West, Kathryn

This season’s hi-lo and early reader series feature engaging topics with an emphasis on readability.

Hi-lo (high interest, low reading level) titles provide striving readers with entertaining, age-appropriate content at a lower reading level, while beginning reader books seek to support early literacy skills in young children just learning how to read.

While hi-lo (high-interest, low readability) books are aimed at an older audience, they support literacy by providing engaging, age-appropriate titles to striving readers. These new and forthcoming series provide a variety of approachable and engaging texts.

A fundamental piece of building literacy, and ultimately developing a lifelong love of reading, is providing readers with engaging texts that meet and support them where they are. Two categories of texts that play a powerful role in achieving this goal are beginning readers and hi-lo books. Librarians will find a wide variety of texts to support developing and reluctant readers in this season’s offerings.