>
>
> http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/
>
>
>
>
>
> Mary Rice
> Head of Youth and Teen Services
> Milford Public Library
> 330 Family Dr
> Milford MI 48381
> (248) 684-0845 ext. 403
> mrice at milfordlibrary.info
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Amelia Nolan" <anolan at sjcity.com>
> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2014 4:09pm
> To: "michlib-l at mcls.org" <michlib-l at mcls.org>
> Subject: [Michlib-l] Lexile level and reading counts
>
>   Help! Has anyone else discovered an easy way to help parents with this
> conundrum of lexile level books that also have reading count quizzes?
> Today I had a mom come in who had a sixth grade son who was at a high
> reading level (lexile 1130-1300) and she was looking for books.  I had a
> really hard time finding titles for her that were still housed in the
> children's section.
> I pulled a bunch of novels that I consider higher reading level and then
> looked them up on the lexile website and many weren't even listed. The ones
> I did find (they were all nf), the mom would have to turn around and  see
> if these particular titles had quizzes available.
>
> Has anyone figured out a more streamlined way of doing this or do you
> depend on the school librarian/teacher to pass out lists of titles and
> levels that have quizzes?
>
> Thanks for any advice!
>
>   *Amy Nolan*
>
> *Children's Librarian*
>
> *St. Joseph Public Library*
>
> *269-983-7167 <269-983-7167>*
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