Lexile

Yes and no.

Some of our books in here are Lexile scored.

And so we have Lexile scores based on their reading tests.

And so we can kind of look at some of the books by Lexile score.

But a lot of times we have like sections in our library.

We have like a easy reader section for the younger ones, a lot of picture books, a lot of big words.

It's like the vibe of her books, I would say.

I'm so curious if they had an, a Lexile score for Colleen Hoover's books, where they would rank at, because I do think the reason that people are reading this is because of the overarching literacy crisis.

So I could totally get, like, why people jump into these.

The language isn't super complex.

There were definitely, there were definitely things in the curriculum that we get that-

So if you analyze it, 'cause I analyzed the lex- like third grade, they were 200 Lexile points higher, the text.

Wow.

The language demands in this, if you look at the sentence complexity-

But the multiple choice, because of the way the questions were asked were so different-

Wow

... than previous years, and the Lexile level and the text complexity was 200 points higher.

Like-

15, 20, oh, now they're growing into these bigger chapter books.

Their Lexile-

Mm-hmm

... level's growing.

Everybody is using basically a global English curricula.

And Lexile, the most prestigious comprehension standard.

And we have both fully adaptive diagnostic tests to level the kids on the right place.

That is really exciting.

And I, you know what I,

like, yeah, sorry, a less structured one would, you know, be advancing the Lexile level or like the book level.

So some of them are teaching you strategies to use during shared book readings and And then obviously making the text more complex, which we should always be doing, try to, you know, present our learners with various levels of text complexity, meeting them where we're at, and then trying to take it up a level.

Absolutely.

So I wouldn't necessarily replace sketchnoting with a worksheet, but I might leverage with AI-created worksheet, but I would leverage AI to help you generate listening comprehension tasks, whether that's a recap overview of an article, Or maybe AI can even tell a story.

You can prompt it to tell a story with a certain set of vocabulary words or a Lexile level.

So recording that and then letting them practice sketchnoting in response to what they're hearing.

And the other two strategies included in this article that I'll mention, the second one in here is all about thinking maps.