How is student Lexile measured?
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How is student Lexile measured?
A student receives his or her Lexile measure from one of two ways: taking a school-administered SRI (Scholastic Reading Inventory) test, which is specifically designed to measure Lexile or reading ability OR by taking a standardized reading test which converts the reader’s results to a Lexile measure.
How is Lexile measure calculated?
To obtain a Lexile measure for a book or article, text is split into 125-word slices. Each slice is compared to the nearly 600-million word Lexile corpus, which is taken from a variety of sources and genres, and the words in each sentence are counted.
What is the Lexile reading scale?
It comes to life when you match a Lexile reading measure with a Lexile text measure. The Lexile scale is like a thermometer from below 0L for beginner readers to above 2000L. The Lexile measure is shown as a number with an “L” after it — 880L indicates an 880 Lexile measure.
What is a good Lexile score?
Lexile measures are represented by a number followed by an “L” (such as “800L”) and range from below 0L for beginning readers to above 1600L. Research shows that 1300L or above is the target Lexile measure for students to be ready for college and career in reading.
What does a 1700 Lexile mean?
Lexiles typically range from 200 for beginning readers to 1700 for advanced readers. Lexile text below 200 represents beginning-reading material, and a student’s Lexile score may have a number in the 100s or the code of BR. BR is a code that stands for Beginning Reading.
What should a 10th grade Lexile be?
1150-1175
| Reading Status Norms (RIT Values and Lexile Levels) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Grade | Beginning-of-Year | Lexile Range |
| 9 | 220.9 | 1100-1125 |
| 10 | 223.9 | 1150-1175 |
| 11 | 225.2 | 1200+ |
What does a 1700 Lexile score mean?
What is a 12th grade Lexile level?
To begin, Lexile score ranges vary depending on grade level. A proficient first grader would score between 200L and 300L, while an adequate reader in the 12th grade would earn a score in the range of 1060L and 1320L.
What is the average Lexile score for a 11th grader?
| Reading Status Norms (RIT Values and Lexile Levels) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Grade | Beginning-of-Year | Lexile Range |
| 9 | 220.9 | 1100-1125 |
| 10 | 223.9 | 1150-1175 |
| 11 | 225.2 | 1200+ |
What Lexile should a 12th grader have?
What does a 1500 Lexile score mean?
Grade 6 850-1010 College Junior/Senior 1300-1500.
What is a good Lexile score for an 11th grader?
1300 Lexiles
NOTE: By the end of the 11th grade, students should reach the college- and career-ready reading level (1300 Lexiles).
