SUGGESTED READING LIST

If there is not a book your child is interested in, feel free to choose one on your own!

Check out this link if you would like to find a book in a certain lexile range:

www.lexile.com (click on "families")

Title

Author

Lexile
Tree Girl T.A. Barron

530
Rotten Ralph J. Gantos

580
Fever 1793 Anderson

580
Stargirl J. Spinelli

590
Nory Ryan's Song P. Griff

600
Artemis Fowl E. Colfor

600
Phoenix Rising K. Hess

610
Sadako and the Paper Cranes Koerr

630
Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo Z. Filipovic

640
Pictures of Hollis Woods P Griff

650
The Ear the Eye and the Arm Farmer

660
House of the Scorpions Farmer

660
The Skin I'm In S. Flake

670
The Sea of Trolls Farmer

670
Grapes of Wrath J. Steinbeck

680
The City of Ember J. DuPrau

680
A Traitor Among Us E. Van Steenwyk

680
Tangerine E. Bloor

680
In Your Face H. Herman

700
Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You B. DeClements

700
Hope Was Here J. Bauer

710
Autobiography of Miss. Jane Pittman E. Gaines

710
Flight 116 is Down C. Cooney

710
Flipped W. Van Draaner

720
The Messenger L. Lowry

720
A Wrinkle in Time L'Engle

740
Petey B. Nikalsen

740
Kira-Kira C. Kadohata

740
True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Avi

740
Hoops Myers

740
Shadow of a Bull Wojcichowsky

740
Both Sides of Time Cooney

750
The People of Spark J. DuPrau

760
Hoot C. Hiaasen

760
My Louisiana Sky K. Holt

770
And Now Miguel E. Yates

780
Dragon Wings L. Yep

780
Bound D. Napol

800
Joey Pigza Loses Control J. Gantos

800
Great Gilly Hopkins K. Paterson

800
The Crow Girl B. Bresdorff

810
Interstellar Pig Sleator

810
Surviving the Applewhites S. Tolan

820
The Bomb T. Taylor

830
Mary, Bloody Mary C. Meyer

830
Ties that Bind, and Ties that Break Namioka

830
Tunes for Bears to Dance to R. Cromier

840
When the Legends Die J. Borland

850
True Sight Stahler

860
Ryan White: My Own Story R. White

860
Alas Babylon P. Frank

870
Jacob Have I Loved K. Paterson

880
Kite Rider G. McCaughrean

900
Code Talker J. Bruchac

910
A Single Shard R. Park

920
Where the Liles Bloom V. Cleaver

920
Abel's Island W. Steig

920
Slake's Limbo F. Holman

960
Joey Pigza Swallows the Key J. Gantos

970
Mouse and his Child Hoban

970
The Black Pearl S. O'Dell

980
Black Like Me Griffen

990
All Creatures Great and Small J. Herriot

990
Soldier's Heart G. Paulson

1000
Parrot in the Oven Martinez

1000
The Pearl J. Steinbeck

1010
Top Secret C. Banks

1020
Farewell To Manzanar Houston

1040
Buddha Boy Koja

1090
Brian's Song G. Paulson

1100
Wizard of Earthsea U. Leguin

1150
The Voice that Challenged a Nation R. Freedman

1180
The Incredible Journey S. Burnford

1320

How is a text's Lexile measure determined?
Lexile measures are based on two well-established predictors of how difficult a text is to comprehend: semantic difficulty (word frequency) and syntactic complexity (sentence length). In order to Lexile a book or article, text is split into 125-word slices. Each slice is compared to the nearly 600-million word Lexile corpus - taken from a variety of sources and genres - and words in each sentence are counted. These calculations are put into the Lexile equation. Then, each slice's resulting Lexile measure is applied to the Rasch psychometric model to determine the Lexile measure for the entire text.

For example, books like "Arthur and the Recess Rookie" (370L), "Arthur Goes to Camp" (380L) and "Arthur, Clean Your Room!" (370L) fall within the Lexile Range of a typical second grader. These books have shorter sentences and words appear frequently. Conversely, books in the "Harry Potter" series (which measure between 880L and 950L), "Little Women" (1300L) and "Don Quixote" (1410L) contain longer sentences and more complex words.

Why is the "75-percent comprehension" number so significant?
Lexile measures allow you to manage comprehension. Matching a reader's Lexile measure to a text with the same Lexile measure leads to an expected 75-percent comprehension rate - not too difficult to be frustrating, but difficult enough to be challenging and to encourage reading progress. You can further adjust anticipated comprehension simply by choosing more or less difficult texts within a student's Lexile range, which spans 50L above and 100L below their Lexile measure.