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Literacy and Lexile® Measures

Literacy and Lexile® Measures

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It’s much more than just reading words on a page. Literacy involves reading, understanding, and communicating effectively — all skills that are needed not only for tests, but for life. The Lexile® Framework is a way for schools to know the difficulty of the materials your child can read and understand. All 50 states, including Texas, use Lexile® measures to improve student achievement in reading comprehension.


What the LEXILE

® Framework Does

Helps You Make the Best Reading Choices

When you know the Lexile® text measure of a book and the Lexile® reader measure of a student, you can match books to the student’s reading ability — finding books that are not too easy, not too hard, but just right.

Shows the Range of Readers Across Grade Levels

Within any classroom, there will be a range of readers. Instead of classifying books by a single grade level, Lexile® measures provide a variety of choices for students with different reading abilities in that grade.

Tracks Students' Progress Over Time

A helpful feature of the Lexile® scale is that it can be used to show whether reading ability is growing over time. If not, then teachers and parents can offer a student the extra help they need to improve.

Helps To Create Summer Reading Lists

Lexile® measures can be used to promote summer reading by helping parents guide their children to books that will not bore them by being too easy or frustrate them by being too difficult.

Using LEXILE® Tools at Home

Curious about your child’s Lexile® measure and what it means? Use these tools to learn more.

Find a Book

The Find a Book tool helps you choose books that are at the right Lexile® measure for your child. Just enter your child’s Lexile® measure to see available books.

Go to the Find a Book tool

Disclaimer:

The Lexile Titles Database® is a list of books with Lexile measures provided by MetaMetrics. Neither the Texas Education Agency (TEA) nor MetaMetrics chooses the books to be measured – the book publishers do. The publishers are reputable academic and trade publishers, and the developmental levels of books are displayed when the publishers provide them. In no way should one assume that the books are recommended or endorsed by TEA, nor should the books or database search results be taken as a suggested reading list. Parents and educators should preview books to make sure they are at the appropriate developmental level and are suitable for the child.

Growth Planner

You may wonder if your child will be prepared for the reading requirements of college and the workplace upon graduation. The Lexile® Growth Planner provides some insight on this topic. With the Lexile® Growth Planner, you can chart your child’s reading growth across different annual state assessments, forecast future reading growth, compare that forecasted reading growth with the text demands of college and careers, and, if needed, identify a custom growth path to ensure your child is college and career ready when they graduate from high school.

Go to Lexile® Growth Planner

Links to LEXILE

® Informational Resources

Lexile
® Overview Video

This six-minute animated video on the basic concepts and uses of the Lexile® Framework for Reading is the perfect resource for educators and parents who are new to Lexile® measures.

Lexile
® Measures at Home

This webpage contains topics and links that detail ways you can use a child’s Lexile® measure — and the Lexile® measures of books and other reading materials — to foster literacy and learning at home.

Summer Reading List

Over the summer months and without the structure of school, many students begin to slip in their reading abilities. This webpage offers parents suggestions for becoming more involved in their child’s summer reading.

The Lexile
® Infographic

Everything you need to know about the Lexile® Framework for Reading in one easy-to-understand graphic.

Lexile
® by Chapter Guides

Lexile® by Chapter Guides explore the text complexity within a book by providing Lexile® measures for every chapter in the text. Each guide includes a graph and table displaying the Lexile® information to help educators, parents, and students better understand where the peaks and valleys of complexity reside within a text.

The Lexile
® PowerV Vocabulary Tool

The Lexile® PowerV Vocabulary Tool identifies up to 10 challenging words in each book that are important for students to know. These words may be difficult for a student who is targeted with the book. Parents and students can use the tool to identify words students might want to familiarize themselves with prior to reading a particular book.

The Lexile
® Framework for Reading Fact Sheet

A two-page description of how The Lexile® Framework for Reading links assessment with reading instruction.

Lexile
® Parent Brochure

A two-page overview of the value and utility of the link between The Lexile® Framework for Reading and the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR).

