Bookshelf
The LevelUp library contains more than 2,400 authentic fiction and nonfiction texts, including more than 650 Spanish and bilingual titles.
Books are organized in carousels. Some carousels are based on subject matter, such as
Read About Animals
and
Read About Family and Friends. Other carousels are based on your actions and reading habits, such as
Assigned to Students. The
Interactive Phonics Books
carousel collects a full program of 110 interactive ebooks teaching phonemic/phonological awareness and phonics, while the Running Records carousel includes 46 brief, interactive text passages designed to monitor students’ reading fluency.
You can customize the bookshelf for your classroom, including rearranging the carousels, hiding carousels that don’t pertain to your students, specifying the Lexile range of the books that appear, and more. See
Bookshelf Settings
for more information.
Click a book cover to view information about and resources for that book. The
Resources
tab contains lesson plans, instructional guides, worksheets, and graphic organizers. Depending on which version of a book you are viewing, these resources are offered in English or Spanish. Books are available to download and print in full-size, double-sided, or "minibook" sizes. You can track how students engage with the book in the
Student Interaction
table at the bottom of the
Resources
tab.
The
Assign To
tab allows you to assign the book to a student or reading group. You can set a Display Date (when the book will appear as an assignment on the student's bookshelf) and a Due Date.
Preview Quiz
shows the brief quiz that students will see upon completing the book. You can toggle quiz answers on and off—for example, if you want to project the quiz to students in class.
Click
Save to My Collection
to favorite a book. Click it a second time to add a tag or remove the book from your collection.
Search for book titles by typing in the search box at the top of your bookshelf:
To search for specific words within the text of available books, turn the Search Within Books switch on before or after typing the word or words in the search box. When Search Within Books is on, the results show where the word appears in each returned book:
Clicking a result opens the relevant book on the indicated page.
Filter your search by category, language, fiction/non-fiction, Lexile text measure, and, under
More Filters…, audio length and page count. You can also filter by comprehension skill or ELA standard under
More Filters…. These options filter the skills/standards that are aligned to each book quiz. If you select
Point of View
, search results will only display books that assess that skill in their quizzes. The standards filter lists your state, province, or territory-specific ELA standards, allowing you to find quizzes that specifically assess individual standards.
You can customize how search functions for your students, including disabling search and filters altogether, specifying whether all matches or only books in the Lexile range for a student or students appear, and more. See
Bookshelf Settings
for more information.
On the bookshelf or in search results, click the clipboard icon under a book cover to quickly assign the book. Click the plus sign icon to add the book to My Collection.
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