Use Lexile Measures to Teach Chapter Books

Just as books vary in their text complexity, chapters within books vary. When teaching a book to a class, many educators use Lexile by Chapter Guides available in Lexile^® Find a Book. Lexile by Chapter Guides offer Lexile measures and consequential vocabulary for each chapter’s text to help teachers plan instruction. Access Find a Book to see how its over 1,600 books with Lexile by Chapter Guides can help you in your teaching!

How were books chosen for the guides?

The books were originally selected based on research into the most commonly taught full-length works at various levels (Applebee, 1989; Shanahan and Duffett, 2013). We added additional titles in consultation with classroom teachers and school librarians from across the country. Because some titles are assigned in multiple grade levels, you might see the same book appear in more than one category.

Fiction & Novels

Popular Elementary School Titles	Popular Middle School Titles	Popular High School Titles
An Elephant in the Garden	A Wrinkle in Time	1984
Because of Winn Dixie	Dragonwings (grades 6-8)	A Farewell to Arms
Bud, Not Buddy	Esperanza Rising (grades 6-8)	Animal Farm
Charlotte’s Web	Freak the Mighty	Brave New World
Dragonwings (grades 4-5)	Hatchet (grades 6-8)	Cry, the Beloved Country
Esperanza Rising (grades 4-5)	Holes (grades 6-8)	Fahrenheit 451
Hatchet (grades 4-5)	Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (grades 6-8)	Great Expectations
Holes (grades 4-5)	Speak (grades 6-8)	Lord of the Flies
Island of the Blue Dolphins	Stargirl	Night
James and the Giant Peach	The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (grades 6-8)	Of Mice and Men
Maniac Magee	The Giver	Speak (grades 9-10)
On the Banks of Plum Creek	The House of Scorpion	Tarzan of the Apes
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (grades 4-5)	The House on Mango Street (grades 6-8)	The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (grades 9-10)
Sarah Plain and Tall	The Outsiders (grades 6-8)	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Shiloh	The Pearl (grades 6-8)	The Awakening
The Black Stallion	The Watsons Go to Birmingham (grades 6-8)	The Grapes of Wrath
The Cricket in Times Square	To Kill a Mockingbird (grades 6-8)	The Great Gatsby
The Sign of the Beaver	Touching Spirit Bear (grades 6-8)	The House on Mango Street (grades 9-10)
The Watsons Go to Birmingham (grades 4-5)	The Hunger Games (coming soon!)	The Outsiders (grades 9-10)
Tuck Everlasting		The Pearl (grades 9-10)
George Washington’s Socks (coming soon!)		The Scarlet Letter
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town (coming soon!)		Things Fall Apart
		To Kill a Mockingbird (grades 9-10)
		Touching Spirit Bear (grades 9-10)

Informational Text & Literary Non-Fiction

Popular Middle School Titles	Popular High School Titles
Chasing Lincoln’s Killer	A Long Way Gone
Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines (grades 6-8)	A Room of One’s Own
No Summit Out of Sight	Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines (grades 9-10)
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler	In Defense of Food
The Omnivore’s Dilemma (Young Reader’s Edition)	Into The Wild
Team Moon	The Pact
We Beat the Street	Twelve Years a Slave
	How to Read Literature Like a Professor (revised edition) (coming soon!)

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