Recommended Books

Advancing Literacy supports state-of-the-art classroom libraries for each grade level, K-8. Curated by many colleagues here at Advancing Literacy, along with a team of literacy leaders and children's literature experts, these libraries contain 400–700 leveled books at each grade level, all organized into collections, shelves, and bins based on level, genre, topic. Further, the libraries are available in versions for students reading both at and below benchmark. They can be purchased from Heinemann.

We are happy to share additional recommendations of mentor texts for writing workshop, read-aloud texts for reading workshop, and various suggestions for readers in grades k-8, including courses of study for teen readers.