[Michlib-l] Lexile level and reading counts

[COO Lavonne Marshall]

My library has partnered with our local public school to provide access to the reading counts test portal here at the library. Parents love it. 
We also provide assistance by tagging our juvenile and teen materials with a lexile score in the shared LLC shared catalog through Encore. Anyone can type in a lexile range (600-700) on the online catalog and get a list of books within that range that are here at our library.

We have links to the Scholastic website and the Lexile website on our kids page to help out too. WE have created some book marks for kids with high lexile scores that are young and may not be ready for the content that is in some teen books. We have taken these measures to help our staff as much as our patrons. It is much easier for staff to assist parents and kids with the work we have done to partner with area schools.

I don't necessarily agree with this method of literacy education but I can see where it would be useful to teachers and I support that.

LaVonne Marshall 
Director 
Coopersville Area District Library 
333 Ottawa Street 
Coopersville MI 49404 
616-837-6809

"If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and 
you will always 
look lovely" Roald Dahl

---------- Original Message -----------
From: Cathy Moras <cmoras at ndpma.org> 
To: Mary Rice <mrice at milfordlibrary.info> 
Cc: "michlib-l at mcls.org" <michlib-l at mcls.org> 
Sent: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 12:21:06 -0500 
Subject: Re: [Michlib-l] Lexile level and reading counts

> 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
> 
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