This guide provides the Lexile® measure for every chapter in this book and is intended to help inform instruction. This book's Lexile measure is 820L and is frequently taught in the 4th or 5th grade. Students in these grades should be reading texts that have reading demand of 740L through 1010L to be college and career ready by the end of Grade 12.
910L 5 Jeffrey Survives Finsterwald’s Backyard 730L 6 Jeffrey Joins The Pickwells For Dinner
1400L
860L 7 Jeffrey Plays Little League
LEXILE MEASURE
1300L
680L 8 How Jeffrey Came To Be Called Maniac 1050L 9 Maniac Outruns The Cobras
1200L 1100L 1000L
740L-1010L
560L 10 Maniac Meets Mars Bar
College & Career Ready Range For 4th & 5th Grade
420L 11 Maniac Returns Amanda’s Book
900L
940L 12 Maniac Finally Gets An Address 870L 13 Maniac Eats His First And Last Pizza 990L 14 Maniac Scores 49 Touchdowns
800L
820L Lexile Measure of the Book
700L 600L
620L 15 The Legend Grows 780L 16 Not Everyone Loves Maniac 720L 17 Go Back To Your Own Kind 480L 18 Maniac Runs Away—For A Day 930L 19 The Story Of Cobble’s Knot 1090L 20 Maniac Meets Cobble’s Knot
500L
750L 21 Maniac Walks Out Of Town
400L
540L 22 Maniac Moves In With The Buffaloes 680L 23 Grayson Provides A New Home
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CHAPTER & DESCRIPTION
560L 24 Grayson Learns About Black People
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990L 25 Maniac Hears Grayson’s Story 910L 26 Grayson Schools Maniac In Baseball 850L 27 Maniac Teaches Grayson To Read 750L 28 Grayson Moves In 1070L 29 Thanksgiving At 101 Band Shell Boulevard
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1190L 30 Grayson And Maniac Prepare For Christmas
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This guide provides the Lexile® measure for every chapter in this book and is intended to help inform instruction. This book's Lexile measure is 820L and is frequently taught in the 4th or 5th grade. Students in these grades should be reading texts that have reading demand of 740L through 1010L to be college and career ready by the end of Grade 12.
MEANINGFUL MEASURES FOR INSTRUCTIONAL PLANNING
Lexile Measure
840L 31 Christmas Gifts
1700L
750L 32 Grayson’s Demise
1600L
1010L 33 Down And Out In Two Mills 580L 34 Maniac Rescues The McNab Boys
1500L
850L 35 Everything Gets Straightened Out
1400L
770L 36 Back To Finsterwald’s 1230L 37 A Series Of Heroic Feats
LEXILE MEASURE
1300L
870L 38 A Race With Mars Bar 660L 39 Trouble Brews
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740L-1010L
810L 40 Maniac Gets His Fill Of The McNab Boys
College & Career Ready Range For 4th & 5th Grade
990L 41 Maniac Brings A Guest To The Party
900L
570L 42 Whites Vs. Blacks 890L 43 A Different Home Each Night 1000L 44 Russell McNab In Need
800L
820L Lexile Measure of the Book
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450L 45 Mars Bar To The Rescue 680L 46 Maniac Goes Home For Good