Level I Books

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Leveled Reading is a system that is used to track children’s reading progression and help find books that correspond with that level.

Level I books are beginning to contain abstract concepts that highly supported by text and illustrations. They include longer sentences that may carry over two or three lines. Readers are beginning to be able to read silently and have a large sight word vocabulary.


Gilbert and the Lost Tooth

Diane deGroat

Who lost a tooth? Gilbert's tooth is wiggly and loose all through spelling and lunch. Then he scores a run in kickball and—BAM!—his tooth is knocked right out of his mouth! Gilbert is so excited that the tooth fairy will be visiting. But Lew

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Blackout

John Rocco

One hot summer night in the city, all the power goes out. The TV shuts off and a boy wails, "Mommm!" His sister can no longer use the phone, Mom can't work on her computer, and Dad can't finish cooking dinner. What's a family

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My New Friend Is So Fun! (An Elephant and Piggie Book)

Mo Willems

Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. Gerald and Piggie are best friends. In My New Friend Is So Fun!, Piggie has found a new friend! But is Gerald ready to share?

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Parts

Tedd Arnold

I just don't know what's going on Or why it has to be But every day it's something worse What's happening to me? So begins this uproarious new story from the best-selling creator of No Jumping on the Bed!, Green Wilma, and other p

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Oliver

Syd Hoff

Oliver has always wanted to be a dancing elephant, but what will he do when he discovers the circus already has enough elephants? Beginning readers will laugh out loud as they follow Oliver's adventures and find out how this elephant of unique c

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Dogerella

Maribeth Boelts

With the help of her fairy dogmother, Dogerella attends Princess Bea's ball where she competes with other dogs to become the princess's royal pet.

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Small Pig

Arnold Lobel

Because the farmer's wife insists on cleaning his mud puddle, a little pig runs away to the city where he becomes permanently stuck in what he thought was a mud puddle.

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Joseph Had a Little Overcoat

Simms Taback

A very old overcoat is recycled numerous times into a variety of garments.

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We're Going on a Bear Hunt

Michael Rosen

Reveal all the fun of the the bear hunt by pulling the tabs in this changing picture version of the classic picture book.

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There's a Nightmare in My Closet

At bedtime a boy confronts the nightmare in his closet and finds him not so terrifying after all.

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Fly Guy Meets Fly Girl!

Tedd Arnold

When Fly Guy meets Fly Girl, he is amazed and smitten.

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The Kissing Hand

Audrey Penn

School is starting in the forest, but Chester Raccoon does not want to go. To help ease Chester's fears, Mrs. Raccoon shares a family secret called the Kissing Hand to give him the reassurance of her love any time his world feels a little scary.

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Diary of a Worm

Doreen Cronin

This is the diary . . . of a worm. Surprisingly, a worm not that different from you or me. Except he eats his homework. Oh, and his head looks a lot like his rear end.

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Elephants Cannot Dance!

Mo Willems

Piggy loves to dance and wants to teach everyone, including her best friend, Gerald the elephant.

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Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!

Mo Willems

When the driver leaves the bus temporarily, he gives the reader just one instruction: Don't let the pigeon drive the bus. But that pigeon tries every trick in the book to get in the driving seat. He whines, wheedles, fibs and flatters. Will you

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