How to get Lexiles in your library

Librarians and media specialists can incorporate Lexiles into their catalogs through services offered by leading database service providers. Visit our “Library Resources (hyperlink to: ) page for detailed information.

Lexile shelves

Another way that school and public librarians and media specialists use Lexiles is to arrange “Lexile shelves” by 100L zones. This is particularly helpful in states where students get a Lexile measure from their end-of-grade test. You can use our Lexile BookBag search to help develop Lexile shelves.

Please see our fact sheet “Lexiles in the Library” for other tips on using Lexiles in your library or media center. Also see our Lexile Map (in the “Tools” section of the Lexile Framework web site) lists well-known books in each Lexile zone from 200L – such as Syd Hoff’s Danny and the Dinosaur (Scholastic) – up to 1700L – such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s collected letters (Clarendon Press). You can purchase a poster-sized, color Lexile Map for your library wall. It gives you a sense of the framework overall.