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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 12pt;">Ann-agreed! Talk about killing the joy in reading.<br>
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No, you can't read that-it isn't your level.<br>
Sure, you can read that, it is your level but we don't have a quiz on it so go find something else.<br>
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Drives me absolutely bonkers and I feel for these parents who come to me for help with it. Also, I'm afraid that the higher the reading level (a concept I have a hard time with) the more difficult it is for me to find a title. Let alone a title that I would
recommend a kid read.<br>
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my rant over...for now.<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 13, 2014 4:21 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Amelia Nolan<br>
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<div dir="ltr">AARRGGHHHHH! One of my pet peeves! The whole "leveling" and testing thing just drives me nuts. Let the kids read what they WANT to read for heaven's sake!
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Amelia Nolan <span dir="ltr">
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<div style="direction:ltr; font-family:Tahoma; color:#000000; font-size:12pt">Help! Has anyone else discovered an easy way to help parents with this conundrum of lexile level books that also have reading count quizzes?<br>
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.<br>
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.<br>
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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?<br>
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Thanks for any advice!<br>
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