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Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Love for the Lexile?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
During Sunday’s candidates debate, Kathy Cox asked Denise Majette how she feels about Lexiles. Majette replied that she didn’t know what Cox was talking about. Cox later said Lexiles have to do with reading levels, and she said they are helpful for parents.
A DOE spokesman directed me to this link when I confessed that I, like Majette, had never heard of a Lexile. According to the page, a Lexile “is a standard score that matches a student’s reading ability with difficulty of text material.”
The state gives parents their child’s Lexile score on their CRCT score report, and then the child can seek out books from school libraries that are within that Lexile range.
Parents, teachers, is this helpful?
(Note: After learning a bit more about the Lexile Framework, I realized Lexile is a registered trademark and not a psychometric term as I had originally understood… I had the word lower-case, but it seems it should be capitalized. Thanks as always to the reader who pointed that out…)
