Read Naturally Live/Encore II Alignment to Lexile Measures

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All Read Naturally Live and Read Naturally Encore II passages correlate to the Lexile text measure guidelines.¹ In addition, Read Naturally stories are grouped by level and the levels are sequenced so that the text complexity gradually increases as the student moves to higher levels. The stories in the lower levels are shorter and easier to understand, the ideas are explicitly stated, and the vocabulary is familiar. At each successive level, the stories become longer and more complex. The ideas require more inference, and the vocabulary is more sophisticated. Use the following tables to see the gradually increasing difficulty of the Read Naturally levels, as shown by the number of words in each level and the Lexile text measures.

Quantitative Measures of Text Difficulty of Read Naturally Live and Read Naturally Encore II

Sequenced Series

Level	Word Count	Lexile Text Measure	Lexile "Stretch" Band1
1.0	1733	230L	190L to 530L
1.5	2415	350L
2.0	3046	550L	420L to 650L
2.5	3826	560L
3.0	4605	630L	520L to 820L
3.5	4874	720L
4.0	5041	780L	740L to 940L
4.5	5057	830L
5.0	5787	860L	830L to 1010L
5.6	8264	940L
6.0	9276	970L	925L to 1070L
7.0	9574	1070L	970L to 1120L
8.0	10468	1190L	1010L to 1185L

Phonics Series

Level	Word Count	Lexile Text Measure	Lexile "Stretch" Band1
0.8	1261	230L	190L to 530L
1.3	2052	380L
1.8	2810	430L	420L to 650L
2.3	3503	500L
2.6	3693	570L	520L to 820L
2.7	3861	580L

¹Grade bands reflect the 2012 revised Appendix A of the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts (published in 2012).

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See also

​ Read Naturally Encore v1 Alignment to Lexile Measures