Using Lexile Measurements

Lexile measurements appear in several reports. For example, you can see the most detail in the Individual Student Report (see Results from Foundational Skills measures):

Comparing Lexile Measures

To put results in context, you can compare the Lexile measures:

 

Lexile measure	What does it measure?	How is it useful?
Oral reading	Student’s oral reading. The student’s score is based on rate, accuracy, and the readability of the text read.	Evaluating and tracking oral reading fluency.
Oral readability	How difficult passages are to read aloud. This does not include how hard text is to comprehend.	Considering the range that students typically encounter in this grade.
Text	How difficult a passage is to read with comprehension.	Comparing student’s comprehension scores across harder and easier passages.

Example Applications of Lexile Results

• Over time, you can track growth with the Lexile oral reading score.
• If the Lexile oral reading measure is below the Lexile oral readability measure, then consider whether scaffolding can help your student to access the text.
• To quickly group students based on their Lexile oral reading measure, open the Benchmark Matrix report and sort students by the Oral Reading Level column.

For more examples, see the NWEA community article.

Lexile Ranges for Each Grade Level