Playbooks® Reading Levels versus other common reading scales
In order to assist teachers and facilitate the assigning of roles for Reader’s Theater small group reading, Playbooks, Inc. has developed a simplified series of reading levels. To download a PDF, click here
The following provides an approximate correlation between these levels and other reading level scales
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Playbook® Reading Level |
Playbook® roles written at this level have… |
Approximate Correlation to Other Reading Scales |
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Fountas & Pinnell/Guided Reading |
Reading Recovery |
DRA |
Lexile |
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Stage 0 Emerging Reader Grades PK-1 |
short and simple sentences, 3-4 words per sentence using vocabulary with "hard" consonants and "short" vowels, including some early sight words, and 1 sentence per passage. |
A-C |
1-3 |
1-4 |
0-100 |
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Stage 1 Early Reader Grades K-1 |
simple sentences and sight words or words introduced by another character role, 3-4 words per sentence, and 1-2 sentences per passage. |
C-F |
3-10 |
4-10 |
100-199 |
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Stage 2 Beginning Reader Grades 1-2 |
simple sentence structure with slightly longer passages and more high frequency words, and 2-3 sentences per passage. |
F-K |
10-18 |
10-24 |
200-399 |
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Stage 3 Transitional Reader Grades 2-3 |
some large chunks of texts with an increase in vocabulary difficulty and sentence structure, and 3-4 sentences per passage. |
L-N |
20-22 |
28-34 |
400-599 |
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Stage 4 Intermediate Reader Grades 3-4 |
longer passages and more elaborate vocabulary and sentence structure, and 4-5 sentences per passage. |
O-S |
24-26 |
38-40 |
600-799 |
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Stage 5 Advanced Reader Grades 5-6 |
some use of complex sentences and concepts, more developed character dialogue and detailed text, and some figurative language. |
T-Y |
28-30 |
44
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800-999 |
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Stage 6 Expert Reader Grades 7-12 |
complex sentences, more advanced sentence variation, and figurative language. |
Z |
32-34 |
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1000-1100 |
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