Requiring public school students to read at their ability and comprehension level has boosted test outcomes, but choosing books gets tricky when fourth grade level literature includes everything from ...

Sit in any bookstore or library for enough time, and you’ll hear an adult tell a child, “You can’t read that book – it isn’t at your reading level.” Comments like this have become all too typical as ...

The only correct answer is “d,” since all the others have a “Lexile” score so low that they are deemed most appropriate for fourth, fifth, or sixth graders. This idea might seem ridiculous, but it’s ...

Earlier this summer, MetaMetrics began providing Lexile measures for books under many of Simon & Schuster’s imprints. S&S's announcement of its partnership with MetaMetrics today follows the recent ...