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Leveled Books for Pre-K - Third Grade
Most Important Reading Tip: Read to your child every night at home.
Leveled Books
At Ivy Prep, we teach foundational reading skills in the classroom and guide parents on effective reading practices at home. We provide reading strategies and tips on our website. Pre-reading activities begin when children are infants at Ivy Prep. Our teachers regularly assess each child’s progress to determine their current academic level. When your child is ready for leveled readers, you’ll be notified, and they’ll begin participating in the Ivy Prep Reading Program at their individualized level.
The Importance of Reading Together
Readers should read to their parents. -AND- Parents should read to their readers.
Reading with your child is one of the most valuable ways to support their language and literacy development. When parents read to their children, it exposes them to new vocabulary, sentence patterns, and ideas—building listening skills and a love of stories.
When children read to their parents, it helps them practice decoding, fluency, and confidence. It also allows parents to notice progress and gently support areas that may need more attention.
Both types of reading are equally important. Sharing books together—whether you’re reading aloud or listening to your child—creates meaningful moments that strengthen learning and connection every day.
Parents should read to their children from infancy all the way through the early teen years — even after kids can read independently.
Here’s why:
- Infants & Toddlers (0–3 years): Reading aloud builds early language skills, vocabulary, and listening comprehension. It also helps children associate books with comfort and bonding.
- Preschool (3–5 years): Reading together develops imagination, attention span, and early literacy skills like letter recognition, letter sounds, and story sequencing.
- Early Elementary (6–8 years): Continue reading aloud even as your child learns to read. Hearing fluent reading and exploring stories above their level expands vocabulary and comprehension.
- Upper Elementary & Beyond (9–13 years): Reading aloud exposes children to more complex language and ideas, helping them grow as independent readers and thinkers.
In short: don’t stop reading aloud just because your child can read. Continue as long as they enjoy it — bedtime stories, family read-alouds, or alternating who reads each page all keep reading a shared, positive experience.
For Leveled Reading Books:
- Wait to begin leveled readers until your child has been tested and placed at that level.
- Before reading, have your child look through the pictures on each page and talk about the pictures.
- Encourage your child to point to each word as they read.
- If your child doesn’t know a word, have them sound it out. If they still can’t, tell them the word and keep reading.
- After finishing the book, talk together about the story, the characters, setting, and events. This builds comprehension skills.