Why aren’t points related to Lexiles?
Lexile levels do not determine points. Points are determined by a combination of word count and interest level. Scholastic Reading Counts! has a scale of 1-100 to determine point value of the title. The points are determined by an editor-managed algorithm based on the number of words of the text and interest level of the text. The median point of the scale falls in the lower end of the bell curve – as length of a book tends to drive up the points assigned and few books on the lower level are voluminous. While most titles fall in lower range of the scale – a few books, such as Abraham Lincoln: the Prairie Years by Carl Sandburg carries 81 points. This book has 435,314 words with a HS interest level. To illustrate, the above title Lexiles at 1140L; another book by Carl Sandburg entitled Abe Lincoln Grows Up carries 10 points. It has a middle school interest level and has less than 1/10th of the words – 35,702 but has a 1260L. Points are a reward for effort and provide other validations t
Lexile levels do not determine points. Points are determined by a combination of word count and interest level. Scholastic Reading Counts! has a scale of 1-100 to determine the point value of the title. The points are determined by an editor-managed algorithm based on the number of words of the text and interest level of the text. The median point of the scale falls in the lower end of the bell curve – as length of a book tends to drive up the points assigned and few books on the lower level are voluminous. While most titles fall in the lower range of the scale – a few books, such as Abraham Lincoln: the Prairie Years by Carl Sandburg carries 81 points. This book has 435,314 words with a HS interest level. To illustrate, the above title Lexiles at 1140L; another book by Carl Sandburg entitled Abe Lincoln Grows Up carries 10 points. It has a middle school interest level and has less than 1/10th of the words – 35,702 but has a 1260L. Points are a reward for effort and provide other valid
