I’ve been carefully reviewing the reading levels for the Dr. Seuss Bright and Early and “I Can Read It By Myself” beginner book series. A majority of these books are by Dr. Seuss (or his alias), but several others are written by the Berenstains and a few others. I determined the reading level for each book
using the Accelerated Reader grade level equivalent. The books are listed in numerical order, based upon the reading level. So if a book is listed at the top of a section then it is easier to read than a book at the bottom.Late Kindergarten: **These books are primarily sight word books. Each page contains one 5 word or less sentence.
The Foot Book
The Ear Book
Great Day for Up!
The Eye Book
Bears In the Night
Bears on Wheels
Beginning 1st grade:**These books are more structured. They contain longer sentences with sight words from the Dolch 1st grade list, CVC words, and a few long vowel words.
Inside Outside Upside Down
Hand Hand Fingers Thumb
Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!
The Berenstain Bears and The Spooky Old Tree
Snug House, Bug House
Fred and Ted Go Camping
Fred and Ted Like To Fly
Go, Dog, Go!
Wacky Wednesday
Old Hat New Hat
Middle 1st grade: **These books deal with word families and use long vowel letter combinations.
Put Me In the Zoo
The Nose Book
Green Eggs and Ham
Hooper Humperdink…? Not Him!
Hop on Pop
Are You My Mother?
The Bike Lesson
Late 1st grade:
**The text in these books are getting smaller, the storyline is becoming more involved, and is relying less on word families.
A Fish Out of WaterLittle Black, A Pony
Sam and the Firefly
The Big Honey Hunt
The Shape of Me and Other Stuff
I Want To Be Somebody New!
Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You?
Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!
Robert the Rose Horse
The Berenstain Bears and the Missing Dinosaur
A Fly Went By
The Bears’ Christmas
The Bears’ Picnic
The Berenstain Bears On the Moon
He Bear, She Bear
In a People House
Early 2nd grade:**These books begin to introduce the 2nd grade Dolch word list. The storylines are more complex, and many of these books are great transition books as a child gets ready to for chapter books.
Flap Your Wings
I’ll Teach My Dog 100 Words
Mrs. Wow Never Wanted a Cow
Stop, Train, Stop!
The Bears’ Vacation
Dr. Seuss ABC
Fox in Socks
Have You Seen My Dinosaur?
I Am Not Going to Get Up Today!
The Cat in the Hat
The Cat in the Hat Comes Back
The Tooth Book
There’s a Wocket in My Pocket
Thomas and Friends: Trains, Cranes, and Troubles
Because a Little Bug Went Ka-Choo!
I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!
I Wish That I Had Duck Feet
Please Try to Remember the First of Octember!
The Bears Detectives
Middle 2nd grade:
Babar Loses His Crown
The Bear Scouts
The Digging-est Dog
Honey Bunny Funnybunny
It’s Not Easy Being a Bunny
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12 comments:
Dr. Seuss is the correct spelling. It's incorrect throughout post.
Thanks Anonymous! Of course, that's what I get for running spell-check at the end and not re-reading my post! It's corrected now!
Great list! I remember when I was teaching Reading Recovery (so most kids were emergent readers) parents would come in and say, "I've been trying to have him read Cat in the Hat." They were shocked when I told them a lot of Seuss was 2nd grade level. This will be such a great resource for parents who want to introduce Seuss on an appropriate level!! Love it.
what an awesome post! I have to say that as a teacher this is one of the questions I got so often from parents! They always assumed the beginning reader logo meant the book was easy and were surprised when their 1st grader had trouble reading some of them. They were amazed when I told them this was normal. I always steered them to books like Go Dog go and Great Day for Up.
Great guide for parents! :)
This is such a great and useful post Leann! Thank you so much for putting it together!
Thanks for putting this list together! Just shared it on my post today about Read Across America. Hope you can join! http://theeducatorsspinonit.blogspot.com/2012/03/reading-across-america.html
I love the leveled Seuss - thanks!!
This is wonderful, thanks! There are a couple we have but aren't listed, what about 'One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish' and 'Horton Hears A Who'?
Hi Emily. Thanks for your question! One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish is one of our favorites! It is a late 1st grade book (AR level 1.7). ... oh, and it was inadvertently left off the list! I will add it.
Horton Hears a Who is a mid-3rd grade reading level book, and is not one of the Bright and Early nor Beginning Reading books. Surprisingly, there are quite a few books that are by Dr. Seuss that are NOT beginning reading level, with some even being 4th+ reading level. You can see a full list of them at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beginner_Books.
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I'm so glad that there is a guide to reading levels- I hadn't considered that- We've just been reading whatever the kids pick out- but it would be good to help guide the learning- Thanks!
Love this list! Sharing a link! www.beaconliteracy.posterous.com
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