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How to Search the Online Catalog
How do I search for Lexile Numbers?
Do a General/Words or Phrase search for the number and the word "Lexile", qualified by the index "lexile". For example:
880 Lexile {lexile}.
If you want to search for all items within a range of Lexiles do a General/Words or Phrase search, but put the index qualifier first, followed by the range, using less than (<), greater than (>) and equal to (=), followed by the word "Lexile". For example:
If you want to search for all items within a range of Lexiles do a General/Words or Phrase search, but put the index qualifier first, followed by the range, using less than (<), greater than (>) and equal to (=), followed by the word "Lexile". For example:
{lexile} <300 Lexile
{lexile} >=800<=900 Lexile
{lexile} >1300 Lexile
CODES:
{lexile} >=800<=900 Lexile
{lexile} >1300 Lexile
CODES:
AD: Adult Directed (the book is designed to be read to a child rather than by a child)
NC: Non-Conforming (the book's Lexile measure is significantly higher than typical for the intended audience)
HL: High-Low (the book's Lexile measure is significantly lower than typical for the intended audience)
IG: Illustrated Guide (the book consists of lots of independent pieces of text, such as an illustrated encyclopedia; a book with lots of pronunciations or definitions in parentheses or contrasting time; a book with lots of pull-quotes, factoids, and other marginalia; or a book with discrete topics on each one or two pages)
GN: Graphic Novel (the book is a graphic novel or a comic book)
BR: Beginning Reading (the book has a Lexile of 0 or a negative number and are appropriate for beginning readers; only the code appears, not the number)
NP: Non-Prose (more than 50% of the book is not prose, but rather poems, plays, songs, recipes, text that consists of incomplete sentences or lacks punctuation, etc.; only the code appears, not a number)
NC: Non-Conforming (the book's Lexile measure is significantly higher than typical for the intended audience)
HL: High-Low (the book's Lexile measure is significantly lower than typical for the intended audience)
IG: Illustrated Guide (the book consists of lots of independent pieces of text, such as an illustrated encyclopedia; a book with lots of pronunciations or definitions in parentheses or contrasting time; a book with lots of pull-quotes, factoids, and other marginalia; or a book with discrete topics on each one or two pages)
GN: Graphic Novel (the book is a graphic novel or a comic book)
BR: Beginning Reading (the book has a Lexile of 0 or a negative number and are appropriate for beginning readers; only the code appears, not the number)
NP: Non-Prose (more than 50% of the book is not prose, but rather poems, plays, songs, recipes, text that consists of incomplete sentences or lacks punctuation, etc.; only the code appears, not a number)
Another resource: Lexile Framework for Reading