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This document provides information about Lexile reading scales and text complexity bands. It includes Lexile score ranges for different grade levels to identify if a student is reading below basic, basic, proficient, or advanced. It also lists common Lexile scores for various texts and considers factors beyond Lexile scores like meaning, purpose, and a reader's experience, knowledge and engagement with a text. Students should consider if a text is at their grade level and has substance, as well as what they will do with the text. Texts should stretch but not frustrate readers. Resources for determining Lexile scores are provided.
This document provides information about Lexile reading scales and text complexity bands. It includes Lexile score ranges for different grade levels to identify if a student is reading below basic, basic, proficient, or advanced. It also lists common Lexile scores for various texts and considers factors beyond Lexile scores like meaning, purpose, and a reader's experience, knowledge and engagement with a text. Students should consider if a text is at their grade level and has substance, as well as what they will do with the text. Texts should stretch but not frustrate readers. Resources for determining Lexile scores are provided.
This document provides information about Lexile reading scales and text complexity bands. It includes Lexile score ranges for different grade levels to identify if a student is reading below basic, basic, proficient, or advanced. It also lists common Lexile scores for various texts and considers factors beyond Lexile scores like meaning, purpose, and a reader's experience, knowledge and engagement with a text. Students should consider if a text is at their grade level and has substance, as well as what they will do with the text. Texts should stretch but not frustrate readers. Resources for determining Lexile scores are provided.
Grade Band Current Lexile Band "Stretch" Lexile Band* K–1 N/A N/A 2–3 450L–725L 420L–820L 4–5 645L–845L 740L–1010L 6–8 860L–1010L 925L–1185L 9-10 960L–1115L 1050L–1335L 1500 – College Textbooks 11–CCR 1070L–1220L 1185L–1385L
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1380 – The New York Times Is the Lexile score the only thing to consider when evaluating a text? 1370 – Lemony Snicket’s The End 1350 – Standard Lease Agreement No, an evaluation of a text should be completed by three measures. One 1270 – Federal Student Aid Application measure is the technical aspect (Lexile) of the text (word length, word 1130 – I-Pod Installation manual frequency, sentence length). Another measure is to analyze the meaning, 1100 – 11th grade chemistry textbook author’s purpose and structure of the text. The last measure is the 1020 – Drivers’ License Manual reader’s knowledge and experience with the text and his engagement or 830 - Playstation Install Instructions interest with that text. This last measure also considers what the student 810 - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory will be expected to do with the text once it is completed. 750 – toy Assembly Instructions As a student, what do I need to consider? 2180 –US Bill of Rights Are you reading a text at or above grade level? 1510 – The Prince - Machiavelli 1340 - Metamorphosis – Kafka Does the chosen text have substance and embedded meaning? 1340 – Scarlet Letter – Hawthorne 1200 – Great Expectations - Dickins What will you be doing with the text? 1160 – Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Hardy 1090 – 1984 – Orwell These considerations are important because texts with Lexiles 1080 – Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass below your reading level will not stretch you as a reader 1070 – The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald (vocabulary, sentence length and variety). Texts with Lexiles far 1020 – Hatchet – Paulson above your level may be difficult to comprehend and in turn not 960 – The Three Musketeers - Dumas help you grow as a reader. 870 – To Kill a Mockingbird - Lee 810 – Frankenstein - Shelly Resources for determining Lexile scores: 810 – Hunger Games – Collins 770 – Wuthering Heights - Bronte www.lexile.com 660 - Holes - Sacher www.scholastic.com/bookwizard 630 – Of Mice and Men – Steinbeck