Alignment with Best Practices
Read Naturally Encore v1 Alignment to Lexile Measures
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The stories in Read Naturally Encore v1 align well to the Common Core State Standards based on quantitative and qualitative measures and text/reader considerations. All Read Naturally Live and Read Naturally Encore passages correlate to Common Core State Standards guidelines according to the Lexile text measures.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 Encore v1
Sequenced Series
| Level | Word Count | Lexile Text Measure | Lexile "Stretch" Band1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0 | 1715 | 180L | None Provided |
| 1.5 | 2396 | 320L | |
| 2.0 | 2996 | 510L | 420L-820L |
| 2.5 | 3835 | 550L | |
| 3.0 | 4596 | 600L | |
| 3.5 | 4841 | 690L | |
| 4.0 | 5026 | 760L | 740L-1010L |
| 4.5 | 5147 | 820L | |
| 5.0 | 5788 | 860L | |
| 5.6 | 8282 | 940L | |
| 6.0 | 9282 | 970L | 925L-1185L |
| 7.0 | 9093 | 1070L | |
| 8.0 | 10468 | 1200L |
Phonics Series
| Level | Word Count | Lexile Text Measure | Lexile "Stretch" Band1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.8 | 1259 | 170L | None Provided |
| 1.3 | 2029 | 220L | |
| 1.8 | 2808 | 370L | |
| 2.3 | 3488 | 430L | 420L-820L |
| 2.6 | 3662 | 560L | |
| 2.7 | 3868 | 550L |
Idioms Series
| Level | Word Count | Lexile Text Measure | Lexile "Stretch" Band1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 | 2299 | 630L | 420L-820L |
| 3.5 | 2362 | 690L | |
| 4.0 | 2609 | 750L | 740L-1010L |
| 4.5 | 2541 | 850L |
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 Live/Encore II Alignment to Lexile Measures
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