I'm finishing up a new close reading packet for my Teachers Pay Teachers store and I noticed that several other close reading packets that I've purchased over the years have a Lexile Level attached to them. I wondered how teachers had determined that, so I did a little Google investigation and thought I would share my findings with you.
- To determine a Lexile Level for any text, go to https://lexile.com/analyzer/
- You will be asked to register for a free account. A free account allows you to analyze up to 1000 words of text at a time. This was more than enough for my needs, but it looks as if you can request to have access to the pro version for longer texts.
- After you register and accept their terms, it will ask you to upload a file. Since my text was in a powerpoint file, I just copy/pasted my text into a word document and clicked save as: plain text. The analyer can only read a plain text document.
- Hit submit after it loads the document and you should have your Lexile Level!
The Lexile Level for my Christopher Columbus: the Man, the Myth, the Legend close reading article was a bit high for a good number of my third grade class, but I might make a couple of versions and include different levels. This seems to be the trend at the moment anyway!
You can use a reading level correlation chart to cross-reference other systems, such as Fountas & Pinnell's A-Z system.
https://lexile.com/ can also be used by students to find books on their reading level, or by teachers to determine classroom library book levels. Very easy!
Please let me know in the comments if you have ever needed to determine the Lexile Level of a text before. Was it helpful for student learning?
-- Jennifer
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