George and Martha are hippos who do everything together, including playing tricks on each other, going to the beach, and jump, or not, off the high dive at the local pool. Thus, I am rethinking what I consider to be a chapter book and am reviewing George and Martha, which has CHAPTERS!! While scrolling their lists, I began to notice that there were almost no chapter books at a lower reading level. Regardless, if you follow the link to their site you can type in almost any kid's book title and, if they sell a test for it, you can see what reading level Renaissance Learning has decided to give a book. I both like it and loathe it, but now is not the time or place to debate it. Both my kids have used this system, and I have tutored second graders in reading skills and worked with them on this system. These tests ask the reader a series of multiple choice questions about a book that the child has read (or had read out loud to him/her) to determine comprehension. When I post a reading level along with the book title, it is the reading level that I think the book warrants, not necessarily what the publisher lists on the back of the book and rarely what Renaissance Learning a company that makes and sells the "Accelerated Reader" computer tests to schools, attributes to a book.
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