The Fountas and Pinnell Leveled Book List: K8

Teachers don't make near enough for all they have to do. This book has saved my wife, who teaches 1st grade, a lot of stress and time!

I've been wanting this book for a while. I got it for a great price.

There are levels for a lot of books, but I only found maybe a dozen or so that I hadn't already leveled by looking at websites and searching for leveled book lists. I later checked out Scholastic's website for their leveling system, and it puts this book to shame. I found one Goosebumps book in this book (out of fifty), Scholastic had tons- maybe 25 were leveled. I found a lot of the massive holes left by going book by book through Fountas and Pinnell were filled in. Save your money.

This book is much more comprehensive than one my school was using. I had a crate of books that I could not find the correct level for because the book my school used was so incomplete. I decided to spend the $ on this one and I am very glad I did. EVery book in that crate was in this book for me to level. Now I guard the book under lock and key because all my colleagues want to borrrow it :-) Worth the investment in my opinion! The only thing that I think would be better is if the publisher offered an online version included in the cost that would provide updates to the book as new titles become available.

This is a great resource book for the classroom teacher all the way up to the school administrator. It provides numerous titles to select quality reading materials for the diverse classroom.