However, you can look at the books your child is reading, talk about the books with them to gauge their comprehension, and then look up the books via any of the tools I will share with you below to figure out what level they are comfortably reading at now.Īccording to Lexile‘s website the average correlation between grade level and Lexile level can be seen in the chart below. There are no sample tests available, so there is no measuring your own Lexile or figuring out your child’s level quickly.
If you want to see which companies and schools are officially working with Lexile to calculate these scores, I would suggest looking at the list of partners on the Lexile website. The Lexile scores that students come home with are calculated through assessments done through schools or educational programs. For a more in depth look at all the details, I suggest checking the frequently ask questions page on the Lexile website. It only measures the technical difficulty of the text. The problem is that the resulting measurement does not take into account the age-appropriateness, book quality, subject-matter, theme, or other such important factors. Then, each of the chunk’s resulting Lexile measure is applied to a model to determine the Lexile measure for the entire text. These calculations are put into the Lexile equation. The length and difficulty of the sentences and vocabulary is examined.
Each chunk is then compared to the nearly 600-million word Lexile corpus and words in each sentence are counted. First the text of a book is split into 125-word chunks.
However, more and more schools and teachers are requiring students to read books that match their current Lexile level, which is problematic for parents and librarians alike, because the subject matter of the book and Lexile level do not always come together as nicely as they do in other reading measurement models.įirst, lets look at how Lexile scores for books are tabulated. It does not seem so long ago that schools in the area were depending on DRA and other reading level guidelines where reading levels and age appropriate materials go hand in hand.