Reading Level Correlations


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LEVEL NAME

COLOR

GUIDED
READING

R/R INTERVENTION

LEXILE

DRA

Foundation 

Lilac

A

1

A-1

Pre-Reading

Pink

A-B

1

BR40L-290L

A-1

Emergent

Magenta

A-C

1-2

BR100L-240L

2

Early 1

Red

B-D

3-5

BR80L-390L

4-6

Early 2

Yellow

C-G

6-8

110L-370L

8

Early 3

Blue

D-H

9-11

150L-490L

10

Early 4

Green

F-K

12-14

250L-510L

14

Fluency 1

Orange

H-M

15-16

310L-600L

16

Fluency 2

Turquoise

H-M

17-18

360L-590L

18

Fluency 3

Purple

I-O

19-20

460L-800L

20

Fluency 4

Gold

J-N

21-22

490L-880L

28

Advanced
Fluency 1

Silver

L-R

23-24

520L-1220L

30-34

Advanced
Fluency 2

Emerald

M-R

25-260

560L-1100L

38-40

Advanced
Fluency 3

Ruby

N-T

27-28

560L-1240L

40

Advanced
Fluency 4

Sapphire

O-U

29-30

630L-1280L

40-50



Red Rocket Readers are organised into levels which are assigned colours to make them easy to identify at a glance. This system originated in New Zealand and has been adopted in many parts of the world as the standard for leveled readers.

Book Bands – the colour levels shown closely match the UK Book Bands in which Magenta is known as Pink, Silver as White and Emerald as Lime.

Guided Reading Levels provided for every Red Rocket Reader are the official levels as independently assessed by Fountas and Pinnell (Heinemann).

LEXILE Measures provided for every Red Rocket Reader are the official levels as independently assessed by MetaMetrics/Lexile.

Each title has been assigned a Red Rocket Intervention Level based on the author’s many years experience teaching Reading Recovery in New Zealand, home of Dame Marie Clay and the Reading Recovery intervention.