Relationship between Lexile
® and STAAR Reading

TEA partnered with MetaMetrics to conduct a series of studies to examine the relationship between the Lexile® scale and the STAAR reading scale.  Read More »

Student participants were representative of Texas student population in reading ability and were similar to Texas student population in demographics such as gender, ethnicity, economic status, and English learner status. Students were given a paper/pencil Lexile® Linking Test that contained multiple-choice reading comprehension questions. Students´ results on the Lexile® Linking Test were examined in relation to the students’ results on the STAAR reading test. Researchers were able to establish a link between the STAAR reading scale and the Lexile® scale. Although no high-stakes was associated with the Lexile® measure on STAAR report card, it can be used as a resource for parents and educators. With Lexile® measures, parents and educators now have information that can be used to promote and encourage growth in reading.

Links to Additional Resources

OCLC WorldCat

WorldCat is the world’s largest network of library content and services. WorldCat libraries are dedicated to providing access to their resources on the web, where most people start their search for information. WorldCat not only allows you to find the libraries nearest to your location but also allows you to search the materials included in the library’s collection.

Digital Knowledge Central

An online database in Texas, Digital Knowledge Central, offers a search feature that enables users to search more than 100 million articles from magazines, journals, newspapers, and e-books by Lexile® measure.

Expand Your Child's Reading

One of the best ways to nurture a love of reading that leads to improved literacy is to take your children to the library regularly. Most libraries have special summer reading programs.

Find a Library Near You

Helpful Links

Check out the links below to quickly get where you need to go:

STAAR Alternate 2, TELPAS, and TELPAS Alternate Resources
  • STAAR Alternate 2 Resources
  • TELPAS Resources
  • TELPAS Alternate Resources
Special Education Information and Call Center
  • Go to SPEDTEX.org

Supplemental Special Education Services (SSES)

This program gives one-time $1500 grants to families of students served by special education.

  • Go to SSES.TEA.TEXAS.GOV

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Lexile Levels: What to Know

If your child comes home from school with a report on Lexile level or measure, you may wonder what that number means. This measure, which is called the Lexile score, assesses your child’s reading level.

The Lexile measure is part of the Lexile Framework for Reading. It’s used with students from first through 12th grade.

There are a number of systems that match readers with texts at the right level of difficulty. But Lexile is widely used, and many students will find the books in their classroom organized by Lexile levels.

How Lexile matches readers with reading materials

The point of the Lexile system is to find the right level of reading material for students. The match is based on reading ability, not grade level in school. To make the match, the program assigns levels both to readers and to texts.

Students get a Lexile score after doing a reading assessment. Books and other texts get a Lexile level of difficulty that’s generated by special software. To find a book at the right Lexile level, a student will look for a book with a Lexile level that falls within a certain range — from a little below to a little above the student’s level.

Lexile can give you a sense of your child’s reading ability. But it shouldn’t be used as a way to compare your child to other kids the same age. Also, your child’s score doesn’t take into account other factors that go into finding a good match. These include motivation, interests, and background knowledge.

Lexile assessments and results

Your child’s Lexile level can be generated from various assessments. Each one looks at a different aspect of reading. The Scholastic Reading Inventory tests measure reading comprehension, for instance. The Aimsweb fluency assessment looks at how many words a child is reading correctly per minute.

If your child’s Lexile falls within a range that concerns you, ask the school which test or tests it used to come up with this level. If one assessment shows that your child reads slowly, it doesn’t necessarily mean there’s a problem with understanding the text.

The Lexile system isn’t a test to identify learning and thinking differences. It’s simply a guide to help kids find books at the right reading level. But Lexile level can be one way to monitor the reading progress your child makes over time.

When kids have trouble with reading, it’s important to know why. A full evaluation can pinpoint exactly where your child struggling. This might lead to targeted specialized instruction in reading through an .

Learn about the types of tests used to identify a child’s reading challenges. And watch as an expert talks about how to choose books for kids who struggle with reading. You can also discover tips to improve your child’s reading comprehension and learn more ways to encourage reluctant readers.

Key takeaways

  • The Lexile system can help predict which books a student will be able to read and understand.

  • Lexile assessments can’t identify learning and thinking differences.

  • Lexile measures are one way to help monitor your child’s reading progress.

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