Thinking Globally The Lexiled Library 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.

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  Over 70 million articles in database

The Unification of Reading Reading Motivation EBSCO Online Reader Hooked on Phonics HOSTS Scholastic Read180 Scholastic Reading Counts! Success for All Periodical Databases Bigchalk/ProQuest EBSCO NoveList Pearson Scholastic Rand McNally Rigby Rosen SRA/McGraw-Hill Book Distributors & Databases Baker & Taylor The Book Source Follett Library Services Follett Software Co. Ingram RRBowker Sundance Test Publishers School/Public Libraries Follett Software Company Follett Library Services Mackin Library Media Prebinders The Booksource DEMCO Econoclad Permabound Bound-to-Stay Bound Textbook Publishers Addison-Wesley Britannica Globe-Fearon Holt Rinehart & Winston Houghton Mifflin Prentice Hall Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Hampton-Brown Harcourt School Publishers SRA/McGraw-Hill Scott Foresman Steck-Vaughn The Wright Group Trade Book Publishers Modern Curriculum Scott Foresman Crabtree Dominee DK Publishing Lee & Low Globe-Fearon Hampton Brown Harcourt Holt Leapfrog Glencoe/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 CTB/McGraw-Hill

Lexiles and John Grisham Titles  The Pelican Brief660  The Firm680  The Client730  The Partner790  The Brethren810  The Rainmaker830

Lexiles and Newspapers  Reuters1440  NY Times1380  The Washington Post1350  The Wall Street Journal1320  Associated Press1310  USA Today1200

About The Lexile Framework for Reading  The Lexile Framework for Reading ( 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.

Lexile Can Calculate  How well the reader will comprehend the information in the text  The reading ability a reader is expected to need in order to comprehend text at a specific level

Benefits of Using Lexile Measures  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

Just as shoes must fit correctly for comfortable walking, books must match student readability for effective comprehension. How can I use Lexiles to help my students?

Lexile Table Grade Level Reader Measures 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 L to 1195L L to 1210L

Classroom Libraries --from SCRF regional coach

--from L.Montgomery’s library

Classroom Library/Gathering Area --from SCRF regional coach

Some Lexile Observations  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

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