We are increasingly hearing about the use of lexiles to match students with materials at an appropriate reading level. Below find several good resources to help librarians and other teachers learn about & use lexiles.

ODE Lexile Awareness Kit               Lexiles.com

ODE: Lexiles in Oregon

Download a Reading Grade-Level Comparison Chart (.pdf) courtesy of Steven Zimmerman of Harcourt. It provides a comparison by grade level of different book leveling systems including Lexiles, Fountas and Pinnell (Guided Reading), Basal, DRP (Degrees of Reading Power), Reading Recovery and DRA.

Other book leveling resources can be found at Multnomah County Library's Reading Levels for Books provided by MCL's School Corps.

Don't forget that leveling books is only a tool - - - and tools work best when used by people trained to use them well. Stephen Krashen, California School Library Association, pleads the case for not trusting lexiles to replace good reader's advisory by a certified library teacher in The Lexile Framework: Unnecessary and Potentially Harmful.