• Welcome to Van Voorhis Elementary
  • Together: Nothing less than the best
  • Proud member of the Kentucky School District
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  • Mailing Address
  • Van Voorhis Elementary
  • 120 Folger St. Bldg. 5550
  • Fort Knox, KY 40121-6000
  • Principal: Laura Gibson
  • Phone: (502) 624-5854
  • Fax: (502) 624-7267

Media Center

The Van Voorhis Library Media Center provides a warm, inviting place for students to check out materials for recreational reading and research. Our media center has over 17,000 material titles.  The Library Media Specialist will aid students, parents, and staff in selecting materials from 0800 hours to 1530 hours daily. 

First through third grade classes have a free flow system of checking out books.Media CenterKindergarten classes come to the library at a scheduled time each week and are provided assistance with check-out.   Children may also come to the library to read their selections. We are pleased to have a large number of "book pets" that children may sit with and "share" their books. Beanbag chairs and a reading house enhance our library to make it truly a place for kids

Van Voorhis School participates in the Scholastic Reading Counts Program.  This independent reading program promotes comprehension skills of materials read.  Students may find the Reading Counts books, labelled with the reading and lexile levels in the library.The Media Specialist will aid students in finding the "just right" book for them. 

ExternalLexiles are used to measure the level at which a person is reading at 75% accuracy. Lexiles are used to match students with appropriately leveled text. At each grade level, students should be within the approximate ranges listed on the chart, but many may still be reading below or even well above this range. For pleasure reading, your child should choose a book leveled 50-100 lexiles below their measured lexile. Your child's teacher can provide you with their lexile.

Lexile range Grade level
100-200
 1st grade
300-400
 2nd grade
500-600
 3rd grade

 

Reading Counts! Quiz Lists

Below are quiz lists for the various Lexile ranges. A student at Van Voorhis can test on any of these titles, but not all of these titles are available in our school library. Students can read books from home, a bookstore, or the Barr Library on post and then test on the book at school.

Search for quizzes at Lexile:
100-200 210-300
310-340 350-400
410-440 450-475
480-500 510-533
540-550 560-575
580-595 600-610
620-635 640-650

 

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