The Lexile Framework

F O R R E A D I N G

Text Level

S C H O O L

Literature Titles

1660 1660

Benchmarks
To such a class of things pertains corporeal nature in general, and its extension, the figure of extended things, their quantity or magnitude and number, as also the place in which they are, the time which measures their duration, and so on. That is possibly why our reasoning is not unjust when we conclude from this that Physics, Astronomy, Medicine and all other sciences which have as their end the consideration of composite things, are very dubious and uncertain; but that Arithmetic, Geometry and other sciences of that kind which only treat of things that are very simple and very general, without taking great trouble to ascertain whether they are actually existent or not, contain some measure of certainty and an element of the indubitable. (Rene Descartes, author) In fact, it is absolutely impossible to make out by experience with complete certainty a single case in which the maxim of an action, however right in itself, rested simply on moral grounds and on the conception of duty. Sometimes it happens that with the sharpest selfexamination we can find nothing beside the moral principle of duty which could have been powerful enough to move us to this or that action and to so great a sacrifice; yet we cannot from this infer with certainty that it was not really some secret impulse of self-love, under the false appearance of duty, that was the actual determining cause of the will. (Immanuel Kant, author)

Tests/Textbooks

1670 The Principles of Scientific Management; Dover Publications 1630 The American Constitution: Cases, comments, questions, 1610 The Condition of Postmodernity; Blackwell Publishers
Concerning Civil Government Critique of Judgment On Abraham Lincoln On the Law Which Has Regulated the Introduction of New Species
DISCOURSE ON THE METHOD AND MEDITATIONS ON FIRST PHILOSOPHY

7th ed.; West Publishing

G R A D U A T E

930 920

Aeropagitica God, Idea of the Ancients Plutarchs Lives A Modest Proposal On Human Nature The Decameron Ring of Bright Water Utilitarianism The Confessions of Nat Turner The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Master Humphreys Clock Profiles in Courage Life in a Medieval Castle The Guns of August The Hunchback of Notre Dame The Snow Leopard The Metamorphosis People of the Deer House of the Spirits Chronicle of a Death Foretold The Midwifes Apprentice Dragon Seed Cold Mountain The Trumpeter of Krakow Hiroshima The Pickwick Papers The Great Fire Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution Gutsy Girls: Young Women Who Dare Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery Amos Fortune, Free Man All Things Bright and Beautiful Now is Your Time! Adam of the Road Island of the Blue Dolphins Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida
FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSICS OF MORALS
1550 Culture/Power/History: A Reader in Contemporary 1210
Social Theory; Princeton University Press On Injuries of the Head; Project Gutenberg On Human Nature; Howard University Press On Liberty; Hackett Publishing The Making of Memory:From Molecules to Mind; Doubleday Philosophical Essays; Hackett Publishing Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT)* Certified Public Accountant Examination (CPA)* Criminal Justice Today; Prentice Hall Science and Education; The Citadel Press Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)* Graduate Record Examination (GRE)* College Board Achievement Test in English (CBAT)* Law School Admission Test (LSAT)* Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT)* Medical College Admission Test (MCAT)* Psychology: An Introduction; Prentice Hall Understanding Sociology; Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Speech Science Primer; Williams & Wilkins Business; Prentice Hall Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB)* American College Testing Program (ACT)* Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI-Level 18)* History of a Free Nation; Glencoe/McGraw-Hill National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP-Grade 12)* Modern Biology; Holt, Reinhart & Winston Modern Masonry; Goodheart-Wilcox Co. Stanford Achievement Test (SAT 9-TASK 2)* Test of General Educational Development (GED)* Test of Adult Basic Education, General Form (TABE-D)* Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI-Level 17)* Writing & Grammar: Gold Level; Prentice Hall African American Literature; Holt-Reinhart & Winston National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP-Grade 8)* Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI-Level 16)* World Cultures: A Global Mosaic; Prentice Hall Stanford Achievement Test (SAT 9-Advanced 2)* Test of Adult Basic Education (TABE-M)* Stanford Achievement Test (SAT 9-Advanced 1)* Word 97; Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI-Level 15)* Stanford Achievement Test (SAT 9-Intermediate 3)* National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP-Grade 4)* Stanford Achievement Test (SAT 9-Intermediate 2)* Energy from Water; Harcourt World Explorer: The U.S. & Canada; Prentice Hall World Explorer: Latin America; Prentice Hall Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI-Level 14)* Stanford Achievement Test (SAT 9-Intermediate 1)* Test of Adult Basic Education (TABE-E)* Health 4; McGraw-Hill School Division One Nation Many People, Volume One; Globe Fearon Science; Addison-Wesley Understanding Technology; Goodheart-Wilcox Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI-Level 13)* Stanford Achievement Test (SAT 9-Primary 3)* Community Quilt; Scholastic Inc. Communities; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich People and Places; Silver Burdett Ginn Team Spirit; Scholastic Inc. Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI-Level 12)* Stanford Achievement Test (SAT 9-Primary 2)* Once Upon a Hippo; Scott Foresman Bears Dont Go to School; Houghton Mifflin Imagine That!; Scholastic Inc. Traveling Star; SRA/McGraw Hill We Are All Alike; Benchmark Education

