As a classroom teacher, many times I've noticed kids go to the library, walk up to a bookshelf, and chooose a book without even looking at it. They check it out and take it home only to return to school the next day with the complaint that it wasn't interesting or it was too hard.
The podcast I found is from a school library in Grandview, NY. The librarian reads short excerpts from books that might interest kids. She has them categorized by grade level. Her choices do not necessarily follow exact reading levels but she does attempt to reach various levels by previewing several books on the same topic. For parents and teachers reading the accompanying summaries, she addresses several key factors of readability for emergent readers by denoting text size, text placement, and amount of text per page.
I found this podcast using the google search engine and searching for "school library podcasts".
http://www.grandviewlibrary.org/FirstGrade.aspx
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