A Comprehensive Leveled Reading System for Instruction, Independent Practice, and Assessment!

Ensure success for every reader through shared and guided reading! Delightful characters, funny stories, and fascinating nonfiction give students compelling reasons to read, write, and explore text. Leveled books, Big Books, audio CDs, puppets, and comprehensive teacher support combine to offer multiple opportunities for learners to actively engage in reading, listening, and speaking.

SunSprouts ensures success from the very start through—

Repeated use of high-frequency words
A specially developed font that supports
beginning readers
Familiar stories and topics
Lesson plans for every title with strategies for teaching phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing

SunSprouts features—

SunSprouts ESL/ELD Resource Guide for Teachers

A variety of text types; fiction and nonfiction
Award-winning authors and illustrators
Stories with satisfying outcomes
Informational texts that appeal to a range of interests
Memorable, recurring characters

Matching Students with "Just Right" Books Is Easy with SunSprouts®!

SunSprouts books are carefully leveled for complexity of text.
Teacher support materials help match students to books based on instructional needs.
Twenty titles at each level introduce a range of text types, literary styles, and genres.

"SunSprouts books are so easy to use for guided reading lessons; the comprehension activities and Record of Oral Reading are very user friendly. The books give my students the confidence they need as readers and get them excited about reading!"
—Tara Hawkins, Reading Specialist
Lee’s Summit, Missouri

Matching students with books is easy with SunSprouts. Developed specifically for guided reading, SunSprouts are carefully leveled for complexity of text. Teacher-support materials help you match students to books based on instructional needs. Twenty titles in each level introduce readers to a range of text types, literary styles, and genres as they learn skills and strategies for successful reading and writing.

	SunSprouts Level	GRL	DRA	EI	Grade
Emergent	Lemon	A-B	1-3	1-2	K-1
Early	Peach	C-D	4-6	3-5	K-1
	Lilac	C-D	4-6	3-6	K-1
	Berry	C-E	4-8	4-8	1
	Kiwi	D-F	6-10	6-9	1
	Mint	E-I	8-16	8-17	1
Fluent	Lime	F-I	10-16	10-16	1
	Cucumber	G-I	12-16	12-16	1-2
	Blueberry	I-K	16-20	16-20	2-3
	Cornflower	K-M	20-28	NA	2-3
	Plum	L-N	24-30	NA	3-4
	Cherry	M-P	28-38	NA	3-4

Process used to determine levels

GRL = Guided Reading Levels
DRA = Developmental Reading Assessment Levels**
EI = Early Intervention Levels
Levels are organized by color and are provided for comparison purposes only. Teachers are encouraged to evaluate the books and adjust the levels according to their own evaluation.

**Developmental Reading Assessment Resource Guide. Joetta Beaver, Celebration Press: Pearson Learning, 1997.