How to Lexile Go to www.lexile.com Sign in or Register (on the upper right) Click on Use Lexile Measures (on the upper left) Click Lexile Analyzer Prepare a Word document for Lexiling Note: The Lexile Analyzer cannot measure Microsoft Word, PDF, HTML, or scanned image files such as JPGs. Follow this procedure to save Word documents to plain text: 1. With your document open, select Save As... from the File menu. 2. In the Save as type drop-down box, select Plain Text (*.txt). 3. Click the Save button and a File Conversion window opens: 1. Click the Other encoding radio button and select US-ASCII from the list of formats to the right. 2. Also check Allow character substitution. 3. Click the OK button. You have saved your document in the plain text format for the Lexile Analyzer. Move to next step below. 1. Click Browse 2. Select the correct text file 3. Click Open 4. Click Submit Lexile Results 2 How to Set Up Flesch-Kincaid readability formula with WORD Open up a new WORD Document. Open the File TAB and click on Options. Click on Proofing. Check the box next to “Show readability statistics.” 3 Be sure to click OK in the lower right corner of the window. Write a sentence on your new WORD document. Click on the ABC Check Spelling and Grammar button found under the Review Tab. Let the spell/grammar check analyze the sentence. Once spell/grammar check is complete, The readability score will appear at the bottom of the green box. Now whenever you create a WORD document and select the ABC Check Spelling and Grammar button found under the Review Tab, the Readability Statistics box will always appears after the spell check is finished. 4 Updated Text Complexity Grade Bands and Associated Ranges from Multiple Measures1 Common Core Band ATOS Degrees of Reading Power® Flesch2 Kincaid The Lexile Framework® Reading Maturity SourceRater nd rd 2.75 – 5.14 42 – 54 1.98 – 5.34 420 – 820 3.53 – 6.13 0.05 – 2.48 th th 4.97 – 7.03 52 – 60 4.51 – 7.73 740 – 1010 5.42 – 7.92 0.84 – 5.75 th th 7.00 – 9.98 57 – 67 6.51 – 10.34 925 – 1185 7.04 – 9.57 4.11 – 10.66 9.67 – 12.01 62 – 72 8.32 – 12.12 1050 – 1335 8.41 – 10.81 9.02 – 13.93 11.20 – 14.10 67 – 74 10.34 – 14.2 1185 – 1385 9.57 – 12.00 12.30 – 14.50 2 –3 4 –5 6 –8 th th 9 – 10 th 11 – CCR Find links and instructions for using these quantitative analysis tools at achievethecore.org/text-complexity. 1 The band levels themselves have been expanded slightly over the original CCSS scale that appears in Appendix A at both the top and bottom of each band to provide for a more modulated climb toward college and career readiness and offer slightly more overlap between bands. The wider band width allows more flexibility in the younger grades where students enter school with widely varied preparation levels. This change was provided in response to feedback received since publication of the original scale (published in terms of the Lexile® metric) in Appendix A. 2 Since Flesch-Kincaid has no ‘caretaker’ that oversees or maintains the formula, the research leads worked to bring the measure in line with college and career readiness levels of text complexity based on the version of the formula used by Coh-Metrix.