Serving Up a Healthy
Dose of Reading,
Literacy and Family Time
Booktrition: where intentional literacy creates better readers and nurtures family wellness. By providing expert-recommended books, we invite you to slow down, snuggle up, and read together. We also know that some of the most effective literacy moments happen throughout the day, so Booktrition offers simple tools and creative ideas to help you weave meaningful literacy into everyday routines. These shared moments not only build your child’s brain—they help you grow together.
Book Series
Give the Gift of a
Parents and kids both love book series, and it’s easy to understand why. For parents, once a child gets hooked on a series, keeping them reading becomes almost automatic—just hand them the next book and watch the motivation take care of itself. Kids love series because they grow attached to the characters, dive deeper into the story world, and can’t resist those cliff-hangers that make them need to read the next chapter. Plus, following a series actually helps build stronger reading habits and comprehension skills. Before long, the books become part of their identity and a go-to conversation starter with friends.
Literacy Gift Guide
The “Big 3” of Raising Readers
Top Kindergarten Picks
Top First Grade Picks
Top Second Grade Picks
Top Third Grade Picks
Booktrition is dedicated to making literacy a natural part of each day, providing expertly selected books and evidence-informed support that empower children to flourish as confident early readers.
As an extension of this mission, every order helps support Reach Out and Read, bringing early books to young children during pediatric visits and nurturing a love of reading from the very beginning.
By combining the best of art and science, Booktrition recommends the optimal independent* reading books for readers in kindergarten through third grade.
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.
In addition to the science, our book recommendations are selectively and artfully chosen because of their child-friendly themes: empathy, kindness and love, and with topics these readers will find engrossing. Because in addition to growing young, well-rounded readers, we also need to help grow young and well-rounded humans!
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We define “independent reading” as reading alone or reading aloud to a parent or teacher with minimal help from the caregiver. Research shows young readers make more reading gains when a parent, teacher or caregiver helps to “scaffold” reading through use of properly-leveled books (where the child is able to decode 80%-95% of words, without guessing based on pictures or context clues). This yields the very best results particularly through second grade, when learners are actively still acquiring new phonics skills. More on this, and so much more, on our blog and instagram.
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.
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