Here is what Lexile states: "It should be noted that word frequency is not the number of times a word appears in a specific passage, but the frequency of the word in the corpus of nearly 600-million words that is employed by the Lexile AnalyzerR"
So Lexile Analyzer uses not only sentence and word length of the text in question, but also considers the frequency of words that a reader may find across texts. You can read the entire text at http://www.lexile.com/PDF/Lexile-Reading-Measurement-and-Success-0504.pdf Mary Lou _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
