1. Increasing Lexile Levels to Improve Student Learning
Barb Bley and Sue Hall
January 9, 2017
Credit to MetaMetrics Resources

2. What do you Know and Want to Know about Lexile?

4. Appendix A: CCSS-Page 7

5. How to Access (see handout)
Step by Step Directions for Teachers to Access their Students' Reading Inventory Data

6. ERWC Connections: Log on to the ERWC Online Community

7. Each ERWC module has a quantitative analysis for each article
* Each ERWC module has a quantitative analysis for each article  * The quantitative analysis is called Flesch-Kincaid * This can be converted to Lexile on a conversion chart (see next slide)

8. Lexile
# of Readings
Lexile Average
FLESCH Reading Ease
FLESCH Grade Level
FOG
POWERS
SMOG
FORECAST
FRY 19
488 70
5.4
7.4
5.3
8.3
10.4 9 26
571 72
5.5
7.5
10.0 7 28
670
5.9
8.1
8.7
10.2 8 27
770 66
7.0
9.1
5.7
9.7 10
853 65
9.8
10.1
949 61
10.6
6.0 11
1058 57
8.9
11.4
6.1
11.2
10.7 25
1149 54
12.5
6.4
11.8 18
1235 49
11.1
13.8
6.7
12.8 13
1332 42
12.3
15.0
7.2
13.7
11.3 15 20
1429 38
16.5
14.7
All of the readings in our ERWC modules have a Flesch Kincaid reading level.  This chart will convert that to a Lexile level. All of our students take the Lexile reading inventory twice per year, so we can use this chart to determine which students may need additional support or groupings based on their Lexile scores.  

10. Scenario: Grade 9 Advanced Class
Determine the lexile level of your module text from ERWC unit. 
Using the Instructional Planning Report from your classroom, determine the lexile levels of your students. 
What do you notice?
What can you do to promote access for all your students?
What instructional strategies might you try?

11. Literature and Lexile
High School Literature Focus: Qualitative Measures
How to grow a student's lexile no matter what book is read? 
Lexile.com: Chapter Guides and Vocabulary Power Words: Customized to Lexile
SAMPLE: To Kill a Mockingbird

12. News and magazine articles can be analyzed if converted to plain text. 
                 The Lexile Analyzer

13. Career and Student Goal-Setting Connections

14. Instructional Focus: Considerations for Lexile Use in the Classroom

17. What are the three components to the Standards for Excellence in Literacy Framework that determine text complexity?

19. students for California state assessments.
FALSE!

31. Thank you for attending and making instructional connections for lexile use in the classroom Any further needs or questions, please feel free to us. Barb Bley Sue Hall