Otis Fulton Senior Vice President MetaMetrics, Inc. ofulton@lexile.com

1. Otis Fulton Senior Vice President MetaMetrics, Inc. ofulton@lexile.com

2. The Lexile Framework™ for Reading • An educational tool that links text and readers under a common metric-- Lexiles • Characterizes reader with a measure and text with a measure • Allows educators to forecast the level of comprehension a reader is expected to experience with a particular text Lexile.com

3. Lexile Nationally • All major norm reference tests are linked • Over 19-million students will get a Lexile measure from a linked test in 2004-05 • Over 450 book publishers have titles with Lexile measures • Nearly 50,000* books to search at www.lexile.com • Over 70 million Lexiled articles through database-services partners Lexile.com

4. State Adoptions • California (6.1M students, STAR) • Texas (4.1M students, TAKS) • North Carolina (1.3M students, NCEOG) • Utah (500K students, UCA) • Idaho (246K students, ISAT) • Hawaii (185K students, SAT-9, SAT-10) • Wyoming (90K students, WyCAS) • Oregon (250 K via Reading First grant) • Florida: 90% of districts, including Duval, Broward, Miami-Dade and Pinellas • Other states get optional Lexile reports Lexile.com

5. Addison-Wesley Britannica Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Crabtree Globe-Fearon Dominee Hampton-Brown DK Publishing Harcourt School Publishers Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Holt Rinehart & Winston Globe-Fearon Houghton Mifflin Hampton Brown Prentice Hall Harcourt SRA/McGraw-Hill Holt Scott Foresman Leapfrog Lee & Low Bigchalk/ProQuest EBSCO NoveList The Booksource Bound-to-Stay Bound DEMCO Econoclad Permabound Follett Library Services Follett Software Company Baker & Taylor Mackin Library Media The Book Source Follett Library Services Follett Software Co. Ingram RRBowker Sundance The Unification of Reading Textbook Publishers Trade Book Publishers Test Publishers CTB/McGraw-Hill Modern Curriculum Pearson Educational Testing Services (ETS) Scholastic Harcourt Educational Measurement Rand McNally Rigby North Carolina Department of Public Instruction Rosen Northwest Evaluation Association SRA/McGraw-Hill Riverside Publishing Scott Foresman Texas Education Agency Steck-Vaughn Utah State Office of Education The Wright Group Prebinders Periodical Databases Book Distributors & Databases School/Public Libraries Reading Motivation EBSCO Online Reader Hooked on Phonics HOSTS Scholastic Read180 Scholastic Reading Counts! Lexile.com Success for All

6. Three Important Concepts • Reading Ability • The cognitive set students use to construct meaning from text, as measured on tests • Readability • The difficulty of reading materials, based on dimensions or characteristics of the text • Reading Comprehension • The construction of meaning, from local text Lexile.com

7. Test of Reading Development Lexile Framework Components The Lexile Analyzer The Lexile Map Linking Technology Lexile.com

8. Determining text difficulty • Syntactic Complexity • the number of words per sentence • longer sentences are more complex and require more short-term memory to process • Semantic Difficulty • the frequency of the words in a corpus of written text • corpus has over 650-million words Lexile.com

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10. John Grisham titles The Pelican Brief 660The Firm 680The Client 730The Testament 770A Time to Kill 770A Painted House 780The Partner 790The Street Lawyer 790The Brethren 810The Chamber 810The Rainmaker 830The Runaway Jury 930 Lexile.com

11. Michael Crichton titles Rising Sun 540Disclosure 590Sphere 610Timeline 620Airframe 640A Case of Need 650The Lost World 670The Terminal Man 690Jurassic Park 710The Andromeda Strain 840Congo 940The Great Train Robbery 1060Eaters of the Dead 1090 Lexile.com

12. Lexiles and Newspapers • Reuters (1440L) • NY Times (1380L) • Washington Post (1350L) • Wall Street Journal (1320L) • Chicago Tribune (1310L) • Associated Press (1310L) • USA Today (1200L) Lexile.com

13. Matching Readers and Text www.lexile.com