How do I know my Lexile level?

Students receive a Lexile reader measure from a reading test or program. There isn't a special “Lexile” test. Instead, we partner with state departments of education and test publishers to create assessments, or link to existing assessments that can report students' reading scores as Lexile measures.

How can I test my Lexile level?

A student receives his or her Lexile measure from one of two ways: taking a school-administered SRI (Scholastic Reading Inventory) test, which is specifically designed to measure Lexile or reading ability OR by taking a standardized reading test which converts the reader's results to a Lexile measure.

How do you calculate Lexile level?

How is a Lexile measure obtained? To obtain a Lexile measure for a book or article, text is split into 125-word slices. Each slice is compared to the nearly 600-million word Lexile corpus, which is taken from a variety of sources and genres, and the words in each sentence are counted.

Where can I find my Lexile score?

The Lexile score is a number between 200L and 1700L that indicates the student's reading level. Find the book's Lexile score: Many books have a Lexile score listed on the back cover or in the book's description.

What Lexile is Harry Potter?

A book, article or piece of text gets a Lexile text measure when it's analyzed by MetaMetrics®. For example, the first Harry Potter book measures 880L, so its Lexile text measure is 880L. The Lexile Framework measures students and texts on the same developmental scale to seamlessly match readers to targeted texts.

What is a Lexile

Is 1700 a good Lexile level?

You are likely the most advanced reader in your grade level at the school. I am a year ahead of you and scored 1700+ (the highest you can get), and you should be on track to do the same thing. To put this in perspective, a highly advanced Lexile for a high school senior is around 1450.

Is there an app to determine Lexile level?

QuickScan will find the AR quiz number, ATOS (also ZPD) level, points, word count, and interest level, as well as the Lexile measure, equivalent Fountas & Pinnell Level (F&P) / Scholastic Guided Reading Level (GRL), Guided Reading Grade Level information, and Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA) information.

How accurate is Lexile level?

It will sometimes overestimate or underestimate the difficulty of a text. It does this because it predicts difficulty on the basis of only two variables (word difficulty and sentence difficulty). Obviously there is more to text difficulty than that. Nevertheless, the predictions tend to be reasonably accurate.

Do Lexile scores matter?

A Lexile score is a good starting point when determining a book's appropriateness for students, but just because a student's score matches that of a book's does not mean the text is suitable.

What is a good Lexile score?

Research shows that 1300L or above is the target Lexile measure for students to be ready for college and career in reading. Lexile measures provide a scientific approach to improve reading.

What is the lowest possible Lexile score?

The reader's Lexile Framework works in intervals of five with 5L being the lowest. The highest possible measure is 2000L. Anything below 5L is assessed as a BR or Beginning Reader. Measures below 10L are classified as BR or Beginning Reader.

What is a bad Lexile score for a 7th grader?

In the 7th grade, studies using a national sample of students have shown that typically readers will score at a Lexile level between 735L and 1065L over the course of the year. Growth of around 69L is generally achievable for 7^th graders should students be progressing at around 1.3L per week.

Is 1800 a good Lexile score?

Well, the average 13 year old will score between 900 and 1400 for the Lexile score. 1700 is on the high end of average for a HS Senior…in the 1800's means your comprehension is nearing college level reading-wise…. so, yes, those scores are AWESOME!

What is a Lexile tracker?

The Lexile Framework® for Reading is a scientific approach to measuring both reading ability and the text complexity of reading materials on the same developmental scale. Educators use Lexile measures to match students with text, putting them on the path to success in school, college and careers.

What Lexile level is 2nd grade?

2nd Grade: 425L - 795L.

What is the Lexile checker for text?

The Lexile Analyzer measures the complexity of the text by breaking down the entire piece and studying its characteristics, such as sentence length and word frequency, which represent the syntactic and semantic challenges that the text presents to a reader.

What is a bad Lexile score for a 9th grader?

According to national studies, the typical 9^th grader should score on Lexile between 855L and 1165L over the course of the year. Of course, around 25 percent of students will perform below the expected average, while 25 percent will generally perform at a higher level.

What is the Lexile for Percy Jackson?

The Lightning Thief | Riordan, Rick | Lexile & Reading Level: 740.

What does a 2000 Lexile score mean?

Lexile reader measures are reported from 0L (0 Lexile) to 2000L (2000 Lexile). The Lexile scale is a developmental scale for reporting reading ability, so a higher number means a higher level of reading ability. A Lexile reader measure usually is obtained by having the reader take a test of reading comprehension.

What reading level is the Bible?

New American Standard Bible (NASB): 11^th grade. New Revised Standard Version (RNSV): 11^th grade. English Standard Version (ESV): 10^th grade. New International Version (NIV): 8^th grade.