NC Reading Project Find-a-Book
Find-a-Book
From the office of Governor Bev Perdue and NC Department of Public Instruction
Summer is finally here – a time for our kids to have a break from school and spend more time with the family. Studies show the summer is when our students are at risk to lose some of the reading skills they learned during the school year, so let’s make sure they can have a good book in their hands while away from the classroom. With the Find-a-Book Web site, your kids can do just that. They can find books that will help them continue learning – and learn to love reading.
The Find-a-Book site uses a student’s "Lexile" reading measure to determine appropriate reading books for your child. A Lexile measures a student’s reading ability and a book’s text difficulty, and it is the most widely-adopted reading measure in use today.
For more information on the "Find-a-Book" website and the Lexile score - check out this flier on lexiles.
Download a great explanatory video about the Lexile Framework for reading - here.
Click here for Parent Letter from Governor Perdue about this project.
[Thanks to the Dare County branches of the East Albemarle Regional Library for promoting summer reading and the Find-a-Book site.]