COPY. Lexile Measures for ExamView Learning Series Reading Passages. Explanation of Codes:

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1 Lexile Measures for ExamView Learning Series Reading Passages The Lexile Framework for Reading is a scientific approach to reading measurement, providing a common scale for matching reader ability and text difficulty. This allows educators and parents to quickly estimate expected reading comprehension and monitor progress. More than 100,000 books and 80 million articles have Lexile measures, making Lexiles the most widely adopted reading measure today. Explanation of Codes: Words: This is the number of words from the text that were analyzed. This number does not include headers, numbers, chapter headers, etc., as those types of things are not submitted through the Lexile Analyzer. MSL: This refers to the Mean Sentence Length. A Lexile measure is calculated based on the Mean Sentence Length of a text as well as its semantic difficulty (see below). The Analyzer arrives at a measure by accounting for the length of a particular sentence as well as the complexity and difficulty of that sentence s content. MLF: This refers to the semantic difficulty, or Mean Log Word Frequency. As explained above, this is the 2nd factor in the twopart equation which comprises the Lexile measure. LEX: This is the certified Lexile measure. It can be used in several ways to assist readability and comprehension. : Lexiles can be either numerical, in code form, or both. stands for Non-Prose. MetaMetrics assigns this code to various texts that are considered outside the realm of standard prose. Included in this category would be poems, songs, and recipes. is still considered a Lexile measure for a selection. Link for Reference: The following chart was taken from the Lexile FAQ web page (see link above): Grade Reader Measures (Interquartile Range, Mid-Year) Text Measures (from the Lexile Map) 1 Up to 300L 200L to 400L 2 140L to 500L 300L to 500L 3 330L to 700L 500L to 700L 4 445L to 810L 650L to 850L 5 565L to 910L 750L to 950L 6 665L to 1000L 850L to 1050L 7 735L to 1065L 950L to 1075L 8 805L to 1100L 1000L to 1100L 9 855L to 1165L 1050L to 1150L L to 1195L 1100L to 1200L 11 and L to 1210L 1100L to 1300L Figure 1. Typical Reader and Text Measures by Grade 7

2 Grade 3 -- Lexile Range for Text: Fossils L The Golden Bird L The Olympic Flame L The Old Man of the Mountain L How People Make Bells L Make Snowflakes L The Velveteen Rabbit L Ben Franklin, a Kite, and Electricity L Fruit Smoothies L Wendy s Whale-Watching Trip L Save the Right Whales L Waste Not, Want Not: School Recycling L The Lion and the Mouse L The Three Spinning Women L How the Camel Got His Hump L The Fir Tree L Be a Friend From a Railway Carriage Grade 4 -- Lexile Range for Text: Crispus Attucks and the Boston Massacre L All About Trees L Drums from Around the World L The Case of Amelia Earhart L Cornelia s Jewels L Pan de Los Muertos L The Princess and the Pea L Iktomi s Blanket L The History of Paper L All About Volcanoes L The Leap-Frog L The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher L Does Distance Learning Make the Grade? L How Brother Rabbit Fooled the Whale and the Elephant L The Cyclone L The Walrus and the Carpenter 8

3 Grade 5 -- Lexile Range for Text: New Kid on the Blog L Should English Be the Official Language of the U.S.? L The Underground Railroad L How to Make a Flipbook L Dolphins L The Net L The Adventures of Pinocchio L A Fable L Erosion and Landforms L The Magic Shop L The Quarrelsome Dragons L No More Tea L The Hermit, or the Gift of Corn L The Fox and the Goat L Casey at the Bat Clover Blossom Grade 6 -- Lexile Range for Text: Why the Peterkins Had a Late Dinner L If You Lived in Ancient Rome L Noah Webster L Address to First Annual Meeting of the Equal Rights Association L Geysers L Karate L Black Beauty L Sixth Grade Service Learning Program L Iktomi and the Coyote L The Vision of Maya Lin L The Martian Invasion L The WPA L Comets L A President as Cook L The Seven Ravens L The Master and His Pupil L Long Ago The Barefoot Boy The Jumblies 9

4 Grade 7 -- Lexile Range for Text: Cathcart City Bus System: Guide for Young Riders L Pharos: The Great Lighthouse of Alexandria L Lincoln Hall Speech L The Black Theater Movement L What s a Planet, Anyway? L Master of the Renaissance: Leonardo da Vinci L Coats of Arms L John Snow and Cholera L Around the World in 80 Days L The Right to Protest in the Internet Age L The Day of the Dead L Hawaii and Its Volcanoes L Music of the Civil War L The Call of the Wild L Tom Sawyer L Playing Games in the Classroom L How Rome Happened L The White Horse Girl and the Blue Wind Boy L My Escape from Slavery L The King s Job Grade 8 -- Lexile Range for Text: Brown Wolf L Amazing Trees L Mosby Science Museum: Volunteer Opportunities L Youth Volunteering: Building Communities and Citizens L The Napoleonic Code L Playing with Fire: The Komodo Dragon L The Promised Land L The Navajo Code Talkers L Who Needs Sleep? L Operation Migration L Tornadoes L Martha Graham: Mother of Modern Dance L Native American Sweat Lodges L The Open Window L Castles L The Land of Red Apples L The Undertaker s Chat L The Narrative of William W. Brown, an American Slave L Inaugural Address of Theodore Roosevelt L Out, Out 10

5 Grade 9 -- Lexile Range for Text: After Twenty Years L HTML L Origins of Western Theater L Rembrandt s Gaze L Madame Célestin s Divorce L Body Language Around the World L Spanglish L Asteroid Impact and Sue L Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass L Roughing It L The Harlem Renaissance L The Plague L Scientists in Antarctica L Are Teenagers Mature Enough to Drive? L The Taj Mahal: Monument to Love L Earth and Mars L A Short History of the World L Romeo and Juliet The Bells Grade Lexile Range for Text: The Picture of Dorian Gray L My Antonia L We Were Spies L Writing a Resume L Caffeine L Eat Right and Exercise L An Episode of War L The Little Laborers of New York City L Alternative Fuel Vehicles L Privatizing Our National Park Service L The Day Night Fell at Noon L Shakespeare s Globe Theatre L The Speech of Matilda Joslyn Gage L The Iliad L Hamlet 11