oops I do have a good resource but it is poo-pooed by many.... that is Ginn's old "Literature Works". When we moved to reading workshop these anthologies were promptly collected and thrown out..... I have a class set of four books each for first grade and a class set of two books each for second... The reason district got rid of them is because the manual is set up like a basal approach... and they don't look like guided readers but if you "see" beyond that... you get a ready made set of wonderful trade books (though not leveled) that reflect a gradient (which you can match to levels using your teacher smarts) and read like real books because that's what they are ... trade books! Kids can start with them right in September because the selections are strongly repetitive with lots of picture support.... as they move up... the stories become longer and are filled with teachable moments... for goodness sakes... in book four at the first grade level you find Angela Johnson's story, "The Leaving Morning" ... sound familiar from Lucy's units????? I would never start all the kids in the same place nor would I assign texts... but the kids use them in self-selected reading and I use these books in combination with lots of other texts to do guided reading lessons with.... talk about a cost saver.... so why then am I covering them up ( brown paper book jackets) so administration does not notice? It's not the culture of our school.. but it works so well with my first graders.... I never have a kid complain about these stories.... and they seem to know where they belong without disgrace... there is not b/c level... but early reader tend to gravitate to Book 1 and are truly proud of themselves when they can read "harder and harder" as they call texts from that Book 1. Every story can be used with a comprehension strategy.... I hope others of you will write about your experiences with early leveled texts so I can firm up my library.
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