What is The Lexile Framework for Reading?The Lexile Framework for Reading, developed by educational measurement company MetaMetrics®, Inc., is a scientific approach to measuring reading ability and the difficulty of reading materials. The Lexile Framework includes a Lexile measure and the Lexile scale. A Lexile measure represents both the difficulty of a text, such as a book or an article, and an individual’s reading ability. Lexile measures are expressed as a number followed by an “L” (e.g., 850L), and are placed on the Lexile scale. The Lexile scale is a developmental scale for measuring reading ability and text difficulty, ranging from below 200L for beginning readers and beginning-reader materials to above 1700L for advanced readers and materials. Knowing the Lexile measures of a reader and text helps to predict how the text matches the reader’s ability—whether the text may be too easy, too difficult or just right. All Lexile products and services rely on the Lexile measure and Lexile scale to match reader with text. Because many testing and instructional companies have built products around the Lexile Framework—and a growing number of states have linked their high-stakes assessments to the framework—educators are able to connect all of the different components of the curriculum. Once you have a student’s Lexile measure, you use that measure to connect the student with books and articles from periodicals, newspapers, reference books and transcripts that are targeted to the student’s reading level.
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