Below are the best Guided Reading Level J / DRA Level 16 books. (It's
the same level--just some schools use the
one book leveling system and others use the other.) In general, kids
read books on Guided Reading Level J / DRA Level 16 around the end of first grade (although every child is different, so check with
your child's teacher to determine his/her exact level). We hope this
list
will help you get your reader stocked up for hours of reading
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The Stray Dog
(a family finds
a stray dog while
on a picnic --
Caldecott winner!)
Level J / 16
Buzz Boy and
Fly Guy
(Buzz and Fly Guy
are superheroes!--
LOVE this series!)
Level J / 16
Duck on a Bike
(Once duck rides
a bike, all the other
farm animals want to
ride one too!)
Level J / 16
Fly Guy and
the Frankenfly
(Buzz has a night-
mare about a scary
Frankenfly monster!)
Level J / 16
There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Fly Guy
(a funny twist on the
popular tale)
Wild About Books
(a librarian finds
the perfect book for
each zoo animal--
a very cute book!)
Level J / 16
Hop on Pop
(rhyming book
full of Seuss's
trademark rhymes)
Level J / 16
A Fly Went By
(a whole range of
creatures rush by...
where are they going?)
Level J / 16
The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog
(will pigeon share his
hot do with duckling--
brilliant book!)
Level J / 16
The Pigeon
Needs a Bath
(pigeon is super
dirty needs coaxing
to take a bath)
Level J / 16
The Duckling
Gets a Cookie
(Duckling asks for a
cookie and gets one.
What will pigeon do?)
Level J / 16
Green Eggs
and Ham
(classic Seuss book
starting Sam-I-Am)
Level J / 16
Amazing Grace
(a little girl who
loves stories and
acting them out)
Level J / 16
Fancy Nancy and the Mean Girl
(Nancy is picked for
the relay team...but
so is that mean girl)
Level J / 16
The Cat in
the Hat
(a class about a crazy
cat creating havoc)
Level J / 16
There's a Fly Guy
In My Soup
(Fly Guy creates havoc
at a fancy restaurant)
Level J / 16
Poppleton series books
(a cute series about
a pig about town)
Level J / 16
Hand, Hand,
Fingers, Thumb
(a band of hyper
monkeys explain hands,
fingers, and thumbs)
Level J / 16
Danny and
the Dinosaur
(first in the popular
series-- explains
how they met)
Level J / 16
No More Monsters for Me!
(what will a girl do
when a monster hides
in her basement)
Level J / 16
Morris Goes
to School
(Morris the moose
goes to school and
learns to count)
Level J / 16
Chester
(a horse heads to
the city to try and find
where he's needed)
Level J / 16
A Quarter from
the Tooth Fairy
(a boy loses a
tooth and is visited
by the tooth fairy)
Level J / 16
Harry the Dirty Dog
(cute classic about
a dog who loves
to play outside
and hates baths!)
Book! Book! Book!
(animal friends head
to the library for some
reading material)
Level J / 16
My Monster Mama
Loves Me So
(funny explanations
of how monster mamas take care of their kids)
Level J / 16
Polar Bear Night
(beautifully illustrated
nighttime tale --
perhaps a little young
for level J readers tho)
Level J / 16
The Day the Babies Crawled Away
(toddler saves runaway
babies who are off
on an adventure)
Level J / 16
My Lucky Day
(when a pig shows
up at his door, fox
thinks it's his lucky
day...but is it?)
Level J / 16
The Giant Hug
(a hug travels across
the country from animal
to animal to get all
the way to grandma)
Level J / 16
The Bravest
Dog Ever
(true story of a dog
sled team that braved
a snow storm to
deliver medicine)
Old Black Fly
(an ABC book of
all the stuff that one
old black fly gets into
--great illustrations!)
Level J / 16
Porcupining
(a porcupine in a
petting zoo tries
to woo a fellow
prickly creature)
Level J / 16
Duck Rabbit
(a simple drawing
could be a duck OR a
rabbit. Which is it?)
Level J / 16
I Wanna Iguana
(a boy and his mom
exchange letters about
getting an iguana)
Level J / 16
Diary of a Wombat
(a wombat describes
his life of eating, sleeping, digging...)
Level J / 16
Today I Feel Silly
(a little girl explores
her many moods --
super adorable)
Level J / 16
This Is Not My Hat
(a little fish steals
a hat. So Funny!)
Caldecott Winner!
Level J / 16
Cowgirl Kate:
School Days
(Kate goes to school
in the latest book
in this great series!)
Level J / 16
Fancy Nancy:
The 100th Day
of School
(Nancy needs to bring
100 things to school)
Level J / 16
Fantastic Frogs
(solid informational
text about how frogs
grow, what they eat,
where they live...)
Level J / 16
Emma's Strange Pet
(Max & Emma want
a pet but Emma is
allergic...what to do?)
Level J / 16
Fancy Nancy and the Boy from Paris
(will the new boy
from Paris be fancy?)
Level J / 16
Fancy Nancy:
Spectacular
Spectacles
(Nancy wants fancy
glasses like Bree's)
Level J / 16
Fancy Nancy:
Poison Ivy Expert
(Nancy accidentally
picks poison ivy!)
Guided Reading J
Little Bear series books (some)
(adorable classic
series about a little
bear and his mama)
Guided Reading J
Leonardo the
Terrible Monster
(a not-so-terrible monster tries to be more scary--so adorable)
Guided Reading J
Washington and
General's Dog
(great kids bio; includes
a true story about saving
a dog during battle)
Guided Reading J
Mouse Soup
(can mouse save
himself from
being Weasel's
next meal?)
Guided Reading J
Fancy Nancy:
Every Day is
Earth Day
(Nancy wants her
family to go green)
Guided Reading J
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