Re: New AR Levels

["Anderson, Julie LHS-STAFF" <AndersonJ@ISSAQUAH.WEDNET.EDU>]

You can't rely solely on the reading levels for appropriateness of any book.
You never could, but with the more accurate reading levels you must be more
vigilant.

I've said this before and I will continue to say it.  The new levels are a
godsend for high schools.  I finally have some books that are of interest to
my lower readers at their reading levels.  They did not like reading little
kid books.  I am very happy that they changed the levels.

I do believe the new levels to be more accurate.  Instead of taking content
into account, they are analyzing only the actual text and it's difficulty.
You can read more about the method of determining at their website.

Julie

Julie Anderson, Librarian
Liberty High School, Renton, WA
425.837.4901
andersonj@issaquah.wednet.edu


-----Original Message-----
From: rschulte [mailto:rschulte@WTN.K12.SD.US]
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 6:51 AM
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: New AR Levels


I am new to this list, and hope I am not covering a subject that has
already been beaten to death.  Am I the only one who is frustrated with
the new AR leveling system???  I can't believe that Judy Blume's book
"Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret" comes in at a 3.6 level.  Nancy
Farmers' "The Ear, The Eye, and the Arm" was a 7.4, and dropped to a
4.7!!  You mean to tell me that last year, it was helpful to a 7.4 level,
and this year, it drops to a 4.7!!  CRAZY!!  We have the book "Thin Ice",
which is at a 4.4 level.  My assistant read it, and we had to pull it
from the shelf.  When did bast@#$, and f%$# become part of our fourth
grade vocabulary??  Sorry about the language, I cleaned it up for this
email!  Does anyone have any insight on this?  I have emailed the company
and get no response!



Raynette Schulte, Librarian
Lincoln Elementary School, Watertown, SD
rschulte@wtn.k12.sd.us

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