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Thinking Globally The Lexiled Library

Thinking Globally The Lexiled Library. ACPS ELA Partner Teacher. What is the Lexile Framework?. The Lexile Framework is a scale along which books can be placed in order of text difficulty, and readers can be placed according to their reading comprehension ability.

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Thinking Globally The Lexiled Library

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  1. Thinking Globally The Lexiled Library ACPS ELA Partner Teacher

  2. What is the Lexile Framework? • The Lexile Framework is a scale along which books can be placed in order of text difficulty, and readers can be placed according to their reading comprehension ability. • Lexile measures are the most widely adopted reading measure in use today, and are part of reading and testing programs at the district and state levels.

  3. How Common? • Over 19 millions students will get a Lexile measure from a linked test this year • Over 450 publishers have titles with Lexile measures • Nearly 50,000 books to search at www.lexile.com • Over 70 million articles in database

  4. Addison-Wesley Britannica Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Crabtree Globe-Fearon Dominee Hampton-Brown DK Publishing Harcourt School Publishers Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Holt Rinehart & Winston Globe-Fearon Houghton Mifflin Hampton Brown Prentice Hall Harcourt SRA/McGraw-Hill Holt Scott Foresman Leapfrog Lee & Low Bigchalk/ProQuest EBSCO NoveList The Booksource Bound-to-Stay Bound DEMCO Econoclad Permabound Follett Library Services Follett Software Company Baker & Taylor Mackin Library Media The Book Source Follett Library Services Follett Software Co. Ingram RRBowker Sundance The Unification of Reading Textbook Publishers Trade Book Publishers Test Publishers CTB/McGraw-Hill Modern Curriculum Pearson Educational Testing Services (ETS) Scholastic Harcourt Educational Measurement Rand McNally Rigby North Carolina Department of Public Instruction Rosen Northwest Evaluation Association SRA/McGraw-Hill Riverside Publishing Scott Foresman Texas Education Agency Steck-Vaughn Utah State Office of Education The Wright Group Prebinders Periodical Databases Book Distributors & Databases School/Public Libraries Reading Motivation EBSCO Online Reader Hooked on Phonics HOSTS Scholastic Read180 Scholastic Reading Counts! Success for All

  5. Lexiles and John Grisham Titles • The Pelican Brief 660 • The Firm 680 • The Client 730 • The Partner 790 • The Brethren 810 • The Rainmaker 830

  6. Lexiles and Newspapers • Reuters 1440 • NY Times 1380 • The Washington Post 1350 • The Wall Street Journal 1320 • Associated Press 1310 • USA Today 1200

  7. About The Lexile Framework for Reading • The Lexile Framework for Reading (www.Lexile.com) provides a common scale for matching reader ability and text difficulty, allowing easy monitoring of progress. • Lexile measures give teachers and parents the confidence to choose materials that will improve student reading skills across the curriculum and at home. • Tens of thousands of books and tens of millions of articles have Lexile measures, and all major standardized tests can report student reading scores in Lexiles. As the most widely adopted reading measure in use today, Lexiles are part of reading and testing programs at district, state and federal levels. • The Lexile Framework was developed by MetaMetrics, an independent education company based in Durham, N.C., after 15 years of research funded by the National Institutes of Health. www.lexile.com

  8. Lexile Can Calculate • How well the reader will comprehend the information in the text • The reading ability a reader is expected to need in order to comprehend text at a specific level

  9. Benefits of Using Lexile Measures • Correlates to MAP and PASS • Matches reading material to students’ reading levels • Levels student writing passages • Enables teachers and librarians to track and assist students in their choices of challenging reading matter • Enables students to UNDERSTAND their reading levels • Lexile framework goes beyond K-12 • Common scale among administrators, teachers, parents, students and community • Lexiles integrated into the MARC records

  10. Lexile Level Does Not Reflect • Themes • Text Structure • Implied Meaning • Prior Knowledge • Age Appropriateness • Interest

  11. How can I use Lexiles to help my students? Just as shoes must fit correctly for comfortable walking, books must match student readability for effective comprehension.

  12. http://www.lexile.com

  13. Lexile Table

  14. Classroom Libraries --from SCRF regional coach

  15. --from L.Montgomery’s library

  16. Classroom Library/Gathering Area --from SCRF regional coach

  17. Some Lexile Observations • Nonfiction tends to score higher in lexile than fiction • Fantasy fiction tends to score high • Most middle school fiction falls in the 600L to 1000L range • Mystery fiction tends to score low • Most authors tend to be consistent in the lexile ranges • No apparent correlation between book length and lexile score

  18. ACPS Observation Lexile is a good measuring tool, and it is one factor in great book selection! --from C. Poole’s classroom

  19. QUESTIONS?

  20. References/Resources • www.lexile.com • www.dillon2.k12.sc.us/teachers/lexile.asp • www.hisdlibraryservices.org/.../Lexiles/LEXILES%20FOR%20LEARNING%20II • http://bookwizard.scholastic.com/tbw/homePage.do

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