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Imagine getting students excited about reading
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with their reading levels, and celebrate as they are
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HOW IT WORKS
The Lexile Map provides examples
of popular books and sample
texts that are matched to various
points on the Lexile
®
scale, from
200L for early reader text to
1600L for more advanced texts.
The examples on the map help to
dene text complexity and help
readers identify books of various
levels of text complexity. Both
literature and informational texts
are presented on the Lexile Map.
HOW TO USE IT
Lexile reader and text measures
can be used together to forecast
how well a reader will likely
comprehend a text at a specic
Lexile level. A Lexile reader
measure is usually obtained by
having the reader take a reading
comprehension test. Numerous
tests report Lexile reader measures
including many state end-of-year
assessments, national norm-
referenced assessments and
reading program assessments.
A Lexile reader measure places
students on the same Lexile scale
as the texts. This scale ranges from
below 200L to above 1600L. The
Lexile website also provides a
way to estimate a reader measure
by using information about the
reader’s grade level and self-
reported reading ability.
Individuals reading within their
Lexile ranges (100L below
to 50L above their Lexile
reader measures) are likely to
comprehend approximately 75
percent of the text when reading
independently. This “targeted
reading” rate is the point at which
a reader will comprehend enough
to understand the text but will
also face some reading challenge.
The result is growth in reading
ability and a rewarding reading
experience.
For more guidance concerning
targeting readers with books,
visit fab.lexile.com to access the
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reading lists based on Lexile range
and personal interests and to
check the availability of books at
the local library.
Pete: 490L
Kaitlyn: 840L
IG860L
Animals
Nobody Loves
INFORMATIONAL
Marisa: 1300L
810L
Where the Mountain
Meets the Moon
LITERATURE
540L
Ron’s Big Mission
LITERATURE
480L
Rally for
Recycling
INFORMATIONAL
1200L
The Dark Game:
True Spy Stories
INFORMATIONAL
1350L
The Secret Sharer
LITERATURE
LEXILE
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THE
1300L–1500L+
LEXILE RANGE
1630L
Descartes: Philosophical Essays
LAFLEUR
But neither should we fall into the error of those who occupy
their minds only with deep and serious matters, of which, aer
much eort, they acquire only a confused knowledge, while they
hoped for a profound one. It is therefore in these easier matters
that we should rst exercise our minds, but methodically, so that
we become accustomed to penetrate each time, by open and
recognized paths and almost as in a game, to the inner truth of
things. In this way, soon aerward, and in less time than one could
hope, we will nd ourselves able to deduce with equal ease and
from self-evident principles, many propositions which appear
very dicult and intricate. But perhaps some will be astonished
that in this study, where we are inquiring how we can be made
more competent to deduce some truths from others, we omit
all the rules by which the logicians think they regulate human
reason. ese prescribe certain forms of argument which involve
such necessary implications that the mind which relies upon
this method, even though it neglects to give clear and attentive
consideration to the reasoning, can nevertheless reach certain
conclusions on the strength of the form of the argument alone.
1500L+
SAMPLE TITLES
1640L The Plot Against America (ROTH)
1530L The Good Earth (BUCK)
1520L A Fable (FAULKNER)
1650L Twenty Years at Hull-House (ADDAMS)
1600L The U.S. Constitution and Other Key American Writings
(ASSORTED)
1600L Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity
(CHIVIAN)
1590L Captain John Smith: A Select Edition of His Writings (SMITH)
1520L Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (DIAMOND)
1510L Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the
Constitution (RAKOVE)
INFORMATIONAL LITERATURE
1440L
Fordlandia
GRANDIN
As Ford biographer Robert Lacey put it, the “Five Dollar
Day raised the pain threshold of capitalism.” But beyond
an incentive to make workers stay put, it also became a
model for how to respond to another crisis that plagued
industrialism. e mechanized factory production that
took ight during America’s Gilded Age had promised
equality and human progress but in reality delivered
deepening polarization and misery, particularly in
sprawling industrial cities like Detroit. Ford, advised by
farsighted company executives such as James Couzens
and John Lee, understood that high wages and decent
benets would do more than create a dependable and
thus more productive workforce; they would also stabilize
and stimulate demand for industrial products by turning
workers into consumers.
