DISCOVER™ [3]

Reading Level: 1.2 to 1.6 | Grades: 9 to 12 | Lexile: HL10L to HL150L

Discover™ is the third and final tier in Teen Emergent Reader Libraries® Phonics, completing the nine-level continuum that began with Decode™ [1] and continued through Develop® [2]. Discover covers Levels Seven through Nine, spanning a reading level of 1.2 to 1.6 (Lexile HL10L to HL150L) for grades 9-12, the point where a striving reader has built the full range of foundational phonics skills.

Each level includes eight 16-24 page books, six fiction and two nonfiction, with the same word-list, teacher's guide, and assessment structure as the other two tiers.

Scope and sequence, Discover® [3]:

  • Level Seven: adds vowel digraphs, r-controlled vowels
  • Level Eight: adds vowel diphthongs, compound words, inflections -ed and -ing
  • Level Nine: adds multisyllabic words (VCV patterns and consonant + le), words with the schwa sound, words that end in schwa + r, contractions, singular possessives

Available as a full boxed set (72 books across all three levels), and as individual Additional Book Sets for Level Seven, Level Eight, or Level Nine (8 books each).