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[quote=Anonymous]Rigid guided reading leveling is going out of fashion, just so you know.

I have been an active PTA member and volunteer.  Because I love books so much, one of my volunteering tasks was to shop public booksales for "likely to be leveled" books, level them, and give them to teachers for their free-reading book bins.

Because of this personal experience leveling thousands of books, I have some POV on this.

1) At a level K, your child is reading nicely for a 1st grader.  At or above many in the grade in normal school districts.  Perhaps average for a UMC school district.

2) Childhood classics and picture books are frequently not officially levelable.  That is because they may use some vocabulary words that make them unlevelable (too advanced or obscure for the leveling researchers).

3) Leveled books start to become very rare after Level N.  (A normal 2nd grade reading level.)

My personal belief is that guided reading is a bit of a buzzkill for the joy of reading.

Let your kid go to the library and pick out books that they want to read.  Show them how to use a dictionary or Google for a definition or ask you for word definitions.

A parent is more available to provide support for free reading than a teacher.  So, I think you should go for on-level (K) or higher.  You most likely won't be able to tell the difference between K and M, maybe between K and N.

I agree with the recommendations about Magic Tree House.  For boys, I recommend the "Who Would Win" animal vs. animal series (T-Rex vs. Velociraptor; Orca vs. Shark).  My younger son also enjoyed a series about dogs called "Puppy Place".

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