[aisle] Lexile Scores

[Amy Phillips]

Hi, Jennifer.

Just my thoughts... Since Lexile is a company, they choose whether or not
to process/assign a number to a title. And many high schools don't use
Lexile numbers as much as elementary and middle schools (in my experience)
which may be why many Young Adult titles are not scored, since there isn't
the same demand as there is for the younger readers.

In my experience, there's no rhyme or reason for why a book is or is not
scored, though, as this can also happen to books for younger readers as
well.

Amy Phillips
Riverside Brookfield High School
Library Media Specialist
aebromberg at gmail.com
phillipsa at rbhs208.net
847-722-6169



On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 2:30 PM Jennifer Brady via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> Has anyone noticed that the majority of newer YA books do not have Lexile
> scores available?
> I check several resources, such as lexile.com, Titlewave, and even
> WorldCat to look up other libraries. I began noticing this in 2020.
>
> I contemplated whether a certain time period is needed before a lexile
> score is released, but that isn't the case. For example,* The Wild Ones *by
> Nafiza Azad was released on  August 3, 2021, and there is a lexile score
> assigned to that title.  *The Taking of Jake Livingston *by Ryan Douglass
> was released on  July 13th 2021, and there is not a lexile score assigned
> to that title. That is one of many, many examples.
>
> Any insight would be appreciated. I only use Lexiles as a guide sometimes,
> so it isn't detrimental to our programing. I just thought it was odd.
>
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