1400L–1495L
SAMPLE TITLES
1460L The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (IRVING)
1450L Billy Budd (MELVILLE)
1420L The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster (GIBBONS)
1420L The Fall of the House of Usher (POE)
1410L Death in Venice (MANN)
1490L Rousseau’s Political Writings (ROUSSEAU)
1430L America’s Constitution: A Biography (AMAR)
1410L Profiles in Courage (KENNEDY)
1400L The Mysteries of Beethoven’s Hair (MARTIN & NIBLEY)
1400L Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape
From Bondage, and His Complete History to the Present Time (DOUGLASS)
INFORMATIONAL LITERATURE
1340L
Silent Spring
CARSON
e basic element, carbon, is one whose atoms have an
almost innite capacity for uniting with each other in
chains and rings and various other congurations, and
for becoming linked with atoms of other substances.
Indeed, the incredible diversity of living creatures from
bacteria to the great blue whale is largely due to this
capacity of carbon. e complex protein molecule has
the carbon atom as its basis, as have molecules of fat,
carbohydrates, enzymes, and vitamins. So, too, have
enormous numbers of nonliving things, for carbon is
not necessarily a symbol of life.
1300L–1395L
SAMPLE TITLES
1390L The Yellow Wallpaper (GILMAN)
1350L The Secret Sharer (CONRAD)
1330L The Jungle (SINCLAIR)
1330L Silas Marner (ELIOT)
1300L Gulliver’s Travels (SWIFT)
1390L In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto (POLLAN)
1360L Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife (PROSE)
1340L Walden and Civil Disobedience (THOREAU)
1330L The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and
the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (WINCHESTER)
1300L Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape (LOPEZ)
INFORMATIONAL LITERATURE
LEXILE
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THE
1000L–1295L
LEXILE RANGE
1210L
The Tortilla Curtain
BOYLE
He didn’t wake America, not yet. He made four trips
up to the ledge and back, with the tools, the sacks of
vegetables—they could use the empty sacks as blankets,
he’d already thought of that—and as many wooden
pallets as he could carry. He’d found the pallets stacked
up on the far side of the shed, and though he knew the
maintenance man would be sure to miss them, it could
be weeks before he noticed and then what could he do?
As soon as Qindido had laid eyes on those pallets an
architecture had invaded his brain and he knew he had
to have them. If the fates were going to deny him his
apartment, well then, he would have a house, a house
with a view.
SAMPLE TITLES
1290L An Old-Fashioned Girl (ALCOTT)
1280L The House of the Spirits (ALLENDE)
1280L The Castle (KAFKA)
1220L The Silent Cry (ŌE)
1210L Chronicle of a Death Foretold (GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ)
1290L A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes (HAWKING)
1280L Black, Blue, and Gray: African Americans in the Civil War
(HASKINS)
1230L Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (ROACH)
1230L Knowing Mandela: A Personal Portrait (CARLIN)
1200L The Dark Game: True Spy Stories (JANECZKO)
1200L–1295L
INFORMATIONAL LITERATURE
1070L
Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet
out of Idaho
KATZ
Geeks were the rst to grasp just how much information
was available on the Web, since they wrote the programs
that put much of it there—movie times and reviews, bus and
train schedules, news and opinions, catalogues, appliance
instructions, plus, of course, soware and its upgrades.
And of course, music, the liberation of which is considered a
seminal geek accomplishment.
Virtually everything in a newspaper—and in many
magazines—is now available online. In fact, some things,
like the latest weather and breaking news, appear online
hours before they hit print.
Yet while Jesse had gone through literally thousands of
downloaded soware applications, he’d never paid for any
of them. He didn’t even quite get the concept. e single
cultural exception was books. Perhaps as a legacy of his
childhood, Jesse remained an obsessive reader. He liked
digging through the bins of used bookstores to buy sci-
and classic literature; he liked books, holding them and
turning their pages.
