What books should your students read?

As teachers we need to provide appropriate reading materials for our students who are at various levels of reading. This should be easy, right? As a teacher you may have several leveled readers collections in your classroom, but they may not be leveled the same way. I found Rog and Burton's article to be very interesting because a group of teachers took on the task of "re-leveling" their collections to be uniform.The inconsistencies between leveled reader collections make it very difficult to incorporate new materials into classrooms. It would be great if all books for children used the same system so that teachers and parents could provide children with appropriate reading materials. I think the system described in the article gave good descriptions of what they believe to be the various levels of books and the characteristics of the readers who should read each book. I feel like a group of teachers could use this system to re-level their own books in order to take the guess work out of what is an appropriate book for each child.