Lexiles

Lexiles

Below are some links that I have found to be of value in my research to learn about lexiles and how they will some become available with SOL reading scores:
Report from Watts [| Lexile.doc] Report from Watts

Links to Information about Lexiles [|General Information about Lexiles] [|VDOE Information on Lexiles] [|Lexile Measure Relationship to SOL Score] [|Learn More about Metametrics, the Company that Measures the Lexiles] [|Reasearch Concerning Lexile Measurement plus a Place to Pose Questions to Researchers]

Lexile Numbers and Correlation to Grade Level below [|Lexile Numbers and Correlation to Grade Level] -- This is the conversion chart preferred by Heather Koons at Metametrics.

[|Information on Staff Development on Lexiles including Webinars]

 Folletts Information on Lexiles General Information below: [| Reading_Programs_final.pdf]

Order form for Lexile conversion below: [| RPS_Order_Form_20080401.pdf][| RPS_Order_Form_20080401.pdf]

= List questions about lexiles here: = //__Jamie Chapman__// wants to know, " How are lexiles determined for students who have the SOL test read aloud to them?"

__//Watts Schwab//__ would like information on areas below
 * 1) How is a student's lexile determined from the SOL test?
 * 2) Explain in lay terms how the lexile rating of a passage is determined.
 * 3) Does complicated sentence structure play any part in determining the lexile?
 * 4) Does the lexile level of a book take into account, in any way, the maturity or age-appropriate level of a book?
 * 5) How can the lexile level of students who are below third grade be determined; or, in other words, how can the lexile level of students who are too young to have taken the SOL test be determined?
 * 6) Does your company do any studies on reading motivation and reading level and how to reconcile the two when there is a great divergence between the two?
 * 7) What are some ways that elementary, middle, and high school teachers, librarians, and parents can use the lexiles to promote reading growth and understanding of content?
 * 8) Do you have any suggestions for librarians, teachers, and/or parents for concerns that knowing the lexile level of a book and of a student might become such a rigid thing that it might actually harm reading motivation, and, therefore, growth in reading development?
 * 9) Do you have any research that shows whether or not writers tend to write at the same lexile level in their different books?
 * 1) Do you have any research that shows whether or not writers tend to write at the same lexile level in their different books?