1000L–1095L
SAMPLE TITLES
1080L I Heard the Owl Call My Name (CRAVEN)
1070L Savvy (LAW)
1070L Around the World in 80 Days (VERNE)
1010L The Pearl (STEINBECK)
1000L The Hobbit or There and Back Again (TOLKIEN)
1030L Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain
Science (FLEISCHMAN)
1020L This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of
Woody Guthrie (PARTRIDGE)
1010L Travels With Charley: In Search of America (STEINBECK)
1000L Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad
(PETRY)
1000L Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (HOOSE)
INFORMATIONAL LITERATURE
1150L
A Room of One’s Own
WOOLF
e reason perhaps why we know so little of
Shakespeare—compared with Donne or Ben Jonson
or Milton—is that his grudges and spites and
antipathies are hidden from us. We are not held up
by some “revelation” which reminds us of the writer.
All desire to protest, to preach, to proclaim an injury,
to pay o a score, to make the world the witness of
some hardship or grievance was red out of him and
consumed. erefore his poetry ows from him free
and unimpeded. If ever a human being got his work
expressed completely, it was Shakespeare. If ever a mind
was incandescent, unimpeded, I thought, turning again
to the bookcase, it was Shakespeare’s mind.
1100L–1195L
SAMPLE TITLES
1180L Sense and Sensibility (AUSTEN)
1170L The Amazing Adventure of Kavalier & Clay (CHABON)
1150L Great Expectations (DICKENS)
1140L Cold Mountain (FRAZIER)
1130L Democracy (DIDION)
1160L The Longitude Prize (DASH)
1160L In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens (WALKER)
1150L The Human Microbiome: The Germs That Keep You Healthy (HIRSCH)
1150L In My Place (HUNTER-GAULT)
1100L Something to Declare (ALVAREZ)
INFORMATIONAL LITERATURE
LEXILE
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THE
700L–995L+
LEXILE RANGE
900L
We Are the Ship: The Story of
Negro League Baseball
NELSON
Rube ran his ball club like it was a major league team.
Most Negro teams back then weren’t very well organized.
Didn’t always have enough equipment or even matching
uniforms. Most times they went from game to game
scattered among dierent cars, or sometimes they’d even
have to “hobo”—which means hitch a ride on the back of
someone’s truck to get to the next town for a game. But
not Rube’s team. ey were always well equipped, with
clean, new uniforms, bats, and balls. ey rode to the
games in fancy Pullman cars Rube rented and hitched to
the back of the train. It was something to see that group
of Negroes stepping out of the train, dressed in suits and
hats. ey were big-leaguers.
900L–995L
SAMPLE TITLES
980L Dovey Coe (DOWELL)
950L Bud, Not Buddy (CURTIS)
940L Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (ROWLING)
940L Heat (LUPICA)
900L City of Fire (YEP)
990L Seabiscuit: An American Legend (HILLENBRAND)
980L The Kid’s Guide to Money: Earning It, Saving It, Spending It,
Growing It, Sharing It (OTFINOSKI)
950L Jim Thorpe, Original All-American (BRUCHAC)
930L Colin Powell (FINLAYSON)
920L Talking With Artists (CUMMINGS)
INFORMATIONAL LITERATURE
800L
Moon Over Manifest
VANDERPOOL
We tiptoed down the hall to the second classroom on
the right. e heavy wooden door opened easily and
we stepped in. ere is an eerie, expectant feeling to a
schoolroom in the summer. e normal classroom items
were there: desks, chalkboards, a set of encyclopedias. e
American ag with accompanying pictures of Presidents
Washington and Lincoln. But without students occupying
those desks and their homework tacked on the wall, that
empty summer classroom seemed laden with the memory
of past students and past learning that took place within
those walls. I strained to listen, as if I might hear the
whisperings and stirrings of the past. Maybe Ruthanne
was right. Maybe there was more here than met the eye.
