Literacy Leveler app for iPhone and iPad
4.4 (
9264 ratings )
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Developer: FikesFarm, LLC
5.99 USD
Current version: 2.1.1, last update: 8 months agoFirst release : 05 Dec 2013
App size: 1.96 Mb
Literacy Leveler makes it easy to level children’s books in your collection and find books of an appropriate reading level.
Supports the popular Lexile®, DRA (Developmental Reading Assessment®), and Guided Reading leveling systems.
• Scan a books ISBN and see its level.
• Search for a book by title, author, or level.
• Add books to your personal library.
• Keep devices in sync with iCloud.
The database focuses on grades K through 8.
An online manual for Literacy Leveler is available at fikesfarm.com
Pros and cons of Literacy Leveler app for iPhone and iPad
Literacy Leveler app good for
I really like this app. I really like that you can create your own library with all your books. However, it does need the capability of taking a picture in case the app does not have a picture of the book. Several books do not have GRL levels which are very important to me for leveling my books for my students.
I love this app! My daughter is a struggling reader, going into 2nd grade. Its nice to scan a book she reads well and see that its at or slightly above grade level! We also use it while buying books or at the library to be sure and choose books that are at her level, but also get some that give her a bit of a challenge.
Some bad moments
I am a third grade teacher, and I absolutely love this app for leveling my books. It makes everything so much easier. For books that will not scan, you simply just have to type in the title and search. Highly recommended!
The concept and ease of use are wonderful! But about 40% of the books that are scanned are not recognized. If the ones that are it mostly only gives a Lexile. Not a lot of help for those needing GRL. I wish I could manually add books, scan them and take a picture and add the reading levels myself if I am able to find them. It would be nice to be able to email myself a list of the books so I can print it for easy organizing and referencing as well as sharing with others what books are in the current library.
Used this level my classroom library. Definitely worth the money. Super easy to use. Scanner works well on all books with barcodes.
This app is very easy to use. I was able to scan around 200 books in about half an hour. I just wish it provided more GRL levels. About half of the books that I scanned only had a Lexile listed.
As a new teacher, Ive been acquiring my classroom library throughout the year and adding the books with no real system of organization. One of my big to-dos was to make the library useable, so I thought Id spend a teacher work day googling the level of each book. I ended up stumbling on this app, downloaded it, and had my library leveled and organized in 3 hours!
I can only give this app 4 stars though, because it mostly only recognizes scholastic books, and even some of those arent recognized.
I also ran into the problem of only being given the Lexile level on about 15% of my books, which is completely useless to me. Another 30% or so of my books also either werent in the system or didnt have any level information on them.
Other than that, I love knowing that my students can take a book and put it back in the right place!
Great app for scanning and identifying which books align to my sons reading level and which ones to hold off on for now. Its wonderful to be consistent and in alignment with school and home. I only wish this app had a way to submit the books for leveling, or enter our books so that when leveling is determined, the levels are automatically updated in our libraries.