Lexiles: What they are and how to find them.
- The lexile of a book/text indicates the level of difficulty a reader might have in comprehending at least 75% the contents.
- All Cooper students have taken a reading comprehension test to determine their lexiles. The test will be taken twice more this year to measure improvement.
- The lexile range for a reader is a range of fifty points above or below their test score.
- To search for the lexile of a book, you can go to www.lexile.com/fab, where you can enter a lexile range and receive a reading suggestion, or enter a book’s title to find its lexile (not all books have been measured).
Using the Cooper Media Center (from home, work, etc.) to search for books by lexile.
- At the Cooper homepage, click on the media center link at the top of the screen.
- At the list of county media centers, click on Cooper.
- At the media center’s Destiny homepage, click on Catalog.
- At the search screen, pull down the menu at Reading Programs and click on Lexile.
- Type the lexile range wanted, hit enter, and you will get a list of books in the Cooper library in that lexile.
- To find the lexile of a book in the Cooper library, type the title or author into the search bar. If the book has a lexile, it will be on the catalog page which comes to screen
