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The Lexile Framework

The Lexile Framework is a measuring system that is used to determine the reading demand of the text in terms of the semantic difficulty (vocabulary) and syntactic complexity (sentence length). All of the books we have on the Reading Counts program are assigned a Lexile Level.

Instead of saying that a book has a first grade or second grade reading level, (this is very subjective), we use this system to rate and rank our books. The Lexile scales ranges from from 200 to 1700 Lexiles. It is possible to have a variation of up to 300 points in a particular grade level, and still be considered on grade level.

The students who have taken the SRI Reading test have been given a Lexile measure or number. The beginning number isn’t as important as watching to make sure the number improves over time. (Although this score can also be used to alert parents and teachers to those students who may be having difficulty with reading comprehension skills.)

Most First Graders will initially score a “BR”, instead of a number, which just means that they are Beginning Readers. They should read books up to about a 200 Lexile initially.

Students should choose books in a range of 100 points below, to 50 points above their number. There are also other considerations to take in account, such as the length of the book. The student may be able to read a harder (higher Lexile) book that is short, but may become too frustrated with a harder one that is very long.

A student’s Lexile measure can be a very useful tool to expand their reading capabilities. It shows what level of book they are capable of reading successfully. Reading a book that is at the correct Lexile measure will challenge the student, without frustrating them.

For more information on the Lexile Framework, see http://www.lexile.com/EntrancePageFlash.html