800L–895L
SAMPLE TITLES
GN840L* The Odyssey (HINDS)
830L Baseball in April and Other Stories (SOTO)
820L Maniac Magee (SPINELLI)
810L Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (LIN)
800L Homeless Bird (WHELAN)
880L Volcanoes (SIMON)
880L The Circuit: Stories From the Life of a Migrant Child (JIMÉNEZ)
IG860L* Animals Nobody Loves (SIMON)
860L Through My Eyes: Ruby Bridges (BRIDGES)
830L Quest for the Tree Kangaroo (MONTGOMERY)
INFORMATIONAL LITERATURE
700L
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
DICAMILLO
Edward Tulane waited.
He repeated the old doll’s words over and over until they
wore a smooth groove of hope in his brain: Someone will
come; someone will come for you.
And the old doll was right.
Someone did come.
It was springtime. It was raining. ere were dogwood
blossoms on the oor of Lucius Clarke’s shop.
She was a small girl, maybe ve years old, and while her
mother struggled to close a blue umbrella, the little girl
walked around the store, stopping and staring solemnly at
each doll and then moving on.
When she came to Edward, she stood in front of him for
what seemed like a long time. She looked at him and he
looked back at her.
700L–795L
SAMPLE TITLES
770L Walk Two Moons (CREECH)
760L Hoot (HIAASEN)
750L Esperanza Rising (RYAN)
720L Nancy’s Mysterious Letter (KEENE)
GN720L* Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure at the Copper Beeches
(DOYLE)
790L Be Water, My Friend: The Early Years of Bruce Lee
(MIOCHIZUKI)
760L Stay: The True Story of Ten Dogs (MUNTEAN)
IG760L* Mapping Shipwrecks With Coordinate Planes (WALL)
720L Pretty in Print: Questioning Magazines (BOTZAKIS)
720L Spiders in the Hairdo: Modern Urban Legends (HOLT & MOONEY)
INFORMATIONAL LITERATURE
LEXILE
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400L–695L
LEXILE RANGE
620L
The Year of Billy Miller
HENKES
His heart was pounding.
Once again, he forgot every word of his poem, including the
title—but this time he didn’t have a copy of it to read from.
He saw Ms. Silver in the fringes of his vision. She was
smiling and nodding, urging him on with her wide eyes.
Should he walk over to her to get a copy of his poem? She
seemed about a mile away. And he didn’t think he could
make his legs move.
What should he do?
e air felt weird all of a sudden. As if it had sprouted wings
and was brushing against him. e air was uttering against
his arm.
How could that be?
He turned around and Mama was there with a copy of
his poem, tapping it lightly against his elbow. “Here,” she
whispered. “You can do it.”
SAMPLE TITLES
690L Firefly Hollow (MCGHEE)
680L Charlotte’s Web (WHITE)
670L A Year Down Yonder (PECK)
660L Holes (SACHAR)
610L Mountain Bike Mania (CHRISTOPHER)
690L Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (COERR)
680L An Eye for Color: The Story of Josef Albers (WING)
680L The Moon (LANDAU)
660L Remember: The Journey to School Integration (MORRISON)
620L Crittercam (EINSPRUCH)
600L–695L
INFORMATIONAL LITERATURE
470L
Frog and Toad Are Friends
LOBEL
Toad said, “Frog, you are looking quite green.”
“But I always look green,” said Frog. “I am a frog.”
“Today you look very green even for a frog,” said Toad.
“Get into my bed and rest.”
Toad made Frog a cup of hot tea.
Frog drank the tea, and then he said, “Tell me a story
while I am resting.”
“All right,” said Toad.
400L–495L
SAMPLE TITLES
480L A Birthday for Frances (HOBAN)
470L Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (BLUME)
450L Amelia Bedelia (PARISH)
440L Fox on the Job (MARSHALL)
420L Hey, New Kid! (DUFFEY)
480L Rally for Recycling (BULLARD)
480L Grand Canyon (GILBERT)
470L Life in China (CHUNG)
460L Half You Heard of Fractions? (ADAMSON & ADAMSON)
440L Abraham Lincoln (HANSEN)
INFORMATIONAL LITERATURE
500L
The Curse of the Cheese Pyramid
STILTON
Trap winked at me and announced, “Grandfather has hired
me to be his personal cook!”
is was ridiculous! I was getting hotter than a bag of cheese
popcorn in a microwave. Who would help me run the
paper?
