National Geographic

National Geographic Kids Readers Pre-reader

The middle half of these books measure 260L–360L, and run around 125 words — calculated from the 22 titles at this level with a Lexile measure, not from the number on the cover.

Books
22
Lexile range
260L–360L
Typical length
~125 words

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