Leveling Books Using Book Wizard (TM)

• 1). Go to bookwizard.scholastic.com/tbw/homePage.do and type in the name of the books you have and click "enter." The site will provide you with the level of the book and ideas for similar books at that level.
  
  
• 2). Place a piece of paper tape on the book spine or just inside the cover and enter the book level provided by the Book Wizard™.
  
  
• 3). Set out those books at the second-grade level in order of difficulty. Point them out to your child and explain your system of reading levels.
  
  

Leveling Books Using Commerical Guides

• 1). Use Scholastic's buying guide to choose books for specific second-grade levels. The buyer's guide uses Scholastic's guide, DRA's guide and the Lexile guide for books.
  
  
• 2). Check with your child's second-grade teacher to verify which level your child has attained in the classroom and mark books your child will find at reading level, slightly below reading level and those that will challenge her reading level.
  
  
• 3). Color code these with colored dots or other easily removed markers that won't damage the book. Explain the colors to your child so she finds them easy to use.
  
  

Other Ways to Level Books

• 1). Check home.comcast.net/~ngiansante/ and search for books by title or author. Search the second-grade level lists for ideas of books at your child's reading level. The list is compiled by Nancy Giansante, a teacher at the McCarthy-Towne School in Acton, MA.
  
  
• 2). Search Giansante's chart for how reading levels correlate to grade levels from kindergarten through sixth grade. Write the approximate level in pencil on the inside cover of the book.
  
  
• 3). Ask your child's teacher for a list of second-grade level reading words, Dolche Sight words or other reading-level scale she may have. Compare the books you have at home to the reading lists and mark each book accordingly.