arliemaria Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 How do you go about finding your child's reading level? Seems like there are a million different rankings. Sometimes a Level 3 book is difficult, but then other times an actual chapter book (tonight it was A Mouse Called Wolf by Dick King Smith) is not as difficult. I was looking at Lexile levels and then there are Accelerated Reader levels. My son's tutor did a quick word list assessment and said 3.6 (third grade, sixth month). So confusing!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElizabethB Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 (edited) Different ones are based on different things. Those set up for phonics are different than ones based on sight word teaching and frequent words, If you teach with phonics, homesschool lists by grade are going to be more accurate. The Lexile levels are based on several different things and are a bit more phonics based than accelerated reader levels. The AR levels are whole word based. Edited October 6, 2017 by ElizabethB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arliemaria Posted October 6, 2017 Author Share Posted October 6, 2017 Is there a phonics based test a parent can administer or something online to determine what level they are reading at? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YodaGirl Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 We use readtheory.org. It will tell you your student's lexile level. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanaqui Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 Don't take reading levels too seriously. They don't all agree with each other - a book might turn up as a 3rd grade level on one system, and a 5th on another. But then a different book will be a 4th on the first system and a 2nd on the first! Plus, we all know that interest and prior knowledge matters. A child can read well above their "level" if they're motivated. Or, if they think it's boring, suddenly they can't read it. And if it's about something they know a lot about - wow, they can read super advanced stuff! But if it's something they don't know about, they can't. But leveling systems can't easily adjust for this. (And you definitely shouldn't assume that chapter books are "harder" than picture books. Au contraire! Some chapter books are deliberately written at an easy level because parents and teachers and children want to move to chapter books quickly. Many "readers" are written at a harder level because you can read a hard text if it's very short, where you might get fatigued with a longer one. And of course, most picture books are written at quite a difficult level because they assume that a parent or teacher is reading it aloud!) 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertstrawberry5 Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 Do you need it for a specific reason? Our last library system labelled each book with a grade level. I don't know what system it was based on. I just flip through a few pages and see if I think my kid can read it, until they are old enough to choose their own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElizabethB Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 (edited) Is there a phonics based test a parent can administer or something online to determine what level they are reading at? The NRRF test and my quick screen test are phonics based. http://www.thephonicspage.org/On%20Reading/readinggradeleve.html The letsgolearn DORA test has several tests in its language arts assessment and tests both high frequency words and phonics based reading as well as spelling and vocabulary. https://www.letsgolearn.com/lglsite/DORA_K_12/parents/ Edited October 6, 2017 by ElizabethB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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