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. We checked it out again and read the whole book through 3 or 4 more times.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. It’s very rare for a book to make that kind of impression on him. He didn’t remember the names George and Martha, but was able to describe what happened in the stories. I didn’t realize how much he liked it until about a month or two after we returned it to the library when he asked me to check it out again.
However I read it to him again about a year later and he definitely seemed to understand each mini-story a little better. I read this to my son for the first time when he was about 3 and I think it was a little over his head.
Each story only takes a couple minutes to read and there are pictures to make it easier to understand.
It would almost make a good first chapter book in that each book has a few completely unrelated stories which could be read on a nightly basis. The New York Times Parent’s Guide to the Best Books for ChildrenĬomments: This is a very cute, simple series of small stories about 2 hippo friends.Valerie and Walter’s Best Books for Children.
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