Simon & Schuster
Ready-to-Read
597 books across 5 levels of Simon & Schuster's Ready-to-Read, spanning 110L–940L. Each band below is measured from the books in that level, not from the number on the cover.
- Books
- 597
- Levels
- 5
- Typical range
- 110L–940L
Ready-to-Go!
110L–190L
Pre-Level 1
About 250 words
Level 1
300L–470L
Level 2
480L–580L
Level 3
560L–940L
Each bar covers the middle half of the Lexile measures in that level. Neighbouring levels overlap on purpose — that is what the data shows, and it is why a reader finishing one level is rarely at the bottom of the next.
5 levels
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Book counts and ranges come from the approved titles on each shelf.
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Beyond one publisher's ladder
A level only means something inside its own program. These pages work across the whole catalog, so a reader who has run out of one program has somewhere to go.