Books Your Child Can Read
(Series name in parentheses)
Lexile Scores: “The Lexile Framework for Reading is simple: if we know how well a student can read and how
hard a specific book is to comprehend, we can predict how well that student will likely understand the book.” If
you are wondering whether your child can read a book independently, go to www.lexile.com and type the title
in the “Quick Book Search” in the upper right corner. You can also use this website to find other books that are
in the same Lexile range as one he or she may have been successful reading. (If you have books you’d like to
add to the list, or ones that did not seem to match, please let Tina Errthum know.)
If you’ve completed:
RMSE Grade K
Starting with RMSE Grade K L.
90, most RMSE K stories score
between 140L and 300L on
Lexile.
Remember, RMSE Grade K still
uses the print orthography.
Lesson #
Try: (Title)
Author:
Lexile Score
145-160
Have You Seen My Cat?
Eric Carle
I Love You, Dear Dragon
Margret Hillert
BR
(Beginning
Reader)
BR
If All the Seas Were One Sea
Go Dog, Go!
Janina Domanska
Philip D. Eastman
BR
BR
Mine’s the Best
Hop on Pop
Whose Mouse Are You?
Green Eggs and Ham
A Kiss for Little Bear
Crosby N. Bonsall
Dr. Seuss
Robert Kraus
Dr. Seuss
Else H. Minarik
BR
BR
10L
30L
100L
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If you’ve completed:
RMSE Grade 1
RMSE Grade 1 stories tend to
between 300L and 500L on
Lexile.
Lesson #
20
Try: (Title)
We Hide, You Seek
46
58
Blue Sea
Sprite’s Secret (Pixie Tricks
Series)
70
Remember, RMSE Grade 1 still 80
uses the print orthography
through lesson 84.
90
100
130
160
Author:
Jose Aruego and
Ariane Dewey
Robert Kalan
Tracey West
Lexile Score
Play Ball, Ameilia Bedelia
The Carrot Seed
The Friend
Peggy Parish
Ruth Krauss
John Burningham
220L
AD230L
Who Took the Farmer’s Hat?
Frog and Toad are Friends
Little Bear
Joan L. Nodset
Arnold Lobel
Elsa Holmelund
Minarik
Arnold Lobel
Marjori and
Mitchell Sharmat
Louis Sachar
210L
400L
370L
Marc Brown
390L
Barbara Park
380
Kate McMullen
440L-620L
Judy Blume
310L
Cynthia Rylant
340L-540L
Ron Roy
510L
Abby Klein
Suzy Kline
Jeff Brown
290L-510L
440L-580L
620L
Mary Pope
Osborne
240L-620L
Mouse Tales
Nate the Great and the Big
Sniff (Nate the Great Series)
Marvin Redpost: Kidnapped
at Birth (Marvin Redpost
Series)
Arthur Accused (Arthur
chapter books)
Junie B. Jones and the Stupid
Smelly Bus (Junie B. Jones
Series)
Dragon Slayers Academy
(Series)
The One in the Middle is a
Green Kangaroo
Henry and Mudge and the
Long Weekend (Henry and
Mudge series)
The Absent Author (A-Z
Mystery series)
Ready, Freddy! (series)
Horrible Harry (series)
Stanley and the Magic Lamp
(Flat Stanley Series)
Magic Tree House (series)
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200L
440L
110L
290L
If you’ve completed:
RMSE Grade 2
Lesson #
50
RMSE Grade 2 stories tend to
between 400L and 600L on
Lexile.
80
125
140
Try: (Title)
Andrew Lost on the Dog
(Andrew Lost series)
The Littles Take a Trip (The
Littles series)
Julian’s Glorius Summer
Author:
J.C. Greenburg
Lexile Score
500L-600L
John Peterson
520L
Ann Cameron
480L
Cam Jansen: The Mystery of
the Stolen Diamond (Cam
Jansen series)
Genies Don’t Ride Bicycles
(Bailey School Kids series)
Julian, Secret Agent
The Box Car Children (series)
David A. Adler
420L
Marcia T. Jones
and Debbie Dadey
Ann Cameron
Gertrude Chandler
Warner
Tony Abbott
600L
The Secrets of Droon: The
Hidden Stairs and the Magic
Carpet (series)
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460L
490L-630L
380L-640L