Measuring Text Complexity--3 factors
Text Complexity Grade Bands and Lexile Bands
Find a book's lexile level:
Webpath Express Database--Online Catalog
Utah Online Library--Look online if you need help with school
Text Complexity Grade Bands and Lexile Bands
- Currently using "stretch" bands
Find a book's lexile level:
- Look the book up by title
- Look at the bottom of the brief information for lexile level
- Select Lexile as reading program at the bottom of the library search page
- Type in a range in the Lexile Measure search boxes
- You can narrow by subject--fantasy, mystery, etc.
- Lexile.com
- Lexile Analyzer
- Register /Login
- Save as a Text file
- Can only be 1000 words
- Lexile Analyzer
Webpath Express Database--Online Catalog
- Webpath Express--located in the green navigation bar to the left of the catalog
- Filters the internet
- Saves time because it sifts out most commercial sites
- Provides reliable information (paid database)
- Fleisch-Kincaid Readability
Utah Online Library--Look online if you need help with school
- World Book
- GALE Research Center
- Culturegrams--detailed information about states and countries
- Can find lexile levels of various texts
- Descriptors--lead you to other articles
- Utah's Online Library Activites
- Utah Online Library ideas for Elementary Students