ON ANCIENT MEDICINE

And as to him who had been accustomed to dinner, since, as soon as the body required food, and when the former meal was consumed, and he wanted refreshment, no new supply was furnished to it, he wastes and is consumed from want of food. For all the symptoms which I describe as befalling to this man I refer to want of food. And I also say that all men who, when in a state of health, remain for two or three days without food, experience the same unpleasant symptoms as those which I described in the case of him who had omitted to take dinner. (Hippocrates, author)
COLLEGE FRESHMAN-SOPHOMORE

COLLEGE JUNIOR - SENIOR

TWELFTH GRADE
But the point which drew all eyes, and, as it were, transfigured the wearerso that both men and women who had been familiarly acquainted with Hester Prynne were now impressed as if they beheld her for the first timewas that SCARLET LETTER, so fantastically embroidered and illuminated upon her bosom. It had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself. She hath good skill at her needle, thats certain, remarked one of her female spectators; but did ever a woman, before this brazen hussy, contrive such a way of showing it? Why, gossips, what is it but to laugh in the faces of our godly magistrates, and make a pride out of what they, worthy gentlemen, meant for a punishment? (Nathaniel Hawthorne, author) Under that doctrine, equality of treatment is accorded when the races are provided substantially equal facilities, even though these facilities be separate. In the Delaware case, the Supreme Court of Delaware adhered to that doctrine, but ordered that the plaintiffs be admitted to the white schools because of their superiority to the Negro schools. The plaintiffs contend that segregated public schools are not equal and cannot be made equal, and that hence they are deprived of the equal protection of the laws. Because of the obvious importance of the question presented, the Court took jurisdiction. Argument was heard in the 1952 Term, and reargument was heard this Term on certain questions propounded by the Court. (347 US 483, 98 L ed 873, 74 S Ct 686) Pierre had been educated abroad, and this reception at Anna Pavlovnas was the first he had attended in Russia. He knew that all the intellectual lights of Petersburg were gathered there and, like a child in a toyshop, did not know which way to look, afraid of missing any clever conversation that was to be heard. Seeing the self-confident and refined expression on the faces of those present he was always expecting to hear something very profound. At last he came up to Morio. Here the conversation seemed interesting and he stood waiting for an opportunity to express his own views, as young people are fond of doing. (Leo Tolstoy, author)

THE SCARLET LETTER

BROWN v. BOARD OF EDUCATION: 1954

ELEVENTH GRADE

TENTH GRADE

WAR AND PEACE

NINTH GRADE

EIGHTH GRADE

SEVENTH GRADE
Occupied in observing Mr. Bingleys attentions to her sister, Elizabeth was far from suspecting that she was herself becoming an object of some interest in the eyes of his friend. Mr. Darcy had at first scarcely allowed her to be pretty; he had looked at her without admiration at the ball; and when they next met, he looked at her only to criticise. But no sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes. (Jane Austen, author)

