Text Level Correlation Chart
10/12/2007
Saint Paul’s Project for Academic Excellence – The Reading Institute *29 sapphire corresponds to T (Fountas & Pinnell) Lexiles are approximate and from Column on Text Range
1
Reading
Recovery
Levels
2
Rigby
Catalog
Reading
Stages
3
Grade Level
Equivalent
4
Rigby PM
PM Plus Levels
5
Fountas
& Pinnell
Level
6
Dominie
Levels
7
Wright Group
McGraw-Hill
8
Success
for All
9
DRA2
Levels™
10
Lexiles
11
DRP
12
SAT10
Scaled Degrees of
Reading
Power
Score
13
STAR
Reading
™
A,B A
BR NA
0.3
1
Beginning
Kindergarten
Starters 1 A 1 A
1
BR
0.3
NA
Emergent
Middle K Starters 2
B**
2 B
1-3
2
BR NA
0.4
End K 3 C
BR NA
< 450
3-4 red C
4 D
3
100
NA
450
0.5
5
2
3
4
5
6
Beginning Grade 1
5-6 red/yellow
D
6
E
4-25
4 200
NA
500
0.6
7 7
NA
0.7
8
7-8 yellow
E
8
F 25 6-8
NA
0.9
9 9
10
9-10 blue
F
10
G 10
11
12
Middle Grade 1
11-12
blue/green
G
12
H
NA
26-37
12
530
1.2
13
14 13-14 green H
14
I 14 300
NA
550
1.5
15
NA
16
Early
End Grade 1
15-16 orange
I**
16
J
38-48
16
NA
1.9
Beg. Grade 2 17-18 turquoise J 17 K 18 300
NA
570
2.4
18
19-20 purple
K 18 L 20
38 & 41 2.5
Middle Grade 2
21 gold
L**
19 M 24 400 43 590 2.5
20
Early
Fluent
End Grade 2 22 gold M 20 N
2.0
28
500 2.8
21 O
22 23 silver N
22 P
30 500 610 3.0
24 silver
O**
23 Q 34
600 44 3.4
24
Grade 3
25 emerald P 24 R
3.0
700 38 3.8
26 emerald
27 ruby
Q,R 25 S,T 700 48 & 50 628 4.0
26 Grade 4
28 ruby
S,T 26
4.0
40 750 648 4.5
29 sapphire* 27 50 750 5.0
28 Grade 5
30 sapphire
U,V,W
28
850
54 5.5
29 60 850 53 667 6.0
30 Grade 6
X,Y
30 950
6.5
31 70 950 57 688 7.0
32 Grade 7
32 1000 710
33 80 1000 59 725 8.0
34
Fluent
Grade 8
Z
34
1100
**Indicates NCEE Benchmarks Lexiles overlap at each grade level
This table shows how these levels correlate to each other.
1. Reading Recovery™ is a registered service mark of Ohio State University
2. Rigby PM & PM Plus (Rigby, Barrington, IL)
3. Swartz, Shook, Klein, et al. Grade Level Equivalent is based on Guided Reading & Literacy Centers,
(Dominie Press, Inc., Carlsbad, CA., 2003)
4. Rigby PM & PM Plus (Rigby, Barrington, IL)
5. Fountas and Pinnell, Matching Books to Readers, Using Leveled Books in Guided Reading K-3
Leveled Books for Readers Grades 3-6 (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1999)
6. DeFord, D., Dominie Reading and Writing Assessment Portfolio, K-3 (2001) and 4-8 (2002),
Dominie Press, Inc., Carlsbad, CA)
7. The Wright Group/McGraw Hill (Bothell, WA)
8. Success for All Foundation (SFAF), Baltimore, MD
9. Beaver, Joetta , Developmental Reading Assessment Resource Guide 2 (Glenview, Il: Celebration Press,
2006)
10. Stenner, Smith, Burdock, The Lexile Framework for Reading (MetaMetrics, Inc. Durham, NC, 1984)
www.lexile.com
11. DRP Degrees of Reading Power ©Touchstone Applied Science Associates (TASA), Inc.
12. SAT10 (Standford Achievement Test) scaled scores correlated to reading levels
13. STAR Reading, Renaissance Learning, Inc.
10/12/2007
