Thinking Globally
The Lexiled Library
ACPS ELA Partner Teacher
What is the Lexile Framework?
The Lexile Framework is a scale along
which books can be placed in order of
text difficulty, and readers can be
placed according to their reading
comprehension ability.
 Lexile measures are the most widely
adopted reading measure in use today,
and are part of reading and testing
programs at the district and state
levels.
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How Common?
Over 19 millions students will get a
Lexile measure from a linked test this
year
 Over 450 publishers have titles with
Lexile measures
 Nearly 50,000 books to search at
www.lexile.com
 Over 70 million articles in database
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The Unification of Reading
Textbook Publishers
Test Publishers
CTB/McGraw-Hill
Educational Testing Services (ETS)
Harcourt Educational Measurement
North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
Northwest Evaluation Association
Riverside Publishing
Texas Education Agency
Utah State Office of Education
Addison-Wesley
Britannica
Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
Globe-Fearon
Hampton-Brown
Harcourt School Publishers
Holt Rinehart & Winston
Houghton Mifflin
Prentice Hall
SRA/McGraw-Hill
Scott Foresman
Prebinders
Modern Curriculum
Pearson
Scholastic
Rand McNally
Rigby
Rosen
SRA/McGraw-Hill
Scott Foresman
Steck-Vaughn
The Wright Group
Periodical Databases
The Booksource
Bound-to-Stay Bound
DEMCO
Econoclad
Permabound
Bigchalk/ProQuest
EBSCO
NoveList
Book Distributors &
Databases
School/Public Libraries
Follett Library Services
Follett Software Company
Mackin Library Media
Trade Book Publishers
Crabtree
Dominee
DK Publishing
Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
Globe-Fearon
Hampton Brown
Harcourt
Holt
Leapfrog
Lee & Low
Reading Motivation
EBSCO Online Reader
Hooked on Phonics
HOSTS
Scholastic Read180
Scholastic Reading Counts!
Success for All
Baker & Taylor
The Book Source
Follett Library Services
Follett Software Co.
Ingram
RRBowker
Sundance
Lexiles and John Grisham Titles
The Pelican Brief
 The Firm
 The Client
 The Partner
 The Brethren
 The Rainmaker
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660
680
730
790
810
830
Lexiles and Newspapers
Reuters
1440
 NY Times
1380
 The Washington Post
1350
 The Wall Street Journal1320
 Associated Press
1310
 USA Today
1200
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About The Lexile Framework for
Reading
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The Lexile Framework for Reading (www.Lexile.com)
provides a common scale for matching reader ability and
text difficulty, allowing easy monitoring of progress.
Lexile measures give teachers and parents the confidence
to choose materials that will improve student reading skills
across the curriculum and at home.
Tens of thousands of books and tens of millions of articles
have Lexile measures, and all major standardized tests can
report student reading scores in Lexiles. As the most widely
adopted reading measure in use today, Lexiles are part of
reading and testing programs at district, state and federal
levels.
The Lexile Framework was developed by MetaMetrics, an
independent education company based in Durham, N.C.,
after 15 years of research funded by the National Institutes
of Health.
www.lexile.com
Lexile Can Calculate
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How well the reader will comprehend
the information in the text
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The reading ability a reader is
expected to need in order to
comprehend text at a specific level
Benefits of Using Lexile Measures
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Correlates to MAP and PASS
Matches reading material to students’ reading
levels
Levels student writing passages
Enables teachers and librarians to track and
assist students in their choices of challenging
reading matter
Enables students to UNDERSTAND their reading
levels
Lexile framework goes beyond K-12
Common scale among administrators, teachers,
parents, students and community
Lexiles integrated into the MARC records
Lexile Level Does Not Reflect
Themes
 Text Structure
 Implied Meaning
 Prior Knowledge
 Age Appropriateness
 Interest
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How can I use Lexiles to
help my students?
Just as shoes must fit
correctly for comfortable
walking, books must match
student readability for
effective comprehension.
http://www.lexile.com
Lexile Table
Grade
Level
Reader
Measures
1
up to 300L
2
140L to 500L
3
330L to 700L
4
445L to 810L
5
565L to 910L
6
665L to 1000L
7
735L to 1065L
8
805L to 1100L
9
855L to 1165L
10
905L to 1195L
11-12
940L to 1210L
Classroom Libraries
--from SCRF regional coach
--from L.Montgomery’s library
Classroom Library/Gathering Area
--from SCRF regional coach
Some Lexile Observations
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Nonfiction tends to score higher in lexile
than fiction
Fantasy fiction tends to score high
Most middle school fiction falls in the 600L
to 1000L range
Mystery fiction tends to score low
Most authors tend to be consistent in the
lexile ranges
No apparent correlation between book
length and lexile score
ACPS Observation
Lexile is a good measuring tool, and it
is one factor in great book selection!
--from C. Poole’s classroom
QUESTIONS?
References/Resources
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www.lexile.com
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www.dillon2.k12.sc.us/teachers/lexile.asp
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www.hisdlibraryservices.org/.../Lexiles/L
EXILES%20FOR%20LEARNING%20II
http://bookwizard.scholastic.com/tb
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