A thing I should have anticipated but did not: since reopening to the public I have gotten SO MANY questions from parents about early readers and learning how to read. If you're not re-open yet, take heed! #LibraryLife

If I might suggest, now is not the time to try and talk caregivers out of getting a leveled text. Yes let's affirm that all books they read with their child are good books, and let's not add to their stress by contradicting what they're hearing from schools and teachers.

Some helpful resources for figuring out the level of a text since each publisher uses their own leveling system independent of the leveling systems actually used in schools like DRA and F&P: Scholastic Book Wizard https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/bookwizard/

Reading A to Z's fantastic level correlation chart: https://www.readinga-z.com/learninga-z-levels/level-correlation-chart/

But really what I find most helpful is knowing what different books on different levels actually LOOK LIKE. There's lots of text level indicators/characteristic charts out there, but this is one of my faves: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PCN4E7JWCQUUPK4Wxkw61S_3LqWG51Un/view?usp=drivesdk

Also helpful is having a handy dandy quick list of good publishers/series for reading ranges within a specific grade level. For example, Ready to Read's Ready to Go (their earliest level) is on my go-to list for kindergartners: https://www.readytoread.com/levels.html 

I generally really don't like how reading levels are used to label & stigmatize children (see http://fpblog.fountasandpinnell.com/a-level-is-a-teacher-s-tool-not-a-child-s-label) AND parents are picking up a lot of teaching duties right now. Kids have much less access to the "just right" books & supports they had at school.

So, this thread is just to ask that we all try and go a bit beyond generally pointing folks to the early reader section when they need RA help right now. Raising a reader is hard. Parents will much appreciate your extra help and support.