Searching by Lexile

With the start of SRP, everyone should become familiar with searching for Lexiles in the online catalog as well as finding Lexile information from Novelist and from Lexile.com.

To search our catalog, do a Word Search using the Lexile score you are looking for and the word Lexile. Put your search in quotations. For instance, if a student says they are looking for a book with a Lexile of 900, do a word search of "900 lexile". You should get 39 results. Unfortunately, there is no way to enter a range such as 900-950. Lexiles are by 10's so you would need to do separate searchs for 900, 910, 920, etc.

To search for Lexile information in Novelist Plus or Novelist K - 8 Plus, go to the Advanced Search. There you have the option of limiting your results to a Lexile range or to a specific Lexile number. At that point, you can simply do a search without filling in any other fields. Novelist recommends that you also select a Reading Level. This will more likely being up results that take into consideration the age of the student. For example, a teen may have a relatively low Lexile score. By searching on that score and selecting Teen as the reading level, you should get results a teen would be more interested in reading as compared to a 4th grader with the same Lexile score. For more detailed information, go into either version of Novelist, select Help, and under Viewing Results you will see a section on Lexiles.

You can also search at the Lexile Find a Book website http://www.lexile.com/fab/. This offers a guided search by Lexile level or grade level and by subject matter. The title results link over to HPL on Worldcat.org which can bring you directly into our catalog to see location, shelf status, and to place a hold.

*I don't think every book in our catalog has a Lexile level yet, but I hope they're working on it.