Reading level
A measure of the difficulty of texts a student can read, such as a Lexile measure or a guided reading level.
- Used in
- United States
- Topic
- Teaching and learning
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Related terms
- Lexile United States
- A widely used scale from MetaMetrics that measures text complexity and readers' ability.
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