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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.

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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.  [/quote]

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. [/quote]

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.  [/quote]

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