Using Lexile Measures

Two type of Lexile measure appear in MAP Reading Fluency Reports.

Lexile measure	What does it measure?	How is it useful?
Oral Reading Level	Student’s oral reading. The student’s score is based on rate, accuracy, and the readability of the text read.	Tracking improvement in oral reading
Text Lexile	How difficult a passage is to read with comprehension. This is based on the Lexile scale which considers word frequency and sentence length.	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.
• 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