Five-Finger Test

Sometimes it is difficult to know if a book is going to be too easy or too hard by just looking at it.  The Five Finger test is one way to "test" a book before you spend too much time with it and get frustrated. 

1.  Open the book to the middle. Select a full page of text.

2.  Read the page (aloud if possible).

3.  Put one finger up for every word you cannot pronounce or do not know.

4.  If you get five ( 5 ) fingers up on one page, the book is too difficult to read      independently.

5.  If you do not get any fingers up, but are reading very slowly and decoding
     almost every word, you will not enjoy the book.