WHAT IS LEXILE LEVEL?
I did a little more research into this Lexile Level business and here’s what I found out. Lexile Level was developed by a company called Meta Metrics. Their goal was to find a method of quantifying books and reading levels in order to best match children and books. It took about 20 years to develop the Lexile Level method of quantifying. It’s important to note that Lexile Level does not qualify a book as great, or good, or bad. Lexile Level does not look at quality. All it does is give a number between below 700 to above 1700 to tell teachers, parents and readers what the reading level of a book is according to its text complexity. This means it only looks at sentences, words used, and word frequency.