At that moment, I felt a tug on the sleeve of my jacket. It
was my young nephew Benjamin. “Uncle Geronimo, guess
what?” he beamed. “Great-grandfather William has hired
me to be his personal assistant!”
Grandfather stroked Ben’s tiny ears.
“Ah, the family, there’s nothing like the family! e Stilton
Family, that is...” I snorted. I could see I was the workmouse
of the family. It looked like I would be the only one doing
any work!
500L–595L
SAMPLE TITLES
590L The Great Kapok Tree (CHERRY)
580L Tops and Bottoms (STEVENS)
570L Grace for President (DIPUCCHIO)
540L Ron’s Big Mission (BLUE & NADEN)
500L Poppleton in Spring (RYLANT)
IG590L* Claude Monet (CONNOLLY)
580L What Magnets Can Do (FOWLER & BARKAN)
560L Molly the Pony (KASTER)
550L Martin Luther King, Jr. and the March on Washington (RUFFIN)
510L A Picture for Marc (KIMMEL)
INFORMATIONAL LITERATURE
LEXILE
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200L–395L+
LEXILE RANGE
330L
Seals
ARNOLD
Earless seals live in oceans.
ick blubber keeps seals warm.
A seal’s back ippers help it swim fast.
A seal on land is slow.
Its claws dig into rocks and ice.
Many seals have dark brown or gray fur.
Some have spots.
Seals molt every year.
300L–395L
SAMPLE TITLES
370L Little Bear Book (MINARIK)
350L To the Rescue! (MAYER)
340L Snow (SHULEVITZ)
GN320L* Spotlight Soccer (SANCHEZ)
310L I Spy Fly Guy! (ARNOLD)
370L Starfish (HURD)
IG340L* We Can Be Friends (JORDAN)
340L Fernando Exercises!: Tell and Write Time (KAY)
340L Simple Machines (RISSMAN)
310L Visiting the Beach in Summer (FELIX)
INFORMATIONAL LITERATURE
220L
Put Me in the Zoo
LOPSHIRE
Look at this, now! One! Two! ree!
I can put them on a tree.
And now when I say “One, two, three”
All my spots are back on me!
Look, now!
Here is one thing more. I take my spots. I make
them four.
Oh! ey would put me in the zoo, if they could
see what I can do.
200L–295L
SAMPLE TITLES
290L The Class Pet From the Black Lagoon (THALER)
280L Puddle (YUM)
240L Are You My Mother? (EASTMAN)
210L Green Eggs and Ham (SEUSS)
200L Tiny Goes to the Library (MEISTER)
280L Whales (LINDEEN)
260L Leaves in Fall (SCHUH)
220L Plants on a Farm (DICKMANN)
210L Counting in the City (STEFFORA)
210L The Tractor Race (SCHUH)
INFORMATIONAL LITERATURE
TEXT LEXILE RANGES TO GUIDE READING
FOR COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS
GRADES
11–12
9–10
6–8
4–5
2–3
1
CCSS LEXILE TEXT RANGE
1185L–1385L
1050L–1335L
925L–1185L
740–1010L
420L–820L
190L–530L
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts,
Appendix A (Additional Information), NGA and CCSSO, 2012
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e Lexile measure (text complexity) of a book is an excellent
starting point for a student’s book selection. It’s important,
though, to understand that the book’s Lexile measure should not
be the only factor in a student’s book selection process. Lexile
measures do not consider factors such as age-appropriateness,
interest and prior knowledge. ese are also key factors when
matching children and adolescents with books they might like
and are able to read.
Lexile codes provide more information about developmental
appropriateness, reading diculty, and common or intended
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