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AlthoughLexilemeasuresshouldnotbelinkeddirectlytogradelevels,itispossibletodescribethe

Lexilemeasuresoftypicalstudentsandtextbooksatvariousgradelevels.MetaMetricscollectedthe
LexilemeasuresforanationalsampleofstudentsandidentifiedtheLexilemeasuresforthestudents
inthemiddle50percentoftheLexilerange(25percent75percent).Theresultsofthisstudycanbe
foundat
www.lexile.com/aboutlexile/gradeequivalent/gradeequivalentchart.

TheCommonCoreStandardsadvocatea"staircase"ofincreasingtextcomplexity,beginning
ingrade2,sothatstudentscandeveloptheirreadingskillsandapplythemtomoredifficult
texts.Atthelowestgradeineachband,studentsfocusonreadingtextswithinthattext
complexityband.Inthesubsequentgradeorgradeswithinaband,studentsmust"stretch"
toreadacertainproportionoftextsfromthenexthighertextcomplexityband.Thispattern
repeatsitselfthroughoutthegradessothatstudentscanbothbuildonearlierliteracygains
andchallengethemselveswithtextsatahighercomplexitylevel.Lexilemeasuresandthe
Lexilerangesabovehelptodeterminewhattextisappropriateforeachgradebandandwhat
shouldbeconsidered"stretch"text.

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