What is a reading level? A reading level is a guide that is used to be sure that children are exposed to books that are appropriate for their skill level. In order for children to improve and flourish as independent readers, they must read books that are easily within the range of their ability.

At Kaplan, we list titles according to their Guided Reading Level. This is a level that is commonly used in classrooms for both group and independent reading. For convenience, we have created a correlation chart to align the Guided Reading Levels to other popular methods of measuring reading ability.

Guided
Reading
DescriptorGrade
Level
Fountas & PinnellBasal
Level
DRP
(Degrees of
Reading Power)
Reading
Recovery
DRA
Level
Lexile
Level
AEmergentKindergarten
Grade 1
AReadiness 1A & 1Beginning
Reader
BEarlyB 22 & 3
CCPP13 & 44
DGrade 1DPP225-305 & 66100-400
EEPP37 & 88
FFPrimer9 & 1010
GG11 & 1212
HTransitionalHGrade 113 & 1414
IGrades 1 & 2I15, 16 & 1716
JGrade 2JGrade 230-3518, 19 & 2018300-600
KK 20
LL24
MGrades 2 & 3M28
NSelf-ExtendingGrade 3NGrade 335-4030500-800
OO34
PGrades 3 & 4P38
QAdvancedGrade 4QGrade 440-4240-44600-900
RGrade 5RGrade 54450700-1000
S-ZGrade 6S-ZGrade 6 60800-1050