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

G R A D E

S I X T H

Leons Story The Samurais Tale Bud, Not Buddy All the Pretty Horses The Golden Compass Talking with Artists Her Stories The View from Saturday Julie of the Wolves Maniac Magee Homeless Bird Scooter Flour Babies The Giver Walk Two Moons The Apprentice Some of the Kinder Planets The Friends The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses Number the Stars Holes The Robber and Me M.C. Higgins, the Great Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum The Whipping Boy Sarah, Plain and Tall The Adventures of Sparrowboy Its All Greek to Me John Henry: An American Legend Karens Chain Letter Harold and the Purple Crayon All Tutus Should Be Pink Michael Bird-Boy Angel Child, Dragon Child Sam the Minuteman Arthurs New Puppy The Drinking Gourd A My Name Is Alice Owl at Home The Best Way to Play Clifford, the Small Red Puppy Miss Nelson Is Back Sarahs Unicorn Baseball Ballerina In the Forest At the Crossroads The Boy Who Cried Wolf Play Ball, Amelia Bedelia
One day, when there was a good deal of kicking, my mother whinnied to me to come to her, and then she said: I wish you to pay attention to what I am going to say to you. The colts who live here are very good colts, but they are cart-horse colts, and of course they have not learned manners. You have been well-bred and well-born; your father has a great name in these parts, and your grandfather won the cup two years at the Newmarket races; your grandmother had the sweetest temper of any horse I ever knew, and I think you have never seen me kick or bite. I hope you will grow up gentle and good, and never learn bad ways; do your work with a good will, lift your feet up well when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play. (Anna Sewell, author) Just what Toms thoughts were, Ned, of course, could not guess. But by the flush that showed under the tan of his chums cheeks the young financial secretary felt pretty certain that Tom was a bit apprehensive of the outcome of Professor Beechers call on Mary Nestor. So he is going to see her about something important, Ned? Thats what some members of his party called it. And theyre waiting here for him to join them? Yes. And it means waiting a week for another steamer. It must be something pretty important, dont you think, to cause Beecher to risk that delay in starting after the idol of gold? Important? Yes, I suppose so, assented Tom. (Victor Appleton, author) Great soul! said Pinocchio, fondly embracing his friend. Five months passed and the boys continued playing and enjoying themselves from morn till night, without ever seeing a book, or a desk, or a school. But, my children, there came a morning when Pinocchio awoke and found a great surprise awaiting him, a surprise which made him feel very unhappy, as you shall see. Everyone, at one time or another, has found some surprise awaiting him. Of the kind which Pinocchio had on that eventful morning of his life, there are but few. What was it? I will tell you, my dear little readers. On awakening, Pinocchio put his hand up to his head and there he foundGuess! He found that, during the night, his ears had grown at least ten full inches! (Carlo Collodi, author) Of course he bites vegetables. All rabbits bite vegetables. He bites them, Harold, but he does not eat them. That tomato was all white. What does that mean? It means that he paints vegetables? I ventured. It means he bites vegetables to make a hole in them, and then he sucks out all the juices. But what about all the lettuce and carrots that Toby has been feeding him in his cage? Ah ha. What indeed! Chester said. Look at this! Whereupon, he stuck his paw under the chair cushion and brought out with a flourish an assortment of strange white objects. Some of them looked like unironed handkerchiefs, and the others well, the others didnt look like anything Id ever seen before. (Deborah and James Howe, authors) 1979 by James Howe. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster Childrens Publishing Division. All rights reserved. Did you forget that I like raisins? No, I did not forget, said Mother, but you finished up the raisins yesterday and I have not been out shopping yet. Well, said Frances, things are not very good around here anymore. No clothes to wear. No raisins for the oatmeal. I think maybe Ill run away. Finish your breakfast, said Mother. It is almost time for the school bus. What time will dinner be tonight? said Frances. Half past six, said Mother. Then I will have plenty of time to run away after dinner, said Frances, and she kissed her mother good-bye and went to school. After dinner that evening Frances packed her little knapsack very carefully. She put in her tiny special blanket and her alligator doll. (Russell Hoban, author) 1964 by Russell Hoban. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. But suddenly, the bus began to spin like a top. That sort of thing doesnt happen on most class trips. When the spinning finally stopped, some things had changed. We all had on new clothes. The bus had turned into a steam shovel. And there were shovels and picks for every kid in the class. Start digging! yelled Ms. Frizzle. And we began making a huge hole right in the middle of the field. Before long CLUNK! we hit rock. The Friz handed out jackhammers. We began to break through the hard rock. Hey, these rocks have stripes, said a kid. Ms. Frizzle explained that each stripe was a different kind of rock. We chipped off pieces of the rocks for our class rock collection. These rocks are called sedimentary rocks, class, said Ms. Frizzle. (Joanna Cole, author) THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS is a registered trademark of Scholastic Inc. 1987 by Joanna Cole. Reprinted by permission of Scholastic Inc. All rights reserved. That button is thin. My button was thick. Toad put the thin button in his pocket. He was very angry. He jumped up and down and screamed, The whole world is covered with buttons, and not one of them is mine! Toad ran home and slammed the door. There, on the floor, he saw his white, four-holed, big, round, thick button. Oh, said Toad. It was here all the time. What a lot of trouble I have made for Frog. Toad took all of the buttons out of his pocket. He took his sewing box down from the shelf. Toad sewed the buttons all over his jacket. The next day Toad gave his jacket to Frog. Frog thought it was beautiful. He put it on and jumped for joy. (Arnold Lobel, author) 1970 by Arnold Lobel. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.

