What is a Lexile?
Lexile matches a student’s reading ability with the difficulty of a book. The STAR Assessment is administered throughout the year to measure the student’s growth. The assessment shows the student’s Lexile Measure and a Lexile Range. This range represents the boundaries between the easiest kind of reading for the student and the hardest level at which he or she can read successfully. A student’s Lexile measure is a tool for teachers to use in targeting reading material for students.
Students should be reading at these Lexile Levels by the end of the school year
First Grade – 325
Second Grade – 525
Third Grade – 650
Fourth Grade – 750
Fifth Grade - 850
Key to Lexile Codes
AD: Adult Directed - Better when read aloud to a student rather than having the student read independently.
GN: Graphic Novel - Graphic novels or comic books.
BR: Beginning Reader - Appropriate for emerging readers with a Lexile reader measure below 0L.
NP: Non-Prose - Poems, plays, songs, recipes and text with non-standard or absent punctuation.