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Lexile Levels (Link to Guided Reading Levels)
* Note: Hamlet: Prince of Denmark (Lexile score 600), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Lexile score 500) and Othello: the Moor of Venice (Lexile score 480)
While the sentence length for Hamlet: Prince of Denmark (Lexile score 600), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Lexile score 500) and Othello: the Moor of Venice (Lexile score 480) may be short in passages of dialogue, and while many of the words in these retellings would appear on high frequency lists, the sentence structure is more literary than Start-to-Finish Gold library books, the cadence of the original author is more closely preserved and words are used in more abstract and metaphorical ways. The following examples illustrate these points:
"Legs bear me up." (Hamlet, p. 31)
"He who steals my purse steals trash, but he who steals my good name makes me poor indeed." (Othello, the Moor of Venice, p. 55)
"My lord, beware of jealousy, the green-eyed monster." (Othello, the Moor of Venice, p. 55)
It is the recommendation of the Start-to-Finish editing team that when considering these Shakespeare books, that they be used for reading at a grade equivalency of 4th to 5th grade.
Start-to-Finish® Books
The Start-to-Finish® titles listed below were evaluated using the paperback book format only. By using the word-by-word highlighting and digitized speech on the computer, students have access to books with higher Lexile scores than a teacher might recommend.
(Interquartile Range, Mid-Year)
(from Lexile Framework Map) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Adventure of the Speckled Band, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The After the Buffalo Jump:
A Story of the Blackfoot
Nation Against All the Odds: George Washington
and the Fight for American Independence
Alcatraz, The Rock
Ali: The Greatest Anne of Green Gables Big Ben is Dead Black Beauty Border Crossing Call of the Wild Charles Darwin:
The Man Who Looked at Life Christmas Carol, A Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile Crossbow Mystery at Yellowstone Park, The Death at Jamestown Earthquake! Edgar Allan Poe Collection Fight for Your Life:
The Story of Rubin Hurricane Carter Flo-Jo:
The Story of Florence Griffith Joyner For Liberty:
A Story of the American Revolution Frankenstein Frederick Douglass:
A Hero for All Times Graveyard Mystery, The Greek Myths I Greek Myths II Hamlet: Prince of Denmark * Harriet Tubman:
The Moses of Her People Home Run Heroes Hurricane! I Am Vallejo! Jack London Collection Jackie Robinson and the American Dream Jane Goodall and the
Chimpanzees of Gombe Japanese Americans:
Prisoners at Home, The Jim Thorpe:
Athlete of the Twentieth Century Kidnapped King Lear King Tut's Tomb Kings of the Nile Liddy and the Volcanoes Little Women Lord Jim Macbeth Mark Twain Collection Midsummer Night's Dream, A * Mutiny on the Bounty, The Night of the Loch Ness Monster, The On Strike! The Story of Cesar Chavez Othello: the Moor of Venice * Prince and the Pauper, The Race Inside Me:
The Story of Wilma Rudolph Red Badge of Courage Remembering Sweetness:
Walter Payton and the Bears Romeo and Juliet Rosa Parks: Freedom Fighter Sacagawea: The Trip to the West Scandal in Bohemia, A Secret of Old Mexico, The
Silver Blaze Space Voyage: Hitching a Ride
Through the Solar System, A Story of Anne Frank, The Tales from Homer:
Stories from the Iliad and the Odyssey Treasure Island Tuskegee Airmen, The When Horses Are Gone:
A Story of the Nez Perce
Indian Tribe Wilt Chamberlain: NBA Giant
Guided Reading Levels (Link to Lexile Levels)
Guided Reading Levels have been determined by using the leveling criteria suggested by
Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell (2001).
Fountas, Irene C. and Pinnell, Gay Su. 2001. Guiding Readers and Writers Grades 3-6. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinemann. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Adventure of the Speckled Band, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The After the Buffalo Jump:
A Story of the Blackfoot
Nation Against All the Odds: George Washington
and the Fight for American Independence Alcatraz, The Rock
Ali: The Greatest Anne of Green Gables Big Ben is Dead Black Beauty Border Crossing Call of the Wild Charles Darwin:
The Man Who Looked at Life Christmas Carol, A Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile Crossbow Mystery at Yellowstone Park, The Death at Jamestown Earthquake! Edgar Allan Poe Collection Fight for Your Life:
The Story of Rubin Hurricane Carter Flo-Jo:
The Story of Florence Griffith Joyner For Liberty:
A Story of the American Revolution Frankenstein Frederick Douglass:
A Hero for All Times Graveyard Mystery, The Greek Myths I Greek Myths II Hamlet: Prince of Denmark Harriet Tubman:
The Moses of Her People Home Run Heroes Hurricane! I Am Vallejo! Jack London Collection Jackie Robinson and the American Dream Jane Goodall and the
Chimpanzees of Gombe Japanese Americans:
Prisoners at Home, The Jim Thorpe:
Athlete of the Twentieth Century Kidnapped King Lear King Tut's Tomb Kings of the Nile Liddy and the Volcanoes Little Women Lord Jim Macbeth Mark Twain Collection Midsummer Night's Dream, A Mutiny on the Bounty, The Night of the Loch Ness Monster, The On Strike! The Story of Cesar Chavez Othello: the Moor of Venice Prince and the Pauper, The Race Inside Me,
The: The Story of Wilma Rudolph Red Badge of Courage Remembering Sweetness:
Walter Payton and the Bears Romeo and Juliet Rosa Parks: Freedom Fighter Sacagawea: The Trip to the West Scandal in Bohemia, A Secret of Old Mexico, The
Silver Blaze Space Voyage: Hitching a Ride
Through the Solar System, A Story of Anne Frank, The Tales from Homer:
Stories from the Iliad and the Odyssey Treasure Island Tuskegee Airmen, The When Horses Are Gone:
A Story of the Nez Perce
Indian Tribe Wilt Chamberlain: NBA Giant
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