Booktrition Data

Throughout the site, and unlike publisher’s in-house leveling systems, books are systematically placed within each grade level to reflect the scope and sequence of the phonics taught in the classroom. This means the leveling of each book is scientific and data-driven, without the bias and inconsistency inherent to other rubrics. So just how exactly did Booktrition do this? By collecting the data of course! And, to be precise, we’re talking about phonetic data. For each book from kindergarten through most of second grade, Booktrition collected and cataloged every single word, totaling over 21,000 words. But why do this? By leading the leveling system within the Booktrition website with phonetic data, books were able to be placed appropriately and analyzed for decodability. On average, a book was placed within in a designated part of the school year if the data found that the combined highly phonetic and sight words totaled at least 80%. In the aggregate of all data collected, there are also excellent learning opportunities for our young readers, parents and educators. Want to see more data broken down by grade? We invite you to take a look at The Data page.