The Power of Lexiles Rebecca Derenge Title I

The Power of Lexiles Rebecca Derenge Title I Reading & N&D Coordinator West Virginia Department of Education 1

Essential Question What must every teacher and administrator understand about Lexiles? 2

3 Postsecondary Options Text Lexile Measure (L) 1600 1400 1200 1000 800 600 High College Military High College School Literature School Textbooks Literature Textbooks * Source of National Test Data: Meta. Metrics Personal Entry-Level SAT 1, Use Occupations ACT, AP*

Lexiles What they are and are not. 4

The Lexile ® Framework for Reading • Links text and readers to a common scale • Characterizes reader with a measure (reader ability)and text with a measure (text readability). • Allows educators to forecast the level of comprehension a reader is expected to experience with a particular text Syntactic complexity (word frequency) Semantic difficulty (sentence length) 5

Lexiles Don’t Address Text Characteristics Age Appropriateness of Content Text Support Text Quality Reader Characteristics Interest and Motivation Background Knowledge Reading Context and Purpose Lexiles only measure text readability and student reading ability 6

490 L 320 L 220 L

770 L 660 L 560 L

1030 L 820 L 950 L

1210 L 1200 L 1160 L

What is the Lexile Framework for Reading? LINK: reader to text PREDICT: levels of comprehension TRACK: growth over time

Case Study East Elementary School – Kodiak, AK: Margaret Reed: “The students take ownership in their growth. We track Lexiles, fluency and comprehension and they understand the significance of the scores. It’s very meaningful for them. It’s the most useful tool that has come down the pike, ever. Lexiles have affected reading growth more than any other single tool we’ve used. ”

Readability of Harry Potter and the… Sorcerer’s Stone Chamber of Secrets Prisoner of Azkaban Goblet of Fire Order of the Phoenix Half Blood Prince Deathly Hallows 13

Readability of Harry Potter and the… Sorcerer’s Stone (880 L) Chamber of Secrets (940 L) Prisoner of Azkaban (880 L) Goblet of Fire (880 L) Order of the Phoenix (950 L) Half-Blood Prince (1030 L) Deathly Hallows (980 L) 14

Two Underlying Concepts Reader Ability The ability of readers to construct meaning from text (as measured on tests) Text Readability The difficulty of reading materials (based on dimensions or characteristics of the text) Additional Concepts that are based on the relationship between Reader Ability and Text Readability, it is possible to… Predict Reading Comprehension Differentiate Instruction Measure Reader Progress and Growth 15

Reading is a process in which information from the text and the knowledge possessed by the reader act together to produce meaning. Anderson, R. C. , Hiebert, E. H. , Scott, J. A. , & Wilkinson, I. A. G. (1985). Becoming a nation of readers: The report of the Commission on Reading. Urbana, IL. University of Illinois 17

Analyzing Text Readability Read and examine Clifford’s Manners. Easy to read? Hard? Why? Share your observations with your neighbors. Do the same for the Descartes piece.

Lexile Moment • • Associated Press Chicago Tribune NY Times Reuters USA Today Wall Street Journal Washington Post 18

Lexiles and Newspapers Reuters (1440 L) NY Times (1380 L) Washington Post (1350 L) Wall Street Journal (1320 L) Chicago Tribune (1310 L) Associated Press (1310 L) USA Today (1200 L) 19

What are the components of the Lexile Framework and how do we use them? Lexile Analyzer® Lexile Map Linking Technology Test of Reading Development 20

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Text Demand Level by Grade Typical Text Demand Approximate Middle 50% (from Lexile English Map) 1 st Grade 200 L to 400 L 2 nd Grade 300 L to 500 L 3 rd Grade 500 L to 700 L 4 th Grade 650 L to 850 L 5 th Grade 750 L to 950 L 6 th Grade 850 L to 1050 L 7 th Grade 950 L to 1075 L 8 th Grade 1000 L to 1100 L 9 th Grade 1050 L to 1150 L 10 th Grade 1100 L to 1200 L 11 th and 12 th Grade 1100 L to 1300 L §Lexile researchers analyzed representative grade level texts to determine the text demands for different grade levels. § Students’ Lexile measures can help predict how well they will be able to comprehend the texts they will face. 22

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Tools - Lexile Analyzer

Tools – Lexile Analyzer

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Tools - Lexile Calculator

Lexile Calculator Results

Tools - Lexile Calculator

Lexile Calculator Results

Tools – Lexile Calculator

Lexile Calculator Results

Tools - Lexile Book Database

Use the Lexile Book Database to: Determine the Lexile measure of a book (using title, author, or ISBN#) Find books related to a topic or theme in a targeted Lexile range through a Keyword Search

Tools - Lexile Book Database

Tools - Lexile Reading Pathfinders

Lexiles and Lifelong Reading Federal Tax Form W-4 Aetna Health Care Discount Form GM Protection Plan Medical Insurance Benefit Package Application for Student Loan CD-DVD Player Instructions Installing Your Child Safety Seat Microsoft Windows User Manual

Lexiles and Lifelong Reading CD-DVD Player Instructions (1080 L) GM Protection Plan (1150 L) Microsoft Windows User Manual (1150 L) Installing Your Child Safety Seat (1170 L) Federal Tax Form W-4 (1260 L) Application for Student Loan (1270 L) Medical Insurance Benefit Package (1280 L) Aetna Health Care Discount Form (1360 L)