Determine a Book’s Reading Level and Other Great Tools

Written by Nathan Smith on September 10, 2018. Posted in Uncategorized.

Have you ever wanted to find out what grade level an article or book was written at? Teachers who use trade books in their reading programs are often wanting to know this information. Intervention Central has a free tool you can use! It is the Reading Fluency Passage Generator.

The Intervention Central website has many other useful tools as well. For example, an Academic Intervention Planner for Struggling Students, a Behavior Intervention Planner, a Behavior Rating Scales Report Card Maker, a ChartDog Graph Maker, a Dolch Wordlist Fluency Generator, an Early Math Fluency Generator, a Learning Disability Accommodations Finder, a Letter Name Fluency Generator, a Math Work – Math Worksheet Generator, a Self-Check Behavior Checklist Maker, a Student Academic Success Strategies – Checklist Maker, a Student Rewards – Jackpot Reward Finder, a Test of Reading Comprehension – Maze Passage Generator, and a Writing Probe Generator!

Nathan Smith

Nathan Smith is Director of Technology for the College of Education and Human Services at Utah State University. In that role, he also directs The Adele & Dale Young Education Technology Center (The YETC) located in room 170 of the Education Building on Utah State University's Logan campus. The YETC is a combination student openaccess computer facility, a K12 curriculum materials library, a NASA Educator Resource Center for Utah, and a technology training center. Nathan served eight years (20042012) on the Board of Directors for the Utah Coalition for Education Technology (UCET) He was reelected in 2014 to serve another two year term on the board. A former elementary school teacher, Nathan has taught students every age from young children to senior citizens. He has had the opportunity beginning in 2011 to train international high school teachers from all over the world about technology in education, through the U.S. State