Accessing the Lexile® and Quantile® Hub

The Lexile and Quantile Hub is an online platform (free for teachers in North Carolina) that brings meaning to measurement with reading and math tools and resources that tie Lexile and Quantile measures students receive from assessments directly to learning and instructional resources. Access the Hub at hub.lexile.com or preview the tool and resource descriptions that follow.

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Lexile® & Quantile® Tools

OVERVIEW & USER GUIDES: Be sure to review the Tools Overview under the tools dropdown as well as the new User Guides located in the Lexile and Quantile Hub Support Center.

Tool Descriptions

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Search among over half a million books using the Find a Book tool so you can:

  • Search by a student’s Lexile measure or range, grade level, or interests.
  • Preview challenging words and their definitions for each book.
  • Identify the Lexile level and vocabulary by chapter for over 1,600 popular books.
  • Create and manage personal book lists.
     

Search and sort decodable books so you can:

  • Find books with the specific long and short vowel sound(s) that match your instructional sequence.
  • See sound spelling percentages, spelling patterns, sight words, and more.
  • Identify irregular words or contractions that may be difficult for a beginning reader.
  • Sort books by percentage of a vowel sound, Lexile measure, or word count. 

View math skills and concepts associated with your state’s standards. 

  • Unpack state-specific standards to view prerequisite, focus, and impending math skills associated with the standard.
  • Compare the Quantile level of math skills to the Quantile readiness of a class, group, or individual student.
  • Search for free resources by keyword, Quantile measure, or content strand.
  • Save and share favorite resources.

Paste or type in text of 500 words or less to discover:

  • The Lexile range for the text (30 searches per month per registered user).
  • Recommendations for similar books within the same range.
  • Up to 10 consequential words are identified in the text along with their definitions, parts of speech, and example sentences.
  • Toggle to Spanish to paste or type text in Spanish and get a Lexile range.

Identify the Lexile level and/or Quantile level associated with the entry-level reading and/or math demands of a particular career (30 searches per month per registered user).

  • Explore career options along with expected reading/math demands.
  • View national, state, and regional career information.

Chart a student’s reading and math growth using annual state assessments and forecast future growth. With the Growth Planners, you can:

  • Forecast college and career readiness with Lexile and Quantile measures.
  • Compare individual student results to national student performance.
  • Explore career options along with expected reading/math demands.
  • View national, state, and regional career information.
  • Access resources to support growth in reading and math.

Lexile® & Quantile® Resources

Be sure to review the Resource Center in the Lexile and Quantile Hub Support Center.

Resource Descriptions

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Access over 100 online printable passages that students can read to practice specific phonics skills. The passages:

  • Are written by published authors of decodable books.
  • Accommodate popular scopes or sequences.
  • Include one illustration and two comprehension questions.

View Lexile and Quantile measures by grade level to see how a large sample of students in grades 1-12 performed based on 2010-2019 research. 

  • The charts provide norms at the 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles for fall, winter, and spring testing.  
  • The charts are provided for descriptive purposes only and are not intended to be interpreted as state performance standards. 

Access downloadable lists of important words by grade and domain that students are likely to encounter in textbooks and other K-12 educational materials.

  • Domains include math, science, social studies, and general.
  • Create your own customized lists of consequential words from a collection of 40 million words based on general and academic domain K-12 vocabulary. 
  • Lists can be downloaded and printed. 

Access thousands of math resources including lesson plans, activities, videos, games, and more. The Resources:

  • Are aligned to state standards.
  • Have been evaluated, and a quantitative measure of mathematical complexity has been assigned.
  • Can be filtered by type, format, or grade range.

Determine a student's optimal reading or math measure when two assessments, taken within 30 days of each other, have resulted in significantly differing Lexile or Quantile measures.

Lexiles® & Quantiles® in North Carolina

The Lexile Framework® for Reading, commonly referred to as the Lexile Framework, has been linked with the North Carolina End-of-Grade Assessment in English Language Arts in grades 3–8 and North Carolina End-of-Course in English II. Similarly, The Quantile Framework® for Mathematics has been linked to Edition 5 of the North Carolina End-of-Grade mathematics assessments in grades 3–8 and North Carolina End-of-Course in Math 1.

Lexiles® and Quantiles® and North Carolina Assessments

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This document includes a chart which provides End-of-Grade English Language Arts/Reading and End-of-Course English II performance standards (achievement levels) in the Lexile measure.

Linking assessment results with the Lexile Framework provides a mechanism for matching each student’s reading ability with text on a common scale. It serves as an anchor to which resources, concepts, skills, and assessments can be connected allowing parents, teachers, and administrators to speak the same language.

This document includes a chart which provides End-of-Grade Mathematics and End-of-Course Math 1 performance standards (achievement levels) in the Quantile measure.

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