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Lexiles and Differentiated Reading Instruction 2008-2009

Lexiles and Differentiated Reading Instruction 2008-2009. AAPS Curriculum and Instruction. Understanding Lexile Levels. An educational tool that links text and readers under a common measurement Characterizes readers with a measure and text with a measure

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Lexiles and Differentiated Reading Instruction 2008-2009

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  1. Lexiles and Differentiated Reading Instruction 2008-2009 AAPS Curriculum and Instruction

  2. Understanding Lexile Levels • An educational tool that links text and readers under a common measurement • Characterizes readers with a measure and text with a measure • Allows educators to forecast the level of comprehension a reader is expected to experience with a particular text

  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. Test Publishers • Harcourt: SAT-10, SAT-9, and others • Riverside: The Iowa Tests • CTB/McGraw-Hill: TerraNova • Scholastic: SRI, Read 180

  5. Database Services • Allow educators to provide leveled, informational text from 70 million articles • EBSCO • ProQuest • Big Chalk • Follett Library Services

  6. 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

  7. Determining Text Difficulty • Syntactic Complexity the number of words per sentence longer sentences are more complex and require more short-term memory to process • Semantic Difficulty the frequency of the words in the corpus of written text (corpus has over 650-million words)

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

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

  10. Other Lexile Levels • High School Lit. 700-900 • College ( 2 or 4 yr.) Lit. 800-1050 • H. S. Textbooks 975-1150 • College Textbooks 1100-1300 • US Military 1200 • Corporate Entry-Level 1200-1300 • Loan Apps. Tax Forms 1200-1300 • SAT/ACT/AP 1100-1200

  11. 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

  12. The Lexile Calculator

  13. The Lexile Calculator • 0 difference between Lexile level of book and reader = 75% comprehension • -250 levels = 50% comprehension • +250 levels = 90% comprehension

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

  15. How Can We Use Lexile Information? • Determine Level of Support Student will Need with Text • Create Small Groups for Differentiated Instruction • Evaluate Student Progress • Evaluate Programming

  16. Highly Effective Schools • Common and Widely Known Standard for Success • Belief in Efficacy of Students and Teachers • Periodic Measurement Toward Standard and Reflection on Data • Instruction through Trained and Certified Professionals • Ongoing Professional Development • Consistent Differentiation in Instruction • Whole-Group, Small Group, and Individual Instruction

  17. Reading Workshop Model • Base of Independent Reading Behavior • Short, Explicit Teaching Applied to Independent Reading Behavior • Verbal and Written Response to Independent Reading • Small Group, Differentiated Reading Instruction

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