Reading Lexile Question

[Anonymous]

So if 12th grade goes up to 1385

what on earth are you if your Lexile is 1550-1850?

Or 1750-2000?

TIA

[Anonymous]

A good reader?

[Anonymous]

My 8th grader's lexile is 1710-1825. I guess it means she's capable of reading college-level texts.

[Anonymous]

At some point I'm pretty sure lexile becomes meaningless. Wade through Mortimer Adler's "How to Read a Book." His level 4 reader is basically what a good self-educating adult looks like.

[Anonymous]

Who cares at that point? You're an adult level reader.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So if 12th grade goes up to 1385

what on earth are you if your Lexile is 1550-1850?

Or 1750-2000?

TIA

Lexile becomes less meaningful after a child tops out. Kids who are strong readers may hit the lexile "ceiling" in late elementary school-- my DS did. At that point, I started suggesting (non requiring) books and articles that would broaden his horizons. His English teacher assigned some wonderful books and writing assignments this year.
One of the challenges in MS and HS is inference, prediction, analysis, character development, etc.

[Anonymous]

My current collage freshman was reading in in pre-k, his 6th grade teacher said she had never seen Lexile scores that high, and he was (is?) a National Merit Scholar. Yes he is at a top college and we are proud of him.

Not a humble-brag, but an outright brag. He's a bright kid, always has been.

[Anonymous]

I think lexile scores become meaningless once you can read a college-level text.

[Anonymous]

My kids have always been great readers, and reached those Lexiles in elementary school.

It does NOT mean that reading comprehension always follows suit!!! Like a PP said, such kids can work on appreciation of complex literature. It's easy to read The Lord of the Rings. It's much harder to read War and Peace.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
My kids have always been great readers, and reached those Lexiles in elementary school.

It does NOT mean that reading comprehension always follows suit!!! Like a PP said, such kids can work on appreciation of complex literature. It's easy to read The Lord of the Rings. It's much harder to read War and Peace.

?
Lord of the Rings is 860
War and Peace is 1200

Of course there is a differential

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
My kids have always been great readers, and reached those Lexiles in elementary school.

It does NOT mean that reading comprehension always follows suit!!! Like a PP said, such kids can work on appreciation of complex literature. It's easy to read The Lord of the Rings. It's much harder to read War and Peace.

I suspect that Earnest Hemingway's work has a relatively low lexile score, because of his writing style. But I read a collection of his short stories in fifth grade and completely missed the point of a bunch of them (most notably, "Hills Like White Elephants") because comprehension isn't just about decoding the words. It's about reading between the lines, making inferences, etc., and some of that just requires life experience, and some of it requires exposure to more sophisticated writing, and some of it requires instruction to help you learn to read critically and thoughtfully and pull out the themes and ideas in a book. I agree with the posters who say that lexile scores don't matter much at a certain point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
My kids have always been great readers, and reached those Lexiles in elementary school.

It does NOT mean that reading comprehension always follows suit!!! Like a PP said, such kids can work on appreciation of complex literature. It's easy to read The Lord of the Rings. It's much harder to read War and Peace.

I suspect that Earnest Hemingway's work has a relatively low lexile score, because of his writing style. But I read a collection of his short stories in fifth grade and completely missed the point of a bunch of them (most notably, "Hills Like White Elephants") because comprehension isn't just about decoding the words. It's about reading between the lines, making inferences, etc., and some of that just requires life experience, and some of it requires exposure to more sophisticated writing, and some of it requires instruction to help you learn to read critically and thoughtfully and pull out the themes and ideas in a book. I agree with the posters who say that lexile scores don't matter much at a certain point.

This is a complete tangent, but I clearly remember reading “Hills like white elephants” in my 11th grade English class. We discussed it for a while and I don’t even think everyone agreed on what exactly the story was about. It’s definitely very subtle and one inference/suggestion (an abortion) is probably outside of scope of an average fifth grader.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who cares at that point? You're an adult level reader.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
My kids have always been great readers, and reached those Lexiles in elementary school.

It does NOT mean that reading comprehension always follows suit!!! Like a PP said, such kids can work on appreciation of complex literature. It's easy to read The Lord of the Rings. It's much harder to read War and Peace.

I suspect that Earnest Hemingway's work has a relatively low lexile score, because of his writing style. But I read a collection of his short stories in fifth grade and completely missed the point of a bunch of them (most notably, "Hills Like White Elephants") because comprehension isn't just about decoding the words. It's about reading between the lines, making inferences, etc., and some of that just requires life experience, and some of it requires exposure to more sophisticated writing, and some of it requires instruction to help you learn to read critically and thoughtfully and pull out the themes and ideas in a book. I agree with the posters who say that lexile scores don't matter much at a certain point.

This is a complete tangent, but I clearly remember reading “Hills like white elephants” in my 11th grade English class. We discussed it for a while and I don’t even think everyone agreed on what exactly the story was about. It’s definitely very subtle and one inference/suggestion (an abortion) is probably outside of scope of an average fifth grader.

I recently re-read it (at 42) and it's DEFINITELY about an abortion. But it's not totally clear whether the woman decides to have the abortion or not, or break up with her boyfriend or not. The ending is pretty ambiguous.

[Anonymous]

It means your can read the words and know the bare meaning of most of them, so now it is time to focus on building knowledge, so you can understand what you read and create new works.

It is a test that measures one thin sliver of skill.