While at the library I found out about the AR BookFinder. The AR BookFinder site provides information about the AR level of the book, its word count and the ATOS book level. ATOS Book Levels (BL) take into account the readability of the text and apply it to a grade level. Their website explains it like this,
For example, a book level of 4.5 means the text could likely be read independently by a student whose reading skills are at the level of a typical fourth grader during the fifth month of school.Following is the list we will work through this summer and continue on into my son's 2nd grade year. It will be a growing list as I will continue to add books as I find them.
Emergent Readers
- The Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old Tree by Stan Berenstain rated 1.1 BL 206 words
- Scat, Cat! by Capucilli, Alyssa Satin rated 1.1 BL 226 words
- Going to the Firehouse by Mercer Mayer rated 1.1 263 words
- The Berenstain Bears: We Like Kites by Stan Berenstain rated 1.2 BL 127 words
- Drop It, Rocket! by Hills, Tad rated 1.2 BL 197 words
- This Is My Town by Mercer Mayer rated 1.2 BL 242 words
- What A Good Kitty Mercer Mayer rated 1.3 BL 269 words
- A Kiss for Little Bear by Else Minarik rated 1.4 BL 298 words
- Mr. Tiger Goes Wild Brown, Peter rated 1.5 BL 191 words
- Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Bill Martin Jr. rated 1.5 BL 196 words
- Snow by Shulevitz, Uri rated 1.6 BL 156 words
- Chicken said, "Cluck!" Grant, Judyann rated 1.6 BL 179 words
- The Night World by Gerstein, Mordicai rated 1.6 BL 310 words
- Wiggle by Doreen Cronin rated 1.7 BL 154 words
- Tap Tap Boom Boom by Bluemle, Elizabeth rated 1.7 BL 263 words
- King Bidgood's in the Bathtub by Wood, Audrey rated 1.7 BL 282 words
- The Berenstain Bears and the Big Road Race by S. Berenstain rated 1.7 BL 414 words
- Inch by Inch by Lionni, Leo rated 1.8 BL 160 words
- Amelia Bedelia Goes Camping Peggy Parish rated 1.8 BL 1351 words
- Ducks in a Row Jackie Urbanovic rated 1.9 BL 423 words
- Play T-Ball Stan and Jan Berenstain rated 1.9 BL 450 words
- Oliver by Syd Hoff rated 2.1 BL 767 words
- Captain Cat by Syd Hoff rated 2.2 BL 359 words
- Angus Lost by Margorie Flack rated 2.3 BL 339 words
- Little Bear's Visit by Else Minarik rated 2.3 BL 1428 words
- Mouse Soup by Arnold Lobel rated 2.4 BL 1350 words
- Harry and the Lady Next Door by Gene Zion rated 2.6 BL 1237 words
- Uncle Elephant by Arnold Lobel rated 2.6 BL 1823 words
- Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel rated 2.9 BL 1942 words
