UNDERSTANDING LEXILES Lancaster School District Department of Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment

Understanding Lexiles

What is a Lexile? Matches a student’s reading ability with difficulty of text material Interpreted as the level of book that a student can read with 75% comprehension 75% comprehension is the level identified by experts as offering the reader a certain amount of comfort and yet still offering a challenge A Lexile is a standard score developed by MetaMetrics Based on research funded by National Institute for Child Health Development (NICHD) Combined the work of reading experts Chall, Flesch, Carroll, and Bormuth, with measurement expert, Rasch Realigned to match the Common Core Standards' text complexity grade bands

The Lexile Framework for Reading  Measures reading ability and text difficulty on same developmental scale.  Enables educators, parents and students to find books and other materials that will provide an appropriate level of challenge, while still maintaining interest and learning.

The “stretch” bands of the Lexile Framework show an upward trajectory of reading comprehension development through the grades to indicate that all students should be reading at the college and career readiness level by no later than the end of high school. Lexiles & Common Core Standards

Progress to College and Career Readiness Report

Design of SBAC Performance Tasks Components of a Performance Task Stimulus  Readings  Video clips  Audio clips  Graphs, charts, other visuals  Research topic/issue/ problem  etc. Information Processing  Research questions  Comprehension questions  Simulated Internet search  etc. Product/Performance  Essay, report, story, script  Speech with/without graphics, other media  Responses to embedded constructed response questions.  etc. Use 1-2 Stimuli for Grade 3. Use up to 5 stimuli for high school. Emphasis on stimuli related to science, history, and social studies.

Stimulus Length and Complexity Length GuidelinesLexile Guidelines Qualitative measures and judgment Grade Maximum Word Count High School (9– 11) 1,100 Grade BandLexile Ranges K–1N/A 2–3450– –980 6–8955–1155 9–101080– –CCR1215–1355

Recommendations for Lexile Usage: Readers choose texts within their Lexile ranges Lexile Range is 50L above and 100L below a student’s reported Lexile measure Teacher/students use Lexiles to set reading goals Students read a variety of texts and genres Regular teacher/student conferences

Proficiency Band Ranges

RESOURCE EXPLORATION Center 1: Tools for determining lexiles

Book Wizard App Activity o Select one student o Determine his or her fluency level (K-1) or lexile level o Begin a “Lexile and Login Sheet” by identifying the Independent Reading Range o Use the Book Wizard App to discover book levels o Match a student’s lexile to a book o Lexile Range is 50L above and 100L below a student’s reported Lexile measure. o Book Expert Online: Scholastic Reading Counts Quizzes

Lexiles & Logins o Organize student lexiles, programs, usernames, and passwords

Student Organizer

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Book Expert Online

Works Cited Assessment/Assessment/Documents/Lexiles%20Present ation%20FINAL.pdf Assessment/Assessment/Documents/Lexiles%20Present ation%20FINAL.pdf