Scholastic Book Wizard is free for parents, children, and teachers to use to help children find the right books for them. It offers lesson plans, author studies, videos, discussion guides, booktalks, and many other great resources. It provides fully featured and dynamic search parameters to find good books for even the pickiest of readers. You can search by title, author, keyword, genre, subject, age, interest, and reading level. The ability to search by reading level is probably the most helpful out of all the search options as it helps children choose a book that will feel just right for them. As you can see below, you can search by Guided Reading Level (Fountas & Pinnell), DRA (Development Reading Assessment), Lexile Measure, and Grade Level Equivalent.
Scholastic Book Wizard provides much detailed and useful information about any book. You can see below the information and resources you can find when looking up a book.
There are also subpages to the left that offer pertinent information and resources depending upon who you are.
Finally, there is a free Scholastic Book Wizard mobile app available for Apple iOS and Android. What is really cool about this app is that you can use it to scan the bar code of any book and instantly get detailed information about that book, such as reading level, age level, genre, themes, page count, similar books, etc. Students can use this app while they are browsing in a store or library to help them find the perfect book for them to read and enjoy.
To learn more about Scholastic Book Wizard, click here. To learn more about its mobile app, click here.
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