BLACK BEAUTY

TOM SWIFT IN THE LAND OF WONDERS

F I F T H

230 220
THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO
BUNNICULA: A RABBIT TALE OF MYSTERY
A BABY SISTER FOR FRANCES
THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS INSIDE THE EARTH

S E C O N D

FROG AND TOAD ARE FRIENDS

CLIFFORDS MANNERS

Clifford loves to go visiting. When he visits his sister in the country, he always calls ahead. Clifford always arrives on time. Dont be late. Knock before you walk in. He knocks on the door before he enters. He wipes his feet first. Wipe your feet. Clifford kisses his sister. He shakes hands with her friend. Shake hands. Wash up before you eat. Cliffords sister has dinner ready. Clifford washes his hands before he eats. Clifford chews his food with his mouth closed. He never talks with his mouth full. Dont talk with your mouth full. Help clean up. Clifford helps with the clean-up. Say good-bye. Then he says thank you and good-bye to his sister and to his friend. Everyone loves Cliffords manners. (Norman Bridwell, author) 1972 by Norman Bridwell. Reprinted by permission of Scholastic Inc. All rights reserved.
Discover Science; Scott Foresman Carousels; Houghton Mifflin Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI-Level 11)* My World; Harcourt Brace Stanford Achievement Test (SAT 9-Primary 1)* Who Painted the Porcupine Purple?; Silver Burdett Ginn Too Big; Houghton Mifflin Test of Adult Basic Education (TABE-L)* Parades; Houghton Mifflin My Family, Your Family; Silver Burdett Ginn My Pet Pup; Benchmark Education

F I R S T

About The Lexile Framework for Reading
The Lexile Framework for Reading provides a common, developmental scale for matching reader ability and text difficulty. Lexile measures enable educators, parents and students to select targeted materials that can improve reading skills and to monitor reading growth across the curriculum, in the library and at home. Lexiles are a powerful tool for linking assessment with instruction, by taking the guesswork out of selecting reading materials that meet and challenge a students ability. Recognized as the most widely adopted reading measure, Lexiles are part of reading and testing programs in the classroom and at the district and state levels. More than 100,000 books, 80 million articles and 60,000 Web sites have Lexile measures, and all major standardized tests can report student reading scores in Lexiles. The Lexile Framework was developed by MetaMetrics, Inc., a privately held educational measurement company based in Durham, N.C., after 20 years of research funded, in part, by the National Institutes of Health. For more information, call 1888LEXILES or visit www.Lexile.com.
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