The Book Hog by Greg Pizzoli is a beginning book meeting Horning's criteria of both levels one and two.
- Level 1 - 17-20 point font. An average of 2-7 lines per page. An average of 5 words per line, illustrations cover about 85% of the pages and the text covering about 15% of the pages.
- Level 2 - The sentences are more complex with 20 commas in the book as well as ellipses, multisyllabic words like especially, storytime, librarian, and surrounded.
Pizzoli, G., & Bellantoni, P. (2021). The book hog. Findaway World, LLC.
Transitional Book - Captain Underpants has the smallest font of the four books I read. Although there are still plenty of illustrations, there is a lot more text with no more than 18 lines per page and no more than 8 pages per chapter. This book has a ton of action to keep readers engaged including the interactive Flip-O-Ramas (so fun). The vocabulary has expanded beyond level 3 books and the words are left justified on the pages.
Pilkey, D. (2015). Captain underpants and The Sensational Saga of sir stinks-A-lot - book 12 - captain underpants. Scholastic Inc.
Level 3 - Smaller font and fewer illustrations on alternating pages. All pages had 14 or fewer lines per page. Most lines had 6 or 7 words with an expanded vocabulary beyond just sight words. The book has more compound and complex words that makes the tone more conversational. This book has chapters that are no longer than 8 pages.
Hale, S., Hale, D., & Pham, L. (2019). The princess in black and the mysterious playdate. Spotlight, a division of ABDO.
We Are Growing by Laurie Keller is a beginning book meeting Horning's criteria from both levels one and two.
- Level 1 - 17-20 point font, averages 2-7 lines per page, an average of 4 words per sentence
- Level 2 - some multisyllabic words like dandelion, crunchiest, curliest, and silliest, and text is evenly balanced with illustrations, sentences are bit more complex with commas, question marks, ellipses, exclamation marks, and dashes
Keller, L., & Willems, M. (2016). We are growing! Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group.
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