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= Using District Electronic Resources to Locate Leveled Materials ===More and more teachers a searching for that “just right” reading materials for their students. Library Services provides tools through LION and the databases to help you in this work. Library users can search for books and other materials by their Lexile level or Accelerated Reader Level.=== >>>> >
 * ==Learning Outcome: Attendees will leave the session able to use on-line DPS resources to find those" just right" materials to match a students reading ability.==
 * 1) Why use leveled materials?
 * 2) Student needs
 * 3) Teacher needs
 * 4) CSR-CO (Collaborative Strategic Reading - Colorado)
 * 5) Reading Grade level materials
 * 6) Accelerated Reader
 * 7) How are materials leveled?
 * 8) Lexile
 * 9) What are Lexiles? A Lexile is a measure of either an individual's reading ability or the difficulty of a text, like a book or magazine article. The Lexile measure is shown as a number with an "L" after it — 880L is 880 Lexile.
 * 1) What are Lexiles? A Lexile is a measure of either an individual's reading ability or the difficulty of a text, like a book or magazine article. The Lexile measure is shown as a number with an "L" after it — 880L is 880 Lexile.
 * 1) ATOS
 * 2) The Accelerated Reader and STAR reading programs assign reading scores as a grade level based on a formula
 * 3) Books in the library catalog can be searched by ATOS levels.
 * 4) Leveled Library Books.
 * 5) LION
 * 6) Find A Book
 * 7) Identifying the need for Leveled Reading
 * 8) Work on units.

or call: 720-423-8117 ||
 * DPS Investing in Innovation (i3) Grant || [] ||
 * ==[[image:electronicresources-leveledtext/Capture.JPG]]== || @http://www.csrcolorado.org/en/ ||
 * < [[image:electronicresources-leveledtext/FAB_CO_logo_4_1.png width="134" height="130"]] ||< [] ||
 * < Lexile/Grade Level Conversion ||< [[file:Lexile_grade.pdf]] ||
 * ATOS || [[file:ReadabilityComparisonArticle.pdf]] ||
 * DPS Level Correlations (Multiple Measures) || [[file:Text Level Correlation Chart.pdf]] ||
 * [[image:electronicresources-leveledtext/Ren Learning.JPG]] || [] ||
 * [[image:ETLS.JPG width="290" height="88"]] || @http://etls.dpsk12.org/
 * [[image:electronicresources-leveledtext/lion_home.gif width="306" height="117"]] || @http://lion.dpsk12.org/ ||

David Sanger, Director Library Services Educational Technology and Library Services. Helpdesk: 720-423-1842