PICK the right book for YOU

Students have two reading types - academic and leisure. In the classroom, students read at or above grade level, academic material. Leisure reading is also important, to help students form a love of reading, but students may select material parents feel is "too high" or "too low". It is vital to find a balance and to empower students to make good selections of leisure reading material. As the article in Psychology Today states:
"Reading levels should never be used to limit the texts children may access or try to read. Neither reading tests nor readability
measures are anywhere near exact enough to predict which individual child will best be able to read or benefit from which individual
book or magazine or online text. There is nothing wrong with letting a child try to read a text, and then abandon it if it is too hard,
or too simplistic, or simply boring—after all, adults do this all the time. Limiting reading selections based on reading levels too
often results in children having too few texts available to them that they want to read, and thus
discourages them from reading altogether."
That said, there are several assessment measures for selecting reading material. These test results are only ONE piece of information to use when choosing what you read, and they should be interpreted very loosely for leisure reading.