How do you pick at book at the appropriate reading level?

1st Trimester Book Reports

Resources for finding books at your reading level:
www.lexile.com
• Click on "Tools" and select "Find a Book"
• In the section labeled "I don't know my reading level" select your current grade and the best option for you
• Enter appropriate criteria (genre choice or choices)

www.scholastic.com
• Click "Teachers" and select "Book Wizard" (under "Books and Authors")
• Enter a keyword under search (ex. biography)
• In the left hand column, select appropriate interest level and reading level

American History (fiction)

General topics:
• Discovery of America
• War (Revolutionary, Civil, WWI, WWII, Vietnam, Korea, Gulf War, current wars)
• Native American stories
• Slavery/Underground Railroad
• Industrial Revolution
• Gold Rush

American Revolution
The Winter Hero
Johnny Tremain
The Rifle

Slavery
Wolf by the Ears
True North

Civil War
Across Five Aprils
Shades of Gray
Stick and Whittle
In My Father's House
Canyons
Mine Eyes Have Seen

Other
Jesse (Vietnam)
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminister's Boy
Fever 1793
The Quilt (1944)
Road to Memphis (Civil Rights)

Biography / Autobiography (non-fiction)

General ideas:
• saints
• presidents
• inventors
• athletes
• entertainers
• artists
• musicians

The Story of Mother Jones
The Forgotten Heroes:The Story of the Buffalo Soldiers
The 290
Louisa May Alcott
Lost on a Mountain in Maine
Three Cups of Tea
Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman
My Life with the Chimpanzees
On the Ice with Tara Lipinski
Sojourner Truth and the Struggle for Freedom